Back 2 Back wants to put couch co-op on mobile, with shooting and driving action

• Back 2 Back from Two Frogs Games has an ambitious selling point
• Fancy playing couch co-op on your phone?
• How does Back 2 Back pull it off, and can it be successful?

Couch co-op nowadays seems like one of those relics of the distant past. What with being able to play remotely online from virtually anywhere, it feels like the days of sitting in front of a split screen playing a shoot 'em up, or duking it out in a fighting game, are long behind us; but Two Frogs Games seems to disagree.

They reached out to us with ambitious news, that they've produced what they call a couch co-op, two-player mobile game in the form of Back 2 Back. Billed as perfectly suited for fans of co-op efforts like It Takes Two or Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, it sees both players taking on differing roles they need to switch between.

While one player is responsible for driving, the other takes on the job of shooting as you guide a vehicle of your choice through a dense obstacle course of cliffsides, lava and worse. M,eanwhile your co-op co-pilot has to fend off enemies trying to upset your ride.

Simple, but effective(?)

Now, my first thought upon seeing Back 2 Back was probably what you're also thinking right now. This is nice but- can it actually work? After all, a mobile phone's biggest selling point, portability, is also its biggest drawback as the smaller screen is already problematic for a single player, let alone two.

Well, fortunately, Two Frogs Games have you covered, sort of. It's a little confusing as to how Back 2 Back actually works, but from what I understand both players use their own phone to control a shared session. It's not the most elegant solution, but it works.

I'm optimistic about Back 2 Back's chances, if there's anything stuff like Jackbox has taught me it's that the fun of playing with friends in the same room has never gone away.