This year marks the 30th anniversary of the LEGO Games franchise. It all began with a little-known game released only in Japan, for an equally obscure SEGA gaming machine called the Pico. Since then, LEGO Games have become a genre of their own, thanks to TT Games. But other game studios have built on what TT Games created, offering new LEGO gaming experiences such as LEGO Party!, LEGO Voyagers and LEGO Fortnite. The LEGO gaming adventures are set to continue in 2026, with LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. Plus, there are some new LEGO titles in the works that are yet to be revealed.
Game on: 30 years of LEGO® video games
The LEGO Group has produced over 200 game titles since releasing its first digital title in 1995. To celebrate the milestone, we replayed some of our best-loved gaming hits, while also checking out some exciting new releases.
Thirty years ago in Japan, the LEGO Group tried something new. After many decades dedicated to making physical toys, we released our first ever video game, LEGO® Fun to Build, created with Japanese gaming giant SEGA.
Though a one-country experiment, Fun to Build was the start of something big. The LEGO brick has never gone away, of course, but that first foray into gaming pointed the way to a broader future for the LEGO Group in which creative play could be experienced in different ways. The ambition was to ensure that the LEGO brand was engaging with children wherever they happened to be playing, whether they were building with LEGO bricks on their bedroom floor or zapping space invaders on a games console.
Championing that vision, the LEGO® G.A.M.E team has been innovating nonstop for 30 years to bring creative play to every imaginable style of video game for fans around the world.
“Over the years, we’ve explored everything from puzzle-solving and platforming to city-building and open-world storytelling,” said Kari Vinther Nielsen, LEGO® G.A.M.E’s Head of Product, Play & Creator Growth. For all their variety, the common thread running through all those games has been characteristic playfulness and sense of fun. It has enabled the team to put the familiar LEGO stamp on popular themes such as Star Wars™ and Harry Potter™ – and help turn those games into global blockbusters.
“Franchises like LEGO® Star Wars™ brought our unique humour and brick-based storytelling to life in ways fans hadn’t seen before,” Kari said.
For the team, the challenge was greater than simply creating good games: it was to bridge the worlds of physical and digital play to the point where children would barely even notice when they switched between the two.
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“LEGO games have become extensions of the LEGO System in Play,” said Fredrik Loving, SVP & Head of LEGO GAME. “Builders and gamers can now move seamlessly between creating in the real world and building in the digital world.” New releases like 2025’s LEGO Party! and LEGO Voyagers show the gaming team is still gaining momentum – motivated, Fredrik said, by the LEGO Group’s passionate community of builders and gamers alike. “It is those fans that inspire us to push boundaries, think creatively and tell stories that keep them coming back,” he said.
For the 80-member LEGO® G.A.M.E team, there’s so much still to come as the LEGO portfolio continues to grow and new partnerships develop. But as they look back on three decades of LEGO gaming, Kari and Fredrik mark the anniversary by revisiting some of their personal favourites – games that truly took LEGO play to the next level.
Take a trip through LEGO Games’ history and learn more about key LEGO titles released over the years here.
