What are the best co-op games you enjoy? Anything from the modern games, to the old games.
For me, I’m aiming for PC games, or a game that can be easily emulated like PS2 games or GameBoy Advance.
Main focus, is that you are supposed to play 2 players or more (and are actually fun to play) with little to no internet. (Trying to prepare in advance)
Lots of great options here already. I don’t see Larian’s Baldurs Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin 2 here.
The screen gets a bit cramped in co-op but it’s perfectly playable and loads of fun playing these masterpiece RPGs on a couch with a significant other or a friend.
Couch co-op:
- Castle Crushers
- Trine games
- Lego games
Online co-op:
- Warframe
- Sniper Elite games (always a good thing to prepare yourself to kill nazis)
- Vermintide / Darktide
- Helldivers 2
- zombie bashing games (Left4dead, Killing Floor, World War Z, …)
- Strange Brigade (action and puzzles)
- Torchlight 2 has a co-op mod if you like Diablo
- a bunch of shooters with campaign co-op (Borderlands, Gears Of War, …)
Trine
Broforce
Gang Beasts
It Takes Two
Split Fiction
Contra (NES)
Some of my favourites…
- TimeSplitters: Future Perfect - PS2
- Sunset Riders - Arcade
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - Arcade
If you’re up for a 90’s classic you could try Goof Troop for the SNES.
games with little to no internet
This is kinda vague and I dont exactly know what you mean by this. Do you mean games that you can play on a single screen? Or games with LAN or private server capability such as Minecraft?
For local co-op games:
- Gauntlet Legends & Dark Legacy
- Halo 1-Reach
- Dragon’s Crown
- Helldivers 1 (broken in RPCS3 unfortunately, but if you have a PS3 can be played offline)
- The Legend of Zelda Four Sword Adventure
- Any Call of Duty Zombies (beginning with World At War)
Couch Coop?
- Smash bros
- Castle crashers
- mario Kart 64 versus mode
- frantics
- rabbits party of legends (only good the first time, so make it count!)
- mario kart double dash
- bud Spencer & Terrence hill slaps and beans
- a Pokémon nutzlocke soullock challange
- playing any game where one has the right and the other one the left joy con (fun if 5 people and 2 are gaming pros and they are forced to share one controller)
- screen cheat
- lovers in a dangerous space time
- bayblade V-Force
- digimon rumble arena 2
- digimon world 4
Coop
mario Kart 64 versus mode
lol
Anyway, here’s a second for Soullock challenge. Can be very hilarious. Have to add Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga and Lego Harry Potter, awesome couch co-op.
Kuri Kuri Mix. PS2. FromSoft’s forgotten game.
Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance was good too. Felt like Gauntlet.
If you’re taking about couch co-op games these are pretty great:
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (6p)
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Boomerang-fu (6p)
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Overcooked (4p)
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I posted a review here earlier this year, but A Way Out was an excellent 2-player co-op game! I really enjoyed it. Story rich puzzles with some action interspersed. And it’s split-screen even if you’re playing online, so you can see what your partner is up to and coordinate with them. The ending was heart-wrenching too! Such an emotionally impacting story. Check out my review for a spoiler-free intro to that game.
Quake and Quake 2 have a bunch of co-op modes and they have been updated for crossplay on modern systems. I was just running some of the newer map packs with my buddies last night. Quake is $4 on Humble right now.
New classic Doom versions have very good split screen options
Personally i like Duck Game for parties of 4+
do we include arcade games? because the xmen and golden axe2 were big ones to play with a friend using only one quarter. The old baldurs gate for consoles from the aughts was a great two player co-op.
I second Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 1 and 2, and would also like to mention Champions of Norrath and Champions: Return to Arms for really similar PS2 games.
magicka 1 and 2 has couch and/or online coop, it’s challenging, chaotic fun, with some pretty funny jokes
if you get into emulation, cooptimus hides older platforms under “classic”, but it has another dropdown to filter them more preciselyMy two are cult of the lamb (local/steam stream) and kingdom two crowns (local/steam stream/online)
