- Moving Out
- Lovers in a dangerous Spacetime
- A way out (sensible topics though, violence/jail)
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A way out is brilliant! Definitely for a mature audience
Phogs - simple puzzle platformer where you play an end of a 2 headed snake dog.
Lovers in a dangerous space time - share control of your spaceship to rescue cute animals. Take turns driving, manning the weapons or shields. Top down camera
Overcooked 1 and 2 - flammable chaotic cooking adventures. Top down camera.
Trine 1-4 are all pretty decent for some side scrolling puzzle action platforming.
Diablo 3 (on console as pc doesn't have local for some stupid reason) is a great action RPG.
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
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Smash Brothers
It takes Two
Portal 2
Mario kart
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
I'll second Portal 2, and other's mentions of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
It Takes Two is fun, but if you're paying attention to the story I found it to be a bit preachy about what the writer thinks a good relationship should be.
Smash Bros and Mario Kart are both competitive not co-op.
I play smash with my 7 year old on the same team. We cooperate as teammates to defeat the other team. I'd call that co-op. The same can be done with Mario Kart, but whatever.
Do all couch game names have a slight sexual innuendo?
You want to come over tonight and couch co-op?
+1 for a tentative Overcooked suggestion but only if you think you and your cousin won't strangle each other in a high stress scenario. I can't play the game with my wife because she's too goofy and I'm too serious.
Bread and Fred looks like a lot of fun but I haven't actually played it yet.
Diablo 3 was fun playing couch co-op and reminded me more than a little bit of playing Gauntlet in the good old days.
Honestly overcooked was stressful but manageable. The only time I wanted to strangle a friend (through my monitor) was in one of the "we were here" games because it was impossible to solve anything with him.
Edit: Oh I saw bread and fred on a stream a while ago (Jerma), forgot about that one. I think chained together was very much inspired by it.
Bread and Fred looks great but my wife and I turned it off after half hour. The mechanics are proper hardcore physics sim with very little room for error or hand holding. It honestly just wasn't fun for us. I think there's a demo available so maybe try that before you spend money on it.
- Castle Crashers
- Party Animals
- Overcooked (be ready to hate everyone you are playing with)
On god we played through the campaign on the first or second one and it was so stressful
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My family loves:
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Spelunky (sidescroller Indiana-Jones-themed platformer action-roguelite)
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Pikmin 3 (3D silly minion-bossing treasure hunting)
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River City Girls (sidescrolling beat-em-up with amazing soundtrack)
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Moving Out (3D "goofy physics" furniture-moving obstacle course)
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Kirby and the Lost World (3D action adventure)
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Stardew Valley (isometric farm sim)
All of these are fully coöp from the beginning.
If you wanna go retro at all you should check out UFO50. 50 very old school style games, many of which have 2 player modes.
Oh this is so cool, I think I'll buy it regardless of if we co-op anything within.
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Have you tried Broforce? It seems like a run and gun, but the key is thinking how to get out of situations.
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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!
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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.
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Beyond all the other great suggestions, you can use the games browser on co-optimus to help narrow things down.
I think Stardew Valley has a Co-op mode? I'm not entirely sure
It sure does. It's quite different to other games suggested in this thread, but if it's the kind of game OP is wanting to try then it's very good as a couch coop game (on PC, not sure if supported on other platforms). Though I get the feeling OP is looking for action or round based, rather than a quiet tending of a farm and exploring the local area.
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9 Parchments - Surprising gem with some depth and a lot of replay value. Reminds me a lot of the Harry Potter universe. We fire this up almost every weekend. I recommend setting friendly fire to 'self' instead, as it encourages actual cooperative play.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shredder's Revenge - this is just a hack n slash quarter eater, but it's mindless fun.
Most of my suggestions that I've been playing with my brother are already posted, so I'll just add 3 more I haven't seen yet:
- Human Fall Flat
- Enter the gungeon
- Vampire survivors
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- Cult of the Lamb
- Ship of Fools
Quite surprised these are not on here yet.
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.
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.
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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
If you have a Nintendo Switch then Snipperclips is a really fun and cute co-op.
I've been playing Broforce with my buddy recently. Lots of shooting and blowing shit up platformer but pretty funny if you're into the classic action movies like Rambo, Commando, etc.
Gears of War if you want to branch into 3rd person cover shooter. (Gears 5 is the only one on steam I think.)
The Lego games usually have couch co-op I think and I've enjoyed those a lot with younger people.
Some retro suggestions:
- Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 - it sounds like your cousin is probably too old for this but this has one of the best "younger sibling" modes. They help collect and shoot bits. Which ultimately doesn't matter much
- The Legend of Zelda 4 Swords Adventure - It's basically multi-player Link to the Past! Bonus points if you dig up a GameCube, link cables, and GBAs
- Kirby Super Star - a mix of competitive and coop games
- Super Mario World (any) - you take turns but if you don't go 6 levels without dying to his one it can be fun
- Halo 1-3 + ODST - Great classic shooters, the campaigns are customizable for difficulty, and a little kid probably loves alien shooters
- Borderlands 1/2 - Looter shooters with a sense of irreverance
- Dead Rising 2/Off the Record and 3 - Zombie hoard murdering with combo weapons
- The Simpsons '91, Battletoads, TMNT, Streets of Rage, etc - Beat Em Ups are great for multi-player
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I’d like to add for switch: Snipperclips, Yoshi‘s crafted world and Pode
My list of coop games
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Broforce
- Castle Crashers
- Children of Morta
- Divinity Original Sin 2
- For the King
- "FORCED: Slightly Better Edition"
- Helldivers 1
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
- Rocket League
^ All of these are on Steam.
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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
Streets of rage games are good fun
My kids and I have loved these:
Coop:
Competitive:
Dark pictures is a pretty fun movie like Seires my friends and have have very much enjoyed!
There is also ultimate chicken horse (usually better with more than 2 people)
Castle crashers (Side scroller silly adventure game) Gang beasts is also pretty fun
Rayman Legends is without a doubt my favourite coop platformer with fantastic music and great fluid controls. I strongly recommend it, it's tons of fun
Dont starve together
Vampire survivor
Castle crashers
And if you are into emulation most of ps2 era and before is designed for couch co op so hit the archives (top x lists on you tube makes it easy), depending on your cousins tastes
Cats Quest 2
Pretty cute game and if one person is significantly better at games, they can carry the team pretty well.
My mandatory Sky: Children of the Light mention.
Lots of exploring and cooperating with irl co-players (E: you'd have to play on different devices, but one could play on a big screen, and the other can join and use their handheld mostly as a controller) and strangers, some puzzles/quests, some mild scary/dangerous parts, lots of lore, incredible graphics and good soundtrack. It's an open ended game (though some features only become available after your first complete run through) and there is an aspect of grinding if you want to get IGC for cosmetics but you're doing it flying through this gorgeous landscape, and there is a daily cap so you can be pretty chill about it, and IAP are pretty easy to avoid (for me anyway) and are never necessary for gameplay.
There are some issues with bugs, and the company growing and decisions clearly being made by shareholders rather then developers, but at this point it is still absolutely worth playing.
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