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fmstrat, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Outriders. And a bit more tame but Unravel 2 for in-person.

Peffse, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2

Edit: Oh, Neverwinter Nights

Stormrvr,
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Do you find that NWN still holds up well today? I used to play it a lot when it first came out (first campaigns then dlc then persistant world servers), I haven’t really played the enhanced edition much yet, so just wondered.

Peffse,

ooh, umm. I actually haven’t played it since 2018. I can’t speak for Enhanced Edition as that came out like a month after I completed the campaign.

Stormrvr,
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Ahh right on - I had a lot of love for that game, so was curious. Might have to try it again regardless :)

capt_wolf, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Abiotic Factor has been really fun for my buddy and me. Especially with the new update that came out last week. It’s a Half Life themed survival game.

Others that get my vote:

Valheim - Norse mythology themed survival game with Playstationesque graphics

Phasmophobia - THE ghost hunting game(see also Ghost Exile, Ghost Exorcism Inc., Forewarned)

Left 4 Dead - the original Zombie FPS series (see also Back 4 Blood, it’s kinda alright) PILLS HERE!

Risk of Rain - Pretty tough shooter series

Stardew Valley - A modern Harvest Moon, farming/life sim

Don’t Starve Together - If you played Stardew valley in hell, but everyone’s name started with a W

Factorio/Satisfactory - Resource harvesting and logistics sims. One’s isometric, ones first person, one has zerg rushes

Grounded - Honey I Shrunk The Kids: the survival game

Deep Rock Galactic - Left 4 Dead for Dwarves. ROCK AND STONE!!!

Overcooked - cooking and serving game, lots of communication required

Portal 2 - First person puzzle game, also lots of communication required

Barotrauma - Submarine sim on Europa, requires marriage levels of communication

Binding of Isaac - Roguelike shooter that’s sort of Zelda inspired, multiplayer was a little janky last time I tried it, but that was a while ago

The Forest - Excellent horror survival series

Starbound - Terraria in space

Trine series - A modern Lost Vikings, side scrolling puzzles and platforming

Subnautica 2 - A beautiful and terrifying diving/exploration game, original game has a coop mod 8 years in development, but it’s been very buggy

Diablo - First and second games are still very solid experiences and there are some excellent mods out for both

Escape Simulator - Literally an escape room simulator. Has workshop support on steam for even more puzzles.

Green Hell - The Forest, but in the jungle, much more focus on the reality of being stranded in a place where just about everything is likely to kill you.

No Man’s Sky - Space/planetary exploration sim

Dead Island - another zombie FPS

Dying Light - a zombie game with parkour

20XX/30XX - Megaman X styled platformers with roguelite elements

GTFO - Extremely hard, stealth based, alien FPS

Most “Souls” games - Very fun coop summoning, if you don’t mind the sometimes extreme difficulty

Goat Simulator series - Goofy exploration games

Magicka series - Isometric action adventure games where you combine different elements to cast spells

Barony - a true roguelike FPS RPG, voxel based, very hard

Void Crew - Space sim, mission based, sort of Egyptian mythos themed, meant for up to 4 players but definitely possible with just 2

Human Fall Flat - Puzzle/exploration game

Half Dead series - Cube: the game

Orcs Must Die series - Tower defense

Dungeon Defenders series - also tower defense, but with class based

Secret of Mana - One of the first action JRPGS, the remake has drop in coop just like the original, but I believe it’s couch coop, so if you’re not right next to each other, you’ll need something like Parsec to play it

Have a ton more, but those are the ones I can recall having the most fun. Others have probably listed a bunch of them and I probably missed a few good ones, but hopefully a few of them are new.

You could always tinker with some emulators for some retro coop games!

AttackMuffin,

Great write up man, thanks :)

Cataphract,

The overcooked series is definitely fun and always comes up cheap on sales for like 3 bucks. It’s definitely one to add to any co-op rotation because it’s easy to learn but hard to execute so you’ll always be going back to get those extra stars you missed.

simple,

Note about Overcooked is that the new version that combines 1 & 2 (Overcooked All You Can Eat) seems to have major issues with online multiplayer that never got fixed. You’re better off just buying Overcooked 2.

dditty,

I agree, if they like survival games like Minecraft and Terraria, I too would recommend Valheim and The Forest/SOTF

ElectricTrombone, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?
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Pikmin 3

Overcooked

MajorHavoc, (edited )

Overcooked

I too choose to try to break up this person’s friendship.

I’m kidding… Mostly.

unrushed233, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Subnautica can be played together using the Nitrox mod

nitrox.rux.gg

MajorHavoc,

Ooh. Sweet.

Coelacanth, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?
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I haven’t seen Rayman Legends mentioned, so I’ll throw it out there. It’s a pretty flawless game for what it tries to be, and it’s a lot of fun to play with a friend. The musical levels are just extraordinarily crafted. Definitely recommended if you’re into platforming at all (and even if you’re not it’s worth a shot!)

MajorHavoc,

It’s a pretty flawless game

Indeed. It’s a little spooky.

After completing the whole game I thought, that was really fun, other than…wait… The whole thing was fun. That can’t be right…?

Peffse, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Batman: Arkham Asylum’s free-flowing combo system was copied by many future games.

ampersandrew,
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And unfortunately, not one of them did it better.

warbond,

The Spider-Man games come close, but that first Arkham game was just so well done

ampersandrew,
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They might be closest, but they’re still pretty far off. One of the core pillars of Arkham combat is that it would punish you for button mashing by dropping your combo, meaning you not only gain fewer points at the end of combat but also lose access to your instant finishers, which are all too valuable for taking out the toughest opponents. Spider-Man is happy to let you mindlessly mash, and it’s far worse off for it.

VindictiveJudge,
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Might just be because I’m just starting out, but Spider-Man’s combat is much more punishing for me. Could just be the higher emphasis on using specific combos on certain enemies, which I have some difficulty keeping straight.

pyre,

i think Shadow of Mordor did actually. the system was pretty similar but it didn’t feel as magnetic, which is an improvement.

ampersandrew,
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I did like the magnetic nature of Arkham, and since Mordor lacked it, they let you hold your combo streak for longer, which also made it too easy.

pyre,

yeah i don’t care so much about ease, i care about how it feels. Arkham’s combat was fun, but the insane distances you could instantly travel made it feel like the game was playing itself. mordor’s solution is better imo. but it obviously comes down to personal preference.

ampersandrew,
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I felt it was more about the “free flow” in the free flow combat system in Arkham. You want it to all chain together, and Arkham made sure you only hit the buttons you needed to exactly as many times as you needed to. Mordor let you keep your combo going even though it had been like 10 seconds since the last time you did anything, which wasn’t exactly flowing at that point. That combo system was a great fit for Batman, and it would fit in nicely with Jason Bourne or John Wick as well, and I’m not sure Lord of the Rings was the best fit for it, but it doesn’t seem like many are trying to do that combat style anymore.

Blackmist,

I always feel like Prince of Persia: Sands of Time got there first.

Blackmist, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Grab a PS2 emulator and give Kuri Kuri Mix a go.

It’s by FromSoft of all people and it seems hardly anyone has heard of it.

Duamerthrax, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Prodeus is still EA, but it has a solid first episode with good Co-op gameplay if you’re into retro style shooters.

If you really want to go old school, OG Doom from 1993 and Bungie’s Marathon Trilogy(1994-96) support co-op. I haven’t tried Doom yet, but you do need to be technical to figure out Marathon co-op.

bblkargonaut, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Halo

psmgx, do gaming w Is it worth upgrading from a Ryzen 7 3800X to a Ryzen 7 5700X3d?

GPU improvement would do more for you.

Do you do a lot of VM work? Other stuff that’s CPU heavy?

AMD open source drivers are great on linux tho I used nVidia for a long time with Fedora and had no issues

Infernal_pizza,
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Not really, I do use VMs but not normally just 1 or 2 at a time, and I don’t think I’ve ever run into cpu issues with them (usually it’s disk usage if anything) Maybe the occasional bit of emulation but nothing that’s caused me any issues so far.

I’m still struggling between Nvidia and AMD on the gpu side, I’m looking at the 4070/ti/super vs the RX7800 XT, and the Nvidia cards seem to win in everything except VRAM and Linux compatibility. And there’s not much of a price difference between the standard 4070 and the RX7800 XT

ICastFist, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?
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Earth Defense Force. You can probably get 4.1 on a sale really cheap and that could be a decent introduction to the series as a whole, it also has the best overall story tone in my opinion, made of 110% grade B cheese

If you two enjoy it and don’t feel burnt out, you can later get EDF 5, which has several QoL updates compared to 4.1, but tends to have a higher price.

chickenf622,

This 100% it’s so fun to laugh at how ridiculous the story and gameplay is with a friend. Plus each class truly feels unique in how you play them, so you have 4 play styles to choose from.

crapwittyname, (edited ) do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

Has nobody mentioned Barotrauma? Had a few hundred hours of fun with this, my buddy and I. Especially if you don’t mind shit being not very shiny. It is unique, and it keeps on giving.

Dagge, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

I couldn’t find it mentioned already, but I really loved Vagante. store.steampowered.com/app/323220/Vagante/

a_wild_mimic_appears, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

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.
thermal_shock,

loved grim dawn, great diablo style and awesome characters.

Stormrvr,
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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.

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