‘Subsequent Game in the Making’: Split Fiction Director Josef Fares Posts Set Photo Which Fans Think is a 3-Player Hint

It Takes Two and Split Fiction director Josef Fares has posted the first picture from the set of developer Hazelight Studios’ subsequent challenge.

The picture exhibits Fares, dressed in a cosy-looking sweater, in entrance of three actors in efficiency seize fits. Clearly, work has now begun on Fares’ subsequent recreation — and intriguingly, he appears to be doing his greatest to disguise who the actors are.

Along with his arm outstretched and thumb raised, Fares is efficiently blocking most of all three actors’ faces — and this seems to be by design. “Subsequent recreation in the making,” Fares captioned the publish, with a thumbs up emoji. “We’re again in the kitchen, cookin’ up one thing actually scrumptious,” the official Hazelight Studios social media account responded, including: “Now with Strategic Arm Placement Tech.”

✌️We’re again in the kitchen, cookin’ up one thing actually scrumptious! 🥘

Now with Strategic Arm Placement Tech®️

— Hazelight Studios (@HazelightGames) February 10, 2026

Fans of Fares’ video games have commented on the publish to say they’re suitably unsure who the actors concerned could be — although many extra have famous the indisputable fact that Fares is utilizing this primary sneak peek to showcase three actors being seen. Might this signify a three-player recreation, after the studio’s latest give attention to titles that includes a pair of distinguished characters?

“Three-player Hazelight Game?” questioned one fan, Spenny99. “It Takes Three?????” questioned Jcbartlett25. “It Takes Three lookin nice Mr. Fares,” added hotpicklepizza.

Co-op journey Split Fiction launched final yr to rave opinions, and went on to promote greater than 4 million copies. Its story focuses on a pair of writers, Zoe and Mio, who turn into trapped in their interweaving sci-fi and fantasy narratives.

“An expertly crafted co-op journey that pinballs from one style excessive to a different, Split Fiction is a rollercoaster of regularly refreshed gameplay concepts and kinds – and one which’s very laborious to stroll away from,” IGN wrote in our Split Fiction evaluate, awarding the recreation 9/10.

Fares’ earlier recreation It Takes Two additionally proved widespread, with its story targeted on a husband and spouse who plan to get a divorce. We known as it “a lovely, breakneck-paced, co-op journey that’s effervescent over with creativity,” in IGN’s It Takes Two evaluate, which additionally returned a 9/10.

Earlier than that, Fares beforehand launched jail escape journey A Approach Out, starring two convicts, and Brothers: A Story of Two Sons, starring… two sons. Ought to Fares truly be making a three-player recreation, it might certainly be a break from the norm.

Tom Phillips is IGN’s Information Editor. You possibly can attain Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or discover him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social