Best Lego games not developed by Traveller's Tales

Important takeaways

• Traveller's Tales lost its exclusive license to Lego games, opening up opportunities for other developers.
• New brick-based titles such as Lego Brawls, Lego Bricktales and Lego 2K Drive offer unique and engaging gaming experiences.
• These games provide a new take on exploring the Lego universe with new mechanics, puzzles and challenges.

Traveller's stories has had an exclusive license to Lego games for years and has used it to release a variety of hugely popular titles that utilize all the features that fans love. Regardless of whether it is Lego Batman game, Lego Marvel Super Heroestoys to life experiments that Lego Dimensions, or some of the older titles, these games undoubtedly introduced many players to these exciting franchises and were a source of great co-op fun.

But like Traveller's stories has recently lost the rights to be the sole producer of Lego game, fans may find now is a good time to look around at other brick-based titles to see how successful the toys could be in the hands of other developers.

1 Lego brawl

Platform Fighter With Random Roster

• Developer: Red Games Co.
• Platform(s): PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, iOS
• Drop: September 2, 2022

Following in the footsteps of Super Smash Bros and other similar fighting games like Multiverse or Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Lego brawl is a light competitive fighting title designed to bring new players into the game and wreak havoc on the screen. Pitting players against each other with health bars and lives, rather than percentages and shares, Fraction allows players to unlock weapons and gadgets from the other side Lego universe.

Whether from classic sets like Pirate or Space Lego or more recognizable properties like Jurassic World or Ninjago, Fraction gives players the freedom to unlock new Lego parts and then let them build their own minifigure characters to fight with. While a little barebones, Fraction is well worth a try for a long time Lego fan.

2 Lego Racers 2

Kart Racing And Brick Building

With an open world hub that lets players wander around five different worlds based on beloved Lego sets, Lego Racers 2 improves on its predecessor in almost every way. Letting players build their own map to race on a series of courses across playsets with pirates, aliens and dinosaurs, Lego went all out to make a kart racer with variety.

Fans loved the ability to build their vehicles at release, and seeing them get damaged and dismantled through races against tricky bosses makes the whole game feel more physical. A valiant attempt to recreate the fun of playing with real Lego smashed into a decent racing game.

3 Lego Builder's Journey

Cutesy Building Puzzle

For all fans of Lego looking for a cozy game that can bring back the feeling of building charming little sets and intricately placing pieces, Lego Builder's Journey is a puzzle game that follows the adventures of a man and his son. They travel over rivers and high cliffs, and players must move bricks and create terrain for the son to jump around to catch up with his father.

At first the game may seem simple, but the puzzles get trickier and more inventive and the addition of small pictures that players have to fill in for the child to slide all over the map means that the cute little game will spice up with personality.

4 Lego Fortnite

Change the Battle Royale formula

Players in the massive multiplayer hit, Fortnitecan make assumptions about the bricked spin-off, but Lego Fortnite is quite separate in its gameplay despite being accessed through the same launcher. Fans will find themselves thrown in at the deep end, forced to survive in a world full of LEGO materials, buildings and creatures.

More of a survival game that often plays with the same mechanics as Minecraftthis game focuses on creating a home base, fighting dark monsters, players building their weapons and staying well fed and equipped. A Lego games with a hunger meter may not seem exciting at first glance, but the different direction this game goes in makes for a unique and interesting break from the norm Lego game.

5 Lego Universe

Another lost MMO

• Developer: NetDevil
• Platform(s): PC
• Drop: October 26, 2010

Lego Universe is a hugely ambitious title. An MMO that sees a corrupt world saved by leagues of minifigure adventurers and gives players massive worlds to explore, the title had millions of dedicated players. The world created by NetDevil had a rich background, many weapons and tools that could be mastered by characters, and huge bosses that could be fought with other players.

Properties can be claimed and filled with Lego models or collected pieces. With all the best parts of Lego gathered in one place and shared with such a successful multiplayer game, Universe was astonishing in its scope until it was turned off. Some fan servers remained active for years, and thousands of players were able to experience this exceptional Lego adventure.

6 Lego Bricktales

A creative puzzle adventure

A puzzle adventure with a story, single player Lego Bricktales will explore different worlds and solve problems for other minifigures during their journey. As they move through the various hubs, Lego people will ask the player for help in building things. Some of these requests are simple – build a shop shed – but quickly these become physics puzzles – build a bridge that can support a truck or a working crane.

Players are given a selection of Lego pieces and asked to build, and then the game opens up into enormous freedom. Players have endless ways to complete the missions and will be rewarded with new areas and new cosmetics that can be used to make their own minifigure look as weird and wonderful as possible.

7 Lego 2K Drive

Racing With A Brick-Bashing Twist

A huge open world, divided into different areas, is nothing new for Lego games. Lego 2K Drive explodes onto the scene by adding destructible environments that player-built cars or boats can get through. The world serves as a hub for many quests, collectibles, and races that players must undertake in order to face the current champion.

With lovable NPCs, exciting challenges that will challenge players to face time trials, battles against other drivers and delivery missions, and hundreds of perks, parts and costumes to unlock, Lego 2K Drive comes closest to the massive collect-a-thons that Traveller's stories has released.

8 Lego Horizon Adventures

A brick-based exploration

The latest title in Lego series not produced by Traveller's stories, Lego Horizon Adventures is a fantastic Lego adaptation of the original Horizon Zero Dawn game. Players step into a post-apocalypse where dinosaurs and robots have merged and the human survivors live in a kind of prehistory mixed with futuristic technology. Many elements from the older ones Traveller's stories games are featured here, such as the fixed camera, destructible environments, and excessive collectibles.

Still, the inclusion of protagonist Aloy with customizable minifigure costumes makes this a lighthearted step away from the bleak future of the original. The ability to play cooperatively with friends and the creative freedom to build your village make this a silly apart from the first title that Lego fans young and old can enjoy.