Hazelight Studios

I've watched a couple streams of it.

Yeah, it's like Hazelight, but it's not Hazelight, but it's a lot like that.

Dude, I think you'd really like it.

It's not too long.

Like, co-op? Like, I want, give me something fucking sick like that.

Like, I don't need It Takes Two, or, like, I imagine something that's a little bit closer to A Way Out for anybody who's played that, which is, again, another Hazelight game, their first kind of, this forced co-op thing.

I don't know if there if it's going to be a force co-op game or if it's going to be something more like You can play your own story, but also tackle missions together Something division-esque without being so big But like if they only started working on this in mid 2025 and they're being as ambitious as possibly doing like a late 2027 release I'd have to imagine this is somewhat of a smaller experience, right? Rather than something as big as something like a division or something.

I don't know denny.

I don't want EA to be...

I don't want Hazelight to be associated with Hazelight.

That should not be the case.

Hazelight and EA, no.

But yeah, I just want good games, and I do think that, yeah, Mass Effect going away sucks.

The only people that have the big checkbook to come out to potentially buy it...

We have Orbitals because Orbitals is, like...

Orbitals pulled the Hazelight stuff.

The Hazelight.

Now I'm just, like...

I'm just telling Joseph Ferris now's a good time to leave, bro.

Yeah.

God, man.

It's like, it's so, it's so, because again, I know as much as you know, like, why would I feel, like, if I'm Maxis, right? If I'm Hazelight, I'm feeling a way, you know? Because you would think that I came in, I'm on the pedigree list, and if Bioware, you know, gaming royalty that is Bioware could be shuttered, and people are doing like postmortems and are literally crying about it, which to be fair, I feel like some of this, I feel like Andromeda, I feel like Andromeda is somewhat of Bioware's fault.

Then online came in and you had your Call of Duties and your Fortnite, Apex Legends, PUBG and stuff like that.

Multiplayer has ruled the roost for the last 10, 12 years, right? But I just looked it up online because I noticed games like Split Fiction from Hazelight Studios, It Takes Two, A Way Out, plus all these online co-ops like Peak, Big Walk and stuff like that, they're becoming more popular.

And here are some stats from, this is just from Steam, right? So these are co-op games, right? So these are games like Your Gears of War and stuff like that.

On Steam alone, in 2020, there was 579.

And look, technically, I actually don't think it is set in space, but it's sci-fi as hell, so it may as well be.

The series has been pretty well-regarded in the past, so if you're finished up with Orbitals and the Hazelight catalog, this one should probably be on your radar for you and your player two, though I believe it's online co-op only.

PC, PS5, and Xbox Series consoles for this one.

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Uh, one from me that it feels like, uh, this is weird that more people haven't played it, um, is still Orbitals on Switch 2.

It's like for how much I think as a group, with some asterisks, that people really like Hazelight's games, it's like, "Hey, here's, like, one of the best Hazelight games ever made, not from Hazelight." But if you like that co-op Hazelight formula on Switch 2, like it's a, it's a great game.

Yeah.

I, I 100%-

Christian Craig.

I, I do think, I do think it's ha- worth having more people play it.

If you like Hazelight stuff, you should not just be like, "Easy pass."

Right.

Like, this genre is, there's not that many games.

It's really just the Hazelight games.

and then this now.

I think there's going to be more coming up.