French indie studio Kusa Games will launch Split Brain Samsara on PC via Steam on 26 November 2026, priced at €7.99. That’s the launch price, and there’ll be 10% off during the first week.
The game can’t be played solo. Two players share one character. One controls its movements and how it interacts with the physical world, while the other sees different things and deals with the spiritual realm. Kusa Games says the game must be played online, and both players have to communicate.
Puzzles and riddles are solved by comparing the clues each player sees. Together, the pair has to escape a massive station, work out what happened to the character, and choose their fate. The studio describes the spiritual world as sitting “between reality and the unconscious, where fragments of memories might resurface.” It also lists hand-crafted environments and levels, new mechanics, and two worlds to explore.
The studio’s first game, Split Brain, was an asymmetrical co-op puzzle game in which two friends shared control of a single character. Florian Massat and Sylvain Gaborit founded Kusa Games in France in January 2025, and they focus on short, original co-op games.
The first Split Brain was born out of a desire to create video games, even though we had limited resources. Split Brain Samsara is the culmination of our vision for the game—more beautiful, profound, and intense—and we are incredibly proud of the result
Sylvain Gaborit and Florian Massat, co-founders, Kusa Games
Another Steam launch, The Pyramid, launches free on 19 November.
Kusa Games says the free demo on Steam has a “very positive” user review score. With a co-op partner, the demo lets you test whether you can talk each other through a puzzle before paying.
