By Lucas White

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Sometimes a game simply says what it is on the box, delivers on its premise, and gets the heck out of Dodge. That was my exact experience with LEGO Voyagers, a new co-op puzzle adventure from Annapurna Interactive and Light Brick Studio. It’s short and sweet, sticking around just as long as it needs to tell its cute, little story and give a pair of buds a nice afternoon of game time together. It’s a kind of experience not unlike taking the time to put a real Lego set together with a friend.

Silly little friends

In LEGO Voyagers, you and your partner play as a red and blue block, little one-by-one Lego pieces with eyeballs who live on a small island together. They get up in the morning and leave their respective houses to sit on some chairs they have set up by a cliff to watch a rocket launch in the far distance. The launch doesn’t go well, crashing after veering sideways and flying just over the island. When a piece of the rocket that can double as a makeshift raft floats up to the shore, the two see the opportunity of a lifetime. It’s time to explore.

Just having a swell time

Voyagers itself is vaguely split into chapters, but you wouldn’t know it until you explore the pause menu. The story is a seamless trek through this humble, little LEGO world as the pair of heroes engage with a mix of rocket remnants, natural oddities, and bigger puzzles that lead them to an endearing conclusion. You’ll hop across cattails, slide along narrow ledges, build bridges, operate mysterious machines, and perhaps build some of your own along the way. Sometimes the puzzles are as simple as finding the one thing to interact with to make the environment bend to your will, and other times you’ll find a complex, multi-step operation that requires communication and teamwork to get to the other side.

This isn’t a difficult game, clearly aimed towards a younger audience. But the LEGO setting is held up by a gentle soundtrack, ambient camerawork, muted colors, and a grounded sense of wonder that gives the overall feeling an ageless quality compared to other LEGO games. In a recent preview, I described LEGO Voyagers as having a sort of indie movie vibe, and I stand by that for the full experience. It’s the perfect kind of game for a parent to play with a child, a mixture of simple gameplay pleasures and more complex aesthetics that offers something for anyone playing to appreciate. Even if it’s just the quieter moments between goofing around, such as times you can interact with swingsets or other gadgets that serve no gameplay purpose but to enhance the emotional weight of what it means to have a good time experiencing a thing with another human being.

The moments that matter

It’s these little, human touches that make LEGO Voyagers feel more special than it might otherwise if it was a more “normal” LEGO game. For example, there’s a button that simply makes your brick buddy sing, a one-note little chirp you can press a bunch of times for different notes as you roll along the world if you so choose. You can bump into flowers to see how they react, attach yourself to crabs on the beach and try to move while they desperately attempt to decouple, or click onto each other and haplessly flop around until someone pops off. It’s silly stuff that is just there to be silly, and yet the impact these little gimmicks have on the bigger picture is strong.

There isn’t a ton else to say about LEGO Voyagers. As I mentioned before, it’s a quick burst of game, easily playable in one or two sessions at a total of somewhere between three to five hours. To say much more would be to just describe more things that happen, which defeats the purpose of playing it for yourself. If you have a child and are looking for a good game to play together that isn’t too challenging yet insults neither participant’s intelligence, LEGO Voyagers is perfect. There’s no loot, score-chasing, meta-progression, or any of the nonsense that can make co-op games fumbly, bloated messes. There’s simply a nice experience to have with someone you care enough about to spend a few hours with. That’s all. And that’s enough.

Lego Voyagers is available on September 15, 2025 for the PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox Series X|S. A PC code was provided by the publisher for review.