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Games for couples

Every review here looks at one question: how well does this game work for two people? Pick a mood below or browse them all.

13 games, newest reviews first

Our Flower Garden app icon: a smiling couple in straw hats holding flowers above a wooden sign with the game’s name.

Great for long-distance couples

iPhone · Android

Our Flower Garden

Grow a little garden together, complete orders and build a shared cozy world.

  • Cozy
  • Mobile
  • Long Distance
A Stardew Valley farm in summer: a wooden farmhouse with a red roof, a barn and coop, chickens and a cow in the yard, and neat rows of crops with scarecrows.

A forever favorite

PC · Mac · Switch +4

Stardew Valley

Run a shared farm, fall into each other’s routines and lose entire weekends to it.

  • Cozy
  • Farming
  • Co-op
Cody and May, the two playable characters in It Takes Two, each riding a giant frog in front of a wooden sign that reads “Taxi”.

Made for exactly two

PC · PlayStation · Xbox · Switch

It Takes Two

A co-op adventure literally about a couple, packed with ideas that never repeat.

  • Co-op
  • Story
  • Puzzle
Two Sky players in blue and green capes sharing a glowing umbrella in the rain, looking toward a rainbow in a misty forest.

Free & cross-platform

iPhone · Android · Switch +2

Sky: Children of the Light

Hold hands and fly through the clouds together, on almost any device.

  • Free
  • Mobile
  • Long Distance
Two Yarnys tied together by one thread: a red Yarny holds on to a mossy fallen tree while a blue Yarny dangles below it above a forest stream.

Short & sweet

PC · PlayStation · Xbox · Switch

Unravel Two

Two yarn creatures tied together by a single thread. Yes, it’s a metaphor.

  • Co-op
  • Puzzle
  • Relaxing
Three Animal Crossing players at night: two sit on a park bench eating cotton candy while a third walks up stone steps toward them, with fireworks in the sky.

Best for slow evenings

Switch

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Share an island, decorate your homes and visit each other with little gifts.

  • Cozy
  • Building
  • Relaxing
A Minecraft landscape of blocky hills covered in pine trees and pink cherry blossom trees under a blue sky.

Builds you’ll remember

PC · Mac · Switch +4

Minecraft

Build a cottage, then a village, then accidentally a castle. Plays on everything.

  • Building
  • Co-op
  • Long Distance
Top-down view of a poolside kitchen in Overcooked! All You Can Eat, with chefs working at counters that wrap around two swimming pools.

Expect some yelling

PC · PlayStation · Xbox · Switch

Overcooked! All You Can Eat

Run a disastrous kitchen together. You will shout “PLATES!” and you will love it.

  • Chaotic
  • Co-op
  • Couch Co-op
Snipperclips characters Clip and Snip stacked on top of each other so Clip can carry a ball toward a basketball hoop on a graph-paper background.

Best first game together

Switch

Snipperclips

Two paper characters cut each other into new shapes to solve puzzles.

  • Puzzle
  • Couch Co-op
  • Co-op
Stella and her cat Daffodil in a small canoe with Gwen, a deer spirit, on still red water beneath pale pink trees.

Bring tissues

PC · Mac · Switch +2

Spiritfarer

Sail a floating village, cook for spirits and help them say goodbye.

  • Cozy
  • Story
  • Relaxing
Mario in his red kart on Battle Course 1, holding a feather with balloons tied to the kart, as Yoshi and Peach drive behind him.

Friendly rivalry

Switch

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Friendly rivalry on the couch, with assists that keep things fair for everyone.

  • Competitive
  • Couch Co-op
GamePigeon app icon: a green bird wearing a white game controller on its head against a dark navy background.

Lives in your texts

iPhone

GamePigeon

Tiny games inside iMessage. Send a mini golf turn instead of a “good morning”.

  • Mobile
  • Free
  • Long Distance
A Palia player holding a long farming tool in a vegetable garden full of tomato plants, leafy greens and orange root vegetables.

Free cozy MMO

PC · Switch · PlayStation · Xbox

Palia

A free online world for gardening, cooking and fishing. Good company for evening calls.

  • Cozy
  • Free
  • Farming