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.

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
    21·
    2 years ago

    Phogs - simple puzzle platformer where you play an end of a 2 headed snake dog.

    Lovers in a dangerous space time - share control of your spaceship to rescue cute animals. Take turns driving, manning the weapons or shields. Top down camera

    Overcooked 1 and 2 - flammable chaotic cooking adventures. Top down camera.

    Trine 1-4 are all pretty decent for some side scrolling puzzle action platforming.

    Diablo 3 (on console as pc doesn’t have local for some stupid reason) is a great action RPG.

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    2 years ago

    Plateup! - Overcooked but a bit different in a way my wife and I find more enjoyable.

    Crawl - Dungeon crawler type game with a twist

    Death Road to Canada

    Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

    Battleblock Theater

    Divinity Original Sin 1/2

    Speed runners

    For the King 1/2

    Ship of Fools

    Moving Out

    Octodad

    Pico park 1/2

    Portal 2

    Project Zomboid

    Pummel Party - More of a party game tho

    Sackboy A Big Adventure

    Streets of Rogue

    Struggling

    Tools Up!

    Trash Patrol

    Ultimate chicken horse

    Unrailed

    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
    12·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Strider@thelemmy.club
    12·
    2 years ago

    +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.

    • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • ptc075@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    2 years ago

    WRT Secret of Mana - maybe play the first little bit yourself until you unlock a second character, then save and you two can start from there. Trust me.

    Also, I know it’s a side scroller, but Castle Crashers is great fun if you haven’t tried it yet.

    Pretty much any of the SNES era arcade ports: TMNT, Knights of the Round, Sunset Riders… Though maybe not all of them in one sitting.

    That’s all I’ve got off the top of my head. Happy gaming!

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      We played Ship of Fools the last time, was pretty fun

      Didn’t know Cult of the Lamb had couch co-op

      Edit: Seems like it was added recently with a DLC. That game hits our taste so we probably will play it.

    • CanaanP@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      I’ll second Ship of Fools, me and my wife have been playing it the past couple weeks. It’s a ton of fun and deserves more recognition.