Split Fiction similar games & best alternatives

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Split Fiction

Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2025

Should you play it?

Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.

What works

  • Innovative and varied cooperative gameplay
  • Engaging and emotional story
  • Stunning visuals and sound design
  • Friend pass allowing free play with a friend
  • Well optimized and bug-free at launch

Things to keep in mind

  • Story can be predictable or cheesy at times
  • Some boss fights may be too easy
  • Shorter playtime for some players
  • Requires a partner to play
  • Occasional minor technical issues (e.g. desync)

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy

  • Trine 2: Complete Story

  • POPUCOM

  • Bang-On Balls: Chronicles

  • Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince

  • LEGO® Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Split Fiction but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Valheim

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • Grounded

  • Abyssus

  • Borderlands 2

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

Less social

Games that feels like Split Fiction but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

  • FINAL FANTASY IX

  • Moss II VR

  • Eternal Strands

  • Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA

  • Beyond Good and Evil™

More competitive

Games that feels like Split Fiction but with more competition against others

  • It Takes Two

  • Vellum

  • Onirism

  • Guild Wars® Reforged

  • It Takes Two Friend's Pass

  • Unruly Heroes

Less intimate

Games that feels like Split Fiction but with less focus on close relationships

  • Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

  • Disney Alice in Wonderland

  • Journey To The Savage Planet

  • First Dwarf

  • DYSPLACED

  • Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Split Fiction. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Split Fiction. These titles are not in What to play next.

Split Fiction: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival, Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026