Games like It Takes Two
If It Takes Two is your kind of game, the closest matches are Split Fiction, War Islands: A Co-op Adventure and WheelMates — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its minigames are surprisingly varied, contemplative and emotional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →It Takes Two is a 2021 action-adventure game developed by Hazelight Studios that requires constant two-player cooperation to progress. Players take turns with different character abilities while solving co-op puzzle challenges through a fantasy narrative about a married couple navigating their fractured relationship. The interactive environment transforms everyday objects into tools, and timed sequences and mini-games break up the puzzle-focused gameplay. Reviewers highlight the game's varied level design, which players describe as feeling like self-contained playgrounds. The story resonates deeply with couples, and players frequently describe the experience as emotional, funny, and contemplative. The game holds a 96% positive rating from over 46,000 Steam reviews and is verified for Steam Deck play.
About It Takes Two: Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
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Split Fiction
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Top pick for It Takes Two fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
War Islands: A Co-op Adventure
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for It Takes Two fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Embark on a magical journey with 3 adventurers. Overcome fearsome beasts and challenging puzzles in an online third-person co-op game with your friends.
WheelMates
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Third-strongest match for It Takes Two fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with It Takes Two.
Grab a friend and race into a co-op driving adventure as two tiny RC cars. Explore the professor’s home laboratory, solve puzzles across oversized locations, find hidden paths, and uncover what really happened inside.
Trine 6: Together in Time
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Ranked #4 for It Takes Two fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Trine 6: Together in Time is a co-op puzzle platformer for 1–4 players. Wit, timing, and teamwork collide as you solve perplexing puzzles, engage cunning creatures, and traverse perilous paths in the next adventure through Trine’s iconic fantasy world.
Wish for Eternity
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Ranked #5 for It Takes Two fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Wish for Eternity is a cozy-spooky 2-player co-op adventure across 7 Deadly Sin domains, each with unique mechanics, enemies, and an epic boss battle. Combine asymmetric spirit powers to fight and solve puzzles, then retreat to your warm, magical Lantern to rest, decorate, and recharge together.
A Way Out
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Shares an emotional mood with It Takes Two.
Ranked #6 for It Takes Two fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
A Way Out is an exclusively co-op adventure where you play the role of one of two prisoners making their daring escape from prison.
Disney•Pixar Toy Story 3 Complete Edition
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Ranked #7 for It Takes Two fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Reopen the toy chest and saddle up as Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jessie in Toy Story 3 Complete Edition, a 3D adventure based on the hit 2010 animated film, Toy Story 3. Play through authentic movie moments in Story Mode, or drop into the wild west sandbox of Woody’s Roundup in Toy Box Mode.
Unbearable
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Shares a funny mood with It Takes Two.
Ranked #8 for It Takes Two fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
A story inspired by old school survival horror. Play alone or together on split screen. Delve into dark environments; hide or run; fight melee or with guns; climb and solve puzzles to discover the story of Unbearable.
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Split Fiction
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Reviewers of It Takes Two cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Unravel
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Shares an emotional mood with It Takes Two.
Reviewers of It Takes Two cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.
A Way Out
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with It Takes Two.
Reviewers of It Takes Two cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
A Way Out is an exclusively co-op adventure where you play the role of one of two prisoners making their daring escape from prison.
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
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Shares an emotional mood with It Takes Two.
Reviewers of It Takes Two cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.
Overcooked
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Shares a funny mood with It Takes Two.
Reviewers of It Takes Two cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with It Takes Two.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Portal 2
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Shares co op puzzle solving and a funny mood with It Takes Two.
Reviewers of It Takes Two cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
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Shares an emotional mood with It Takes Two.
Reviewers of It Takes Two cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with It Takes Two.
Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.
Sackboy™: A Big Adventure
WHY THIS
Reviewers of It Takes Two cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with It Takes Two.
PERFECTLY CRAFTED FOR PC. PlayStation® icon Sackboy bursts into action on PC in a huge 3D multiplayer platforming adventure. An epic journey stuffed with platforming challenges. Deeply immersive controls. Collaborative, chaotic and joyful multiplayer fun.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below It Takes Two at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~64% under It Takes Two on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Takes Two.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~50% under It Takes Two on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Takes Two.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~43% under It Takes Two on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~68% under It Takes Two on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Takes Two.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Inscryption
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Priced ~43% under It Takes Two on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with It Takes Two.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
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Priced ~43% under It Takes Two on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under It Takes Two on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~79% under It Takes Two on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Takes Two.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with It Takes Two.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with It Takes Two.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with It Takes Two.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about It Takes Two
- Is It Takes Two verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — It Takes Two is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does It Takes Two cost?
- It Takes Two is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does It Takes Two have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — It Takes Two supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to It Takes Two?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It Takes Two are Split Fiction, War Islands: A Co-op Adventure, WheelMates.
- Who developed It Takes Two?
- It Takes Two was developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts.
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