Hazelight hid a secret level in Split Fiction that could win a free trip to Sweden

Developers from Sweden’s Hazelight Studios (It Takes Two, A Way Out) will reward two users of their co-op adventure Split Fiction for completing a particularly difficult secret level.

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Towards the end of the Isolation chapter (Maximum Security level), you can find a passage to a test called Laser Hell. To access it, you need to enter a hidden code using the elevator buttons.

Once in Laser Hell, users must navigate a series of rooms with deadly lasers. Both players must demonstrate extreme precision and coordination.

At the very end of Laser Hell, there’s a video message from Hazelight CEO and Split Fiction director Josef Fares. The developer congratulates players on an achievement that only a few people on the project’s production team have achieved.

Fares also promises to take the first two people who prove to him that they’ve completed Laser Hell to Sweden for an exclusive demonstration of early work on Hazelight Studios’ next game.

Image source: X (Josef Fares)

The developer will keep his word. In his microblog, Fares congratulated Chinese players sharkOvO and E1uM4y (see the recording of their playthrough), who were the first to conquer Laser Hell. They will be the first to see the studio’s next project.

Split Fiction was released on March 6 on PC (Steam, EGS, EA App), PS5, Xbox Series X and S. The game previously earned high marks from critics and over 30,000 “extremely positive” reviews on Steam. In the week since its release, the project’s sales exceeded 2 million copies.