{"id":5392,"date":"2022-01-10T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/2021-in-review-finding-games-to-play-together\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T03:00:13","slug":"2021-in-review-finding-games-to-play-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/2021-in-review-finding-games-to-play-together\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 in review: Finding games to play together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Hello! Over the next few days we&#8217;re going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy finding games to play with other people in the same house. You&#8217;ll know this if you&#8217;ve tried. It&#8217;s one of the reasons I was so impressed with It Takes Two earlier in the year. It&#8217;s not only playable in local co-op but entirely designed for it, which means gameplay solutions <em>require<\/em> two people rather than <em>can also be played<\/em> by two people. For instance, one person throws giant nails into a wall while the other person uses the head of a giant claw hammer to swing on them. It&#8217;s just one example and there are many &#8211; the ideas keep changing and they keep coming &#8211; and it&#8217;s brilliant. It Takes Two is probably the best example of dedicated local co-op gaming in years, if not ever. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-12-14-finding-games-to-play-together\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Over the next few days we&#8217;re going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us! 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