Double down for domestic bliss: PETER HOSKIN reviews It Takes Two 

It Takes Two

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Here’s the good news: with lockdown relaxing, you soon won’t have to spend as much time with that person slumped so irritatingly on the sofa.

Here’s the bad: they’ll still be there waiting for you when you get home. So why don’t we all try to make the situation a little more bearable?

It Takes Two (£34.99), which has just been released on PlayStation, Xbox and PC, might be the right game at the right time.

As its name suggests, it requires two players. Either you conquer its challenges with someone online or — more fun — face a split screen with someone sitting next to you. 

There is no option to go it alone. And this isn’t just the format, it’s also the theme. It Takes Two begins in the all-too-real world of two parents telling their young daughter they are getting divorced. 

But — suddenly! — they are zapped into rag-doll bodies and forced to clamber around a wacky version of their own home. They — you — have to learn to co-operate.

This process begins simply: you both have to pull on levers as the same time. 

But soon you’re bouncing and zooming around in tandem, facing off against a creative and vindictive set of household appliances in a domestic fairy tale.

Perhaps the greatest achievement of It Takes Two is how it accommodates practically all levels of gaming ability — a must for avoiding arguments.

And, after all, isn’t that what married life is all about?!