LEGO Voyagers Review: One of the Year’s Best Surprises

LEGO Voyagers is inventively creative, taking players on a journey that is as joyful as it is moving. If you’ve already scampered down the page to where a score is featured, then you’ll know that I, alongside my co-op partner GAMINGbible’s Sam Cawley, have awarded LEGO Voyagers a perfect score of 10. It’s something neither of us needed to discuss. As soon as the credits rolled, we unveiled our personal score without conferring with one another, both landing on that perfect 10 - a true testament to what Light Brick Studios has achieved with this almost meditative puzzler. There truly isn’t a box that the game doesn’t tick, offering as much opportunity for silly behaviour and humour as it did for profound moments of silence.

LEGO Voyagers is a co-op puzzler that sees you assume the role of two bricks whose dream it is to launch a rocket. They venture out on a journey to do just that, infiltrating a seemingly abandoned space centre as they set about realising their joint dream.

Myself and Sam actually had the opportunity to sample the title a couple of weeks ago at Gamescom, and it’s an experience we both hugely enjoyed. In my original hands-on preview, I had the following to say: “LEGO Voyagers, so far, is shaping up to be a title that executes a simple concept exceptionally well. It’s a true feast for the eyes filled with fun puzzles that are a blast to conquer with a friend. Who knew that being a brick could be so enjoyable? I’m already counting down the days until I can play more.”

As I made clear, it quickly became apparent to me that LEGO Voyagers was a beautifully presented title, something that continued to be true in the full release. The only real concern I came away with is that as enjoyable as the puzzles were, I thought they might be too simple. Certainly, I knew that we were accessing an early slice of the game during this preview, but I still couldn’t escape the feeling that in attempting to make itself accessible to all, LEGO Voyagers might have simplified its formula too much to secure the interest of adult players.

LEGO Voyagers, Credit / Annapurna Interactive

I’m thrilled to say that I was entirely wrong. LEGO Voyagers is pretty complex at times, and I’d argue it’s younger players who’d have the harder time seeing it through. It strikes me as a game, in fact, not necessarily built for younger players at all, but instead to remind adults of the importance of friendship and play - aspects of life we once held so dear. LEGO Voyagers’ puzzles are by no means impossible to solve, but they do require a deep level of thinking that I admittedly didn’t expect. In the early stages of the game, you’ll complete simple platforming segments or gather bricks to build small bridges or ramps. By the mid-point, you’ll be controlling vehicles in tandem with your partner, and making use of machinery to come up with a clever solution.

It can be a tricky game to describe because I’m loath to give away any solutions, but I’ll vaguely describe a key example that springs to mind. In one instance, progressing required us to make use of a conveyor belt of bricks, our building ability, as well as a moveable magnet, with some bricks in the area being magnetised and others not. I don’t want to toot our own horns but I’d argue that Sam and I are both intelligent people and working out how all of these components worked together to achieve a solution didn’t come to us immediately. It took some experimentation and trial and error, with us both taking it in turns to have that eureka moment. This is all to say that LEGO Voyagers is very cleverly crafted and it feels so thrilling when you do get that breakthrough moment.

Even outside of the puzzling elements, there’s challenging aspects to LEGO Voyagers. When you’re trying to snap bricks into place to build a bridge is one example. On PlayStation, pressing circle snaps a brick into place while pressing triangle rotates it. It can be a bit fiddly but not to the extent that it affects your enjoyment. In fact, latching onto bricks is pretty fun, especially if you’re trying to transport a whole pile alone or if you want to annoy your co-op partner by joining onto them. Still, it’s worth mentioning that it’s a mechanic you may not take to like a duck to water.

LEGO Voyagers, Credit / Annapurna Interactive

Manoeuvring vehicles is a key aspect of the game too. Throughout the story, you’ll navigate a boat, both players controlling a jet (one on the left, one on the right), as well as a truck, with one player taking control of the backwards and forwards motions with the other twisting the vehicle from side to side. That may all sound rather easy on paper but as I alluded to earlier, it was anything but. That could be because I was laughing so hard. The key here is communication, but I personally wouldn’t recommend you take these portions of the game too seriously. Attempting to reverse while your partner has a very different idea, sending your vehicle spinning in a random direction as you both shout at each other is part of the joy of this experience.

After all, LEGO Voyagers is a game that aims to highlight the importance of play, no matter your age. There are plenty of fun trophies to be unearthed here, rewarded to those who interact with items in the game’s various environments. For example, knocking your friend off a cattail or playing a game of Tic Tac Toe can get that trophy alert to sound. You won’t unearth these activities without a sense of play, so I find it really pleasing that those with the right attitude and curiosity are the players to be rewarded.

Alongside this, LEGO Voyagers is also a tale of the importance of friendship. Yes, that’s abundantly clear via the fact that you have to work together, but the game’s message extends far beyond that. It’s something I can’t talk about in direct detail as I really don’t want to ruin the game’s final act. I’ll simply reiterate that LEGO Voyagers is poignantly moving in a way that I certainly didn’t expect, touching on an aspect of a friendship that’ll pull on your heartstrings.

LEGO Voyagers, Credit / Annapurna Interactive

It’s a word I touched upon before but there’s something so incredibly meditative about LEGO Voyagers. When Sam and I typically play games together, we don’t stop yapping. In this one, there was a segment where we were tasked with decorating our spaceship, picking out various bricks, spraying them with different colours, and placing them wherever we wanted. We practically sat in silence the entire time, so absorbed by the task at hand that we’d hardly realised we’d spent 20 or 30 minutes on the activity without saying a word.

LEGO Voyagers is undoubtedly one of the standout games of 2025. It’s quite unlike anything else I’ve played, combining clever co-op puzzling with a beautiful narrative - all contained within a perfectly presented package. It’s a joy to play and a true feast for the eyes.

Pros: Clever puzzles, moving story, reasonable pricing

Cons: Younger players may struggle

For fans of: It Takes Two, Split Fiction, Lego Builder’s Journey

10/10: Perfect

LEGO Voyagers is set to release today, on 15 September, on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 (version tested), Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. A review code was provided by the publisher, Annapurna Interactive. Read a guide to our review scores here.