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.
- Untitled Goose Game has couch coop (just bought yesterday on sale for $8.99!)
- (I believe) Gun Bros
- LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Trilogy
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
It takes Two (co-op puzzle)
Unravel 2 is a bit similar co-op puzzle game.
Old Apache Air Assault is neat in coop
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.
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
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!
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
PlateUp is incredible, I love this game
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
Biped is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1071870/biped/
It’s very similar to it takes two
Streets of rage games are good fun
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!
Untitled Goose Game — Surprised it wasn’t mentioned.
because the actual gameplay is kinda nonexistent
What’s more chaotic than a goose? Two goose!
Geeses
Goosi?
Rayman Legends. My literal childhood on the Xbox One.
Oh yeah that’s a classic
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.
Ultimate Chicken Horse ftw!
- Cult of the Lamb
- Ship of Fools
Quite surprised these are not on here yet.
thx for letting us know CotL has couch coöp
We played Ship of Fools the last time, was pretty fun
Didn’t know Cult of the Lamb had couch co-op
Edit: Seems like it was added recently with a DLC. That game hits our taste so we probably will play it.
I’ll second Ship of Fools, me and my wife have been playing it the past couple weeks. It’s a ton of fun and deserves more recognition.
