Page 1 of 3: Page 1 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3. You can even make use out of the Buddy Pass where the player that owns the game can invite another friend to join the game for free.

Several years after release, though, finding two fresh players would be a rare trick indeed. Outward is harsh and occasionally frustrating, but it does what so few games do. Streets of Rogue is a chaotic playground at the best of times. Sometimes the whole level shifts, like a piece of frustrating clockwork. The kitchens of Overcooked are constantly changing. Co-op , Action , Multiplayer , Adventure. Friend telepathy for the purposes of finishing a cartoon game. Finishing a level requires picking up the crystal and making a mad dash for the exit as enemies swarm in from all sides.

If you click our links to online stores and make a purchase we may receive a few pennies. What's Popular. This installment is completely free for players to enjoy and it features an option for a three-player squad option. Its simple gameplay is easy for anyone to get a basic understanding as players can craft up unique worlds or explore endlessly generated world creations. Just like in previous instalments, your job is to clear your chosen level of terrorists as quickly as you can. There is a lot of shooting and adventuring on this list, but very few opportunities to hang out in a turnip field. They hoist you up behind them, hold your hand as you dangle from those ropes, and you talk to come up with plans to clumsily enact. That it worked then, and continues to work now, speaks to the simplicity of the fantasy: human must band together to slay a human-eating thing. The benches on a ship will slide down the deck with each large wave, altering the layout entirely. The red one.

We, of course, want to know what your favorite cooperative PC game is. Receive mail from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors? Cuphead doesn't become a breeze just because a friend can have your back in co-op. With the unpredictability of spreading fire and wild animals added in, the co-op can easily become the actual game, making the prescriptive single-player missions seem dull by comparison. By shouting at your fellow chefs, of course. Much like other popular battle royale games out in the market, players are dropped with their teams into a large map with the focus set around gathering loot and precious items all while attempting to be the last team standing. There is a lot of shooting and adventuring on this list, but very few opportunities to hang out in a turnip field. If you've never sat on a couch and played a Lego game with your child, friend, sibling, or significant other, you're really missing out on the great things in life.

The best co-op games are fantastic ways to bring together friends and family for a little gaming adventure. Cuphead doesn't become a breeze just because a friend can have your back in co-op. Divinity: Original Sin let you create a character and then suggested it might be fun if you took a friend along. The idea is to use the bomb disposal docs to defuse the device by A trickle of new abilities keeps it from growing stale, and a few standout moments punctuate what is otherwise a consistent, polished campaign. You can play through all of Monster Hunter solo, or with random strangers from the internet, but co-op is where this game truly shines. Free to Play , Multiplayer , Fighting , 2D. X defeated, a new foe enters to take over the city which is the children of Mr.

Jump to comments And if you were one of those selfish, selfish bastards, you can still opt to play with the old rules. Manage cookie settings. At any one time one friend could be ordering a giant battle ant into the fray while another hops into a Titanfall-ish mech suit, a third activates a drone and a holographic double and the fourth performs psychic powerbombs in the middle of it all. If you're hankering for fantasy, though, Total War: Warhammer 2 is still the way to go. See All Specials. Panicking with friends can be sublime. There are two ways to play online co-op: in the classic mode, three players each pick a class — wizard, thief, warrior — and combine abilities to solve challenges and beat down enemies. Every puzzle solution is punctuated by a dance. Along the way, players will be hunting down Nazis and freeing the French Resistance in order to take out the occupation settled on their land.

Top Rated. Free to Play , Multiplayer , Fighting , 2D. Stardew Valley There is a lot of shooting and adventuring on this list, but very few opportunities to hang out in a turnip field. Switching characters or even classes makes levels easily replayable a dozen times over. Local Co-Op Cuphead doesn't become a breeze just because a friend can have your back in co-op. It's a casual game to go spelunking in together. See comments. If you click our links to online stores and make a purchase we may receive a few pennies.

Nothing beats a good blaster at your side, kid—except a friend who also has a good blaster, so you have two blasters and can blast twice as many things at once. Streets of Rage has been a pretty iconic video game franchise on the Sega Genesis back in the s. Horror , Co-op , Atmospheric , Multiplayer. Where before missions felt pointless, you now always have weapon unlocks on the horizon that change up the playstyles of its four dwarf classes. This only ramps up when your squad inevitably gets picked apart on the harder difficulties, right up until three of you are sat watching the lone survivor, the whole success of the mission pinned on them scraping through. Casual , Action , Indie , Funny. Ten years on, Valve are still the kings of co-op horror. Cuphead doesn't become a breeze just because a friend can have your back in co-op.

Jump to comments Now who wants to see if we can wingsuit off this gyrocopter and land in that river? That it worked then, and continues to work now, speaks to the simplicity of the fantasy: human must band together to slay a human-eating thing. Outward is harsh and occasionally frustrating, but it does what so few games do. Switching characters or even classes makes levels easily replayable a dozen times over. With real people in the mix, you get an actual community. Difficult , Cartoon , Platformer , Great Soundtrack. Trace a route from the peak of Mt Chiliad, driving down through the dusty plains of the Grand Senora Desert, snaking by the hilltop mansions of Vinewood Hills, cruising on through the twinkling city itself and finally coming to stop at Vespucci Beach — all this, including the skies above and the sea beyond, is your online playground.

Essentially, the game drops the crafting ability and instead puts players into a hack-and-slash video game. It becomes twice as complicated and twice as satisfying. The game still occasionally buckles under the weight of annoying bugs, but it's worth powering through for the joy of discovering planets and bizarre creatures with friends. Much like other popular battle royale games out in the market, players are dropped with their teams into a large map with the focus set around gathering loot and precious items all while attempting to be the last team standing. Install Steam. The We Were Here trilogy is all about clear communication. See comments. There is certainly a bit of thinking with some trial and error involved to complete the level. 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.

It's a good time. Action , Multiplayer , Open World , Co-op. Part of its appeal, aside from its openness, is the social aspect. Local Co-Op Indie 1, However, it's a uniquely brilliant take on co-op play, and demands your attention. And if you were one of those selfish, selfish bastards, you can still opt to play with the old rules. There is a lot of shooting and adventuring on this list, but very few opportunities to hang out in a turnip field. I simply do not know where to put all of these cats 2. One person wears the VR headset, while a number of other people sit - in the real world - and look at a booklet of bomb-defusal documents.

Streets of Rogue is a chaotic playground at the best of times. If you thought to make your ad hoc constructions two-way when you threw them up on the way in, then no problem. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Now that it's also free-to-play, it's even easier to tempt your friends into playing with you. Release date: Players: Link: Steam. Panicking with friends can be sublime. Plus, it's now on Switch, so one of you will have the console in your hands, the other the instruction manual. With each heist taking a couple of hours from setup to execution, it can be as difficult to organise as an actual heist. One person wears the VR headset, while a number of other people sit - in the real world - and look at a booklet of bomb-defusal documents.

This installment is completely free for players to enjoy and it features an option for a three-player squad option. This is our latest collection of the best co-op games to play together. Release date: Players: Link: Steam. Brilliantly, not much else has changed about the game. Release date : Players : Up to 32 Link : Steam. With drug-fuelled cultists ready to kill you with a baseball bat, others setting anyone who doesn't believe on fire and eating them, or even just willing die for Eden's Gate leader Joseph Seed, turns out this place is a dangerous one. Every mission is built around a core of three characters. This turns out to be fine — it just becomes another obstacle to work out how to overcome, and another moment of physics fun. Overcooked is chaos incarnate. As you explore the violent-rocked landscape of Montana in Far Cry 5 , it might be safest to rope in a friend.

Spelunky 2 daily: I strapped an explosive to my back then went to lava world. As we wrote in our review , "the racing remains peerless. Nothing beats a good blaster at your side, kid—except a friend who also has a good blaster, so you have two blasters and can blast twice as many things at once. Online Co-Op Divinity: Original Sin 2 wants you to consider the possibility of playing with multiple friends. When the necrotic tongue of a Smoker comes grasping for your mate, you get to save the day with a well placed shot. What a shock! Minecraft is whatever you want it to be and you can play it all with friends. Browse Browse. It's a casual game to go spelunking in together.

As we wrote in our review , "the racing remains peerless. The We Were Here trilogy is all about clear communication. Adventure , Survival , Action , Crafting. For two, you can now throw ingredients back and forth between chefs. What makes Killing Floor 2 so great is the feedback: weapons punish trigger-happy players with recoil, body parts fly from enemies with each impact, and claret glistens on the ground, a bloody reminder of each skirmish. Human Fall Flat began life as a pleasant if unremarkable puzzle-platformer starring a featureless, physicsy dough boy called Bob. A stacked burger requires chopped tomatoes, a beef patty, lettuce and a bun. Every concept is familiar on its own, but twisted just slightly. You can play through all of Monster Hunter solo, or with random strangers from the internet, but co-op is where this game truly shines.

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's not as robust as the new Three Kingdoms, but sometimes you just want to make giant armies of lizardmen and ratmen fight each other to the death. In a sense, they already are. However, the series only has three main installments until recently where we finally got a fourth mainline title. Every level is an appropriately intense ordeal, where cries of frustration can quickly turn into tears of laughter. 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. The underlying action is excellent and there's tons to do, but it's the unpredictability of the human element, coupled with Ubisoft's wide-open willingness to let players be as stupid and crazy as they want, that really makes it shine. There's no denying the raw quality of Portal 2's distinct co-op campaign, though. In essence, many rooms require two solutions. Release date: Players: Link: Humble.

Casual , Action , Indie , Funny. Funny , Multiplayer , Co-op , Puzzle. Cuphead doesn't become a breeze just because a friend can have your back in co-op. That it worked then, and continues to work now, speaks to the simplicity of the fantasy: human must band together to slay a human-eating thing. Tougher monsters force you to collaborate and stay constantly on your feet, and fights go much better when you and your hunting party specialize with different weapons. You'll get yelled at for accidentally putting explosive debris in the incinerator and laugh yourself inside out when a friend gets crushed by a malfunctioning elevator, even if that means another round of cleaning up giblets. Release date: Players: Link: Official site. Certain weapons fare better during different attack phases and the occasional mad man gets to ride a snarling beast like a rodeo bull. Now you can make sushi, and there's teleportation involved.

Our favorite thing about Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is all the paperwork. With each heist taking a couple of hours from setup to execution, it can be as difficult to organise as an actual heist. 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. While you become the master of planting, I'll be over here catching enough fish to keep us in money during the winter. Much like other popular battle royale games out in the market, players are dropped with their teams into a large map with the focus set around gathering loot and precious items all while attempting to be the last team standing. The joy of it, what keeps you coming back, is the potential for insane builds. But with human limbs instead of food. In essence, many rooms require two solutions. There's no denying the raw quality of Portal 2's distinct co-op campaign, though. Simulation , Adventure , Indie , Multiplayer.

Simulation , Adventure , Indie , Multiplayer. Release date: Players: Varies Link: Steam. There are so many great co-op games that we thought it might help to have a list of the 25 very best co-op games, just to make sure you don't waste any gaming time arguing about what to play. And it's also the joy of playing the best co-op games, whether that means jumping in with a single friend or putting together a squad of four. Two adventurers are split up and put through a series of escape rooms. You can't fast-travel across the world. No Man's Sky has been a fun redemption story to watch unfold. Outward is harsh and occasionally frustrating, but it does what so few games do. As you explore the violent-rocked landscape of Montana in Far Cry 5 , it might be safest to rope in a friend. Time only progresses when you open doors in the dungeon.

You're in a cult. Oddly, that's what makes Wildlands so good: The absolute chaos that can erupt when someone misses a shot and blows up a car, or maybe just wanders aimlessly into a parking lot, oblivious to the half-dozen Santa Blanca goons loitering on the corner. But with human limbs instead of food. Sometimes the whole level shifts, like a piece of frustrating clockwork. You're a truly fragile nobody. Browse Browse. What makes Killing Floor 2 so great is the feedback: weapons punish trigger-happy players with recoil, body parts fly from enemies with each impact, and claret glistens on the ground, a bloody reminder of each skirmish. You can't fast-travel across the world.

Topics best list. It's not as robust as the new Three Kingdoms, but sometimes you just want to make giant armies of lizardmen and ratmen fight each other to the death. Rare's swashbuckling sandbox makes for a decent co-op game but it really shines as a co-op hangout. Arma 3 Arma 3 takes place on a pair beautiful fictional Greek islands. You flip hurriedly through pages, trying to decipher the theory of these explosive devices. The three-dimensional spatial thinking that makes the Portal series so addictive is only magnified when there's another friend getting stumped at the puzzles with you. They hoist you up behind them, hold your hand as you dangle from those ropes, and you talk to come up with plans to clumsily enact. Oh, and if you need a spare pad, check out our guide on how to buy an extra PS4 controller cheap or Xbox One controller cheap. Page 1 of 3: Page 1 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3.

There was a problem. A stacked burger requires chopped tomatoes, a beef patty, lettuce and a bun. Chaos and player agency reign supreme in such a reactive world, meaning one friend could piss of a guard or reveal their undead identity at an inopportune time—but that's exactly what makes OS2 so great with friends. You can even make use out of the Buddy Pass where the player that owns the game can invite another friend to join the game for free. We Were Here is a puzzle adventure series designed entirely around co-op. The soul of Viscera Cleanup Detail is found in its physics system, which has a mind of its own. The underlying action is excellent and there's tons to do, but it's the unpredictability of the human element, coupled with Ubisoft's wide-open willingness to let players be as stupid and crazy as they want, that really makes it shine. It's a good time. While the singleplayer can be frustrating at times, having a friend makes everything funnier.

That boat you used to clamber on? Co-op , Multiplayer , Action , Open World. Because of that, planning, stealth, and smooth execution are vital to success. X defeated, a new foe enters to take over the city which is the children of Mr. Of course, the main takeaway is always: I want my own battle ant. You can jump in with a friend, with a bit of planning, taking turns to help each other through each section. Now streaming live:. The shooting feels great and its voxel-based destruction never gets old.

Browse Browse. Of course, the main takeaway is always: I want my own battle ant. But the real challenge is ensuring that the distracted, trigger-happy idiots in your squad are on the same page. This only ramps up when your squad inevitably gets picked apart on the harder difficulties, right up until three of you are sat watching the lone survivor, the whole success of the mission pinned on them scraping through. Topics best list. As we wrote in our review , "the racing remains peerless. All the games in the Master Chief Collection are being released one-by-one throughout Job done. You get to play as just about any Marvel character you can think of, from Rocket Raccoon to Squirrel Girl.

Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. Arma 3 takes place on a pair beautiful fictional Greek islands. Streets of Rage has been a pretty iconic video game franchise on the Sega Genesis back in the s. There are so many great co-op games that we thought it might help to have a list of the 25 very best co-op games, just to make sure you don't waste any gaming time arguing about what to play. As we wrote about one of the sequels, you and your partner are the real puzzle—figuring out how to communicate is the challenge and satisfaction of this trilogy. Streets of Rage 4 takes place about a decade after the events of Streets of Rage 3. To experience this content, you will need to enable targeting cookies. Tens of millions of people play Warframe so it must be doing something right. Sports , Realistic , eSports , Co-op.

You flip hurriedly through pages, trying to decipher the theory of these explosive devices. A strange, slapstick co-op game with a brilliant conceit: you and your friends play disposable space janitors sent to clean up the mess after a squad of square-jawed videogame space marines have done their bloody business. You can all play at your own pace, and then cross paths in a Grineer spaceship from time to time. Ten years on, Valve are still the kings of co-op horror. Minecraft is whatever you want it to be and you can play it all with friends. Our advice is to dial up the difficulty as high as you can bear it. Also: the incredibly fussy lobby system, with its invites and quest noticeboard, feels a lot like dads trying to work out the intricacies of Facebook. The adrenaline rush of your extraction is a thrill with friends over voice comms all panicking together.

This also includes four-player cooperative gameplay both local and online. Divinity: Original Sin 2 wants you to consider the possibility of playing with multiple friends. You can lose yourself in upgrade planning and crafting component wikis until the sun comes up. The citizens see you as another person like them, not a faction they can magically recognise. Stardew Valley lets you live out an alternate life as a farmer, away from the hustle and bustle of cities and videogames with guns. Ever since the multiplayer update, you can escape with friends. If you thought to make your ad hoc constructions two-way when you threw them up on the way in, then no problem. You're a truly fragile nobody.

With drug-fuelled cultists ready to kill you with a baseball bat, others setting anyone who doesn't believe on fire and eating them, or even just willing die for Eden's Gate leader Joseph Seed, turns out this place is a dangerous one. Dark Souls News Features. The citizens see you as another person like them, not a faction they can magically recognise. Reach is a great starter if you're brand new to the series. Divinity: Original Sin 2 wants you to consider the possibility of playing with multiple friends. Go fishing. You have to navigate by landmarks and play as cautiously you would in a real adventure across the world, and that's a really fun experience with a friend by your side. Singleplayer 1, You can't fast-travel across the world.

A trickle of new abilities keeps it from growing stale, and a few standout moments punctuate what is otherwise a consistent, polished campaign. Try both modes to see which you prefer. New and Trending. Tripwire also does great seasonal events, and there are tons of weird, cool custom maps out there, too, like 3D recreations of Pokemon towns. There is certainly a bit of thinking with some trial and error involved to complete the level. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. It's a casual game to go spelunking in together. The sequel adds new maps and new complexity.

With drug-fuelled cultists ready to kill you with a baseball bat, others setting anyone who doesn't believe on fire and eating them, or even just willing die for Eden's Gate leader Joseph Seed, turns out this place is a dangerous one. To experience this content, you will need to enable targeting cookies. You're in a cult. The mutual blame when a Deerclops stomps through your camp, ruining days worth of winter prep, is a strategy game in itself. Action , Multiplayer , Open World , Co-op. The latest Total War is a lush representation of Chinese history, and blurs the line between traditional total War and the fantasy Warhammer games by letting you play a mode focusing on the larger-than-life heroes of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Destiny 2 has dozens of hours of co-op shooting within, from brainless fun to challenging endgame encounters. This makes methodically creeping through the maps as a unit, covering corners and assaulting defended positions, an incredibly tense affair. Although the geometry might be constantly shifting with each frequent death, the rules that govern the enemy types remain constant. Horror , Co-op , Atmospheric , Multiplayer.

You can even make use out of the Buddy Pass where the player that owns the game can invite another friend to join the game for free. What a shock! It's a good time. Until you do that, it's open-ended how you play with or against one another. Release Date: Players: 2 Link: Steam. One person wears the VR headset, while a number of other people sit - in the real world - and look at a booklet of bomb-defusal documents. For excitement you can chase down other crews for some bracing ship-to-ship combat, hunt for buried treasure, or take down a skeleton fort, but it's just as enjoyable to treat it like a chat room with beautiful waves and the occasional Kraken. To get this done in time will require everyone to carry out their appointed tasks pronto. This also includes four-player cooperative gameplay both local and online. Simulation , Adventure , Indie , Multiplayer.