Hello all! My buddy and I finally finished up Baldur’s Gate 3 this week and we are not left with a giant co-op game shaped whole in our hearts. It was such an incredible experience and it was truly even more fun running through it together. We are excited to hop into another game, but we have no idea what to play. We’ve played a lot, and some games we’ve finished or tried recently included:
- Borderlands 1, 2, and 3
- Minecraft, Terraria, Vintage Story
- Raft, 7 Days to Die
- A Way Out, It Takes Two
I’m posting here today to ask if any of you have some suggestions for co-op games we could check out! I’ve Googled for suggestions to no end and 90% of what’s there is games we’ve already played. If anyone has any recommendations for us they would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
~ Hyrulian
Thanks for all the great suggestions everyone!! I’m going to compile a list and check them all out one by one!
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Satisfactory
It’s an old game, but Pixel Junk: Monsters is a ton of fun as a co-op tower defense. Don’t bother with the sequel - s’bad.
Grounded
PlateUp can be fun in 2 player co-op. If you’ve played Overcooked, its basically a clone of that, but turned into a roguelike. Its not the longest or deepest, but its still solid, and the price is very fair IMO, esspecially if you get it on sale.
I’m playing through BG3 with a good friend too, we’re actually planning on doing another, wildly different, playthrough when we’re done with this one. We’re playing sorta chaotic/neutral good right now and intend to do an evil campaign next with different characters and classes and possibly even modded.
Now I obviously haven’t tried it yet but the game has so much hidden stuff, branching paths and different-to-play classes I’m fairly confident you can play it at least twice and have an almost entirely new experience!
Solasta crown of the magister
I love solasta to bits but I think it will feel really bad to play directly after BG3. You need to have a lot of love for DnD and the jank of indies to enjoy it all the way
If you’re into souls-likes, try “Stranger of Paradise”
Its fantastic, nobody has heard of it for some reason. I played this last year with a friend and it was really fun (if you’re into that playstyle)
Darksiders Genesis was also very fun with my little cousin, more hack n slash, one player gets to be pure meelee and the other half meelee half twin stick ranged.
Sniper Elite (4?) is pretty good as a chill co op FPS mission progression game.
Otherwise, probably any survival craft will do, you already played a few. I enjoyed Valheim and Planet Crafter and wish Subnautica had Multiplayer.
Most of these have been mentioned before, but I’ll mention them again.
Halo Master Chief Collection. Everything before 5 is local split screen. 5 requires two Xboxs. I would just avoid Infinite, but I believe it also requires two systems, maybe including PC.
Diablo 3 is very accessible. 4 should be as well. I’m told Diablo 2 is the best, so I need to try to get back into it. All should be good options.
Monster Hunter requires more patience. At least for World, cooperation is good but really the game is geared towards individuals being able to take charge as necessary. Track, set traps, bait, capture, etc. Multiplayer is VERY useful during fights though.
Stranger of Paradise is kinda Souls-like but more forgiving. In my experience it’s A LOT more friendly to Multiplayer. It’s also a ton of fun with a friend.
Psi-Ops: Mindgate Conspiracy. An old PS2 game. One person controls the body, the other controls the mind. Especially if you have a Gameshark and you can go Godmode.
Ay of the old Street sports games were a blast back in the day.
Older Twisted Metal for another old-school recommendations.
You can play Stardew Valley in multiplayer co-op mode, it’s also quite cheap at $14, it’s available on every platform and even has excellent Linux support
Weird to see someone mention Linux support on Lemmy.
Try out the Divinity Original Sin series, also produced by Larian. Different system and setting but it’s wonderful.
Seconded, Divinity is great!
Project Zomboid. Feels like a Sims game with zombie and great survival elements. Arguably, the best zombie survival game to hit the market. Supports split screen couch co-op.
Came here to say Zomboid!
Also, OP, dont be afraid to jump straight into mods. You dont have to fuss with a single file. Right from the start, inside the client, you can join modded multiplayer servers. The mods are automatically installed and applied then and there. Zero setup! I say this because a whole heap of mods are strictly quality of life and they really ease the learning curve.
However, picking and choosing your own mods for your own server is the headache you might expect. Let some saintly admin do all that work for you.
Since you played all Borderlands and just finished a D&D game, why not play “B&B” on Borderlands, there’s a game called Tiny Tina’s Wonderland which plays like Borderlands but is set in “medieval” fantasy (but still has gun for some reason)
i’ll just add a few i haven’t seen yet:
- Chained Together - running gauntlets while … chained together
- Children of Morta - adorable graphics meet solid gameplay and vivid storytelling
- Core Keeper - top-down Terraria with great pixel art, full release in a week!
- Cosmoteer: Build your 2d-Spaceship and do what you want! Full workshop support with tons of available mods.
- (hmm so much stuff starting with c, gotta change my game)
- Element TD 2 - classic tower defense experience
- Heavenly Bodies - Adventure game with physics!
- Kingdom: Two Crowns - the right thing for chilling :-)
- Necesse: even more Terraria, but with a huge world and settlements to build and manage. Still in EA, and needs polish, but great game even now!
- Neon Chrome: Cyberpunk twin-stick shooter
- Operation Tango: Asymmetric Coop, one is a hacker, the other is the agent on the ground
- Streets of Rogue: “immersive sim”-top down twin stick action roguelite - i cant even describe it well, but it is heaps of fun and chaos can pop up around every corner!
- Synthetic: twin-stick shooter with tons of guns and a hefty difficulty later on
- Grim Dawn: ARPG, and one of the best in its class. Dated, but still updated (and gets a new expansion soon-ish!). community is running seasons which add new areas, items and whatnot! i’ve sunk 1500 hours into that one, so i am probably biased when i say give it a whirl.
loved grim dawn, great diablo style and awesome characters.
I liked Grim dawn for the amount of time that we (my other half and I) played it, but I seem to remember it had issues with shared quests in that you had to complete all quests individually (I’m pretty sure that was it, forgive me it’s been awhile), is that still a problem? I might have to go check it out again if it isn’t.
- Halo MCC
- Overcooked 1,2
- Moving Out 1,2
A few I’ve played with a friend of mine: the We Were Here series, Portal 2, Monster Hunter World, Factorio and Deep Rock Galactic (which we both didn’t like, but it’s pretty popular)
Maybe Valheim?
