9 LEGO Games With Amazing Couch Co-Op Design

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Published Jan 26, 2026, 2:34 PM EST

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or thinking about games, constantly on the lookout for fascinating new gameplay styles and stories to experience. Daniel has previously written lists for TheGamer, as well as guides for GamerJournalist, and he currently covers tech topics on SlashGear.

Rather fittingly for its creative ethos, LEGO is something you can engage with in any number of ways. You can build up models and sets by yourself if you like, or you and a friend can build an elaborate hodge-podge together. This cooperative nature has been with LEGO since the start, and naturally, it’s carried over into the many LEGO video games, both original and licensed.

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For about as long as LEGO games have existed on multiplayer-capable consoles, they've had some manner of couch co-op element, encouraging easy drop-in, drop-out play at every player’s leisure. Whether you’re with a friend, a partner, your kids, or whoever else, these LEGO games are perfect for a little afternoon co-op, both of the linear level and open-world exploration varieties. That’s part of the fun of LEGOs; it doesn’t matter what you do with them, as long as you’re doing what you want with them.

9 LEGO Star Wars - The Complete Saga

You Can’t Beat the Classics

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

While technically not the first LEGO game ever made based on a licensed property, the original LEGO Star Wars was the first one made by Traveller’s Tales, and the one to establish the decisive winning formula that most LEGO games have come to be known for. By today’s standards, the first LEGO Star Wars games may feel a little primitive, but they’ve still got a distinctive pinch of magic to them that makes them endlessly accessible.

LEGO Star Wars - The Complete Saga features LEGO-ified versions of the first six Star Wars films, including both the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy. The original released all the way back in 2005, right when Episode 3 came out, so Star Wars was still fresh in everyone’s minds. Traveller’s Tales carefully simplified the events of these movies, cutting out dialogue entirely and dialing down the violence. The result was an experience both more family-friendly and, honestly, funnier.

The game remains perfectly accessible for players of just about any age. Levels are easy to navigate with simple puzzles, and you can drop in and out to play as any of the active characters, as well as any unlocked character in free play. My friends and I got endless entertainment out of just picking two random characters and pummeling each other.

8 LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

…But it Doesn’t Hurt to Try

Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga Millennium Falcon

While the original LEGO Star Wars is the banner holder for all of the Traveller’s Tales games, both that studio and Star Wars as an IP have advanced significantly since then. With a new film trilogy and a galaxy of spin-offs, not to mention backing from The Mouse, Star Wars had the muscle and capital to create something a little more ambitious. The result was LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

Skywalker Saga is less of a linear progression through Star Wars films, and more of an entire Star Wars-themed LEGO sandbox for fans of all ages to play around in. The main meat of the game is in segmented levels following the events of all nine films, but outside of that, you can freely explore major planets, fly around in space, infiltrate the Death Star, and pretty much anything else you could want to do in a Star Wars setting.

A co-op pair could tackle the game in any way they wish; you don’t even need to go through the film setpieces sequentially. Just pick your favorite Star Wars and go from there. Alternatively, hop in an X-Wing and see which way the stars take you. It’s a galaxy made entirely of bricks, ready for you and a friend to tackle at your leisure.

7 LEGO Jurassic World

LEGO and Dinosaurs: Lifelong Buddies

Dinosaurs are one of the bedrock concepts of LEGO, with some of the oldest standalone sets being dinosaur-themed. Everyone loves to build a dinosaur, after all, which I guess is kind of the inciting problem with the Jurassic Park franchise, if you think about it. Still, that just means both franchises are guaranteed to go great together, as they do in LEGO Jurassic World.

LEGO Jurassic World is a LEGO adaptation of both the titular film and the original Jurassic Park film trilogy. You get lots of both human and dinosaur characters to play as, and can even splice new dinosaurs together with components unlocked from the levels.

This particular LEGO game has one of the largest commitments to co-op amongst its contemporaries, as nearly every character has a wholly unique ability. Many of the game’s puzzles specifically require two people to think through and use those abilities in order to progress. It’s not exactly cerebral, but for a LEGO game, it definitely encourages cooperation over mindlessly knocking each other off of ledges, though you can still do that with little consequence if you like.

6 LEGO City Undercover

Rescued from the Wii U

2013’s LEGO City Undercover was the first non-licensed LEGO game Traveller’s Tales made, based on the City series of LEGO kits instead of a particular movie or franchise. It was also a Wii U exclusive, which wasn’t a great idea, because the use of the Wii U GamePad meant there couldn’t be co-op. Thankfully, the game escaped the corpse of the Wii U a few years later, and now you can enjoy it with a friend.

LEGO City Undercover has been frequently summed up by players as “Grand Theft Auto for kids.” This isn’t inaccurate; you have a surprisingly large city to tool around in, you can swipe cars from people and drive around recklessly, and there’s a myriad of side shenanigans to get up to alongside the main story. The obvious difference is that, since it’s LEGO, everything’s family friendly. You can run over as many pedestrians as you like, and they’ll just angrily wave their little yellow fists at you and walk away.

LEGO City Undercover is a great choice both for family game time and for adult friends who just want something silly to do while they chat over Discord. “Silly” is certainly the order of the day; the game’s full of quips and random movie references, but as long as you don’t mind a few eye-rollers, it’s still fun.

5 LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

Visit LEGO Manhattan

By 2013, the wider sphere of Marvel stuff was almost completely consumed by the MCU, and to be honest, it was a little disheartening. I hadn’t gotten tired of MCU stuff by then, sure, but I still liked original games that focused more on basic canon established in the comics. Luckily, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes has plenty of content to please fans of both Marvel subsets.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is an original story in which heroes from around the general Marvel franchise, from the Avengers to the X-Men, team up against the existential threat of Galactus. Something neat about this game is the dedication to every hero and villain’s powers, and how said powers can be used for puzzle-solving. Hulk, for instance, can smash through large barriers, but he can also turn back into Bruce Banner to use computers and tech.

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The regular levels are fun to play through with a friend, especially in free play when you can choose a character to solve puzzles that you couldn’t solve the first time through. There’s also a massive LEGO recreation of Manhattan you can explore and do side stuff in, including regularly rescuing the late, great Stan Lee from assorted perils.

4 LEGO DC Super-Villains

Make Your Own Metahuman

One of the fun parts of the Traveller’s Tales LEGO games is the frankly absurd number of playable characters you get in each of them, moreso in those with lots of different character abilities and modifiers. However, only a certain select few of those games go the extra step and let you make your own character from scratch. One of them is LEGO DC Super-Villains.

LEGO DC Super-Villains tells an original story set in the DC Comics universe in which you, as a rookie super villain, are conscripted by Lex Luthor and a bunch of other baddies into world-conquering, and maybe some world-saving, escapades. You get to make your own original minifig for this, and as you progress the game, you can add more superpowers and customization elements.

The game has a huge sandbox to explore in addition to its linear levels, made up of Gotham City, Metropolis, and a bunch of other, smaller locales. You and a buddy can make your own metahuman minifigs, then set them loose on an unsuspecting world, whether you want to unlock more heroes and villains to play as or just break everything with heat vision.

3 LEGO Party!

We Have Mario Party at Home

Outside of the Traveller’s Tales games and various random platformers based on LEGO kits, LEGO has dabbled fairly consistently in party and multiplayer games like LEGO Racers, LEGO Worlds, and LEGO Brawls. The quality varies a bit, and they’re usually just knock-offs of other major party games, but sometimes, a knock-off can be just as fun if it’s what you’re in the mood for. Take, for instance, LEGO Party.

LEGO Party is… well, it’s Mario Party with LEGOs instead of Mario. You and up to three friends make your own LEGO minifig, you take turns going around a big board, play minigames, and whoever gets the most macguffins wins. If you have played any Mario Party game, you probably know how this works, but despite the comparisons, it’s still a fun way to spend some time.

The typical configuration is free-for-all, but if you’re so inclined, you could opt to form an unofficial partnership with one of your friends and work to ruin the lives of the other two. It’s “co-optional” gameplay, the pilfer a term from someone smarter than me, and isn’t that just the best kind of couch co-op?

2 LEGO Fortnite

Fortnite is Everything, LEGO is Everything

LEGO has become a microcosm of franchise entanglement, arguably one of the first major brands to ever do so. Similarly, Fortnite has also incorporated nearly every IP under the sun that it could realistically get its proverbial hands on. It was pretty much inevitable that these two black holes of franchising would collide one day, and collide they did in the form of LEGO Fortnite.

Technically, LEGO Fortnite is a sub-game to the main Fortnite experience rather than a standalone product, but it is a LEGO game, and it does have couch co-op, so no sense splitting hairs. The original version of LEGO Fortnite was pretty much just regular Fortnite with LEGO minifigs instead of regular characters, but subsequent updates have divided it into two separate game modes: Odyssey, an open world with building and combat, and Brick Life, a social sim game like GTA Online. There was an additional action-adventure mode, Expeditions, but this was integrated into Odyssey.

No matter how you play it, LEGO Fortnite has the same enduring appeal that Fortnite has, even in splitscreen. It’s a big island you can explore freely, full of vehicles to drive, mountains to climb, and strangers to annoy.

1 LEGO Voyagers

A More Nuanced Co-Op Experience

The vast majority of LEGO games are very silly, straightforward experiences. That’s not a bad thing, and in fact, I’d say that’s their primary appeal. Still, LEGO means a lot to a lot of different people, and for some builders, that meaning is a little more quiet and contemplative. If you and a friend want that specific LEGO vibe, you’ll get it from LEGO Voyagers.

Rather than a platformer or action game, LEGO Voyagers is a co-op puzzle game, in which two players play as little red and blue bricks to hop and stick their way through a studded world. By sticking and rotating on other LEGO objects, you and your partner can manipulate the environment and solve puzzles in order to progress.

LEGO Voyagers is more akin to co-op-exclusive games like Split Fiction than any other LEGO game. It has a whole story to tell, albeit one without dialogue, told mostly through motion and implication. It’s a game for you and a friend to not just flex your collective brain cells, but also take a moment to really appreciate the kind of worldly beauty that can be created out of something as humble as a handful of plastic bricks.