Cozy 2-Player Games like It Takes Two to Relax and Play Together this Christmas
Christmas is the perfect time to slow down, cozy up, and enjoy some quality time with someone special. Celebrate the festive season with a cozy night in playing fun 2-player games. Perfect for partners, friends, or family, these games let you cooperate, compete, or just explore together in a relaxed, festive atmosphere.
From cooperative puzzles to light-hearted chaos in the kitchen, these best 2-player cozy games are ideal for winter evenings, with plenty of charm, laughter, and heartwarming moments.
Whether you’re snuggled up by the fireplace, sipping hot chocolate, or just enjoying a quiet evening, these games offer the perfect way to share joy and fun with someone special this Christmas.
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What are Cozy 2 Player Games?
Cozy 2-player games are designed for shared experiences that are low-pressure, heartwarming, and often humorous. In these games you can cooperate to solve puzzles, complete tasks, explore peaceful worlds, or compete in light-hearted challenges.
Unlike high-stress multiplayer games, the focus is on connection, fun, and relaxation, making them perfect for couples, friends, or family looking to spend quality gaming time together.
Split Fiction
Developer Image: Hazelight Studios
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Playstation, Xbox
Amazon* Physical Copies: Xbox Series X, PS5
Cost: €39.99
A wild co-op adventure where two writers get trapped inside their own twisted tales.
Switching between fantasy and sci-fi worlds, you'll solve puzzles and outwit chaos together. It’s packed with laughs, clever challenges, and an unforgettable story.
It Takes Two
Developer Image: Hazelight Studios
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €39.99
Playing couch co-op or invite a friend for free with Remote Play Together, you are clashing couple Cody and May, two humans turned into dolls by a magic spell. Help each other across obstacles, solve puzzles and enjoy a heartfelt and funny story.
Untitled Goose Game
Developer Image: House House
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch, PS4
Cost: €19.99
Play as 2 devious geese let loose on an village. Complete tasks to steal picnic baskets, set up pranks and making a nuisance honking around in this hilarious stealth sandbox game.
Unravel Two
Developer Image: Coldwood Interactive
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €19.99
The sequel to Unravel introduces a local two player option where you can play as two Yarnys, working together to adventure across a cold land solving trials to awaken the world with positivity in a heartfelt story.
Overcooked
Developer Image: Ghost Town Games Ltd
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X
Cost: €15.99
Work together in this restaurant simulation couch co-op, where you must cook and serve customers before they storm off. Explore the Onion Kingdom and cook in a variety of unusual kitchens, challenging your co-operation and co-ordination skills.
Related: Looking for more on Overcooked?
Check out my full review of Overcooked 2 here!
All You Need is Help
Developer Image: Q Games Ltd
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation, Xbox Gamepass
Cost: €14.99 or included on Xbox Gamepass
Play in couch co-op or online in this cozy, colourful puzzle game where you play as cute kawaii animal cubes, moving together to help each other fit into a series of puzzles.
Related: Want to know more about All You Need is Help?
Check out my full review here!
Towerfall
Developer Image: Maddy Makes Games Inc
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €19.99
In this addictive co-op archery combat game from the makers of Celeste, play in intense matches where you bounce around the platforms trying to hit your opponent and collecting chests to get power ups across 120 unique maps.
Plate Up!
Developer Image: Its Happening
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €19.99
Cook and serve dishes in your own restaurant that you can decorate together in this co op restaurant simulation game. Look after your front of house customers, upgrade your equipment and expand the restaurant to take on more customers.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Developer Image: Nintendo
Available on: Nintendo Switch
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €59.99
The latest addition to the Super Mario Bros franchise in this side scrolling platformer. Play as one of 12 Mario characters together to complete colourful and imaginative levels, with all your usual power ups and enemies, and a few new ones to this game that add to the wonderous design and gameplay.
Snipperclips
Developer Image: Nintendo
Available on: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €19.99
With a joycon each play as Snip and Clip in this puzzle game. Cut, slice, snip and clip puzzles and each other to solve objectives like fitting in a certain template, or popping balloons.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Developer Image: Asteroid Base
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €14.99
A frantic couch co-op action space shooter where you can explore a colourful galaxy in a neon battleship you control together. Rescue kidnapped space bunnies and defeat the evil forces of Anti Love by manning the ship’s turrents, lasers and shields.
Cuphead
Developer Image: Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc
Available on: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Amazon* Physical Copies: Nintendo Switch
Cost: €19.99
And if you are both up for a real challenge, probably one of the most difficult platformer shoot em ups out there. With a design inspired by the cartoons of the 1930s and an original jazz soundtrack, traverse strange lands, learn new power moves and discover hidden secrets of the world.
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