It Takes Two Friend's Pass

It Takes Two Friend's Pass is really a co-op access pass, and that is the whole trick: one person owns It Takes Two, the other joins through the Friend's Pass so both can play together. By our assessment, it is clever in the plainest way because it removes the usual second purchase from a two-player game built around cooperation. The trade-off is also plain: it does nothing by itself and only matters when there is a partner ready to join, so it is useless as a solo purchase. In practice, it makes starting the game easier, with less friction and less back-and-forth about who buys what. Compared with a normal copy, this is not a separate game at all but a distribution idea attached to one, and that is why it stands out. It suits people who already know they want to play It Takes Two together, and it stops making sense the moment there is no second player.