Hello all! My buddy and I finally finished up Baldur’s Gate 3 this week and we are not left with a giant co-op game shaped whole in our hearts. It was such an incredible experience and it was truly even more fun running through it together. We are excited to hop into another game, but we have no idea what to play. We’ve played a lot, and some games we’ve finished or tried recently included:

  • Borderlands 1, 2, and 3
  • Minecraft, Terraria, Vintage Story
  • Raft, 7 Days to Die
  • A Way Out, It Takes Two

I’m posting here today to ask if any of you have some suggestions for co-op games we could check out! I’ve Googled for suggestions to no end and 90% of what’s there is games we’ve already played. If anyone has any recommendations for us they would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

~ Hyrulian

Thanks for all the great suggestions everyone!! I’m going to compile a list and check them all out one by one!

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
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    Abiotic Factor has been really fun for my buddy and me. Especially with the new update that came out last week. It’s a Half Life themed survival game.

    Others that get my vote:

    Valheim - Norse mythology themed survival game with Playstationesque graphics

    Phasmophobia - THE ghost hunting game(see also Ghost Exile, Ghost Exorcism Inc., Forewarned)

    Left 4 Dead - the original Zombie FPS series (see also Back 4 Blood, it’s kinda alright) PILLS HERE!

    Risk of Rain - Pretty tough shooter series

    Stardew Valley - A modern Harvest Moon, farming/life sim

    Don’t Starve Together - If you played Stardew valley in hell, but everyone’s name started with a W

    Factorio/Satisfactory - Resource harvesting and logistics sims. One’s isometric, ones first person, one has zerg rushes

    Grounded - Honey I Shrunk The Kids: the survival game

    Deep Rock Galactic - Left 4 Dead for Dwarves. ROCK AND STONE!!!

    Overcooked - cooking and serving game, lots of communication required

    Portal 2 - First person puzzle game, also lots of communication required

    Barotrauma - Submarine sim on Europa, requires marriage levels of communication

    Binding of Isaac - Roguelike shooter that’s sort of Zelda inspired, multiplayer was a little janky last time I tried it, but that was a while ago

    The Forest - Excellent horror survival series

    Starbound - Terraria in space

    Trine series - A modern Lost Vikings, side scrolling puzzles and platforming

    Subnautica 2 - A beautiful and terrifying diving/exploration game, original game has a coop mod 8 years in development, but it’s been very buggy

    Diablo - First and second games are still very solid experiences and there are some excellent mods out for both

    Escape Simulator - Literally an escape room simulator. Has workshop support on steam for even more puzzles.

    Green Hell - The Forest, but in the jungle, much more focus on the reality of being stranded in a place where just about everything is likely to kill you.

    No Man’s Sky - Space/planetary exploration sim

    Dead Island - another zombie FPS

    Dying Light - a zombie game with parkour

    20XX/30XX - Megaman X styled platformers with roguelite elements

    GTFO - Extremely hard, stealth based, alien FPS

    Most “Souls” games - Very fun coop summoning, if you don’t mind the sometimes extreme difficulty

    Goat Simulator series - Goofy exploration games

    Magicka series - Isometric action adventure games where you combine different elements to cast spells

    Barony - a true roguelike FPS RPG, voxel based, very hard

    Void Crew - Space sim, mission based, sort of Egyptian mythos themed, meant for up to 4 players but definitely possible with just 2

    Human Fall Flat - Puzzle/exploration game

    Half Dead series - Cube: the game

    Orcs Must Die series - Tower defense

    Dungeon Defenders series - also tower defense, but with class based

    Secret of Mana - One of the first action JRPGS, the remake has drop in coop just like the original, but I believe it’s couch coop, so if you’re not right next to each other, you’ll need something like Parsec to play it

    Have a ton more, but those are the ones I can recall having the most fun. Others have probably listed a bunch of them and I probably missed a few good ones, but hopefully a few of them are new.

    You could always tinker with some emulators for some retro coop games!

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      The overcooked series is definitely fun and always comes up cheap on sales for like 3 bucks. It’s definitely one to add to any co-op rotation because it’s easy to learn but hard to execute so you’ll always be going back to get those extra stars you missed.

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        Note about Overcooked is that the new version that combines 1 & 2 (Overcooked All You Can Eat) seems to have major issues with online multiplayer that never got fixed. You’re better off just buying Overcooked 2.

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      2 months ago

      I agree, if they like survival games like Minecraft and Terraria, I too would recommend Valheim and The Forest/SOTF