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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

There's a game by Devolver Digital called Heave Ho which is pretty fun. And has a free demo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Battleblock theater. Silly coop puzzle platformer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Cats Quest 2

Pretty cute game and if one person is significantly better at games, they can carry the team pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Dont starve together

Vampire survivor

Castle crashers

And if you are into emulation most of ps2 era and before is designed for couch co op so hit the archives (top x lists on you tube makes it easy), depending on your cousins tastes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Niddhog is so freaking good!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I see lots of excellent responses, but one of my favorite games is never mentioned, so I'll mention it here, it's Out of Space it's essentially overcooked but calmer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is my Couch Coop To Do List for me and my wife (sorry for bad formatting):

A Way Out Asterix & Obelix XXXL: The Ram From Hibernia Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All! BattleBlock Theater Biped Bravery and Greed Bread & Fred Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Castle Crashers Cat Quest II Chariot Conduct Together! Contra: Operation Galuga Cuphead Darksiders Genesis Death Squared Degrees of Separation Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Divinity: Original Sin II Dungeon Defenders Dungeon Golf Earth Defense Force 5 Ember Knights Escape Academy Escape Simulator Fly TOGETHER! For The King For The King II Forced From Space Fueled Up Gauntlet Golf With Your Friends Grave Danger Hammerwatch Heroes of Hammerwatch Huntdown Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes KeyWe Knights and Bikes Kukoos: Lost Pets LEGO 2K Drive LEGO City Undercover LEGO Horizon Adventures Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Lost Castle Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Magicka 2 Mekazoo Metal Slug Monaco 2 Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Moving Out Nine Parchments Nobody Saves the World Operation: Tango Outward PHOGS! Pizza Possum Pocky & Rocky Reshrined Pode Portal 2 Rayman Legends River Tails: Stronger Together Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos Rooms of Realities Rotwood Sackboy: A Big Adventure Shift Happens Sonic Superstars Spelunky Starbound Struggling Surmount Team Sonic Racing The Adventure Pals The Expanse: A Telltale Series The Plucky Squire The Swords of Ditto Tick Tock: A Tale for Two Tipston Salvage Tools Up! Towerborne Trine 2 Unrailed! Unravel Two Unruly Heroes Untitled Goose Game Voyage We Were Here Together Who's Your Daddy Wizard of Legend II ibb & obb

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

For future reference, double space at the end of a line to start a new line, double enter to skip a line.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Rock'n'roll racing is a fantastic coop racer. I think it's available in a remaster from blizzard somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I forgot about Smash TV. Idk how much time my friend and I spent on that game as kids

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Lots of time!

...And even more after renting Running Man on VHS :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  • Untitled Goose Game has couch coop (just bought yesterday on sale for $8.99!)
  • (I believe) Gun Bros
  • LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Trilogy
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Old Apache Air Assault is neat in coop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It takes Two (co-op puzzle)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Biped is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1071870/biped/

It's very similar to it takes two

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Heck yeah, my wife and I are always on the hunt for more :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PlateUp is incredible, I love this game

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Streets of rage games are good fun

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