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What are the best co-op games you enjoy? Anything from the modern games, to the old games.

For me, I'm aiming for PC games, or a game that can be easily emulated like PS2 games or GameBoy Advance.

Main focus, is that you are supposed to play 2 players or more (and are actually fun to play) with little to no internet. (Trying to prepare in advance)

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Timesplitters 2 and 3 Portal 2 Kirby Super Star

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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Borderlands 2 is great for co-op, but I'm not sure if you can do local splitscreen if that's what you're looking for.

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I posted a review here earlier this year, but A Way Out was an excellent 2-player co-op game! I really enjoyed it. Story rich puzzles with some action interspersed. And it's split-screen even if you're playing online, so you can see what your partner is up to and coordinate with them. The ending was heart-wrenching too! Such an emotionally impacting story. Check out my review for a spoiler-free intro to that game.

[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Quake and Quake 2 have a bunch of co-op modes and they have been updated for crossplay on modern systems. I was just running some of the newer map packs with my buddies last night. Quake is $4 on Humble right now.

New classic Doom versions have very good split screen options

Personally i like Duck Game for parties of 4+

[–] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago

Spelunky2 is good, up to 4 players.

Very hard but definitely worth persevering with.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Where is Raft in these lists?

[–] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

My favourite co-op games are:

  • A way out
  • It takes two
  • Slit fiction
  • Unravel 2
  • Untitled goose game
  • Operation tango
  • Deep rock galactic
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Since OP mentioned it, how may of these can do offline co-op? I don't think DRG does, and it's the only one I've done multiplayer on (though it is otherwise a great suggestion)

[–] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah, fair, my bad - did not read that bit properly. I need more coffee this morning.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago

Enjoy the bean juice when you can get some. I think I'll go brew some myself

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

N+ for the xbone is pretty good. It's very simple but addictive.

If you can emulate get Mashed: Fully loaded for the PS2

I used to play some monkey game at uni but we were always stoned so I can't remember exactly. Mebbies it's something like Monkey ball tennis? There was loads of games within

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell

A jewel we've found recently. It's incredibly fun and vast

[–] proti@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - pretty cool as you can play on 1 controller.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (OG) - have awesome memories with it.
Earth Defence Force 4 or 5 - over the top bug extermination and built in split screen even on PC.
Last thing I can recommend is Saints Row 2, 3 and 4 (especially 3) - but you need something like Nucleus to play on the same device.

[–] TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

My 1 seed for the PS2 is Cookies and Cream. It’s a split screen co-op game for 2 players where each side will have obstacles that only the other side can solve. Very fun and very addictive, but it also has a solid control scheme that is easy to pick up.

My wife and I played it a lot when we were first dating and she loved it even though she rarely, if ever, plays video games. Still have the original copy and I’ll never part with it 😊

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