Co-op gaming isn’t making a comeback; it never left. LEGO Voyagers is the latest title to feature two-player-focused adventuring in a fantastical world you’re encouraged to explore. I had the opportunity to play it at Gamescom 2025. I also had the pleasure of talking to (and playing the game with) Karsten Lund, who revealed LEGO Voyager’s potential 5-hour length and other features in a special interview.
Karsten is LEGO‘s senior quality manager. He graciously kept me company as we journeyed together through a succinct LEGO Voyagers demo. He had likely played the demo to death when Gamescom 2025 was all said and done. However, I conducted a one-to-one interview all about the LEGO Voyagers demo.
He was more than happy to answer several key questions I had about the game and gave us all a sneak peek at the game’s motives and content.
LEGO Voyagers is Something “Everyone’s Ready to Play”
LEGO Voyagers doesn’t focus on a specific media license or property, or a talkative character with a riveting backstory. We care about two mute bricks who want to rescue a spaceship. Lund explained the dynamic and what the team wanted to achieve with Voyagers.
“This time around, we focus on the brick; figuring out a way to put brick and brick building as the star of the show as opposed to the minifigure-based games that are also out there. So in this game, you actually play as a LEGO brick, a small one-by-one brick with an eye. Then you have to navigate the levels that are completely brick-built as well.”
I did mention recent contemporaries that have excelled in the genre—Hazelight Studios‘ work, in particular. Karsten says that “the way has been paved now, right?” in (presumably) reference to the likes of It Takes Two and Split Fiction.
Furthermore:
“It’s something everybody loves to play and everybody’s ready to play.”
Like Hazelight’s games, LEGO Voyagers supports the Friends Pass system. This means only one of you needs to buy the game to play it in co-op. Future content hinges on the game’s success. With it being an easy and accessible co-op LEGO release appealing to a wide demographic, this probably won’t be an issue.
I also enquired about the game’s length and if there are any fun mini-games to break up the gameplay.
“We have a game of tic-tac-toe in the middle of the game, so we’re giving lots of opportunities to play and hang out in the game. We’ve seen players complete this in four and a half to five hours, if they just run through it and solve the puzzles.
I gave my full LEGO Voyagers verdict in my complete Gamescom 2025 preview, which I encourage you to check out!
LEGO Voyagers is scheduled to release on September 15. Will you be picking it up straightaway? Do we need even more co-op games and fewer multiplayer-only titles? Let me know through the Insider Gaming forum.
For more Gamescom 2025 content, check out some of our hot and horrifying previews! Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, Phantom Blade Zero, LEGO Voyagers, Valor Mortis, Super Meat Boy 3D, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
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