The 10 best Lego games of all time

The best Lego games have been delighting us for over two decades now, giving the world the opportunity to express their creativity from the comfort of their couch. In fact, they have given us some of the best feel-good games around, letting us explore colorful worlds and live out our favorite movie franchises.

Over the years, we've jumped into various fun stories, smashed bricks for those sweet studs, and used our brains to solve puzzles as well as build some truly wild creations. Lego video games are still going strong as well, with plenty of new games to dig into, such as Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. So, really, there's no better time than right now to revisit the classics that truly paved the way for all the plastic-cube greatness we see on our consoles today.

From the fun of Lego 2K Drive to some of the best Star Wars games, our ranking of the best Lego games of all time is perfect for kids of all ages, no matter what console you own. Whether you're after a Lego rendition of your favorite film, puzzle games, or something else entirely, you'll find something in our list of the 10 best Lego games.

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10. Lego Jurassic World

Lego and dinosaurs is a combination that – sadly – doesn't appear in your daily life often enough. Thankfully, there's a video game for that. Lego Jurassic World isn't the most well-rounded of Traveller's Tales' adventures, but it's a great diving-in point thanks to the strength of its co-op gameplay and slapstick comedy. In fact, this was the first game where my brother and I didn't fight about Lego coin collecting.

It wraps four of the Jurassic movies into one game and follows them faithfully, meaning there's much less combat here than in other licensed titles. That makes sense, really, considering most of the movies are about humans trying to avoid close encounters with a dinosaur's talon. Instead, you'll have to work together and use different character skills to escape toothy predators.

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9. Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4, 5-7

Technically, these are two separate games, but they're so good I'm lumping them into one must-play. All seven books have been transformed into a playable adventure that uses spellcasting to blast a dose of fresh air into the Lego game formula - Wingardium Leviosa, for instance, is your best friend for reaching high studs.

Meanwhile, Hogwarts Castle is the ultimate hub world, packed with nooks and crannies to explore alongside a huge cast of characters. In fact, this cinematic universe is the perfect landscape to set a video game in, and these two Lego titles will please Potter superfans and casual gamers alike.

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8. Lego City Undercover

Grand Theft Auto is widely considered one of the most popular gaming franchises of all time, but there's an awful lot of, well, naughtiness. Lego City Undercover is the family-friendly answer to that, but it somehow still retains fistfuls of charm without anesthetizing any of the adrenaline you'd expect from a GTA-esque experience.

That's largely thanks to how it pays homage to crime thriller movies like Goodfellas without ever explicitly riffing off an established franchise. The sprawling scale of the world leaves room for plenty of exploration after you finish the main 10-hour campaign, and in 2017, they even introduced co-op play. Also, I'd still argue that this is one of the best Switch games that Lego fans can still pick up today.

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7. Lego The Lord of The Rings

When we talk about the best Lord of the Rings games, we have to mention this Lego edition. For any Tolkien fan, walking around Middle-earth is a dream come true, and when you pair that feature with cute cutscenes of the iconic story, you can't go wrong. Out of all the Lego games, though, be warned, this is one of the harder ones. Straight away, you'll be thrown into a battle fighting a Bionicle-looking Sauron, and the combat from there on out is similarly a lot more unforgiving than most Lego games.

But hey, we all know that it wasn't easy for the hobbit Frodo to travel all the way to Mordor, so it makes sense that we have somewhat of a challenge here as well. On top of the combat in this Lego game, the levels are varied and are tons of fun to play and replay as you hunt for collectibles. This Lego game is much better for the older crowd, so keep that in mind.

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6. Lego Marvel Super Heroes

2013 was the peak of Marvel mania, and luckily, that resulted in one of the best Marvel games for Lego fans. That's right, The Avengers had arrived in cinemas the year before, and Traveller's Tales released Lego Marvel Superheroes. It is a beautifully constructed love letter to the Marvel universe, cramming in hundreds of characters and locations from X-Men, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and more.

In between missions, explore a Lego Manhattan, spanning from the Statue of Liberty to the X-Mansion up past Harlem to the massive Shield Helicarrier that hovers over the East River. The open world is expertly made and filled with enough wit and warmth to keep you entertained for hours.

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5. Lego Builder's Journey

Lego Builder's Journey is a little different from the majority of this list because it isn't trying to recreate something else out of Lego; it's doing its own thing. It's an original tale where a young child is trying to reunite with its parent, and it'll do so by passing through a number of dioramas that in some way need 'solving' with Lego.

These little puzzle boxes are stunning but also capture the magic of playing with Lego in real life. There's no one right way to solve the puzzles you're presented with, so as long as it functions, that's all that matters. It's focused on play and the joy of clicking the little bricks together.

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4. Lego 2K Drive

Imagine the carnage of Forza Horizon 5 rebuilt with individual Lego bricks, and you should have a pretty good idea of what to expect from Lego 2K Drive. Developer Visual Concepts has delivered an exemplary open-world racing game that's perfect for children of all ages.

With its fun campaign, sprawling worlds to explore, and intuitive building mechanics that will let you build the super-charged car of your dreams, Lego 2K Drive is an absolute delight. Better still, the game features strong split-screen and online multiplayer support to ensure that you're able to enjoy the game with friends and family members with ease.

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3. Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is a marvel, and despite all the amazing Lego games featuring the Caped Crusader, it's already established itself as top dog in the brick pack. In our Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight review, we called it a "Bat-Celebration", and it truly is, as it references not only the Dark Knight movie trilogy but a ton of the other Batman films, and a ton of comic storylines as well. Heck, even its combat and stealth mechanics reference the Arkham games

Personally, I did prefer the open world of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and do miss the extra brick reward for collecting studs in a level; however, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's seamless gameplay and amazing combat are enough for me to forget about the missing Lego game staples. The game is a marvel and the best Batman game that I've played in a very long time.

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2. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

After 17 years of perfecting its formula, developer Traveller's Tales has returned to the game that started it all and decided to redo Lego Star Wars. But 'redo' doesn't do justice to the ambition here. This is a completely new game, recreating not only the original trilogy of films in Lego form but all nine films from the yellow text of A New Hope, through the "I am the senate" posturing of the prequel trilogy to the final shot from The Rise of Skywalker (complete with a brilliantly cutting sight gag).

It's all here. Not just the action sequences you know and love, but the towns, forests, and swamps around them, all bustling with Lego-ized life and absolutely packed with Star Wars lore, puzzles, and challenges. When a game goes all-in like this, Yoda was right. It's do or do not; there is no try. And Traveller's Tales really, really did it with Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

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1. Lego Bricktales

Lego Bricktales has soared to the top of our best Lego games list because it's the closest you're going to get to playing with Lego in real life in digital form. With its own unique narrative, you'll have to build various things in digital Lego to problem-solve and create innovative solutions. The things you're asked to create range from aesthetically pleasing to functional, from cranes and gyrocopters to a market stand or music box.

All you're given is a direction and a pile of bricks. Then, it's up to you to make something that works. It's immensely satisfying to watch your creations come to life in the game and become part of the world, and in the case of something like the gyrocopter, fully animated, too. Alongside the story that takes you through jungles, deserts, cities, and castles, you'll also work to restore an old theme park - so prepare yourself for designing rides, too.

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