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Fireboy & Watergirl: Forest Temple is the original co-op puzzle platformer about a fire spirit and a water spirit exploring a stone temple full of gates, levers and hazards. Nothing here is about shooting or sports, despite the shelf it sits on: every room is a small puzzle that two characters have to solve together, and neither can finish it alone.

A level takes a few minutes. You see the whole room at once, work out where the two exit doors are, and then figure out the order of buttons, levers and moving platforms that gets both characters there. It is a calm, thinking-paced break from the jump scares that dominate the rest of this site, which makes it a good palate cleanser between horror sessions, and a rare one you can play with a friend sitting next to you.

How to play

One player drives Fireboy with the arrow keys. The other drives Watergirl with W, A and D (W jumps). Click inside the game once so the keyboard reaches it. Playing solo is possible if you switch between both sets of keys, but it is fiddly in the later rooms.

The rules of the temple are simple and strict:

• Fireboy can walk through lava and red pools safely; water kills him.
• Watergirl can swim through blue water; lava kills her.
• Green goo is deadly to both of them.
• Red diamonds are for Fireboy and blue diamonds are for Watergirl. Collecting them is optional for finishing a room but counts towards your rating.
• Both characters must stand in front of their own door at the same time for the level to end.

Buttons and levers open gates or move platforms, often only while someone is standing on a button. That is the heart of the co-op: one character holds a gate open while the other walks through, then the roles swap. Pushable blocks and mirrors appear as the rooms get more elaborate.

Tips

1. Before moving, trace what each character needs: find both doors, then look at which gate blocks each route and what opens it.
2. If a character gets stuck behind a gate, check whether the other one can stand on a button to release them. Many rooms are solved by one player waiting patiently.
3. Do not rush the diamonds on the first pass. Finish the room, note where the awkward gems were, and replay for them once you know the layout.
4. Jumping over a hazard is almost always safer than trying to squeeze across its edge; the pools are unforgiving at the corners.

Similar games on this site

If you want another game to share a keyboard with, Friday Night Funkin' is a rhythm battle that works well for two. For the opposite mood, Granny Horror and Five Nights at Freddy's are about sneaking and surviving alone, while Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe leans on item puzzles and point-and-click logic, which is the closest thing here to the thinking part of Forest Temple.

It suits two people on one keyboard, short sessions, and anyone who prefers working out a puzzle to reacting to a scare.