The best games to play with your partner

Playing together is one of the best things about this hobby, and you do not need matching high-end PCs or hardcore skills to do it. These games are cheap, easy to pick up, and made for two — ideal whether your partner plays a lot or not at all.

• Stardew Valley — run a farm together; endlessly relaxing and quietly addictive.
• Human Fall Flat — wobbly physics puzzles that guarantee laughter, no skill required.
• Raft — build an ocean home as a team while dodging a very determined shark.
• Don't Starve Together — survive a gorgeous, spooky world that is much kinder as a pair.
• Terraria — dig, build and explore together in a bottomless 2D sandbox.

Most of these cost only a couple of dollars, so date night can be cheaper than a coffee. For a bigger group see the best co-op games, and check each game's all-time low on the deals page.