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After It Takes Two

Games like It Takes Two

It Takes Two is still the gold standard because neither of you can solo the level. The follow-ups that work are the ones that keep that rule.

Start with Split Fiction if you have not. Then Hazelight’s earlier prison break, yarn co-op, and a couple of platformers that revive instead of punish.

The short list

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Split Fiction

2025

~12h campaign · 90 min sessions

Hazelight's follow-up to It Takes Two: two writers fall into their own stories and have to finish the book together. Built so neither of you is a passenger.

The whole campaign is designed around mixed skill. If one of you is rusty, the other can carry a mechanic without stealing the fun.

PC // PlayStation // Xbox

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A Way Out

2018

~7h campaign · 90 min sessions

Two inmates break out and try to stay free. Split-screen even when you play online, so you are always watching the same messy plan.

Story choices matter more than aim. The weaker shooter still gets spotlight scenes, chases, and dialogue.

PC // PlayStation // Xbox

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Unravel Two

2018

~6h campaign · 40 min sessions

Two yarn creatures swing, stitch, and tug each other through sunlit puzzles. Quiet, pretty, and over in an evening if you push it.

You share a rope. The better player can set up swings while the other just holds on, then swap. No one gets left in a fail loop.

PC // PlayStation // Xbox // Switch

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Sackboy: A Big Adventure

2020

~12h campaign · 35 min sessions

A colorful 3D platformer with local co-op, silly costumes, and levels that look like a Saturday-morning craft drawer.

You can revive each other constantly. The campaign is long enough to replace Split Fiction without asking anyone to 'get good.'

PC // PlayStation

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Luigi's Mansion 3

2019

~12h campaign · 40 min sessions

Luigi vacuums ghosts in a hotel. Player two is Gooigi, a slime copy who slips through bars and takes a joke beating.

Gooigi is literally the easy role. The campaign is a real co-op story, not a competitive afterthought.

Switch

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We Were Here Forever

2022

~10h campaign · 60 min sessions

Two people trapped in a castle, each seeing rooms the other cannot. Your voice chat is the only inventory that matters.

If one of you is better at 3D movement, give them exploration. The other can own the riddles. Nobody needs a high K/D.

PC // PlayStation // Xbox // Switch

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