After saying a yr in the past that Hazelight had “already began” growth on its subsequent recreation, it appears issues are persevering with to progress.
“We’re again within the kitchen, cookin’ up one thing actually scrumptious!” Hazelight mentioned in a social media post. Hazelight’s Josef Fares additionally shared a picture of himself in some sort of studio, together with his arm outstretched strategically to dam the faces of three performers. He captioned the picture, “Next recreation within the making.” Hazelight’s submit jokingly referenced the brand new recreation having “Strategic Arm Placement Tech.”
Work started on Hazelight’s subsequent recreation in February 2025. On the time, Fares mentioned the sport was “fairly early” in growth. He mentioned the crew is feeling like they will do “manner higher” with the subsequent recreation, no matter it seems to be.
“It is not like we’re feeling now, ‘Oh, shit, how will we high [Split Fiction] or do higher than this?’ We simply really feel like… simply wait till [you see] what we do subsequent. I do know it is cocky. However that is how assured we really feel in what we’re doing,” he mentioned.
All of Hazelight’s video games thus far have been co-op titles (Brothers was a single-player recreation with a singular co-op ingredient). Fares mentioned co-op will all the time be a part of Hazelight’s DNA, however he did not rule out the potential of the studio altering issues up. “You by no means know what occurs sooner or later. It is not unattainable we glance into single-player as nicely. However it could be executed in a Hazelight manner, with a Hazelight twist. It is not going to be your typical single-player recreation.”
Fares has directed 4 video games thus far, together with Brothers: A Story of Two Sons, A Approach Out, It Takes Two, and Split Fiction. It Takes Two has been the most important success of the bunch, promoting 23 million copies. Split Fiction had almost double the budget and had bought 4 million copies as of May 2025.
GameSpot’s Split Fiction evaluate scored the sport a ten/10. The sport is printed by EA by means of its EA Originals program; it is the primary EA-published recreation to succeed in 90 or above on Metacritic since 2012’s Mass Impact 2.
Past a brand new Hazelight recreation, a Split Fiction film starring Sydney Sweeney is within the works. Hazelight’s older recreation, It Takes Two, can also be being tailored for a movie.