Hazelight Studios, led by the colorful Josef Faresmay unveil its latest game soon. A new report suggests that the upcoming project will be called Shared fiction and will be released sometime in March 2025.
That is accordingly Dealabs' billbil-kun. The reliable leaker says the new game will release on March 6, 2025 for both PC and consoles, and claims an official announcement will be made later this month. This puts the spotlight on it at the Game Awards next weekan event at which Fares has appeared regularly in the past, both to kickstart new projects and to collect rewards for existing ones.
Fares and his teams have been best known for a series of puzzle adventures since 2013 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sonsin which the player controls two characters with different joysticks, and 2018 A way out, where characters were controlled separately on different screens. It takes two fused the two approaches with a co-op adventure about divorce that ultimately won Game of the Year at the 2021 Game Awards and sold over 20 million copies.
This hit was published by Electronic Arts' “EA Originals” partnership, and it's possible that the company is also ready to release the latest project, as EA has announced an unannounced game from a partner that's set to release in early 2025 his last investor presentation. Based on the title, it sounds like it too Shared fiction will continue Hazelight Studios' focus on cooperative gameplay.
Aside from making games, Fares is best known to the general public for saying “Screw the Oscars” at the 2017 Game Awards. A week later he elaborated on this in an interview. “It's not like I mind [the] Oscars,” he said told Polygon. “But there's a lot of talk about, 'It's like the Oscars.' Like the Oscars, the Game Awards, “we're trying to be like the Oscars.” I'm like, come on, man. I think it’s time for people to realize that games are like a serious art.”
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