You'll have to find allies, take down figureheads and power-hungry rulers, and above all-else, survive. Be a guerilla, fly planes, soar across the treetops in a wingsuit And what fun you'll have. You can either play through the entire game together in co-op, or jump into the awesome Special Ops missions that are fun and brilliantly tricky. Deep Rock Galactic is a team-based shooter where you and up to three stout friends rocket into a procedurally-generated planet in search of minerals.
Tens of millions of people play Warframe so it must be doing something right. Like the Destinys and Monster Hunters of the world this is all about chasing better shotguns and space boots. The We Were Here trilogy is all about clear communication. Two adventurers are split up and put through a series of escape rooms.
While one person tries to solve the puzzle, the other feeds them clues from their own room. Here, one player takes the role of explorer while another is a librarian. Sometimes you just feel like robbing a bank. Payday 2 might only do one thing but it does it well as you and four friends case joints, play with alarms, and try to rob a bank as much as possible before the police get involved. This is a challenge that starts off simple and slowly ramps up to seriously involving multistage battles and boss fights.
Borderlands has always been better with friends. The main attraction of the series has always been finding ever-wackier guns to shoot at ever-wackier enemies, and Borderlands 3 is the wackiest in the series so far.
Many weapons have absurd alternate fire modes, and the world is bigger and far more varied. In previous Borderlands, loot was shared between players, which meant you had to fight over the best guns. Perhaps not one for a quick casual game with a friend, given this is a huge RPG environment filled with more potential, stories and events than most of us will ever see in one go. But, if you fancy a really deep co-op experience then this will keep you busy for years.
As well as an entire nuanced world to explore you can play co-operatively or competitively, with players potentially trying to complete missions in different ways, or to different ends.
Cuphead might just be the best-looking game of the last decade, or at least the most stylish. Having another player on screen can actually make it more cluttered, and therefore more difficult. But the struggles are worth it when you finally down that boss on your 34th try, and whoop for joy over your headset. This might not be quite as welcoming to newcomers as regular players are so insistent to insist, but stick with it and Monster Hunter World is huge amounts of fun as you take down big monsters as a team.
Who doesn't want to be a tiny kiwi bird who just got hired to work a post office? No-one, that's who. KeyWe sees you working as kiwi birds Jeff and Debra to get all sorts of mail delivered. Make sure packages have the right stamps and address labels, decode messages, send letters of your own. It's a big job and it's going to take two of you to do it. You can play multiplayer locally or online. Now you can make sushi, and there's teleportation involved. Just like your standard kitchen, really. Release Date: Players: Link: Steam.
But Warframe shines as a co-op action game , creating the perfect digital space to hang out with your buddies while tearing through hordes of baddies. You can lose yourself in upgrade planning and crafting component wikis until the sun comes up. You can all play at your own pace, and then cross paths in a Grineer spaceship from time to time. Release date: Developer: Link: Humble. Cuphead doesn't become a breeze just because a friend can have your back in co-op.
Crowding the luscious animations with another body and even more bullets complicates this side-scrolling arcade shooter, you see, making the two-player option a challenge for only the absolute ironclad best of friends. But in the same way your brain and hands meld into a higher power after enough failure, and gradual pattern recognition hardens into pure instinct, bridging that rapt attention between two brains is a mild telepathy. Friend telepathy for the purposes of finishing a cartoon game.
Release date : Players : Link : Steam. Klei fought shy of adding co-op to its brilliant game of goth survival whimsy for a couple of years, reasoning not unreasonably that the addition of other people might break its esoteric spell, which relies on feelings of isolation and discovery. The mutual blame when a Deerclops stomps through your camp, ruining days worth of winter prep, is a strategy game in itself.
Chilling out on Discord or a Skype call with a friend whilst pooling your resources to try to keep each other alive against the increasingly brutal effects of the seasons.
Release date : Players : Up to 32 Link : Steam. Download an assortment of weird maps, hop in Discord with five or six of your buddies, and lose yourself in hours of retro-weirdness, laughter, and awkward platforming. Release date: Players: Link: Microsoft Store. Forza Horizon 4 takes the good times of co-op racing in Horizon 3 and rolls with them, switching locations to the UK and making seasonal weather and track changes a big part of the experience.
As we wrote in our review , "the racing remains peerless. It's a perfect blend of forgiving arcade handling with an obsessive attention to detail that ensures each car feels just different enough.
It's not aiming to be a perfect simulation, but the weight, speed and torque of each vehicle give it a personality beyond class and category. Amplitude made its name with 4X strategy games Endless Space and Endless Legend, but their most creative and original game is the beautiful and a bit bizarre Dungeon of the Endless.
Every concept is familiar on its own, but twisted just slightly. Time only progresses when you open doors in the dungeon. Finishing a level requires picking up the crystal and making a mad dash for the exit as enemies swarm in from all sides. Roguelikes, tower defense, and co-op RPGs seem like impossible bedfellows, and yet here we are. Killing Floor 2 is the shooter you play when you just want to shoot the baddies, lots of baddies, and you want it to look and feel absolutely sick. It works because the weapon animations and gun feel are second to none, and Tripwire has spent years refining each class's abilities and weapons, so ascending through the ranks to unlock new perks on the skill tree is as satisfying as learning the maps and deciding which weapons to spend your cash on each round.
Tripwire also does great seasonal events, and there are tons of weird, cool custom maps out there, too, like 3D recreations of Pokemon towns. Our favorite thing about Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is all the paperwork. Wait, wait!
Come back! KTNB is a game about that scene in every action movie where the hero has to defuse a bomb, and the nerd on the phone asks him: What do you see?
The defusing player can take a laptop to one side of the couch, and the advisers open up their bomb hardware manuals on the other. Communication is critical and any number of players can advise the bomb technician, making this a fantastic party game.
Four players team up to conquer a series of story-like missions that involve each team member performing a different role building up to a bigger heist.
When all four players come together in the finale of each heist, making a dramatic escape from the cops as a collective is incredibly exciting and rewarding—more so than anything found in the main story. If only Rockstar would make more of them. Warframe is basically a third-person take on Destiny , albeit with space ninja who can perform all manner of aerial acrobatics. Start off by slicing everything up with a katana and eventually uncover the depth Warframe has to offer.
Oh, and this one is free too. Rock and stone, brother. Rock and stone. Deep Rock Galactic is a game where you and your dwarf pals dive deep into the caves beneath alien planets to excavate rare materials.
Accompanied by a robotic bin, you chip away at ore veins and drill your way through tunnels, fighting off insectoid aliens as you go. Place down turrets, set up escape routes, and hold back the alien threat while hoarding as much wealth as you can for your corporate overlords.
On the surface, Divinity: Original Sin 2 is decidedly old-school. It looks basic in terms of graphical presentation, and it sports that isometric camera angle from ye olde times.
Well, that sounds relaxing. Serving food under pressure is awful in real life, but imagine serving it up in rooms where the plates move around, your friends keep dropping the ingredients, and you have to cross a busy road to serve it up. Dre and a bunch of new co-op missions.
The act of playing through a shared experience with a friend is one of the best aspects of gaming. Some of the best friendships I have ever had have been forged in the virtual worlds of a video game. After all, what brings people closer together than shared adversity? The games listed here all bring something fun and interesting to the cooperative landscape. With local co-op, you only need one game, console, and screen to play together with online in most cases you need two people to have their own game, console, and screen.
For some, this could be seen as a negative, Outward will require you to figure a lot out, including where you are heading because while the game provides a map, there are no waypoints or indicators to show where you are in the world. You will have to read the map, get a lay of the land, and rely on persistence. The exploratory nature of the game is why this is a great co-op experience, you and your partner will learn to thrive in the world of Outward together.
This is the kind of cooperative game you can play for months, exploring for new loot, refining your combat style, and questing through the world.
Note: This is a co-op game only, there is no single player mode. Hazelight Studios and founder Josef Fares were put on the map with their cooperative game A Way Out listed below!
Now they are back in with their latest co-op game, It Takes Two. Hazelight Studios are a unique game developer studio because they focus exclusively on cooperative games; co-op is their bread and butter and they have masted the art. It Takes Two is already seen by some as one of the greatest co-op games of all time. As the players learn to complete tasks together the two divorcing parents also learn how to be a better team as well. The story is touching but not too on the nose, the gameplay is fantastic and the variety is off the charts.
Another amazing touch that is now becoming a signature of Hazelight games, is that this game included a friend pass , a feature that allows you to share a free downloadable copy of this game so you can play it together.
A prime example of why I love AA games , A Way Out has you play as either Vincent or Leo, two prison inmates who hope to break out to gain their freedom and get revenge. The story is told in a very cinematic fashion, at times it will be like you are playing a movie. I love this game because it was made with co-op in mind from its inception. A Way Out features split-screen at all times; even if you are playing it with a friend online.
Another thing I admire about this game is that it has a relatively short, contained story. We are talking hours. Couch co-op is also featured in this game if you prefer to play it that way. There really is no difference between playing it with a pal online or offline as either way you will be looking at a split-screen.
An amazing and as far as I know , wholly unique feature with A Way Out , is the ability to gift a friend a free online token so they can play with you. So unlike every other game out there, you only need one copy of A Way Out to play with your friends, developers out there, please have more games do this!
If you have played a Gears game before, you know what to expect here. Relentless action set pieces, tight cover-based shooting mechanics, and fun.
Gears 5 offers everything past Gears games have had but also adds one of the most interesting stories in franchise history. You can play this game co-op with up to three players. Couch Co-op is an option as well as online play. The third player takes the role of Jack, a robotic sidekick to the two main characters of the game. Gears 5 also features the classic, franchise-defining horde multiplayer mode.
Where you and a group of other players work together to survive waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Looting and shooting have never felt as good as they do in Borderlands 3. This game is a first-person shooter all about mowing down thousands of bandits, robots, and all-around bad people in the name of fun and collecting weapons. There are literally millions of guns to be found all with their own variations and attributes.
The story is a wacky one. Full of overt humor and lots of ridiculous gags. If you like a goofy story and come into it just looking to have fun, it should be a good time. If you want a game with a more serious approach to the adventure then the story may not be one for you. The game supports up to four players in co-op through online play and you can play couch co-op via split-screen with two players.
Clocking in at about hours total with future content packs coming down the pipeline, Borderlands 3 is an action-packed cooperative blast you can experience for a good while. Type of Co-op: Local with Online coming in the future. Here is an interesting one that took me by surprise. Children of Morta, is a Diablo-like dungeon-crawling rogue-lite action-adventure game. The core gameplay loop is exploring small dungeons, killing enemies, looting, and leveling up.
What makes this game great is that the gameplay is addicting and fun and the story is presented in an interesting way as well. You play as various members of the Bergson family, each with their own play style and unique abilities. As you play through the game you unlock more members and upgrade them. If you have a friend in mind that you know would enjoy an epic, in-depth adventure with you, then look no further, Divinity Original Sin is your answer.
Divinity I only features two-player co-op while Divinity II allows up to four players to play together. These games offer a decent challenge and will require you to put your thinking hat on every now and then. A perfect cooperative series for gamers who are looking for a rich, engrossing challenge and adventure.
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