For those who love cooperative gaming experiences, the top choice right now is Hazelight Studios‘ Split Fiction. Building on their success with A Way Out and It Takes Two, the game has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, and its biggest secret has now been revealed with a fantastic prize.
Hazelight has put in a hidden level that the gaming community has endearingly come to call Laser Hell. The name is fitting, considering this section challenges players to platform through an overwhelming number of laser beams arranged in chaotic and unpredictable patterns.
But other than the satisfaction of overcoming the challenge, this secret level conceals something even more extraordinary. By completing said level, players are greeted by studio head Josef Fares, who will offer his congratulations as well as a trip to the studio for players to see Hazelight’s next project.
“Wow. Amazing. You have to understand, this challenge, there are barely people on our team that can make it,” Fares says in the video. “It took us a lot of time to finish it. I’m telling you; this is a crazy, crazy achievement you have done.”
And while others may complete the level now, the first to overcome the challenge is a pair of skilled gamers known as SharkOvO and E1uM4y, who shared their gameplay footage on the streaming platform Bilibili. Their success has been confirmed by Fares himself on Twitter/X.
As of now, no specific details have been disclosed regarding when the winners will embark on their trip to the studio or whether they will be permitted to discuss what they see of Hazelight’s upcoming game publicly.
Nevertheless, their achievement has cemented their place in Split Fiction history, proving that perseverance and skill can lead to extraordinary rewards — even an invitation to meet one of the gaming industry’s most renowned developers.
