Split Fiction

EA's official Game Updates feed currently lists Update Notes 17/03, released on March 17, 2025, as the latest general patch entry for Split Fiction. It corrected the Royal Palace rolling-wheel puzzle at frame rates above 150 FPS, made the magnetized harpoon in Down the Rabbit Hole respect camera sensitivity settings, improved Walking Stick of Doom tutorial prompts, and fixed visual, localization, and subtitle issues. The game's later major platform milestone was its Nintendo Switch 2 launch on June 5, 2025.

Split Fiction is built specifically around two-player cooperation. Players control Mio Hudson and Zoe Foster, unpublished writers who visit Rader Publishing Headquarters and become trapped inside a shared simulation after a machine intended to extract creative ideas goes wrong. Mio writes science fiction while Zoe writes fantasy, causing the adventure to alternate between futuristic and magical worlds created from their stories.

Each level introduces different abilities and cooperative problems instead of relying on one permanent combat kit. Players platform, solve puzzles, fight enemies, use vehicles, sneak through hazards, transform into different forms, and coordinate actions that usually require both sides of the split screen. The game can be played through local split-screen or online co-op, including cross-platform sessions.

Optional Side Stories appear through unusual portals inside the main levels. These branches represent unfinished ideas from Mio and Zoe's younger years and introduce self-contained scenarios such as climbing among giants, riding Sandfish, performing snowboarding tricks under fire, becoming pigs, water-skiing, and surviving a spacewalk.