Split Fiction Studio Already Working On Its Next Game

Hazelight's next game is in development and, like the studio's past projects, will feature mocapped actors. On February 10, Hazelight founder and Split Fiction director Josef Fares posted an image on Twitter that simply says, "Next game in the making." The photo shows Fares in a cozy sweater giving a thumbs-up in front of actors wearing dot-covered motion-capture suits; his arm obscures their faces, suggesting he does not want to reveal casting for the follow-up to 2025’s Split Fiction.

Fares told the Friends Per Second podcast in March 2025, "Split Fiction is the best-received game we have done, everybody is super happy, but I’m so fully focused and excited on the next thing, that we’ve already started." He added that development was still early: "[It’s] mostly in the story, what’s going to happen, but a little bit in gameplay as well.

It’s kind of like, ‘this is where we start, this is where we’re going.'" Nearly a year later, Hazelight appears to have made progress on its Split Fiction follow-up.

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