2 player games

36 games for two or more people sharing one screen. No second device, no room codes, no waiting for a match — and no internet play at all.

These split the controls so both players use the same device at once — one on each half of a touchscreen, or one on WASD and one on the arrow keys. Board and card games pass turns instead, keeping each hand private.

Two things worth saying plainly. 3 of them are keyboard-only and will not work as two-player on a phone — they are laptop games, and their pages say so. And nothing here connects over the internet: two-player means two people within arm's reach of the same screen.

The rest are the games worth opening when there are two of you and one phone: a bus stop, a queue, a lunch break.

• 4 ColourA two-handed shedding card game: match the colour or the number, empty your hand first
• 5 vs 10Draughts fought with gold five-coins against teal ten-coins, every capture forced
• Air HockeyA puck that sheds almost no speed, and nowhere on the table to hide
• Bed BrawlBridge across the sky, break their bed, then knock them off the island
• Bigger Tic Tac ToeNine small boards inside one big one, and your square picks where your opponent plays
• Bike Rush 3DTwo and a half kilometres of traffic, three crashes, and a rival that will not let go
• Boat TaggerNinety seconds of paper boats chasing each other round a garden pond
• Bowling 3DRoll a heavy ball down a maple lane and knock down all ten pins
• Bumper Kart ArenaWeapon crates, a walled arena and three hearts each — first to eight knockouts takes it
• Business TycoonTwelve properties, twenty rounds, and a winner decided on net worth, not bankruptcy
• Car FootballTwo cars, one ball you actually carry, and three minutes to score more than they do
• Carrom ClashSlide the striker, pull back, release — nineteen pieces and a queen that must be covered
• ChessEvery rule of chess, and an opponent that never looks at your reply
• Doodle DuelNotebook artillery, three shell types, and a crosswind that resets every single turn
• Drive MayhemEight physics stages, two pedals, and a driver whose head you must keep off the scenery
• FoosballThree rods a side, one shared slider, and forty seconds on the clock
• Four in LineSeven columns, six rows, and a search that would rather block you than build
• Hand CricketPick a number from one to six. Match the bowler and you are out. That is the entire game
• LudoFour colours, one board, and the arguments your family has been having for years
• Math DuelFifteen questions, four tiles, and a wrong tap costs you a point and your turn
• Number Line HopA hand of four operations, five hops, and a flag you have to land on exactly
• Pixel DerbyPixel Derby — rank six horses first to last, then watch the race take your reasoning apart
• Pool 3DA table built to real dimensions, with the camera down at cue height where cuts get hard to read
• Pool RummyPot the balls, add up their numbers, land on exactly 100
• Potato PongPong with a goal mouth in each end wall and a lumpy potato instead of a ball
• Ridge RallyTwo pedals, a soft-sprung buggy and hills that never stop coming
• Smile BallTwo grinning blobs, one bouncy ball, and a rule that punishes goal-hanging
• Snake & LadderTen snakes, nine ladders, and a finish line you have to hit exactly
• Stick FighterTwo attacks, one block, sixty seconds a round, and the first to two rounds wins
• Sumo FighterMash to build power, lean into the lock, shove them over the rope
• Table Tennis3D ping pong where the ball must bounce on your half before you can return it
• Tennis 3DProper tennis on a clay court — share one screen, or play a match out against the CPU
• Tic Tac PushA 5x5 board, two walkers, loose blocks — shove three of your mark into a line
• Toss Tac ToeTic-tac-toe on a wall, where you claim a square by hitting it with a ball
• Truth & DareA spinning bottle, up to eight names and ninety-six prompts you did not have to think of
• Zombie FighterDrive a turreted ball around a fenced field, collect fourteen stars, outrun the crowd

See all 105 games or browse the single-player list.