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LEGO series by Traveller's Tales. The best couch co-op games for single screen

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Co-op type: a campaign designed for two or one player

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  1. Genre: arcade game
  2. Platform: PC, PS4, XONE, Switch, PS3, X360, Wii U, PS Vita, Wii, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PSP, PS5, XSX
  3. Release date: 2005–2024

Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park – pick and choose. For twelve years, Traveller's Tales has been consistently and slowly developing its series of blocky platform arcade games, the result of which is over twenty games based on the most popular pop-culture brands.

All of these games are roughly based on the same foundations – simple, arcade fighting and platform sequences, puzzles utilizing the unique abilities of different characters, and an emphasis on collecting objects of all sizes – mostly bricks and new characters.

TRAVELLER'S TALES

The British studio specializes in making games licensed by the Danish bricks manufacturer, and in fact, hasn't released any other game in over eleven years. Before that, however, they released many interesting projects, including two Crash Bandicoot games (The Wrath of Cortex and Twinsanity) and interactive adaptations of Toy Story and World Rally Championship for the PlayStation Portable. The last project of the studio unrelated to LEGO was the car racing game Spy Hunter.

The individual titles recreate the plots of their source material in a humorous way, providing quite enjoyable, though a bit monotonous, form of entertainment. The monotony arising after more intense playthrough can be effectively eliminated, however, by inviting the other person to play Together, you can complete consecutive levels while competing against each other to find more bricks.

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Portal 2

Co-op type: a separate campaign on a split screen

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  1. Genre: puzzle game
  2. Platform: PC, PS3, X360
  3. Release date: April 2011

With the release of the first Portal, Valve was unlikely to foresee the stunning success of the unusual logic game. They even abandoned a standalone release and added the game to the Orange Box package. Meanwhile, GLaDOS' survival trials delighted the gamers, prompting the creators to create a much more elaborate sequel.

Portal 2 includes not only a much longer single-player campaign but also a separate multiplayer mode in which we take control of the robots and try to survive a series of tests. The challenges were designed to be possible to complete in most cases only through the joint efforts of the two players. This mode received even a separate plot.

Great level design and the ability to make mean jokes to each other (opening a portal under your friend's feet, to leading a container with a lethal substance is always cool) make playing Portal 2 as addictive as ever. The game is also playable on Windows 10 and Windows 11 without major problems – we checked before writing this sentence.

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Michael Grygorcewicz

Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.

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