Games Like Split Fiction: Co-op Adventures That Reinvent Every Level
The best games like Split Fiction — co-op games built for two players with constantly inventive mechanics and emotional storytelling.
Split Fiction is Hazelight Studios' third mandatory-co-op game. Two writers trapped inside their own stories — one sci-fi, one fantasy — must work together across constantly shifting genre mashups. Josef Fares continued the philosophy from It Takes Two and A Way Out: every level introduces completely new mechanics that only work with two players.
Finding games like Split Fiction means hunting for co-op games designed exclusively for two players with inventive mechanics that change constantly. The games like It Takes Two post covers the broader co-op space — this focuses on what's new since that post.
The Hazelight trilogy
Play all three if you haven't:
A Way Out — prison break co-op. Hazelight's first game. More cinematic, less mechanically inventive.
It Takes Two — Game of the Year 2021. The game that proved co-op-only design is commercially viable. The games like It Takes Two post has the full breakdown.
Split Fiction — the newest, most polished entry. Reviewers call it Hazelight's best.
The co-op adventure picks
Unravel Two is cooperative puzzle-platformer about two yarn characters physically connected.
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is 3D co-op platformer with levels designed for two.
We Were Here series is asymmetric co-op puzzle solving. Each player sees different things.
Portal 2 co-op remains the gold standard for cooperative puzzle design.
The chaos co-op picks
Overcooked! All You Can Eat is kitchen chaos that tests relationships.
Plate Up! is cooperative kitchen management roguelike.
Moving Out 2 is physics-based furniture chaos.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is cooperative spaceship management.
The narrative co-op picks
Divinity: Original Sin 2 supports two-player co-op through its entire campaign with independent decision-making.
Baldur's Gate 3 co-op lets two players take different sides of the same story. The bg3 tips post has more.
Haven is cooperative RPG about a couple in love on an alien planet.
The horror co-op picks
Phasmophobia is ghost hunting with a partner.
Lethal Company is co-op scavenging horror. The games like Lethal Company post has more.
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What we make at Choost
Granny's Rampage is currently single-player but co-op is something we'd love to build. Split Fiction proves two-player design can be commercially massive. For more co-op content, the games like It Takes Two, games like Helldivers 2, and games like Deep Rock Galactic posts have more.
The shortest version
For more Hazelight: Play all three — A Way Out, It Takes Two, Split Fiction. For puzzle co-op: Portal 2 or We Were Here series. For cozy chaos: Overcooked or Plate Up. For narrative co-op: BG3 or Divinity 2. For horror co-op: Phasmophobia. Split Fiction's specific formula of "new mechanics every 20 minutes" is uniquely Hazelight. Nothing else does exactly this — but the co-op genre is healthier than ever.