Split Fiction
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $32.49.
- Length
- 13.7h
- Value
- $2.37/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 - 4GB or Radeon RX 470 - 4GB, 85 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $32.49. 10 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $32.49 at 35 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including It Takes Two ($11.99, scores 90) and A Way Out ($8.99, scores 65).
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,557 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
126,782 reviews stand behind that percentage.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
32% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
5,476 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Split Fiction is a game where you can feel the passion behind it in practically every minute you play. There is an almost ridiculous amount of creativity packed into it. Every level introduced some new idea, mechanic, visual style, and so much more-just when I thought I'd figured out what kind of game I was playing, it turned into another game entirely. At various points, I was playing pinball, controlling...
Split Fiction is like u drink some absinthe and suddenly find ursf in a bookstore where all the books open at the same time and mix together. But you're not reading them you're living inside each one. As for the gameplay it's a crazy mix of different geners. The game keeps giving you smth new all the time. The action is fast, the mechanics keep changing and u always wonder "what's next?". The only thing that...
The gameplay is ok but the writing is atrocious. The dialogue is insanely cheesy and the characters are exclusively stereotypes and incredibly predictable. It's so bad that it makes the entire game an absolute slog to play.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Split Fiction scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2001120/split-fictionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 23.
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