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.
- 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
Smash Brothers
It takes Two
Portal 2
Mario kart
TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
I’ll second Portal 2, and other’s mentions of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
It Takes Two is fun, but if you’re paying attention to the story I found it to be a bit preachy about what the writer thinks a good relationship should be.
Smash Bros and Mario Kart are both competitive not co-op.
I play smash with my 7 year old on the same team. We cooperate as teammates to defeat the other team. I’d call that co-op. The same can be done with Mario Kart, but whatever.
Do all couch game names have a slight sexual innuendo?
You want to come over tonight and couch co-op?
Mariokart is competitive, not coöp
Not when we’re on the same team
Alright, conceded.
If you wanna go retro at all you should check out UFO50. 50 very old school style games, many of which have 2 player modes.
Oh this is so cool, I think I’ll buy it regardless of if we co-op anything within.
Second, UFO 50 is amazing!
A friend and I had a little fun with Ultimate Chicken Horse. It’s a goofy little Mario Maker type of game where you create levels and challenge each other to complete them but I think you can also run through them cooperatively.
Ultimate Chicken Horse ftw!
I think Stardew Valley has a Co-op mode? I’m not entirely sure
I have already a few saves (solo and online with others) but I agree, its a great game.
It takes Two (co-op puzzle)
Unravel 2 is a bit similar co-op puzzle game.
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
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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If you have a Nintendo Switch then Snipperclips is a really fun and cute co-op.
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.
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
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.
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
Rayman Legends. My literal childhood on the Xbox One.
Oh yeah that’s a classic
Streets of rage games are good fun
Rayman Legends is without a doubt my favourite coop platformer with fantastic music and great fluid controls. I strongly recommend it, it’s tons of fun
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.
I absolutely love Children of Morta. I’ve got 3 saves at this point.
