Multiplayer game modes are core to Split Fiction, a mandatorily cooperative game that’s ostensibly about the creative process but is more preoccupied with “cyber ninjas” and anthropomorphic hot dogs.

It spits right at you with perfect aim. Its venom can burn your skin. And if it hits your eyes you could go blind. This is one disrespectful snake. There are about 20 species of spitting cobra. You ...