Lego Voyagers Review
Since A Way Out released in 2018, all modern co-op adventures have been trying to emulate what many consider to the gold standard that Hazelight started and eventually nearly perfected in 2025 with Split Fiction.
Lego Voyagers boldly chooses a different direction. With no combat and zero game over screens Light Brick focuses on why this genre has flourished in recent years. It’s not because of the bombastic set pieces or the nail biting gameplay, it’s because there is something magical about working together with someone you love and finding success.
Lego Voyagers is an evolution of what Light Brick Studios started with Lego Builders Journey in 2019. The world has grown larger, the journey is longer, the gameplay has become more involved, but most importantly it still retains the heartwarming nature of the experience.
Lego Voyagers Review
Lego Voyagers is a wholesome and atmospheric adventure that doesn’t require a big setup to enjoy, nor does it provide you with one. You start as a single red brick and a single blue brick. In the distance, you both sit and watch the rocket take off, which to this day is still something that inspires hope among every human. It’s a sight still so rare that it’s hard to look away. Unfortunately, the launch clearly doesn't go as intended and comes crashing down within your vicinity.
This is when your journey begins as you and a friend begin tumbling to discover what happened and rescue the abandoned spaceship. The adventure starts out simple enough as you quickly learn how to tumble and jump with minimal input. Traversal quickly turns into simple puzzles that gradually increase the challenge until the end, along with a little light platforming as you tumble, jump and build your way through the adventure. Your journey takes you across beautiful environments with great lighting and reflections to make it feel as if you are playing on a lego set, which is possible as everything is built with Lego pieces and can be recreated in reality.
Lego Voyagers is relatively short at around 4-6 hours spread across 37 chapters that melt into one blur as the game feels like it’s over before you even got started, which might be a reflection of youth. Even though Lego Voyagers is about double the length of Light Brick Studios previous title, Lego Builders Journey, it still felt as though it was over too soon as it never felt like it was running out of ideas. Lego Voyagers was constantly moving you from one vignette to the next as never asked you to do the same thing for too long. At times it would even subvert your expectations as you would begin to see familiar items like a catapult that you would assume would be the solution again, only to find out it doesn’t work.
Just like building Lego without a manual, there is no right or wrong way and a lot of times, there are a few different ways that you can get to the solution in Lego Voyagers. Although Lego Voyagers isn’t a difficult game, there are enough puzzles that will slow you down in addition to wanting to take in the view at times and remember what it was like to be a kid again.
At the core of Lego Voyagers is the bond that you share with someone and that extends beyond the meaning into the gameplay as there are times that without proper communication, getting to the destination will be quite difficult. There are times that in most games frustration would set in as something doesn’t click exactly where you want it or you fall off a bridge, but instead you instantly respawn along with any bricks that you might have been trying to place, which turn the whole experience into a laughing matter with a friend.
Light Brick Studios are once again able to deliver a touching narrative despite zero words and only controlling a single brick with a single eye. Light Brick convey plenty of emotion through alternative means including the incredible score and the actions you need to perform such as the innocence of swinging on a tire hanging from a tree or running through flowery meadows. The score that was composed by Henrik Lindstrand deserves special mention as his work adds a lot of emotion and gravity to the journey.
In what has become the standard for co-op adventures, Lego Voyagers comes with a Friend’s Pass allowing you to play with a friend online using only one copy.
Criticism
Lego Voyagers is trying to focus on making gameplay accessible to everyone with a minimalistic control scheme, but when trying to build it can lead to frustration when you’re trying to rotate and place pieces. It is also unclear at times where the exact location that your brick will connect and having a some kind of highlight effect would have alleviated some minor troubles.
Lego Voyagers doesn’t do the traditional split screen when the two players get far away from each other on the same system, but instead the camera pulls out wider. Unfortunately, it has limitations for some reason, which at times can completely remove one player from the screen, which feels counter intuitive to the larger message of the game and the power of friendship.
Builder’s Journey had a creative mode where after you finished the short story experience you could craft whatever you wanted, but unfortunately it didn’t make the return, which would have made for a good fit for single players in between sessions with friends or even have two player creative mode to see what creations could be made together. Without this, there isn’t a lot of reason to return.
Is Lego Voyagers Worth it?
Lego Voyagers is the perfect antidote for the modern co-op experiences that require dexterity over intellect and prioritize explosions over communication. Lego Voyagers is proof that the key to a great co-op experience isn’t about the high score. The focus is about having fun and sharing that moment with someone close to you.
Considering that there have been hundreds of Lego games, what Light Brick Studios have created with Lego Builders Journey and now Lego Voyagers easily stands apart from the crowd as two of the most unique Lego experiences that captures the magic of the building block and it’s connection with the emotional journeys of our lives.
Lego Voyagers keeps the most important part of Builder’s Journey, which is the emotional core. Everything else however has seen marked improvements. The world is no longer small diaramas and are now much larger vignettes that allow you to explore a little. Controls have been greatly expanded from the one button system and now provides a much more effortless experience. The score features a more intimate composition, which highlights the peaks and valleys of the experience. The greatest improvement of all is that just like Lego, the experience is now best enjoyed with someone close by your side.
Lego Voyagers is an absolute joy to experience with a friend that defies genre expectations, but just like Builder’s Journey it’s one of the most unique Lego games. Lego Voyagers is a must for a fan of either Lego or pure co-op adventures and should be mentioned alongside Hazelight as an essential co-op experience, but for entirely different reasons.
