My younger cousin comes over today (like every few months) and we will be playing some couch coop games over the weekend.
So far we tried a lot of games and found some great ones along the way. Sidescrollers work sometimes, but third person and isometric is better. And I won’t touch another twin stick shooter haha. Do y’all have any suggestions, it’s always so much work to find a good new game (as opposed to just going after steam review, buying, and returning within 30min of playtime because it sucked).
Honorable mentions:
- Swords of Ditto (literally no one plays this, but it’s a pretty neat co-op zelda-like
- Darksiders Genesis (hack n slash)
- It takes Two (co-op puzzle)
- Children of Morta (great roguelite)
I also bought Secret of Mana, maybe we’ll play this.
Borderlands and Full Metal Furies spring to mind.
Most of my suggestions that I’ve been playing with my brother are already posted, so I’ll just add 3 more I haven’t seen yet:
- Human Fall Flat
- Enter the gungeon
- Vampire survivors
If you like Enter The Gungeon, definitely try AK-xolotl. Same type of game, but more linear in a way. Rather than a single dungeon with multiple rooms to explore around, you go into a room, clear it, then choose 1 of 2 doors. Each door has a symbol to tell you which reward you will get after clearing it. Modding your weapons is much easier too.
Oh, it didn’t have co-op when I saw it before, but it has now, wishlisted, thanks, but I’m playing through baldurs gate 3 and that is gonna take over 200h before I move on :p
I’m going to second human fall flat, it’s a lot of fun. I’ll also add any of the Lego games to the list but the star wars one are definitely the best.
9 Parchments - Surprising gem with some depth and a lot of replay value. Reminds me a lot of the Harry Potter universe. We fire this up almost every weekend. I recommend setting friendly fire to ‘self’ instead, as it encourages actual cooperative play.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shredder’s Revenge - this is just a hack n slash quarter eater, but it’s mindless fun.
- Moving Out
- Lovers in a dangerous Spacetime
- A way out (sensible topics though, violence/jail)
A way out is brilliant! Definitely for a mature audience
Beyond all the other great suggestions, you can use the games browser on co-optimus to help narrow things down.
My family loves:
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Spelunky (sidescroller Indiana-Jones-themed platformer action-roguelite)
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Pikmin 3 (3D silly minion-bossing treasure hunting)
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River City Girls (sidescrolling beat-em-up with amazing soundtrack)
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Moving Out (3D “goofy physics” furniture-moving obstacle course)
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Kirby and the Lost World (3D action adventure)
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Stardew Valley (isometric farm sim)
All of these are fully coöp from the beginning.
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I’ve been playing Broforce with my buddy recently. Lots of shooting and blowing shit up platformer but pretty funny if you’re into the classic action movies like Rambo, Commando, etc.
Gears of War if you want to branch into 3rd person cover shooter. (Gears 5 is the only one on steam I think.)
The Lego games usually have couch co-op I think and I’ve enjoyed those a lot with younger people.
My list of coop games
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Broforce
- Castle Crashers
- Children of Morta
- Divinity Original Sin 2
- For the King
- “FORCED: Slightly Better Edition”
- Helldivers 1
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
- Rocket League
^ All of these are on Steam.
All of the Baldur’s Gates are good for couch co-op; the original series are all 3D isometric.
Bard’s Tale was pretty good for this, too, although the second player seems at times like an afterthought.
+1 for a tentative Overcooked suggestion but only if you think you and your cousin won’t strangle each other in a high stress scenario. I can’t play the game with my wife because she’s too goofy and I’m too serious.
Bread and Fred looks like a lot of fun but I haven’t actually played it yet.
Diablo 3 was fun playing couch co-op and reminded me more than a little bit of playing Gauntlet in the good old days.
Bread and Fred looks great but my wife and I turned it off after half hour. The mechanics are proper hardcore physics sim with very little room for error or hand holding. It honestly just wasn’t fun for us. I think there’s a demo available so maybe try that before you spend money on it.
Honestly overcooked was stressful but manageable. The only time I wanted to strangle a friend (through my monitor) was in one of the “we were here” games because it was impossible to solve anything with him.
Edit: Oh I saw bread and fred on a stream a while ago (Jerma), forgot about that one. I think chained together was very much inspired by it.
On xbox there’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game that’s fun for co-op
Have you tried Broforce? It seems like a run and gun, but the key is thinking how to get out of situations.
Broforce is a very good one, fun and nervous, but it may be a bit gore sometimes, so it may not fit all players
What the Golf? is lot of wacky fun. It’s not really golf and has like 500 different levels, some wildly creative.
This is single player though?
No supports split screen coop, at least on PC.
Not to be confused with What the Car? That’s single player only.
Rayman Legends. My literal childhood on the Xbox One.
Oh yeah that’s a classic
Untitled Goose Game — Surprised it wasn’t mentioned.
because the actual gameplay is kinda nonexistent
What’s more chaotic than a goose? Two goose!
Geeses
Goosi?
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