Hazelight Studios just released another banger co-op adventure! Split Fiction launched on March 6, 2025, giving fans and their friends a new game to enjoy together (and fight over).
Have you tried the studio’s previous hits, A Way Out and It Takes Two? If yes, you might have been disappointed like many fans about the lack of cross-platform functionality. However, Split Fiction will be breaking new ground for the developer if it finally supports crossplay.
Why is Crossplay Important for Split Fiction?
After Split Fiction’s recent release, many are wondering if they’ll be able to play with friends across different platforms. Similar to their previous titles, it blends genres to create an interesting premise that appeals to players. In this case, they mixed science fiction and fantasy together for the story of two writers who have to navigate between different worlds. This mystery brings most of the fun when playing it with another friend.
Without the cross-platform function, a person playing on PC, for example, would not be able to join their friend who uses a PS5 for gaming. Hazelight’s It Takes Two definitely is a massive hit. Yet, one of its only criticisms is due to only being available for single-platform play.
Split Fiction is another Hazelight game that’s designed exclusively for cooperative play, either online or through local couch co-op. You can’t play the game with an AI companion, and even if it can, it wouldn’t be as fun. So, the crossplay feature is really valuable, especially for friends who own different gaming systems.
Is Split Fiction Crossplay Compatible?
For the first time, the award-winning developer Hazelight Studios has included cross-platform play in one of their games. Yes, Split Fiction fully supports crossplay across all platforms!
Players can play Split Fiction together regardless of whether they’re on PC (via Steam, Epic Games, or EA Play), PlayStation 5, or Xbox Series X|S. It seems Hazelight listened to one of the few criticisms of It Takes Two, their previous Game of the Year winner, addressing it with this feature.
Friend’s Pass in Split Fiction
The “Friend’s Pass” has been featured consistently across Hazelight’s other games, but now it’s available in Split Fiction, too. With this, only one person needs to purchase the game and then invite another player to join their game for free.
Of course, for those that only support single-platform co-op, you can only share your game with friends on the same platform. However, with crossplay supported, the Friend’s Pass in Split Fiction is even greater and easily one of its most appealing aspects. That means that you can share your game with your friend even if they play on a different platform.
Setting Up Crossplay in Split Fiction
It’s fairly easy to use the crossplay feature in Split Fiction. First, both players need to have active EA accounts. Here’s how to get started:
- Link your EA accounts to your respective gaming platforms
- In Split Fiction, access the EA Friends List
- Add your friend through their EA account
- Send them an invitation to join your game
For Xbox players specifically, you can enable or disable crossplay support in your console’s Privacy Settings. Within Split Fiction itself, you can do it too in the Options menu.
Conclusion
Hazelight is surely changing how their games can be enjoyed by finally introducing crossplay in Split Fiction. You can buy it at $50 and share it with Friend’s Pass, giving its players even more reasons to love the game. Hopefully, this has set a new standard for Hazelight games moving forward, and we can play lots of new adventures together regardless of platform.
