I am looking to make some last minute purchases to play with one or more friends, and I have poked around Steam’s Co-Op page. I’m curious what new co-op games everyone on Lemmy is playing.
I just picked up Raft and Deep Rock Galactic the other day, but you can never have too many new (never played) games!
It takes two
I’ve heard nothing but good things about this one. Definitely checking it out
It’s a fantastic game! Since it requires co-op to play, one neat thing the dev did was require only one person to own a copy (you friend can play free).
They did you with their previous game, A Way Out, as well. That one was also great!
Alright, I’ll say something not good about it. The story is really messed up.
It’s fun as heck though. I wanted full games from some levels.
Can’t go wrong with Stardew Valley for something chill and Terraria is among the best games ever made.
A big one I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is Plate Up. The best way I know to describe it is roguelike Overcooked with more agency and a slower curve into the stressful moments. We much prefer it as a result. It’s been getting free content at a pretty solid pace, too.
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Nine Parchments is interesting. I didn’t know the developers of Trine have been keeping so busy
Agree with Children of Morta. I’ve been unable to find another 2-player coop game that hooked my friend and I like CoM did. The progression was well-paced and story elements sprinkled in felt organic. Definitely a recommend at the current sale price
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GTFO with some caveats.
- You need a good group that can work together, coordinate, plan and work through challenging rooms.
- You like stealth mixed with action. You’re gonna spend most of the time sneaking up on the sleepers with bursts of action if they wake up or when you have to unlock an alarmed door.
- You’re gonna get your butt kicked. This is a difficult game that can end a run in under minute if you get too sloppy or cocky. But that’s half the fun.
- You can set aside a good chunk of time for each game. An easy map will take an hour. There aren’t that many easy maps. We’ve gone 3 hours and failed a run multiple times. We also use the time to catch up with each other. We’ve spent 5 to 10 minutes in front of a door chit-chatting before clearing a room.
It’s bloody good fun, but you need a good group for it.
GTFO is fucking incredible but borderline as hard as a DnD group to get the same people to regularly show up for.
My wife and I have been playing a ton of Valheim lately, it’s been super fun!
We just started it too! Not far in, though, should be almost at boss #2.
We played that one as well! We almost beat it I think. I will probably never forget the mosquitoes in that game because I found a beach with them a bit earlier than I should have and I proceeded to die more times than I can count trying to get my stuff back lol.
Broforce is great fun with 2 players, plethora of playable characters, destructable terrain and pretty good campaing mode.
That is a good one yeah! Very silly and over the top
Risk of rain 2 is great, pretty difficult but fun!
V Rising. similar to valheim, but vampires instead of vikings. fight bosses against the sunlight to unlock abilities, structures, crafting.
Halls of Torment. similar to vampire survivors, but with a very diablo 2 feel.
Gunfire Reborn. similar to dead cells/hades, but it’s a FPS.
Hyper Jam. the single best multiplayer arena brawler I’ve ever played. no decent matchmaking so you need a friend or 3, but it’s $4 aud in the sale. get your host to disable the confusion perk.
My group just finished Remnant From The Ashes, which was a pretty fun souls-lite with guns, and the sequel is due in a couple weeks. Other games we enjoyed as a group that I didn’t see mentioned already are Gunfire Reborn, Divinity 2, Wildermyth, Division 1/2, Escape Simulator, and Helldivers. All on sale for under $20 each
Helldivers looks interesting. Based on the trailer on Steam I’m getting a starship troopers vibe.
Big Starship Troopers vibes. Do you like accidentally killing your friends with grenades, mines, rocket launchers, driving over them with tanks, dropping drop pods on their heads, all in the name of killing bugs? Then this game is for your.
My partner and I spent hundreds of hours playing this couch coop on the PS4. Great gameplay, with a good unlock system.
Not a new one I’m playing, but the Trine series are great 1-3 couch (or online, I believe) coop games. Only note is that the third game is pretty different from the rest, and also suffers from some over-ambition and under-delivering. It can safely be skipped, but I personally also like it, despite it’s flaws.
I think i played trine 2 with a friend some time ago. Good fun, but i solved most puzzles by spamming the cube
I have fond memories of playing Trine 2 with some online friends. We haven’t gotten around to #3 yet with all the shortcomings
Me and my friends started yet another Terraria campaign together and it’s still probably the greatest co-op game we’ve ever played.
Been playing Grounded with a buddy, highly recommend
Finally bought Hunt Showdown and a few Friends followed. Lots of fun but for sure a time sink if you want to get gud
I found hunt showdown to be way too serious and difficult lol. I’m trying to stay away from pvp shooters as well. Great game if it’s what you’re looking for though