Lego Voyagers is a short and sweet co-op game I won’t soon forget

Some of my earliest gaming memories are of playing the Lego Star Wars games cooperative with my brother.

We’d have a ton of fun venturing through Lego recreations of movies we loved as kids, even if we’d occasionally get on each other’s nerves by killing each other in-game or moving on when the other wanted to stick around the area.

Playing Lego Voyagers allowed my brother and me to recapture some of that childhood magic.

Lego Voyagers is a new co-op-only game from Light Brick Studios, the developer behind the excellent Lego Builder’s Journey.

It’s not tied to any famous film franchise or even that complex of a puzzle-platformer, but it offered up about four hours of co-op fun with my brother that I won’t soon forget.

If its brief appearance in the latest Nintendo Direct intrigued you, I recommend giving the game a shot, especially with someone you have a history of playing co-op games with.

Lego Voyagers is an incredibly charming game

Good vibes set the stage for a memorable co-op experience

Lego Voyagers isn’t playable by yourself. Like It Takes Two or Split Fiction, you need to have two players to complete many of the game’s puzzles.

It supports both local and online play. Local play feels optimal for a game like this, especially on a platform like Nintendo Switch. Because my brother and I don’t live in the same city, we had to play through the game online on Xbox.

Thankfully, from my experience, we never encountered any lag or connection issues while playing.

Don’t be concerned about coordinating purchases of the game remotely, as Lego Voyagers comes with a Friend’s Pass that you can use to give someone else access to the game.

That speaks to how Lego Voyagers is generally a frictionless experience, which isn’t always the case in the realm of co-op video games.

Each player controls a small Lego brick, and they are friends working together to find a crashed spaceship and eventually rebuild it.

The entire aesthetic and feel of Lego Voyagers is absolutely delightful, and everything from your characters to the environments you explore feels hand-crafted with real-looking Lego bricks.

My brother and I were enthralled throughout the whole adventure, curious to see which areas made of Lego the game would toss us into next and how we could roll around and build in each level.

It’s all pretty easy, which makes it a good background for conversation. It’s also not much of a burden time-wise, as the whole game can be beaten in under five hours.

Lego Voyagers embraces the fact that it’s a co-op game

It wouldn’t be nearly as impactful as a single-player adventure

What I may have enjoyed most about Lego Voyagers was how co-op felt like an integral part of the experience and not shoehorned in.

The game might be easy, but it still finds plenty of clever ways to design simple puzzles around two characters who can independently build or attach themselves to Lego pieces.

Sometimes, you have to work together to build some stairs or a catapult to reach a new area. Other times, you have to communicate while controlling a vehicle to move it in the right direction.

You feel smart when you come up with a puzzle solution, and by the end of the game, my brother and I only had to briefly communicate to understand what we needed to do to finish some puzzles.

There’s freedom to play around in the Lego sandbox and mess with each other, too.

I’ll admit there were quite a few times when I jokingly dropped a platform my brother was walking across or latched myself onto him to slow him down. Consider it payback for how he messed with me in Lego Star Wars as a kid.

The game also never breaks its pacing, as there’s no level select, dialogue-filled cutscenes, or even lengthy loading screens separating each challenge.

That allows the game to stand on its own as a joyful little adventure that two people can make their way through in an afternoon or two.

Lego Voyagers is my favorite co-op game of 2025

Sorry, Split Fiction and Borderlands 4

Lego Voyagers is the kind of co-op game I’d feel more comfortable playing with a kid or non-gamer friend.

That said, I still had a fantastic time playing it with my brother, who has a strong familiarity with video games like me.

We hadn’t played through a Lego video game together in well over a decade, and it was gratifying to tap back into those gaming memories as we played through Lego Voyagers.

We didn’t encounter any major roadblocks until one brief rocket-ship controlling challenge late in the game, so know that this isn’t a puzzle platformer to seek out if you want a challenge.

Still, with how hectic and complicated the world is nowadays, sometimes it’s a relief to play something pleasant with someone you know.

Just take my advice and fling the person you’re playing with off a platform at some point. It’s really funny, especially if it’s your brother on the receiving end.