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Hi everyone! I’ve been feeling frustration about games lately, remembering experiences I had as a kid playing co-op story games with my friends, like Timesplitters and Destroy All Humans, etc.

Modern multiplayer games sometimes have some co-op elements, but many of them are party games like Human Fall Flat or Among Us, or big Battle Royales or Multiplayer shooters. The co-op ones seem to only be survival games like The Forest.

I’m always looking for good co-op experiences to play with my friends, but it’s hard to find what I am looking for. I recently played It Takes Two with my partner and that was so wonderful.

Does anyone know any games like what I am looking for? It seems these kinds of games are so few and far between, sadly.

  • AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m a bit surprised by your premise, games with local co-op have certainly almost disappeared entirely, but I haven’t noticed a trend in online co-op. Some good ones off-hand (that haven’t been mentioned). These are in descending order if my personal playtime as a rough proxy for how good I think they are.

    • Remnant
    • Wasteland 3
    • Outriders
    • Gloomhaven
    • Risk of Rain 2
    • Warhammer Vermintide 2
    • Monster Hunter World
    • Left 4 Dead series
    • Back 4 Blood
    • Borderlands series
    • Magicka
    • Star Wars the Old Republic
    • Helldivers
    • Barony
    • Barotrauma
    • Gods Trigger
    • Action Squad
    • Aragami 1,2
    • Evil West
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    The Trine series is a fun 1-3 player game with a nice story and a few puzzles to play trough.

    If you want to explore and do story on the side i can also always recommend Guild Wars 2. Base game is f2p so worthy of a look IMO.

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      1 year ago

      Tried Overcooked with my wife, but unfortunately the game got frustratingly hard pretty quickly… (Note that I’m not a gaming novice)

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        I recommend giving Plate Up! a look. As good as it is, we also found Overcooked incredibly overwhelming/frustrating. Plate up is much better in that area, we feel. It eases you into the more hectic situations and you actually have agency over the design of the restaurant.

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    We recommend V Rising. It’s an ARPG (Diablo-like), but with big focus on base building.

    You mine, you craft, you build a cool looking goth castle, and then you hunt enemies or bosses using your upgraded weapon and new skills. It’s very fun. You can spin up a local server and modify your own server/game rules to increase progress speed (as some features are designed for a 24/7 server, and your game only advances when it’s running, so some speedups are necessary)

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    If you and your partner enjoy RPG’s, I highly recommend Divinity: Original Sin (and Divinity: Original Sin 2, though we haven’t finished that one yet). Very story-driven, the tactical combat is a blast when you get into strategizing and collaborating, and there are all sorts of non-combat shenanigans you can get up to as well (the second even more so than the first).

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    Use the Local Co-Op tag on Steam and you can filter them down pretty well. I played through these with my wife. They were a ton of fun. I put an asterisks beside my favorites.
    Darksiders Genesis*
    It Takes Two*
    Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (with the Legacy of Kain DLC)*
    Secret of Mana Remake*
    Unravel 2
    Full Metal Furies*
    Castle Crashers*

    These are good too.

    Helldivers*
    Road Redemption
    Rampage Knights
    Broforce
    Streets of Rage 4
    Huntdown*
    Any WORMS game, WMD is great.
    Overcooked
    Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime*
    Speedrunners
    Shadowgrounds

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    Have you played Deep Rock Galactic? It’s a wonderful games where you play a dwarf mining things, fighting off bugs while you do it. You play in a group of up to 4 people trying to complete your objectives together.

    I find it really hard to explain what makes it great, so you’ll just have to trust it’s avid fan base!