Hazelight Studios has lengthy been considered among the best builders round for two-player co-op video games, however with the discharge of its new title Break up Fiction, it might need simply solidified itself as the perfect. After happening a storm with critics earlier within the week, it’s now racking up a great deal of constructive person evaluations on Steam, cementing its place as one in every of 2025’s greatest new releases.
Hazelight had already set a excessive bar for itself with its first two co-op video games. A Means Out was full of wonderful gameplay moments, however its real-world setting meant that a few of its extra surreal concepts and story beats felt a bit off. It Takes Two, nonetheless, is a GOTY-winning triumph that sticks a center finger up at realism and totally embraces creativity and lunacy, which is strictly what it wanted to do. With It Takes Two boasting an ‘overwhelmingly constructive’ 95% ranking on Steam, Break up Fiction would must be actually particular to beat it. On launch day, at the least, that’s precisely what it’s gone and achieved.
On the time of writing, near 500 person evaluations have already been posted for Break up Fiction on Steam, and 96% of them are constructive. Whereas its participant depend isn’t precisely Monster Hunter Wilds ranges of fantastic, it reached a concurrent peak in the present day of 32,471 individuals. After all, that is simply on Steam, and due to its sofa co-op nature it does lend itself to console avid gamers, so the general image might be a lot rosier for Hazelight and EA.
It’s additionally price contemplating that each copy of Break up Fiction that’s bought comes with a Pal’s Go, which lets one in every of your friends play together with you totally free.
With its 96% Steam ranking, it’s at the moment one of many high rated new PC video games on the platform for 2025 thus far, however its critic assessment scores solidify this. Throughout the 2 greatest assessment aggregator websites, OpenCritic and Metacritic, Break up Fiction is on the very high of the 2025 pile thus far. On OpenCritic, it sits on a 90 common assessment rating, tied with Monster Hunter Wilds and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. On Metacritic, it’s the undisputed chief, with its 91 common rating trumping the brand new Monster Hunter (90) and KCD2 (88).
So, Hazelight’s achieved it once more. Break up Fiction’s combination of a fantasy sport and a futuristic sci-fi journey, its gorgeous visuals, and its big array of co-op puzzles and minigames are happening an absolute storm. I’m already trying ahead to this weekend so I can leap in myself… Why not check out our upcoming PC video games information whilst you’re right here to see if there are some other titles that might be part of Break up Fiction within the Sport of the Yr debate.
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