A few of my favourite childhood recollections come from taking part in co-op video games with my pals over summer season break. Now, as an grownup, summers do not fairly hit the identical. Whether or not it is the burden of the world bearing down on me or the extreme lack of sofa co-op video games, I am undecided. However, each occasionally, a particular recreation comes round that brings me again to that feeling of pure pleasure.

Cut up Fiction, the follow-up from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, launched earlier this yr and options one other superb co-op journey designed particularly for 2 gamers. Regardless of being only some months outdated, the PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S variations of the sport are already discounted to simply $35 throughout Prime Day. Do not wait too lengthy, although, as Prime Day ends tonight at midnight PT.

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Cut up Fiction (PS5)

It Takes Two is already one of many finest cooperative video games of all-time, taking house prime honors on the Recreation Awards in 2021. Cut up Fiction is shaping as much as be one other on the spot traditional.

Like its predecessor, Cut up Fiction is a split-screen expertise designed for 2 gamers that may be performed regionally or on-line. It even features a Pal Move so that you and a buddy solely have to buy a single copy with the intention to play collectively.

The sport options loads of memorable moments and requires you to rigorously coordinate together with your companion to resolve puzzles as you alternate between sci-fi and fantasy worlds. Our reviewer gave it a 9, saying “Cut up Fiction is so good at eager to be performed it’s exhausting to cease taking part in. It merely doesn’t keep the identical lengthy sufficient for it to ever develop into boring.” In actual fact, it is already on our checklist of the finest video games of 2025.

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Ought to I play It Takes Two first?

Regardless of the similarities between the 2 video games, Cut up Fiction is a very new expertise that includes a brand-new story and characters. So, should you by no means bought round to It Takes Two, you do not have to fret about lacking something by leaping straight into Cut up Fiction. Though, there are fairly a number of nods and inside jokes for gamers who’ve performed the earlier recreation.

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