Free 2 player games

What are two player games

A two player game is a duel for two people in the same room. You sit at one laptop and split the keyboard, or you put a phone or tablet on the table between you and each take a half of the screen. There is nothing to connect and no waiting: press Play, pick a side and the first round starts. The fun is in sitting next to the person you are trying to beat.

The two player games on Kiloo are short and easy to explain. Rounds last seconds or a minute or two, a match is first to a few points, and R starts a rematch straight away. Every one of them also has a computer opponent, usually on Easy, Normal or Sharp, so you can learn the controls alone before a friend comes round. Many have a phone layout built for two, with the play area running up the screen and both sets of controls facing outwards.

Two player games to start with

For a quick, physical start, try Air Hockey: you each guard a goal, flick the puck off the rails and play to five, seven or eleven. Sumo Bump is a pushing match on a ring that shrinks as the round goes on, so you wind up a charge and try to send the other wrestler over the rope. Bumper Cars puts four dodgems on a slippery fairground floor, and you collect falling stars or knock them loose from the car you hit.

If you like aiming, Tank Duel gives each of you a toy tank in a sandbox arena, where shells bounce off the walls twice and the winning shot is often a bank shot. Castle Cannons is an artillery duel between two paper castles: drag back from your cannon, watch the wind and topple the walls from under the other king. Snake Duel is a race on a circuit board where you both leave copper traces behind you, and the last one still running takes the round.

The sports games are easy to explain to anyone. Blob Volley is beach volleyball for two blobs, first to ten, with a jump-and-smash at the net. In Penalty Shootout you take five kicks each and swap between taker and keeper after every one. Tug Team is a tug of war decided by timing on a swinging meter, not by mashing the button. For something calmer, Dots and Boxes is the pen and paper game: take turns drawing lines and claim every box you close.

Sharing one keyboard or one phone

On a keyboard, player one usually takes WASD on the left and player two the arrow keys on the right. In Tank Duel, Sumo Bump and Bumper Cars, player one presses Space and player two presses Enter for the action button. Tug Team needs just one key each, A and L. Air Hockey also lets player one steer with the mouse, and Castle Cannons and Dots and Boxes are turn based, so you pass the mouse or take turns at the keys. P pauses and M mutes in all of them.

On a phone or tablet, lay it flat between you and play on your own half. You drag your striker in Air Hockey, drag to move in Sumo Bump and tap your half to heave in Tug Team. Air Hockey tracks two fingers separately, so you can both move at once. In Penalty Shootout the taker swipes to shoot and the keeper taps a corner. A tablet gives two pairs of hands more room than a small phone.

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