Split Fiction's Mia Will Be Played By Sydney Sweeney?
The popular two-player game is on its way to become a movie, but why is Split Fiction so popular?
Split Fiction, the video game, starts with a choice. Then another followed by silence. And then a stranger's voice asking: Are you sure this memory is yours?
The narrative video game that went from low-key indie drop to cultural obsession, soon, will be turned into a movie script starring Sydney Sweeney and Jon Bernthal as wife and husband.
Directed by Jon M. Chu under Amazon MGM Studios and written by Deadpool & Wolverine writers, Split Fiction blends fantasy and science fiction together following the life of a couple, Mia and Zoe, who are trapped in the world they fictitiously wrote.
Sweeney is set to play the unhinged, possibly-unreal protagonist while Bernthal will be the unreliable narrator-turned-missing husband figure. But before it becomes a cinematic mind-bender, we should address why the video game is such a pop culture fever dream in India?
Released quietly in late 2022 by Subsurface Nest, a studio known more for narrative experiments than commercial success, the game was first over looked. but in early 2023, a viral thread on X, formerly Twitter, dissected a strange moment in one of the game's endings- a mid-monologue audio bleed that hinted at a hidden easter egg timeline.
That single clip blew the lid off the game's multi-layered plot and became the conspiracy you could play. Over time, Indian streamers like TriggerSaanvi, NoobTheory and GameGyaan have built cult followings by deep-diving into the video-game's twisted narrative arcs.
Since the game has a low system requirement it made it mobile-friendly. Moreover, although the game is a dialogue-first, violence-lite design drew in casual players and non-gamers looking for a story-rich escapism.
But that's not all to the game. It makes you sit with grief, paranoia, and fractured identity. There's a choice to forget a dead sibling, branching path where you erase your own name and you're never told who you're. Instead, you're asked to decide.
Interestingly, the game has broken three Guinness World Records for the most-played and most-sold local co-op game on Steam within 48hours and one week. As of May 2025, 4 million copies of the game have been sold and with the new Nintendo Switch 2 release in available for users.
At its core, the two-player psychological drama demands intimacy more than reflexes. You are not expected to sight hints and piece together the fragmented narrative. but here's the catch, the hints never arrive on time and details never align leaving you confused and feeling gaslighted. What you remember may be a lie- or worse, someone else's truth.
Finally, what makes Split Fiction deceptively brilliant is its invisible architecture- the kind that respects the chaos of the real world. Meaning it runs cleanly on mid-tier laptops and smartphones, holds a steady framerate even without GPU flex and delivers seamless co-play across platforms, including ageing consoles and average Indian broadband.
No loading screens interrupting your descent, just two players navigating the same broken memory from different angles and their conversations and hesitations altering the very fabric of the story. It is interesting to see how the film will pan out and how the narrative arc will be brought to just in the upcoming adaptation.