Best Video Games for Couples: What Games to Play Together in 2026

Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley is a simple yet surprisingly addictive farming game – a solid opening for the list of games for couples.

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Stardew Valley offers a stress-free experience where you’ll be tasked mainly with tending a farm. The gameplay goes far beyond that, though. Other than growing plants and taking care of animals, you’ll also have an opportunity to build relationships with townspeople and participate in local events. You’ll also be able to explore the underground where monsters await unaware adventurers. The game can be quite grindy if you’re aiming for a completionist run, but that just means more playing time with your loved one.

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Here’s a more intimate game where it’s only you, your SO… and a bomb that’s about to explode if you fail to cooperate efficiently.

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an example of how a simple idea can evolve into an extremely fun game for two. The game goes like this: one player gets to see and tinker with the bomb that comes with all these fancy complicated modules and the other one grabs the defusal manual. The player with the bomb has to describe what they see to the best of their abilities and, in return, the player with the manual must use that information to find out how to disarm the device and provide proper instructions to the one with the bomb.

The game is an ultimate test of communication skills and will even help you to expand your vocabulary. Describing what you see can be much more difficult than you think!

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Minecraft

Everyone knows Minecraft. As it happens, it’s also a great choice for a video game for couples if you want to play by your own rules and achieve your own goals.

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Minecraft is a voxel-based sandbox survival game where players are given complete freedom in how they want to approach the game. With that being said, it’s clearly a game that has the most to offer for those with creative minds who want to build something from nothing. Mine resources, shape the surroundings to your liking, and create whatever you want, from the simplest houses to entire cities and complicated mechanisms that use basic electronics.

And even if you already played Minecraft in the past and think there’s nothing left to discover, give it a go; the game receives regular updates and there’s certainly a lot of new stuff to see and experience, compared to the original game from 2011.

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Escape Simulator

Focused on the increasingly popular concept of escape rooms, this game provides a unique opportunity to test your skills in solving a variety of puzzles in order to break free from a locked room.

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In Escape Simulator you’ll be tasked with completing a series of objectives with the ultimate goal of unlocking the door and leaving the room you’re trapped in. You’ll be able to work together with your partner and brainstorm while trying to solve increasingly difficult puzzles. Some of them may take a while before you can figure out how they work, but it will make you feel a lot smarter once you finally crack the code.

The puzzles are highly interactive and often involve moving items around. You’ll have to think outside the box but if you bring your significant other to the party, you’ll succeed for sure.

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A Way Out

Although the theme of this game may not be particularly suited for all couples, the gameplay itself certainly is.

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A Way Out tells the story of two convicts who decide to join forces in order to break out of prison but their journey doesn’t stop there, as they have unfinished business that needs to be taken care of later on.

The game allows two players to control one of the two protagonists and requires them to cooperate in order to solve puzzles and progress the story further. It’s a really refreshing experience where teamwork plays a crucial role. For example, one of you may need to distract someone while the other one does something behind everyone’s backs.

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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

When it comes to heisting video games, the choice is very limited, but even in that particular niche you can find something that couples may find enjoyable.

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In Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine you’ll team up with up to 3 other players in order to rob different places of their valuables. Coordinate the actions with your partner and grab whatever you can while avoiding security and obstacles. Use the environment to your advantage and outsmart the opponents by hiding behind plants or taking alternate routes to your objective.

The game features a top-down camera with a minimalistic visual style and bright, colorful lights. It makes use of vision cones for characters to indicate their field of view; utilizing this to your advantage will be the key to success, as you need to remain aware of everything that’s happening around you.

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Portal 2

Grab a portal gun and solve increasingly challenging puzzles that will mess with your perception of physics and reality.

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In Portal, players have to find their way out of increasingly difficult test chambers. The way is usually blocked by obstacles or mechanisms that need to be activated and your only tool is a portal gun – a device that can create two types of portals on applicable surfaces. Whatever goes inside one of them will emerge from the other one – use this effect to access seemingly inaccessible places.

Even if you played Portal 2 before, there’s a chance that you only played through the single-player campaign. But did you know that the game comes with a dedicated co-op mode with special challenges that were tailor-made for two-player teams? Bring your partner and try to solve all the new puzzles together!

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It Takes Two

This game will allow you to see the world from a whole new perspective. That of someone of the size of an ant.

In It Takes Two you and your partner will each control one of the two protagonists who happen to be a married couple but planning to get a divorce. In a surprising turn of events, you’ll both find yourselves trapped in tiny bodies and now you’ve got to find a way to undo this mess.

It Takes Two stays true to its name, as it will often require both of you to progress the game further; the game revolves around solving puzzles and taking on various challenges that can only be completed when cooperating with another player. Some sequences will require perfect timing; make sure you’re both sitting comfortably next to each other, so you can press the buttons simultaneously when needed.

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Don’t Starve Together

Have you tried this free multiplayer expansion for Don’t Starve yet?

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Don’t Starve Together is an expansion that allowed people to finally connect with others and fight for survival together, making gameplay more enjoyable for those who had someone to play with.

If you’re planning to try playing some games for couples with your significant other, it would make Don’t Starve an ideal pick, as it encourages cooperation and makes things slightly easier when compared to single-player endeavors. Keep in mind however that the game in general is quite challenging and requires a lot of game knowledge to make progress. Food spoils quickly, seasons bring harsher weather, and there are nightmares that come to life at night. Don’t feel discouraged if you keep failing at the beginning of your journey – pushing through the beginner phase is very well worth it.

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Overcooked! All You Can Eat

Cooking games are not an uncommon choice for multiplayer games for couples, although it’s a rather niche genre, making it quite difficult to find such games.

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Overcooked! All You Can Eat is a compilation of two Overcooked! games that were released in 2016 and 2018. In both games, you’ll be able to become a chef tasked with preparing a variety of meals and dishes. The thing is that you can’t be doing everything alone, as that would’ve been incredibly inefficient. Instead, players are encouraged to form parties of up to 4 people and take care of different tasks to ensure smooth service.

The teamwork element becomes even more emphasized once you start playing on arenas that become available later in the game. They often feature moving parts and may block passages between rooms temporarily; it’s best to stay in different parts and throw each other the ingredients, rather than trying to walk everywhere on your own.

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