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Rayman Legends is without a doubt my favourite coop platformer with fantastic music and great fluid controls. I strongly recommend it, it's tons of fun

If you have a Nintendo Switch then Snipperclips is a really fun and cute co-op.

I don't see Out of Space on here. It's pretty fun and challenging.

Goat Simulator is silly fun, especially with kids.

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is awesome since it lets you play up to 4 player co-op.

Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse is a good co-op twin stick shooter.

Phogs

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.

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

It takes Two (co-op puzzle)

Unravel 2 is a bit similar co-op puzzle game.

Untitled Goose Game — Surprised it wasn’t mentioned.

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

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

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

• Moving Out
• Lovers in a dangerous Spacetime
• A way out (sensible topics though, violence/jail)

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.

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!

+1 for a tentative Overcooked suggestion but only if you think you and your cousin won't strangle each other in a high stress scenario. I can't play the game with my wife because she's too goofy and I'm too serious.

Bread and Fred looks like a lot of fun but I haven't actually played it yet.

Diablo 3 was fun playing couch co-op and reminded me more than a little bit of playing Gauntlet in the good old days.

A friend and I had a little fun with Ultimate Chicken Horse. It's a goofy little Mario Maker type of game where you create levels and challenge each other to complete them but I think you can also run through them cooperatively.

My family loves:

• Spelunky (sidescroller Indiana-Jones-themed platformer action-roguelite)

• Pikmin 3 (3D silly minion-bossing treasure hunting)

• River City Girls (sidescrolling beat-em-up with amazing soundtrack)

• Moving Out (3D "goofy physics" furniture-moving obstacle course)

• Kirby and the Lost World (3D action adventure)

• Stardew Valley (isometric farm sim)

All of these are fully coöp from the beginning.

Smash Brothers

It takes Two

Portal 2

Mario kart

TMNT: Shredder's Revenge

If you wanna go retro at all you should check out UFO50. 50 very old school style games, many of which have 2 player modes.

• Castle Crashers
• Party Animals
• Overcooked (be ready to hate everyone you are playing with)

Have you tried Broforce? It seems like a run and gun, but the key is thinking how to get out of situations.

Rayman Legends. My literal childhood on the Xbox One.

• Cult of the Lamb
• Ship of Fools

Quite surprised these are not on here yet.

Streets of rage games are good fun

9 Parchments - Surprising gem with some depth and a lot of replay value. Reminds me a lot of the Harry Potter universe. We fire this up almost every weekend. I recommend setting friendly fire to 'self' instead, as it encourages actual cooperative play.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shredder's Revenge - this is just a hack n slash quarter eater, but it's mindless fun.

I think Stardew Valley has a Co-op mode? I'm not entirely sure

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

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!

Beyond all the other great suggestions, you can use the games browser on co-optimus to help narrow things down.

I’d like to add for switch: Snipperclips, Yoshi‘s crafted world and Pode

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