Games like Fireboy and Watergirl for two players

Pico Park, It Takes Two and Biped are the best picks after Fireboy and Watergirl. Each needs two people working together, and each fails if one of you rushes ahead. Roam co-op puzzle games are at the end.

The idea behind Fireboy and Watergirl

Fireboy and Watergirl is a two-player puzzle platformer series by Oslo Albet, started in 2009 with The Forest Temple. Two players share one keyboard. Fireboy dies in water, Watergirl dies in lava, and both die in green goo.

You press switches, push blocks and hold platforms for each other until both reach their doors. The rule is simple: neither can win alone. Good alternatives make each player matter in a different way.

Co-op puzzle games

Pico Park. TECOPARK's 2019 co-op puzzle game for 2 to 8 players. Stack on each other, share one key, and argue about who goes first.
It Takes Two. Hazelight's 2021 game for exactly two players, each with different powers. It won Game of the Year at The Game Awards.
Split Fiction. Hazelight's 2025 follow-up, a two-player adventure through sci-fi and fantasy worlds.
Biped. NExT Studios' 2020 game about two small robots. Each stick moves one leg, so even walking is teamwork.
Unravel Two. Coldwood's 2018 platformer with two yarn creatures tied to each other.
We Were Here. Total Mayhem Games' series. You are in different rooms and solve puzzles by talking over a radio.

Co-op on Roam

Every Roam game can be changed by asking, including making it two-player.

Split Scare (Roam). A split-screen co-op puzzle adventure. Two kids, one haunted theatre, help each other out.
Mind the Pane (Roam). A co-op run: two people carry one pane of glass through a lot of traffic.

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Make your own two-player puzzle game with Roam

Give each player a different power and one rule they must not break. Roam builds the levels.

Try: "two-player puzzle temple, I am made of ice and my friend is made of fire, we each open the other's doors"

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Questions people ask

Who made Fireboy and Watergirl?

Oslo Albet. The first game, The Forest Temple, came out in 2009.

Can you play Fireboy and Watergirl alone?

You can control both characters yourself, but it is made for two players on one keyboard.

What is the best two-player co-op game for friends?

It Takes Two is the best-known. Pico Park is great for bigger groups.