Co-operative Video Games

(the app is forcing me to put a link so I put Timesplitters 2 gameplay cuz this is mostly a text post)

Hi everyone! I've been feeling frustration about games lately, remembering experiences I had as a kid playing co-op story games with my friends, like Timesplitters and Destroy All Humans, etc.

Modern multiplayer games sometimes have some co-op elements, but many of them are party games like Human Fall Flat or Among Us, or big Battle Royales or Multiplayer shooters. The co-op ones seem to only be survival games like The Forest.

I'm always looking for good co-op experiences to play with my friends, but it's hard to find what I am looking for. I recently played It Takes Two with my partner and that was so wonderful.

Does anyone know any games like what I am looking for? It seems these kinds of games are so few and far between, sadly.

n0stalghia,
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We recommend V Rising. It's an ARPG (Diablo-like), but with big focus on base building.

You mine, you craft, you build a cool looking goth castle, and then you hunt enemies or bosses using your upgraded weapon and new skills. It's very fun. You can spin up a local server and modify your own server/game rules to increase progress speed (as some features are designed for a 24/7 server, and your game only advances when it's running, so some speedups are necessary)

AndrasKrigare,

I'm a bit surprised by your premise, games with local co-op have certainly almost disappeared entirely, but I haven't noticed a trend in online co-op. Some good ones off-hand (that haven't been mentioned). These are in descending order if my personal playtime as a rough proxy for how good I think they are.

  • Remnant
  • Wasteland 3
  • Outriders
  • Gloomhaven
  • Risk of Rain 2
  • Warhammer Vermintide 2
  • Monster Hunter World
  • Left 4 Dead series
  • Back 4 Blood
  • Borderlands series
  • Magicka
  • Star Wars the Old Republic
  • Helldivers
  • Barony
  • Barotrauma
  • Gods Trigger
  • Action Squad
  • Aragami 1,2
  • Evil West
analisys,

Dont Starve Together and Overcooked are my jam with wife :3

hardypart,
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Tried Overcooked with my wife, but unfortunately the game got frustratingly hard pretty quickly... (Note that I'm not a gaming novice)

GreenAlex,
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I recommend giving Plate Up! a look. As good as it is, we also found Overcooked incredibly overwhelming/frustrating. Plate up is much better in that area, we feel. It eases you into the more hectic situations and you actually have agency over the design of the restaurant.

hardypart,
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Looks promising, I will make sure to give it a try! Thank you!

irongamer,
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Here are some rough categories and hours included.

Builder / Survival

Sounded like you were not that interested in this genre but they can be fun co-op experiences.

  • Terraria (850 hours) - Two of my friends I have done two clean slate full play-throughs of this game.
  • Core Keeper (77 hours) - Also played through the content of this game with same 2 friends.
  • Valheim (344 hours) - Did a co-op play through with a friend on this one. Might do it again with Mistlands or with other updates.

Boss Encounters / Building

  • V Rising (79 hours)

Played through V Rising with a friend, co-op pve, and it was a blast. We really enjoyed the different boss battles. We are going to revisit this one soon as they dropped / are dropping new content.

Exploration / Melee Combat / Story

  • Dying Light 2 (87 hours)

Enjoyed playing Dying Light 2 with a friend, playing the game turned out to a mix of playing solo and playing co-op.

Platformer

  • Trine

Fox mentioned this and I'll add it as well. Fun co-op platformer with some fun story telling aspects.

MMO

  • Guildwars 2

Fox also mentioned GW2 in the thread. There is a ridiculous amount of content in this game with no subscription required. Combat feedback/force has always felt weak imo but there is a massive world to explore and jumpy puzzles if you are into that (love them).

More story focused co-op

Also watching this thread as I'm curious what shows up. I haven't played many games in this area on PC.

analisys,

Can you expand about V Rising for Diablo and Stardew valley fans? Somehow I'm still on fence but sounds like great combo!

DarbyDear,
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If you and your partner enjoy RPG's, I highly recommend Divinity: Original Sin (and Divinity: Original Sin 2, though we haven't finished that one yet). Very story-driven, the tactical combat is a blast when you get into strategizing and collaborating, and there are all sorts of non-combat shenanigans you can get up to as well (the second even more so than the first).

emeraldheart,

I think I will absolutely look into these, thank you!!

AlexisLuna,

You probably played it already, but if you didn't, Portal 2 has a Co-op campaign and it's really good.

lotanis,

Have you played Deep Rock Galactic? It’s a wonderful games where you play a dwarf mining things, fighting off bugs while you do it. You play in a group of up to 4 people trying to complete your objectives together.

I find it really hard to explain what makes it great, so you’ll just have to trust it’s avid fan base!

I_am_10_squirrels,

For Rock and Stone!

Maestro,
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Rock and Stone to the bone!

FoxFairline,
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The Trine series is a fun 1-3 player game with a nice story and a few puzzles to play trough.

If you want to explore and do story on the side i can also always recommend Guild Wars 2. Base game is f2p so worthy of a look IMO.

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