Our Flower Garden
Cozy Game for Two
Our Flower Garden hands you and your partner a single garden to look after together — you plant, water and harvest flowers to fill orders as a team.
Long-Distance Games for Two
Distance kills most multiplayer plans. These games are the exceptions — built around turns you take on your own schedule and worlds that keep growing between sessions.
Our 9 Best Long-Distance Games for Two, Ranked
Async staples for the busy weeks, live worlds for when your evenings line up. Every pick is cross-platform, so mismatched devices never get in the way either.
Words With Friends 2
Word Game for Two
Words With Friends 2 is the much-loved Scrabble-style word game you play at your own speed, one turn at a time.
Chess.com
Mobile Board Game
Chess.com is the biggest chess platform in the world, folding online play, puzzles, and lessons into one app.
Sky: Children of the Light
Cooperative Adventure
From the studio behind Journey, Sky: Children of the Light is a calm social adventure about soaring through gorgeous realms and passing light to other players.
Genshin Impact
Cooperative Adventure
Genshin Impact is a stunning open-world action RPG with an enormous map to roam and a huge roster of characters to collect.
Hay Day
Cozy Simulation
Hay Day is Supercell’s laid-back farming game — grow crops, raise animals, and trade goods.
Ludo King
Mobile Board Game
Ludo King is the mobile take on the timeless board game Ludo (plus Snakes and Ladders), with local and online multiplayer.
Plato
Mini-Game Pack
Plato bundles dozens of two-player and group games — Ludo, dominoes, pool, word and strategy titles — into one social app with chat baked in.
Quick answers
What is the best long-distance game for two?
Our Flower Garden — one shared garden, tended from two ends of the map, a few minutes a day. Words With Friends 2 and Chess.com are the turn-based workhorses.
What about big time-zone gaps?
Go async — turn-based games let each of you play whenever you are free, and the game itself carries the conversation across the gap.
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