Best Fun Co-Op Games
- The Gaming Zone
- Sep 13, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 28, 2022
These are some of the best co-op games to play with your friends and family. Great for newbies or hard-core gamers. Be aware: Some of these games are like Monolopy - a real relationship tester! So grab some beer and let's start gaming!
1. It Takes 2
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Multiplayer: Online and Local Co-Op
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two, a genre-bending platform adventure created purely for co-op. Play as the clashing couple Cody and May, two humans turned into dolls by a magic spell. Trapped in a fantastical world, they’re reluctantly challenged with saving their fractured relationship by the suave love guru Dr. Hakim. A huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges stand between them and their return to normal.
2. Overcooked 2
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer: Online and Local Co-Opp
In Overcooked 2, teams of up to 4 players cooperatively prepare and cook orders in absurd restaurants. Players gather, chop, and cook ingredients, combine them on plates, serve dishes, and wash dishes. Between coordinating short orders and bumping into each other's characters, the game tends to overwhelm. The sequel builds atop the original game. Some levels have moving floors and other obstacles that complicate the cooking process, including portals, moving walkways, and impassable fires. You’ll knead to work together (or against each other) to get the highest score in chaotic local and online multiplayer. Team up with up to three other chefs taking a Joy-Con controller each, or use wireless play across four Nintendo Switch consoles.
3. Portal Knights
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS
Multiplayer: Online and Local Co-Op
Leave the familiar world behind and step into the fantastic unknown with Portal Knights, a cooperative 3D sandbox action-RPG! Play as a Warrior, Mage or Ranger and customize your appearance, abilities, and gear. Unlock powerful talents as you level up! Work together on the same island to build structures, explore dungeons, and overcome the toughest perils.
4. Dont Starve Together
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer: Online and Local Co-Op
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land. Work with other players to survive the harsh environment, or strike out on your own. Do whatever it takes, but most importantly, Don't Starve.
5. Castle Crashers
Platform: PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer: Online and Local Co-op
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth! You've got enemies to bash, and princesses to rescue.
6. Rayman Legends
Platform: PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer: Local Co-Op
Rayman, Globox, and the Teensies are off wandering through an enchanted forest when they discover a mysterious tent filled with a series of captivating paintings. As they look more closely, they notice each painting seems to tell the story of a mythical world. While focusing on a painting that shows a medieval land, they are suddenly sucked into the painting, entering the world, and the adventure begins. The gang must run, jump and fight their way through each world to save the day and discover the secrets of every legendary painting.
7. Lost Castle
Platform: PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer: Online and Local Co-op
Lost Castle is a super cute, super hard action RPG with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons. Brimming with a host of hand drawn, humorous characters and environments that embrace retro action with modern twists.
8. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer: Local Co-op
Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, a thrilling 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure. Only through teamwork can you triumph over the evil forces of Anti-Love, rescue kidnapped space-bunnies, and avoid a vacuumy demise. Deep space is a dangerous place, but you don’t have to face it alone!
9. Portal 2
Platform: PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer: Online and Local Co-op
Portal 2 is a first-person perspective puzzle game. The player takes the role of Chell in the single-player campaign, as one of two robots—Atlas and P-Body—in the cooperative campaign, or as a simplistic humanoid icon in community-developed puzzles. These three characters can explore and interact with the environment.The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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