Action · 2020 · Coldwood Interactive · local
Unravel Two
Two yarn figures, joined by a single thread, climb together through a warmly lit world.
What it is about
You play two small figures made of yarn with a thread stretched between them. That thread is rope, bridge and safety line at once: you tie it to hooks, swing on it and haul each other across gaps.
You move left to right through forests, workshops and coastal towns that all look built from real materials. The puzzles almost always come down to one of you holding on while the other gets ahead — and then the other way round, which regularly leaves the first one in awkward positions.
The story is told alongside and without a word, in flashbacks about four children. If you only want the story you are through in one long evening; the optional challenge levels double that.
Our verdict for couples
Two woollen figures hang from a shared thread, and the whole mechanic grows out of that: you can abseil off each other, swing one another across gaps and get thoroughly in each other's way when one runs too far ahead. It is quiet, warmly lit and over after three evenings, and both of those are deliberate. On a sofa it is one of the friendliest ways in there is, because the less practised half can simply be dragged along at any point. Across two households it drops out entirely: there is no real online co-op.
Pros
- The look and the music are lovely throughout
- Short enough for two or three evenings
- The thread makes cooperation tangible
Cons
- The story stays very oblique
- One fall sets both of you back
- The optional levels are considerably harder
Suitable from
Casual–Hobby
- Conflict potential
- Spirited
- Cosiness
- Cosy
- When you can stop
- After 15 minutes
- How long it lasts
- 5–15 hours
What other co-op fans say
Two themes split the community almost evenly. One half writes about the game itself and turns notably warm: beautiful, relaxing, ideal for putting a controller into somebody's hands — remarkably often a partner is named outright. The other half explains the comparatively low score: there is no real online co-op, only Remote Play, and anybody not in the same room fights the lag. If the two of you share a screen, you can skip that half.
- “Unravel Two is easily one of the best coop games out there.”
- “This is one of the most beautiful cooperative platformers out there. The mechanics are simple and the puzzles are fun.”
- “it's actually absurd there's no real online coop”
Summarised by machine from 60 Steam reviews, not written by our editors. The quotes appear verbatim in those reviews.
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