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)
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
Great list, thanks!
Heck yeah, my wife and I are always on the hunt for more :)
PlateUp is incredible, I love this game
Ha my wife and I are on vacation, and we brought our laptop and controllers just so we could play plateup still at the end of the day :P
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.
Untitled Goose Game — Surprised it wasn’t mentioned.
I thought the concept was really neat when I saw the game and bought it. After 10 minutes I was bored and never played it again.
because the actual gameplay is kinda nonexistent
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.
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.
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
If you have a Nintendo Switch then Snipperclips is a really fun and cute co-op.
My kids and I have loved these:
Coop:
Competitive:
Lovers in a dangerous space time: pilot a space ship with a friend and fight rogue constellations.
Ship of Fools:
Man the decks in a rogue-lite game where you fight sea monsters and find treasure
Some retro suggestions:
- Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 - it sounds like your cousin is probably too old for this but this has one of the best “younger sibling” modes. They help collect and shoot bits. Which ultimately doesn’t matter much
- The Legend of Zelda 4 Swords Adventure - It’s basically multi-player Link to the Past! Bonus points if you dig up a GameCube, link cables, and GBAs
- Kirby Super Star - a mix of competitive and coop games
- Super Mario World (any) - you take turns but if you don’t go 6 levels without dying to his one it can be fun
- Halo 1-3 + ODST - Great classic shooters, the campaigns are customizable for difficulty, and a little kid probably loves alien shooters
- Borderlands 1/2 - Looter shooters with a sense of irreverance
- Dead Rising 2/Off the Record and 3 - Zombie hoard murdering with combo weapons
- The Simpsons '91, Battletoads, TMNT, Streets of Rage, etc - Beat Em Ups are great for multi-player
Dont starve together
Vampire survivor
Castle crashers
And if you are into emulation most of ps2 era and before is designed for couch co op so hit the archives (top x lists on you tube makes it easy), depending on your cousins tastes
I’d like to add for switch: Snipperclips, Yoshi‘s crafted world and Pode
My mandatory Sky: Children of the Light mention.
Lots of exploring and cooperating with irl co-players (E: you’d have to play on different devices, but one could play on a big screen, and the other can join and use their handheld mostly as a controller) and strangers, some puzzles/quests, some mild scary/dangerous parts, lots of lore, incredible graphics and good soundtrack. It’s an open ended game (though some features only become available after your first complete run through) and there is an aspect of grinding if you want to get IGC for cosmetics but you’re doing it flying through this gorgeous landscape, and there is a daily cap so you can be pretty chill about it, and IAP are pretty easy to avoid (for me anyway) and are never necessary for gameplay.
There are some issues with bugs, and the company growing and decisions clearly being made by shareholders rather then developers, but at this point it is still absolutely worth playing.
Cats Quest 2
Pretty cute game and if one person is significantly better at games, they can carry the team pretty well.
