Best Easter Eggs In Split Fiction

Summary

• Split Fiction includes Easter eggs referencing popular games like Dark Souls and It Takes Two.
• Players can find hidden Easter eggs in side stories, like a Peppa Pig reference and a Three Little Pigs nod.
• The game also pays homage to The Hobbit with a dragon scene and Baldur’s Gate 3 with a cheese wheel spell.

Split Fiction is a game that packs as much humor as it can into each quest, and one of the ways it achieves this is with Easter eggs. These small secrets often reference other popular video games, such as Dark Souls and Baldur’s Gate 3, as well as Hazelight Studios’ previous titles, such as It Takes Two.

Beyond gaming references, there are also callouts to other elements of popular culture and even old fairy tales. While some of the best Split Fiction Easter eggs appear for all to see throughout the main story, others are hidden, requiring players to go searching.

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It Takes Two Easter Eggs

Cutie The Elephant

• Quest: Neon Revenge, Play Me Techno

If there’s one dark and utterly hilarious moment players remember from Hazelight Studios’ previous game, It Takes Two, it’s probably the elephant scene. Thankfully, players can relive the horrors inflicted by May and Cody during the Play Me Techno sublevel of the Neon Revenge chapter.

Cutie the Elephant can be seen proudly displayed as the mascot of the Mastodon Pet Store, and by using Zoe’s gravity whip, players are even able to unlock an achievement called Rose’s Best Friend, paying homage to It Takes Two’s darkest moment. Players will also be able to see advertisements for It Takes Two in this sci-fi city.

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Dune’s Sandworms As Sandfish

Ride The Sandfish & Get Their Attention By Thumping The Sand

Dune’s sandworms have provided filmgoers with some of the best cinematography in recent years, and Split Fiction pays homage to them, not in some tiny Easter egg or reference, but via an entire side story. The Legend of the Sandfish is one of the best-looking levels in Split Fiction and can be found during the Neon Revenge chapter.

To traverse the sands of time safely, Mio and Zoe will have to attract the sandfish by thumping the ground while the other runs to safety. This is a huge reference to Dune as thumpers are used by the Fremen to attract sandworms. Players will even get the opportunity to ride these sandfish, just like the bravest Fremen do.

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Peppa Pig Reference

Zoe Likes Jumping In Muddy Puddles

Peppa Pig isn’t normally referenced in video games, but given there is an entire side story in Split Fiction where Zoe and Mio play as pigs, the opportunity could not be missed. To trigger this Peppa Pig Easter egg, the player controlling Zoe during the Farmlife side story needs to wallow in the mud.

She will then say, “I love muddy puddles”, which is, of course, a reference to Peppa Pig’s love for jumping in muddy puddles. This is just one of many humorous moments during this whimsical side story.

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The Three Little Pigs

The Third Pig With His Stone House

Another Easter egg during the Farmlife side story is a reference to The Three Little Pigs fairy tale. Partway through this story, Mio and Zoe will walk past a brick house with a smug little pig inside.

He will boast that his house is indestructible, but if the player controlling Mio’s pig heads behind the house, they will be able to test its structural integrity. By using the fart-dash ability, Mio’s pig will utterly destroy the brick house, exposing the inhabitant to the Big Bad Wolf. This will also unlock an Achievement/Trophy for Split Fiction called Huffing and Puffing, another reference to the fairy tale.

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Dark Souls

Rest Here Weary Traveler

The Dark Souls franchise is constantly being referenced in other games, such as featuring as an Easter egg in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. In fact, the Dark Souls Easter egg in Split Fiction is extremely similar, as both depict the bonfires from Dark Souls​​​​​​, which act as checkpoints to rest at.

If the sword through the bonfire wasn’t enough, however, Mio and Zoe can actually sit down here, and it will say “Moonfire Lit” and “Rest here weary traveler”. To find this Easter egg during the Moon Market side story, players will need to head right when they see the large sleeping cat. Hop across some floating coffins, and the bonfire is then found inside a small cave.

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A Baldur’s Gate 3 Reference

Get Turned Into A Cheese Wheel

While most quests and stories in Split Fiction are fairly linear and on the rails, the Moon Market side story allows players to wander around the market and have some fun. Here, players will want to try out all the potion combinations, eat some sweets, and let off some fireworks.

There is also a magical wand that Mio and Zoe can try out on one another. The spell fired by this wand turns the target into a wheel of cheese, which is a reference to Baldur’s Gate 3. Given the sheer size of BG3, not all players will understand this Easter egg, as they must have had a certain interaction with Akabi at his Wheel of Fortune as part of the Circus of the Last Days in Act 3.

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Golden Smaug From The Hobbit Easter Egg

Mio & Zoe’s Dragons Get Submerged In Gold Just Like Smaug

• Quest: Rise of the Dragon Realm

During The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the dwarves trap the titular dragon Smaug in a fountain of mountain gold, but incredibly, he survives, shaking off the gold as he ascends into the sky.

Split Fiction pays homage to this moment during the Rise of the Dragon Realm chapter, which is naturally all about dragons. Going from eggs to hatchlings and then adolescent dragons, players witness and partake in the life cycles of the last two dragons in Zoe’s world. The last transformation sees the dragons jump into a pool of gold, and emerge just as Smaug does, shaking off the gold.