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Hi guys!

Soon I'll be traveling and visiting family. I'd like to be able to hook my Steam Deck to their TV and let their kids have a rip at couch multiplayer games allowing up to 4 simultaneous players. The good ole classic WiiU Mario Kart is there and been played until exhaustion by now, so I'd be happy if I had more titles (either SD-compatible or just plain emulated) at the ready if they wanted to try.

Thanks!

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[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
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[–] andypenno@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Knight Squad is a great one, very simple gameplay, and supports 4 player PvE and PvP

[–] bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Heave Ho

Stick Fight The Game

All Sonic Racing games (Transformed is the best one but sometimes gets confused with inputs, you may need to delete a config file once in a while but it's not a Steam Deck-specific problem)

[–] Poegaba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Check out Armed and Gelatinous on steam. Up to four players can battle each other. It’s an Indie game and it’s a lot of fun.

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Overcooked (4-player)

Lovers in a dangerous space time (4-player)

Death squared (2-4 player)

Toybox Turbos (4-player)

Trine (3-player)

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (infinite player)

Magicka (4-player)

The various Jackbox Party Packs (players depends on which game. Most support 4 players, some up to 100 players, each player must have a phone to play on)

Worms W.M.D (6-player)

Untitled Goose Game (2-player)

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Streets of Rage 4

Edit: just saw that this is for playing with kids so maybe not a great one for that, sorry! I've had a blast with it playing with friends though.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago
[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Overcooked 2, Conduct Together/Deluxe. Both are tough but fair, and they'll have to communicate effectively to do well.

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a bit more chill, more of a party game.

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Towerfall

Gang beasts

Overcooked 2

Broforce

Or taking turns in 1v1 games

[–] Moses@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would recommend Overcooked and Moving out, the kids i played this with picked it up fairly quickly.

Another good coop game is Unrailed, but it is more stressful and might be more frustrating.

Our most played game is ultimate chicken horse though, but its versus and does not really provide guardrails so you can kind of deadlock your match quite easily

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 20 points 1 month ago

I had a blast playing Overcooked 1 & 2 with my partner and they run fine on Deck. I only played with 4 players once and it was a bit chaotic since it was the first time playing Overcooked for most of us.

If you plan on emulating Wii U, New Super Mario Bros. U sounds like a fun option. In the same vein, Rayman Origins and Legends are great co-op platformers too and are both Gold on ProtonDB

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