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.
Not seeing any love for Toejam and Earl Back in the Groove. Reimagining of the 90’s Mega drive classic made by the original dev.
It takes Two (co-op puzzle)
Unravel 2 is a bit similar co-op puzzle game.
Dark pictures is a pretty fun movie like Seires my friends and have have very much enjoyed!
There is also ultimate chicken horse (usually better with more than 2 people)
Castle crashers (Side scroller silly adventure game) Gang beasts is also pretty fun
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
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
I’m a massive fan of couch co-op, so here’s some of my favourites:
Heave Ho: cooperative grabby-hand-based platforming
Moving Out: hectic moving simulator (get the first one, not the second)
Drink more Glurp: chaotic parody of a sports event, with grabby-hand mechanics, and wacky powerups to change things up
Wobbly Life: a kid-friendly open world game with jobs to do, and tons of secrets to find. Kinda like Roblox mixed with GTA. Pretty much endless fun.
Toasterball: it’s like tennis, but with toasters.
Puyo Puyo tetris 2: Tetris
Ultimate Chicken Horse: Chaotic party platformer
Boomerangfu: brawler with boomerangs
Speedrunners: competitive high-speed platformer
Untitled Goose Game — Surprised it wasn’t mentioned.
because the actual gameplay is kinda nonexistent
What’s more chaotic than a goose? Two goose!
Geeses
Goosi?
Gice
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
Rock’n’roll racing is a fantastic coop racer. I think it’s available in a remaster from blizzard somewhere.
Best couch-coop games
-= FLOSS games =-
Fish Fillets NG
Battle for Wesnoth
Minetest (websearch: Minetest Split Screen Howto)
-= 80s/90s arcade games =-
Bubble Bobble (lesser: Snow Bros or Tumblepop)
Heavy Barrel or Calibre .50 (lesser: Midnight Resistance or Ikari Warriors) [all need 8-way rotator joysticks]
Smash TV(is twin-stick, but awesome) or Narc
Rampage
Gunforce
Double Dragon
Bad Dudes v Dragon Ninja
Final Fight
Golden Axe
Sunset Riders or Vendetta
Silkworm
Cabal
Top Gunner
Side Arms
Alien Syndrome
Gauntlet
Damn, I forgot about Smash TV. Idk how much time my friend and I spent on that game as kids
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!
Old Apache Air Assault is neat in coop
Idk if this is your speed, but my kid and wife and I love playing the Lego games that are based on movies - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Avengers, etc.
Very couchable and can be challenging if you try to get 100% on each level.
Apologies if I misread the ask!
- Untitled Goose Game has couch coop (just bought yesterday on sale for $8.99!)
- (I believe) Gun Bros
- LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Trilogy
- Moving Out
- Lovers in a dangerous Spacetime
- A way out (sensible topics though, violence/jail)
A way out is brilliant! Definitely for a mature audience
Streets of rage games are good fun
