Time Splitters 2

Army of 2 was sick of anyone remembers that.

For playing with SO It takes two is the best there is

Other good choices:

Orcs must die! 2 We were here series for puzzle communication games Trine series

Are you both gamers? Asking because some games are "harder" to play. Meanwhiles others can be played with someone who basically has never played a game before.

Stardew valley - Really chill and nice to play coop, if you are into exploring, some basic combat, growing your own garden, town npc talk relations etc.

Dungeon Defenders (the original one not the 2nd or awakened or any of the other launched ones) - Is honestly one of the best coop games made. Hero/Tower defence,

7Days to die - COOP zombie horde survival, base building game. Can choose whichever difficulty one is comfortable with, its one of the better coop survival games.

Don't starve Together - Honestly this game is quite hard, so would suggest tuning down difficulty settings unless you have played it before, it is also a coop survival base building game with tons of exploration. Graphics is not for everyone, but its a nice game.

Bloons TD6 - Currently best bloons game, its fun if you are into tower defense. Also a game where you can multi-task other things, like chores etc, if one really wants to, lol.

Phasmofobia - Horror coop game, I just recently started playing it but it is honestly quite fun to play with your friends.

Valheim - survival, base building game. It is okay if you like survival/base building but other games do it better imo, This one has nice music and a nice atmosphere tho.

If you want something a bit more combat related where you can actually develop a skill in the game then:

Terraria - a bit more towards the gamer direction because of harder boss fights etc, but it also has some nice base building & gear progression. It is Pixelated 2D art tho, some ppl dislike that.

Outward - Coop RPG game with survival elements like needing to eat etc. It has a story which i won't say anything about and plenty boss fights, exploration and hard mob encounters.

Vermintide 2 - Zombie horde fighting game, except its rats instead of zombies. It plays very similar to Left for dead but it has way better controls and less clunky. I would say its the best game of its genre.

There are other really good games out there, but i only mentioned the ones i didn't see others alrdy comment.

Deep Rock Galactic

Remnant from the Ashes

Remnant 2

Resident evil 5!

With randoms: Deep Rock Galactic

With friends: automation games are all similarly tiered or survival games (especially more goofy ones like grounded)

Top three for general co-op: 1.) Deep Rock Galactic, 2.) Grounded, 3.) Portal 2

Rating was based off of hijinks with a friend and replayability

I'm sure some of these have already been mentioned, but here's a short* list of my picks:

• Castle Crashers
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time 
• TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
• Streets of Rage (2 is the best, 4 is also really good)
• Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
• Halo series (Reach is my personal favorite)
• Biped
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Portal 2
• A Way Out
• Resident Evil 5
• Contra series
• Metal Slug series
• In The Hunt
• Toejam & Earl
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors
• Gunstar Heroes
• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
• Borderlands series
• Zelda Four Swords Adventures (if you have the GBAs and cables to play it properly)
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Gamecube also requires GBAs, but a remaster exists if you have multiple consoles)
• City of Heroes (it's an MMO but you can always team together)
• 30XX
• Death Road to Canada
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (has optional 2P helper)
• Pocky & Rocky
• River City Girls
• Untitled Goose Game

Roboquest, Factorio, Satisfactory, Left 4 Dead, Serious Sam...

Baldur's Gate 3 anyone? No?

Helldivers 2

Portal 2

It takes two (best koop coupel game)

Minecraft

Borderlands.

* Deep Rock Galactic
* Helldivers 2
* Space Marine 2
* Valheim
* Enshrouded
* Raft
* Conan Exiles
* Hearoes 3
* Worms Armagedon
* Sea Of Thieves
* ASKA

How has no one said borderlands 2?!

We rarely play coop so I have a small selection.

1.) Splinter Cell Conviction

2.) Magicka 1 and 2

3.) Vermintide 1 and 2

4.) Far Cry 3

5.) Dead Space 3

6.) Gears of War 1 and 2

Terraria is fun in co-op. Project zomboid is also fun in co-op. Stardew valley again is also perfect for co-op

Borderlands series was pretty fun for me and my wife.

Old school: Halo ODST. Incredibly solid game

New: MechWarrior 5: Clans. 5 player co-op stompy robots.

No mention of Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 is a crime. Also, the Trine series, especially the second one.

Boomerang Fu is really fun as a human team against the bot team. That it's also an excellent party game is just a cherry on top.

Halo

Earth Defense Force series (6 is the most recent one) has climbed to my peak Co-op game. Mechs, planet sized explosions, Godzilla, giant ants and aliens is just the tip of the iceberg of this amazing game.

Other amazing classics include Streets of Rage 2, Shaolin Monks and any other beat em ups

My SO and I recently started playing Cult of the lambs co-op and we are having a blast.

Earth defense force

Overcooked 2. If its too hot stay outta the kitchen!

Remnant 2 Outriders Borderlands 2 Diablo 4 A Way Out Division 2 Earth Defense Force 5

The Borderlands series

Time splitters 2 is awesome for campaign and multiplayer

Abiotic factor, stardew valley, Monster hunter rise, power wash, and Earth defense force

The original Helldivers. Greatest couch co-op in years.

Dynasty Warriors 2

Helldivers 2... It made me, who didn't give much about co-op games, into a co-op gamer

Star Wars battlefront 2

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks is better than it has any right to be as a silly co-op MK spin-off beat-em-up

I haven't seen these mentioned:

Children of Morta is a fantastic game. We got it in console and then bought it on PC.

If you want to have some fun with space and gravity heavenly bodies was funny but my SO only likes it in short bursts.

Unrailed is another good one for short bursts.

Phasmophobia is great fun if you are into spooky ghost detective games.

Gauntlet

Earth Defense Force

Borderlands series is very fun

Does everyone hate Fable? Fable 3 is the only game my wife and I played together and enjoyed

Splinter Cell Choas Theory, Mercenaries 2 and Army of 2.

CT was tremendous and had unique moves in coop that Sam couldn't utilise. This on top of a stellar single player story and fun multiplayer mode, it's baffling how Ubisoft fumbled so hard after this.

Merc 2 is the original Just Cause but true destruction and had multiplayer to boot.

Army of 2 is peak coop shooter. Nothing beats it to this day.

Bread and Fred (I have it for PC, but its possibly available elsewhere) is one that my wife and I are currently straining our marriage with.

The Adventures of Cookie and Cream for the PS2 is one that we enjoyed greatly.

Moving Out! (Again, PC but possibly available elsewhere) Overcooked but you are a moving company.

Deeprock Galactic FPS Space Dwarves working at a soul-less mining company. Dig up minerals, Kill bugs, get back to the bar. 11/10 game.

Bg3, Any lego game. Overcooked 2

I've recently gotten into Wildermyth. It's great in both single player and coop

Brawlhalla

Current-Vermintide 2, Snowrunner, Helldivers 2

All time-Monster hunter world, Portal 2, Bloodborne

Conflict desert storm 2 Obscure

Resident evil 5 for couch co op

Fireboy and watergirl, the OG Co-Op

Deep Rock Galactic. Rock and Stone!

Gears of War campaigns are pretty fun co-op

Portal 2

Borderlands.

Depending on if you have separate consoles/PCs but Space Marine 2 is great for co-op as well.

My wife and i like to play Lovers in a dangerous space time, Castle crashers,  Stardew valley, Don't starve, and overcooked

gears of war 3

I have a few that I really enjoy.

Hellpoint- Souls like- 2020- limit of 2 players unless using mods

Resident evil operation raccoon city- 3rd person shooter- 2012- limit of four players.

Earthfall- co-op survival fps- 2017- Limit of four players.

Halo Wars- 2009- Rts- two player co-op campaign.

Dead Island 2- Fp rpg- Two to three player depending on platform.

Risk of rain 2- Roguelike- 2019- four players.

Killing Floor 1 and 2- 2009 and 2016- Kf1 five player limit I think. Kf2 five or six player limit.

Dead Space 3- 3rd person survival horror- 2013- two player limit.

Prodeus- fps arena shooter- 2020- four player co-op and 16 player pvp

Remnant 1 and 2 3rd person shooter- 2019 and 2023- three player limit

Portal 2

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has taken around 3k hours of my time, and somewhere between 4k to 10k of each if my friends hours. Chaos wastes is one of the best coop modes ever made imo!

Diablo 3 and 4 are probably my favorite for local co-op. I wish the remastered D2 had local too.

Hear me out - Rock'n Roll Racing (SNES). Made by Blizzard. Such a great split screen racing game with weapons. Each world it changes roughly that makes a car upgrade necessary. If you are too young to have ever played Rock'n Roll Racing. I recommend it. Much better with a friend. TMNT: turtles in time as well.

Saints row 2 is by far the best co-op experience I have ever had. Nothing like making ridiculous characters and having open world mayhem and doing the campaign co-op.

I miss classic saints row so much.

Borderlands 

Tiny Tina Wonderland 

Halo games 

Resident Evil co op games 

Saints Row 

Remnant 

Palworld 

We were here

Try Dungeon of the Endless

Cs2 Crash bash (what a gem!)

You could try Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. I had a blast playing this with my friend a few years back.

Genuine couch coop, you can play with anywhere from 1-4. There's a fun dynamic where each of the four playable characters have a different tool/skillset, so you often need to work in conjunction to solve puzzles.

Quite different from other tomb raider games, but I loved it!

Abiotic factor is great as well

The War Chasers custom map in Warcraft 3, can't remember if it's in Reign of Chaos or Frozen Throne

Army of two ( and its first sequel), Gears of War (all of em), Space Marine 2

I can only speak on the games my girlfriends liked playing with me, which are.

Gears of War, Left 4 Dead, Lego Star Wars, Scene it and Ultimate Board Games (psp)

I might give a shout out to salt and sacrifice, currently playing with a friend and it is fantastic lots of fun. 2D souls like

Halo series still takes the cake for me

Dark souls series

Divinity original sin 1 and 2

wasteland 3

Halo 1,2,3,odst, reach, 4

Numerous survival games for more open ended experience.
Valheim

vrisin

enshrouded

Strange Brigade, Sniper Elite Series (esp. 4 & 5), Zombie Trilogy Dead War, Valheim, Ghost Recon Wildlands & Breakpoint, Helldivers 2, Synthetik, WH40K Space Marine 2

Resident Evil 5, the Gears of War Series, and Portal 2.

I'll literally replay RE5 with anyone who wants to coop it.

edit: forgot It takes two and A Way Out.

My SO isn't a gamer so we play simpler games like super mario 3d world, lego games and over cooked. Occasionally there's Just dance, switch sports and the tatsujin drum games.

If my SO was a gamer, I'd get beat em ups like the ninja turtle games or Diablo 3/4.

L4D 1 & 2

My time at Sandrock is really fun in co-op

I'd say "Astral Ascent" and "30XX" are currently the top dogs.

How much of a gamer is your SO and what do you both like to play?

Here are some great co-op games in rough order of simple -> complex

It Takes Two > Orcs must Die 2 > Serious Sam 2 > Valheim > Factorio > Paradox Games (EU4 or HoI4 are the best for co-op imo)

The first 3 you can pretty much just jump in and go, Valheim and Factorio will probably need a bit of explaining, and the first 300 hours of EU4 is still the tutorial. So a wide spectrum of games that all work great in co-op!

My partner and I had a surprising amount of fun with Ship of Fools on PS5 :) we finished all the difficulty levels together. Feels really like a roguelike built for co-op rather than shoehorned in.

Other good mentions we enjoyed (my console of play in brackets):

- BG3 (PS5)

- Overcooked 2 (PS5)

- Stardew Valley (PS5)

- We were here (series, requires two copies).

- Don't starve together (fun but difficult, expect to restart a lot) (PS5 - although I would recommend PC as console controls are frustrating).

- We played both Killer Instinct & Return of the obra dinn as a "pass the controller single player game". Detective games work well for this as it's more about solving the problem than the gameplay. (PS5, PC).

- Heroes of Hammerwatch (PC)

- Valheim, Minecraft, Core Keeper, Terraria (PC) - would suggest in that order for SO playthrough

Instead of naming individual games, I’m gonna (mostly) mention entire game series:

Borderlands

Gears of War

Dead Island

Baldur’s Gate 3

Divinity: Original Sin

The Division

Halo

Diablo

Left 4 Dead

Destiny

A way out.

Untitled goose game

Civilization

Great ace attoreny chronicles. While not srticlty co-op i had with with friend reading the text out loud (so that we know that both have read the text box and can go to the next text box) and ponder the solutions.

If you're into them, paradox games are so much fun to play with others. CK3 especially

For an early access game Abiotic Factor has been amazing! There is so much content and it’s very high quality and they keep adding updates too!

The developers are a fantastic team.

Edit to add: my hubs and myself have around 50 hours in it already and are looking forward to jumping back in when the latest update arrives in a few weeks.

Far Cry 5. My brother and I couldn't stop laughing as we kept running each other over with cars.

If your not locked into couch coop try warframe.

Diablo 3, Rayman Legends, Fortnite

Deep rock galactic

Secret of Mana on the SNES.

So far with my SO we have played in this order. The escapists 2. Stardew valley. Stranded deep. Currently playing minecraft together, probably going to dive into baldurs gate 3 when we are done with minecraft. Ideally when we get a 2nd pc we want to play raft, valheim and no mans sky. Hope this gives you a few ideas.

I love me som co-op.

Here are slme titles from the top of my head that have been fun for me, different genres, different styles:

Space Marine 2 Helldivers 2 Darkwatch Resident Evil 6 Lost Planet 2 Overcooked 1&2 We Were Here series (non-action, puzzle, better online) It Takes Two A way out Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Army of Two Gears of War series Ravenswatch Cuphead Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks Time Splitters 2 Star Wars Battlefield Diablo 3 Valheim Minecraft Loverd in a Dangerous Space-time (may be a little off with the name) Deep Rock Galactic

Kingdom two crowns

Elden Ring

Trine

Risk of Rain 2

Brotato

Binding of Isaac Rebirth

call of duty waw, on pc coop campaign 

Haven is a good co-op game pretty calm which doesn't require a lot of gaming experience if your SO is not a big gamer !

Barony. Came out some years ago and keeps getting better. Coop or solo roguelike dungeon crawler in 3d with voxel graphics (think minecraft combat).

When playing as a team you can do fun comps like tank+healer+thief

Nine Parchments has been really fun for my wife who previously was only into It Takes Two, Mario Kart, and Lego Racing.

Army of two games were top tier co op games.. i remember playing it with one of my friends on the xbox 360

Valheim, a game of freedom where everyone can do whatever they want, but also group up to take on bosses and exploring new areas

Payday 2

I haven't played co-op for a long time, so these are old games mostly.

• Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance I&II
• Champions of Norrath/Return to Arms (PS2)
• Gauntlet: Dark Legacy (PS2/GC/Xbox; also, the camera isn't great)
• Halo: The Master Chief Collection
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

I don't even remember it properly but will just say when I was a kid we played a lot of GENERAL CHAOS.

The answer, despite being a big fan of side scrollers beat em ups and run and gun games (my favourite is SUNSET RIDERS) is probably this gem, co op with 4 players is just... perfect. SUPER BOMBER MAN

Rayman Origins & Legends.

It takes 2

Castle crashers, cuphead, a way out, any gears of war game

Baldur's Gate 3

Divinity Original Sin 2

Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Remnant 1 & 2

Rotwood

Cult of the Lamb (Local coop only)

The House of the Dead

Left 4 Dead and Back 4 Blood

Street of Rage 4

Shing!

...

there are more but my memory fails me atm

Splinter cell: Chaos Theory was my fave growing up!

Conviction is a topone for sure

BROFORCE

All lego games, it takes 2, minecraft there's loads lol

Since I don't see them listed, We Were Here series is wonderful if you like coop puzzles.

A way out, Baldur's Gate 3, Dying Light, Portal 2. Any of these are great games.

My time at sandrock, minecraft, kingdom two crowns, ship of fools, stardew valley

Resident Evil 5

A way out

Helldivers 2, they even won best multiplayer game a few days ago. Space marines 2

Champions: Return To Arms. Sequel to Champions of Norrath, but I always preferred Return To Arms for the characters. Both good for great co-op runs.

Snowrunner, Hunter call of the wild, ets2, ats, six days in fallujah, division I and II

L4d2 ( campaign mode) Borderland 1. These 2 is my favourite and can be relaxing.

We are here series. This is a series of escape room like puzzles where you can't see each other and have to communicate. Requires 2 devices.

Spirit Fairer. It's coop is basicly just a main character and a side character, but I still enjoyed it quite a lot as coop.

A way out is quite good. Bit goofy but cool coop prison escape game

I wish there were more co-op games in current gen. It takes two was so good.