REVIEW: ‘LEGO Voyagers’ Offers Players A Creative And Whimsical Escape

The embrace of co-op-only games driven by titles like It Takes Two has been one of my favorite developments in current gaming trends. For me, playing video games is about playing with someone else, and for me, that’s finding titles to play with my husband. LEGO Voyagers, published by Annapurna Interactive and developed by Light Brick Studio, is exactly what I have been looking for. 

Physics-based, LEGO Voyagers is a co-op-only title that you can play locally or online. It asks players to work together, build, and most importantly, be creative. Playing as two 1×1 bricks with on eye, one red and one blue, who have made it their mission to rescue an abandoned spaceship. With your friend, you embark on a journey, with each puzzle placing an increasing emphasis on connection over the last. 

To drive home the cooperative spirit of the game, you can also play the game with a “Friend Pass,” which allows you to play with friends who don’t own the game. This eliminates a barrier that players often deal with when it comes to co-op-only titles. 

Video games are at their best when they connect you to others. LEGO Voyagers understands that.

Set to atmospheric music and with a soft color palette, with an air of cinematographic sense that utilizes light, shade, and position to put you at ease. Everything about the LEGO Voyagers’ visual identity is calming, which makes it easy to keep playing even when you hit a wall. 

From the makers of LEGO Builder’s Journey, this two-player co-op adventure prioritizes friendship and play above all else, both in crafting its simple narrative and in solving the environmental puzzles. Part organic and part mechanical (but all made of LEGO bricks), no one area is the same as the last as you progress through each stage, which makes the pacing in  LEGO Voyagers something to call out. 

Truthfully, LEGO Voyagers is easily a snowball of a game. This is thanks to the growing complexity of the challenges you face and the number of bricks you’ll have to start interacting with. Without any dialogue, the world’s challenges become its narrative, with small moments between you and the other player helping drive home a closeness between the two. 

As you transition throughout the world, you and your partner will have places to attach yourself, often sitting and looking to the distance. It’s then that the already beautiful background comes to life, typically detailing story elements or indicating where you’ll head next. These moments offer some respite and a nice moment to refill your water or take a bathroom break.

Trial and error never stops being rewarding in this innovative title.

These small breaks in the progression also make LEGO Voyagers extremely easy to take at your own pace, which solves the almost consistent problem that co-op only games face, which is finding time to play with someone else. While the game isn’t a long one, you lose nothing by taking your time and taking one section at a time. However, these moments of looking into the distance serve as the only real notice of the time that you have progressed. 

LEGO Voyagers embodies minimalism and relies on its level design to teach players everything they need to know. With simple inputs, each tied to each of the four buttons on the controller (regardless of console), you will receive the lightest of prompts via a small button map overlay with the button you need to press filled in. However, that small button map is all you really need. 

Each of the challenges and environments is beautifully built from bricks, but they also have everything you need to know for how to progress. There was never a moment once I figured out that the yellow bricks were the ones that needed to be moved to trigger items to create pathways and other interactions. 

With a peaceful soundtrack and balanced sound effects, it’s easy to get lost in this world.

But the game’s simplicity does even more than present a game that you can completely lose yourself in, it also encourages you to be creative. To put it simply, if there is a connection spot you can move your brick to it. The little crabs on the beach? Press the button, pick them up, roll around, press the button, pick up more. The way that you can build the bricks you’re attached to, and they keep the length and shape at which you connect helps create unique situations that reward creativity. 

Additionally, the building mechanic also necessitates co-op coordination in an engaging way. As you explore an experiment, you learn where you need to be. Still the longer you play the game the more that the puzzles require you to work with your partner as one unit upping the challenge and pushing you to communicate and voice your movement ideas. 

LEGO Voyagers’ choice not to hold its players’ hands and not to have dialogue facilitates the need to communicate with your partner to balance your weaknesses and strengths, and take their ideas on how to build next. While there is a clear path to take to move toward the spacecraft, how you get there and what you play with along the way is up to you.

Light Brick Studio and Annapurna Interactive have struck gold with this all-ages puzzler.

Additionally, because your character just tumbles whatever direction you point it to, understanding the speed at which you move and that a straight line isn’t always straight, learning how to not fall off of small bridges (that you’ve made or are in the world) is a skill that isn’t always refined. But that’s a part of the charm. The quirks of movement in LEGO Voyagers is what makes traversing through the world unique.

It also gives the player a bevy of small mistakes that will almost always happen. But, the way around it, if you’re not just trying to move fast is to attach yourself to a brick and just move on the connection circles, snapping your way through a small ledge or bridge. But even though that guarantees not falling off, remembering to do it when you’ve been rolling as quickly as your little brick will move is kind of hard. 

Every Chapter builds on the last in LEGO Voyagers, teaching you at a balanced pace.

From vehicles and driving together, working on making an object move one way, to magnetics, and more, each chapter offers something new to learn from and different ways to engage. Each puzzle feels tactile, and the snapping sound effect for building bricks makes every mechanic feel complete and accessible regardless of skill level.

So much about succeeding at LEGO Voyagers’ puzzle is just understanding the world and piecing together reactions. The design is crafted so thoughtfully that it’s clear it can be managed by both players, whether they understand the concept or not. And that’s what makes this game so special. 

Playing LEGO Voyagers as an adult led me to question the target audience for the game constantly. But much like the IP that it is embodying, this is a true all-ages experience. The game does a wonderful job of embracing play. Not playing a game, but just open, creative, intuitive, and innovative play.

For me, playing in my 30s, the game had a childlike wonder to it that swept me off my feet and was the perfect joyous reprieve as world events continue to make me doomscroll and add to my anxieties. I just wanted to build, explore, and move through the world and not stop, and all of it kept me engaged.

Play and creativity are central to LEGO Voyagers, being the success that it is.

Simplicity in LEGO Voyagers speaks volumes. And by that same token, I can easily see the game’s simple systems and open creative building allow someone of a younger age, especially littles, playing with their parents or siblings an equally rewarding and fun experience. 

LEGO Voyagers’ success comes from a simple philosophy that is key in puzzle games, but shines uniquely in this title: Complexity doesn’t mean difficulty, and challenge doesn’t mean frustration. The game is ultimately a thoughtful and loving experience. 

From concept to execution, Light Brick Studio has crafted a unique and inspiring video game that pulls its players closer and offers them time to just take a breath. LEGO Voyagers is whimsical, charming, and honestly, the perfect game to play when you need to relax and connect with someone else. We can’t all get away from our daily life or our anxieties, but we can play. LEGO Voyagers lets us do just that. 

LEGO Voyagers is available September 16, 2025, on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PC via Steam, and Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.