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Couch co-op thread (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

Golf With Your Friends literally brings my family together

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some retro suggestions:

Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 - it sounds like your cousin is probably too old for this but this has one of the best "younger sibling" modes. They help collect and shoot bits. Which ultimately doesn't matter much
The Legend of Zelda 4 Swords Adventure - It's basically multi-player Link to the Past! Bonus points if you dig up a GameCube, link cables, and GBAs
Kirby Super Star - a mix of competitive and coop games
Super Mario World (any) - you take turns but if you don't go 6 levels without dying to his one it can be fun
Halo 1-3 + ODST - Great classic shooters, the campaigns are customizable for difficulty, and a little kid probably loves alien shooters
Borderlands 1/2 - Looter shooters with a sense of irreverance
Dead Rising 2/Off the Record and 3 - Zombie hoard murdering with combo weapons
The Simpsons '91, Battletoads, TMNT, Streets of Rage, etc - Beat Em Ups are great for multi-player

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

borderlands3 on console has couch coop too and is pretty fun.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My list of coop games

Baldur's Gate 3
Broforce
Castle Crashers
Children of Morta
Divinity Original Sin 2
For the King
"FORCED: Slightly Better Edition"
Helldivers 1
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Rocket League

^ All of these are on Steam.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 21 hours ago

All of the Baldur's Gates are good for couch co-op; the original series are all 3D isometric.

Bard's Tale was pretty good for this, too, although the second player seems at times like an afterthought.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago

I absolutely love Children of Morta. I've got 3 saves at this point.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I've been playing Broforce with my buddy recently. Lots of shooting and blowing shit up platformer but pretty funny if you're into the classic action movies like Rambo, Commando, etc.

Gears of War if you want to branch into 3rd person cover shooter. (Gears 5 is the only one on steam I think.)

The Lego games usually have couch co-op I think and I've enjoyed those a lot with younger people.

[–] evanstucker@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

My kids and I have loved these:

Coop:

Competitive:

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 19 hours ago

There were two isometric Tomb Raider games a couple of years back (Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris which wasn't as good IMO). You could play in single player, but the co-op mode tweaked the puzzles slightly so you'd need to work together to complete them. And as luck would have it they're both on sale. The first is currently a whopping £1.27 on Steam.

If you fancy going even further back, there was a PS2 game called Kuri Kuri Mix by FromSoft. It may looks like it was made for toddlers, but it was surprisingly tough in places. You almost certainly can't buy that any more, but I'm sure and emulator and ROM site will do nicely.

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

My mandatory Sky: Children of the Light mention.

Lots of exploring and cooperating with irl co-players (E: you'd have to play on different devices, but one could play on a big screen, and the other can join and use their handheld mostly as a controller) and strangers, some puzzles/quests, some mild scary/dangerous parts, lots of lore, incredible graphics and good soundtrack. It's an open ended game (though some features only become available after your first complete run through) and there is an aspect of grinding if you want to get IGC for cosmetics but you're doing it flying through this gorgeous landscape, and there is a daily cap so you can be pretty chill about it, and IAP are pretty easy to avoid (for me anyway) and are never necessary for gameplay.

There are some issues with bugs, and the company growing and decisions clearly being made by shareholders rather then developers, but at this point it is still absolutely worth playing.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What the Golf? is lot of wacky fun. It's not really golf and has like 500 different levels, some wildly creative.

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is single player though?

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[–] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Pampas and selene: the maze of demons seems fun

[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Borderlands and Full Metal Furies spring to mind.

[–] troed@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Don't Starve: Together

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 23 hours ago

On xbox there’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game that’s fun for co-op

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