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)
I really enjoyed Console minecraft with my sister and friends growing up. Play the Wii U version (with CEMU) and get a ROM and you’re set.
Alternatively, can’t go wrong with early Lego Games. They’re basic and simple, but some of the most basic fun you can have too with another person.
Project Zomboid is also great for Co-Op. The controller controls are a little iffy depending on who you ask, but i like them.
Look up tiny best set go on archive org. Lots of games in that one
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, …)
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.
Trine
Broforce
Gang Beasts
It Takes Two
Split Fiction
Contra (NES)
If you’re up for a 90’s classic you could try Goof Troop for the SNES.
Some of my favourites…
- TimeSplitters: Future Perfect - PS2
- Sunset Riders - Arcade
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - Arcade
Man I loved sunset riders and area 51 on the arcade.
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)
My 1 seed for the PS2 is Cookies and Cream. It’s a split screen co-op game for 2 players where each side will have obstacles that only the other side can solve. Very fun and very addictive, but it also has a solid control scheme that is easy to pick up.
My wife and I played it a lot when we were first dating and she loved it even though she rarely, if ever, plays video games. Still have the original copy and I’ll never part with it 😊
Regarding the “Trying to prepare in advance” part. Download a complete SNES Rom collection from archive.org and an installer for SNES9x. The collections are around 1GB and include hundreds of games. Lots of them with Co-Op or two player modes.
I never even thought of this. Thank you! Bonus points for saving storage!
Castle Crashers It Takes Two Contra Gears of War Halo Untitled Goose Game
If you are going to emulate then go for the Sega Dreamcast!
Virtua Tennis Power Stone 1&2 Toy Commander Quake Gauntlet Legends San Francisco Rush 2049 ChuChu Rocket Soul Calibur
Goose Game
slapshonks
My all time favorite co-op games are: Helldivers 2, Vermintide 2 and Deep Rock Galactic. They are very much online games tough.
For offline local co-op my picks would be: the entire Trine series, Streets of Rage 4, Earth Defense Force 5 and Renegade Ops.
Deep Rock is peer to peer which is cool because it means you can ban annoying people yourself :) But yeah, no LAN support sadly.
You can play a lot of games splitscreen coop with nucleus including DRG, Windows only unfortunately.
My girlfriend and I play (mostly local) co-op sometimes. Some games that we enjoyed so far were (local unless otherwise indicated):
- Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Portal 2
- Diablo 3
- It Takes Two
- A Way Out
- Minecraft (online)
- Stardew Valley (online, may also work locally now)
I’ve gotten multiple non gamers to enjoy portal 2. The portals draw them in.
Love Portal 2 coop mode and Minecraft!
Diablo 3
My wife, two friends, and I all played Diablo IV online together. We beat the main campaign together and had a lot of fun with it. We’re trying to beat the expansion campaign too, but my wife and one friend dropped out, so it’s just been me and a buddy powering through it.
That’s a game where you can just have fun dicking around in the world, even if there isn’t an objective. And it has plenty of endgame content to keep you entertained after you beat the campaign.
Vampire Survivors couch co-op (2-4 players) is insanely fun. What’s even crazier is that they will soon come with an update for online co-op
