The follow-up to Lego Builder’s Journey is a co-op only game in the style of Split Fiction and It Takes Two but will it prove as big a hit?

There’s a renewed boldness amongst developers for making co-op only games. However, it’s a slightly risky proposition given the innate challenge of finding another human being who wants to play the same game as you, at exactly the same time. One way of helping that along is to provide local co-op, the theory being that flatmates or family members are more likely to share both tastes and timetables.

Lego Voyagers defaults to local co-op, but to hedge its bets also offers a free Friend Pass, like Split Fiction, so you can play against any of your friends, even if they don’t own a copy of the game themselves. It’s slightly less rewarding than sitting on

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