Cut up Fiction Is Now EA’s No. 2 Recreation All Time On Steam, Forward Of Battlefield And FIFA

Cut up Fiction, the most recent co-op game from writer-director Josef Fares and his Hazelight Studios, launched on March 6 and had a big opening weekend.

The sport reached a peak of 259,003 concurrent gamers on Steam on Sunday, March 9. That makes it the No. 2 recreation of all time revealed by EA when it comes to Steam concurrents, surpassed solely by the free-to-play battle royale recreation Apex Legends. These knowledge factors come from SteamDB and had been first noticed by Twisted Voxel.

The highest 5 EA video games on Steam ranked by peak concurrent gamers are:

1. Apex Legends – 624,473
2. Cut up Fiction – 259,003
3. Battlefield V – 116,104
4. EA Sports activities FIFA 23 – 110,878
5. EA Sports activities FC 25 – 110,026

It additionally bears mentioning that EA avoided Steam for a while, selecting to as a substitute publish its video games by itself PC platform. The corporate introduced its video games back to Steam in 2019.

Hazelight’s final launch, It Takes Two, reached a peak of 71,039, so Cut up Fiction is many elements larger than that recreation. Not solely is Cut up Fiction extraordinarily standard, however it’s getting rave evaluations. Right here at GameSpot, our Split Fiction review scored it a ten/10. On GameSpot sister web site Metacritic, Cut up Fiction (91) is EA’s first recreation to have an combination ranking of 90 or above previously decade. 2012’s Mass Impact 3 was the final recreation to rank 90 or increased.

Not everybody who’s taking part in Cut up Fiction essentially purchased a replica of the sport. That is as a result of the sport utilizes a Friend’s Pass system whereby just one particular person has to purchase a replica. Additionally of observe is that Cut up Fiction can be obtainable on PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S, so the Steam numbers solely account for a proportion of the sport’s whole attain and recognition.

Sony and Microsoft don’t share concurrent participant numbers, nevertheless, and as of but, neither EA nor Hazelight have launched any official participant or gross sales numbers for Cut up Fiction.

The sport has large sneakers to fill, as It Takes Two sold a whopping 23 million copies. Cut up Fiction’s improvement funds was “virtually double” that of It Takes Two, according to Fares.

After Fares made the critically acclaimed Brothers: A Story of Two Sons with Starbreeze, he branched out and based his personal studio, Hazelight. The corporate is finest identified for co-op-only video games, and has launched three video games up to now: A Manner Out, It Takes Two, and Cut up Fiction. All three have been revealed by EA beneath its EA Unique label. Hazelight stays an impartial studio.

Fares has been outspoken regarding his dislike of microtransactions and live-service elements, that are two of the primary pillars of EA’s enterprise. Hazelight has solely simply launched Cut up Fiction, so there is no such thing as a phrase but on what the corporate would possibly make subsequent or if it’s going to stick with EA.

Past video games, Hazelight has partnered with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for an It Takes Two movie for Prime Video.