10 Best Xbox One Multiplayer Games You Can Play Offline

6. Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime

Perfectly capturing the current trend in gaming towards tough, resource-ma

nagement survival games and 2D platformers, Lovers (let's just call it that) fused these genres together into one bright and bubbly package.

Spacetime (actually, let's call it this) is a space-faring game about co-operation and surviving in space, as you and a friend guide an unwieldy orb of a spaceship through asteroid fields, alien swarms, and formidable interstellar bosses, like the embodiment of the Ursa Major (Great Bear) star formation... which is of course a giant floating bear. The brilliant gameplay quirk of Spacetime is that you actually control two little people inside the spaceship, and need to run around the ship, climbing ladders, and sitting at different control panels to man the weapons, shields and other gizmos aboard the vessel.

Because of this, communication is essential as you'll need to assign clear roles to each other during your travels, otherwise you'll end up stumbling all over each other at crucial times and won't survive long. In its own endearing way, Spacetime captures the inevitable chaos aboard a spaceship in hostile situations better than any other game, and you and your buddy will be screaming at each other to "Do your goddam job properly!" as the difficulty rapidly ramps up. One of the most unique and challenging co-operative games around.