Split Fiction

Split Fiction

BANGER · Multiplayer · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 4 of 5 sales

A BANGER at $49.99. Typically $34.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hour
$3.65/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 128,984
Genre rank
Top 1% Multiplayer
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
13.7h
To 100%
16.2h 1.2x the story
Achievements
20

Price and sales

Sales
11 on record
Typical cut
30% off
Steam low
$32.49 June 2026
Sale every
44d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $32.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2,645 now
Recent reviews
95% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

32% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

11 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. 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 ($39.99, scores 90) and A Way Out ($29.99, scores 47).

More about Split Fiction

10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 741 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,568 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.

128,984 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach3.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
For context
Refunds10 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

SPLIT FICTION ON THE IMMEASURABLE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP After finishing this game, I have so many things to say about it personally. My BFF said this game is 99 times better than IT TAKES TWO and that could have put us in a serious face to face discussion to debate their comparison jkjk.(≧∀≦) At first, I admit that I was so wrong about my opinion on the perfect scores this game received, any perfect score everywhere...
heazenRecommendedafter 26h22 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Just like It Takes Two & No Way Out - it's a fantastic co-op game with some of the most beautiful graphics and stunning set pieces for a game I think I've ever seen. It's an automatic recommend because who doesn't love killing their duo multiple times.. because I do :) 9/10
Alph3NRecommendedafter 26h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This is the worst writing I have even been subjected to...If you are (mentally) under the age of 16, this might be a fun game for you.
Kissy FaceNot recommendedafter 1.5h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Split Fiction scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2001120/split-fiction
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperHazelight Studios
PublisherElectronic Arts
GenreMultiplayer
Released2025
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20