Best Lego Games Not Developed By Traveller’s Tales

Key Takeaways

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

Traveller’s Tales have had the exclusive license to Lego games for several years, and have used it to release a bevy of hugely popular titles that utilize all of the properties fans love. Whether it is the Lego Batman games, Lego Marvel Super Heroes, toys-to-life experiments like Lego Dimensions, or some of the older titles, these games undoubtedly introduced many gamers to these exciting franchises and were a source of amazing co-op fun.

However, as Traveller’s Tales has recently lost the rights to be the only producer of Lego games, fans might find now to be a good time to look around at other brick-based titles to see how successful the toys can be in the hands of other developers.

1 Lego Brawls

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
• Release: September 2, 2022

Following in the footsteps of Super Smash Bros and other similar fighting games like Multiversus or Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Lego Brawls is a lightly competitive fighting title designed to get new players in the game and cause chaos onscreen. Pitting players against each other with health bars and lives, rather than percentages and stocks, Brawls lets players unlock weapons and gadgets from across the Lego universe.

Whether from classic sets like Pirate or Space Lego or more recognizable properties like Jurassic World or Ninjago, Brawl will allow players the freedom to unlock new Lego parts and then have them build their own Minifigure characters to fight with. While a little barebones, Brawls is well worth a try for any long-time Lego fan.

2 Lego Racers 2

Kart Racing And Brick Building

Featuring 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 kart to race on a series of tracks across playsets featuring Pirates, Aliens, and Dinosaurs, Lego pulled out all the stops to make a kart racer with variety.

Fans loved the ability to build their vehicles on 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 Puzzles

For any fan of Lego who is 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 across rivers and high cliffs, and players will have to move bricks and create terrain that the son can jump around to catch up with his father.

At first, the gameplay can seem simple, but the puzzles get trickier and more inventive and the addition of little slides that players must complete for the child to slip across the whole map makes the cute little game pop with personality.

4 Lego Fortnite

Changing The Battle Royale Formula

Players of the massive multiplayer hit, Fortnite, might make assumptions about the brickified 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 Minecraft, this game puts a focus on creating a home base, fighting off dark monsters, players building their weapons, and staying well-fed and equipped. A Lego game 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 standard Lego game.

5 Lego Universe

Another Lost MMO

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

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

Properties could be claimed and filled with Lego models or collected pieces. With all of the best parts of Lego brought together into one place and shared with such a successful multiplayer game, Universe was astounding in its scope until it was shut down. 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, players in Lego Bricktales will explore different worlds and solve problems for other minifigures across their journey. Moving through the different hubs, Lego folks will ask the player for help building things. Some of these requests are simple – build a shop stall – but quickly these become physics puzzles – build a bridge that can support a truck or a functioning crane.

Players are given a selection of Lego pieces and told to build and then the game opens up in a massive stretch of freedom. Players have limitless 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, split into various areas, is nothing new to Lego games. Lego 2K Drive explodes onto the scene by adding destructible environments that player-built cars or boats can burst through. The world acts as a hub for many missions, collectibles, and races that players will have to tackle to be able to face off against the current champion.

With loveable NPCs, exciting challenges that will task players with facing off against time trials, battles against other racers and delivery missions, and hundreds of perks, parts, and costumes to unlock, Lego 2K Drive comes the closest to the massive collect-a-thons that Traveller’s Tales has released.

8 Lego Horizon Adventures

A Brick Based Exploration

The most recent title in the Lego series that was not produced by Traveller’s Tales, Lego Horizon Adventures is a stunning Lego adaptation of the original Horizon Zero Dawn game. Players step into a post-apocalypse where dinosaurs and robots have fused and the human survivors live in a kind of prehistory melded with futuristic tech. Many elements from the older Traveller’s Tales games are on display here, like the fixed camera, destructible environments, and excessive collectibles.

Still, the inclusion of protagonist Aloy with customizable minifigure outfits makes this a lighthearted step away from the bleak future of the original. The ability to play in co-op with friends and the creative freedom to build your village makes this a goofy aside from the first title that young and old Lego fans can enjoy.