Low and Alone found each other in the Nowhere and have stayed alive by watching each other's backs. That is the arrangement, and the game is built on it.

Two items, one problem

Low's bow reaches high targets, cuts ropes and brings down flying things. Alone's wrench crushes stunned enemies, breaks barriers and works machinery. Almost nothing is solved without both.

Co-op or companion

Play with a friend or with an AI partner. Either way the design assumes two of you, and the environments are full of things imaginative children would try.

Still deeply unpleasant

The series' particular horror is intact: enormous adults, wrong proportions and a fate the game is very clear is worse than dying. Includes the PS4 and PS5 versions.