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Double Shoulders Team · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 45 % positive of 1,397 reviews, as of Oct 28

Double Shoulders is a two player action-adventure game. You take control of Lois and Sam, two kids trying to escape from a strange place filled with dangers and challenges. You'll have to work together to get out of this place alive.

24 games that play like Double Shoulders and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Little Nightmares II, Escape the Backrooms and It Takes Two.

Player tags

  • Local Co-Op
  • Action
  • Survival Horror
  • Multiplayer
  • Adventure
  • Free to Play
  • Puzzle-Platformer
  • Online Co-Op
Map region: Co-op Horror
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Steam reviews

What players say

Mixed opinion: players like the free co-op puzzle concept, but frequent bugs that softlock progress drive most negative reviews.

Many players enjoy the Little Nightmares-style atmosphere, the dark fairy-tale art and the cooperative puzzles, and many say it is a fun short session with a friend given that it is free. Some praise the art and the spooky tone. The main complaint is bugs: many players report enemies or animations glitching, levers and doors not responding, cutscenes not triggering and the camera losing the players. Some reach a hard lock that forces them to restart a chapter or the whole game. Others criticise the controls, the slow or laggy performance, weak remote play, the lack of keyboard and mouse support and a short, unclear ending. Reviews from the last year are mostly negative, and many of the critics say the game is promising but not yet finished.

Praised

  • Atmosphere and art style

    Players praise the dark fairy-tale look, the creepy setting and the cute, unsettling characters.

    Many players
  • Free co-op fun

    Players say it is a fun, short session to play with a friend, and great value because it is free.

    Many players
  • Puzzle design

    Players enjoy the puzzles and cooperative mechanics, and call them fun even when a few feel odd.

    Some players

Criticised

  • Frequent bugs

    Players report glitches with enemies, levers, doors, cutscenes and the camera that disrupt play.

    Many players
  • Softlocks and lost progress

    Players get stuck and must restart a chapter or the whole game, sometimes losing hours.

    Many players
  • Performance and controls

    Players report lag, stiff controls, frame drops, no keyboard and mouse support and weak remote play.

    Some players
Who it suits
Suits players who want a short, free co-op puzzle session with a friend and can tolerate glitches.
Who should skip it
Skip it if you want a polished, complete game, since bugs and softlocks are common and the ending is unclear.

Short vs. long playtime: Players with under one hour mostly report bugs and performance, while those who finish the game often find the ending unsatisfying.

Summarised by AI from 80 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Oct 28, 2026.

Best matches

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By gameplay

Plays like Double Shoulders

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

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  1. Paranoia Place: Escape Together87 % positive of 1,579Shared: Survival Horror · Online Co-Op · Co-op
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  3. We Were Here Forever90 % positive of 16,415Shared: Online Co-Op · Co-op · Psychological Horror
  4. Escape from Playtime70 % positive of 1,804Shared: Survival Horror · Online Co-Op · Co-op
  5. Zort90 % positive of 11,832Shared: Online Co-Op · Co-op · Psychological Horror
  6. Inside the Backrooms80 % positive of 38,860Shared: Survival Horror · Online Co-Op · Co-op
  7. We Were Here88 % positive of 33,532Shared: Online Co-Op · Co-op · Psychological Horror
  8. PANICORE77 % positive of 10,813Shared: Online Co-Op · Co-op · Psychological Horror
  9. HALF DEAD 376 % positive of 491Shared: Local Co-Op · Online Co-Op · Co-op
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  11. Im Bann Der Dunklen Jagd70 % positive of 226Shared: Online Co-Op · Co-op · Horror
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By look

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Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

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  5. Spectral Scream77 % positive of 658
  6. Eternal Threads87 % positive of 548
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  8. FOREWARNED90 % positive of 5,054
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  11. Paranoia Place: Escape Together87 % positive of 1,579
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At a glance

What games like Double Shoulders have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Double Shoulders: Co-op (20 of 24), Online Co-Op (20) and Survival Horror (11).
  • They came out between 2016 and 2026, 2 of them after Double Shoulders (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: It Takes Two (95 % positive of 220,682).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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