Might be not as recent, but the Trine series might be worth a look. I would also recommend Magicka, but that can be chaotic at times so I am not sure if that would be a good fit or not.
Since they mentioned action games as an option, Vermintide 2 can be a super fun co-op game and is very enjoyable across the easiest and hardest difficulties. It’s Warhammer Fantasy so the aesthetic is gonna be more grimdark and gory than cute, but holy fucknuggets is the gameplay good. It’s basically horde shooter like Left 4 Dead and Payday, but with a huge focus on melee combat rather than shooting. It’s also an “easy to pick up, hard to master” game and very much enjoyable, so the lower difficulties might be less chaotic than the higher difficulties. The community is also generally pretty chill and nice, so if y’all ever play pubs you’ll usually get people who aren’t sweaty and tryharding in the game outside of very specifically the second-hardest difficulty called Legend. Killing rats on anything below the Champion difficulty can be a chill time, and on Champion or above, the game starts to really engage you with mechanics like dodging, pushblocking, cleave, stagger, boss kiting, and light/heavy attack weaving.
Trine 2 got recommended by someone else specifically among the Trine games, and I have that and Magicka in my steam library, unplayed. So I think those might get a shot at some point.
Vermintide 2 is great! I’ve played quite a bit of it, but I don’t think we’re quite ready for that yet.
Conclave sounds like it might work. Good story played in chapters. Runs in a browser. I bought a license when they first came out of beta and played through in an afternoon.
I would say anything that can’t be played in a browser isn’t going to work. The reason you can’t run Windows .exes is because Chromebooks are Linux based. I’m not sure how locked down Chromebooks are since I’ve never personally tinkered with one.
If you can get the Chromebooks to install Linux software, then you can install Lutris. Then you can pop in a USB drive with a Windows game install and run it from there. To make the USB drive you can set the game up on one Chromebook using a folder on the drive as the Wine prefix, then clone it.
Since we’re talking about your job here, only use games that are public domain or that you’ve gotten permission for use in a school setting (don’t bother trying with any of the big publishers). No abandonware or anything like that. There are some homebrew games out there that may work, but I don’t know how many of them have the kind of story you’re looking for.
In terms of coop games with cats in them: Aqua Kitty is an option. More of an underwater action game, could be too fast paced.
If you ever return to Overcooked, some versions of the game have a Practice Mode you can go into. You can’t progress levels with this, but you can serve out dishes at your own pace, which feels nicer.
An old top-down shooter I enjoy is Assault Android Cactus. Players can revive themselves if they die, the only cost being that dying makes it hard to keep up a certain rate of kills needed to clear the level without the Battery draining out.
At a long stretch, there are visual novels like Pizza Game that are much more fun with your own voice acting applied, largely due to the horrendous stupidity of the whole cast.
Animal Crossing sorta has 2p mode. The second player can’t walk too far from the main player and has more limited gameplay options, but it can be fun to run around and fish together.
I didn’t know animal crossing had local coop, they mentioned being open to animal crossing specifically today, so maybe I’ll pick it up. I haven’t played an animal crossing game since the one on the DS, I could be down to be their player 2 on it.
Every player on the same switch plays on the same island. Only one player can actually play at a time, but another can join on a separate controller and act as a sort of sidekick that can fish and pick vegetables and such. My husband and I like to split of the gardening across the island then take turns helping each other with our respective sections.
(I’m an idiot but this is probably good info for people who can better advise)
What level of game do you have in mind? I’m wondering if something browser playable is in order. Have you considered the story of the chrome browser dinosaur game?
As an outside the box option, have you thought about a single player turn based RPG as an option?something like Persona 5 for instance would have a good story, cute cat, and you could trade off on the battles while your partner would have input on the story beats and battle selections. I know it’s not 2-player really, but it might give you both a chance to steer the narrative and the choices together and you wouldn’t need to worry about them being overwhelm with complicated actions and inputs.
I think there are a lot of jrpgs they’d enjoy, if they became interested in gaming on their own. As is if they aren’t in control they disengage pretty fast, and they aren’t interested enough yet to want to play a single player thing I don’t think.
Thanks! I appreciate the rec even if I don’tthink it fits us right now!
Yeah, I’ve added like 10 games to my steam wishlist with the intent to run 'em by them tonight, might do a once over before though, as I don’t want to overwhelm them.
Good news! There’s a new update that included a PvE server that you and friends can play on. You’ll be the only players on the server and can play all the PvE content (minus the fort of damned/fortune)
There are a few restrictions, but if you care more about game experience, they shouldn’t affect you too much.
As one of the consoles most famous titles, there’s a number of ways to play it.
It’ll help develop some of her hand-eye, but in a slower, calmer way she will probably be more than equal to. There’s also a lot of character development and plot, it is a jrpg-influenced game after all.
2 player co-op kicks in about an hour-ish into the game, if memory serves, once the second character enters the story.
I really like Secret of Mana. I think because I’ve already played through it would make it less of a good coop game for them, but if I can get them a little interested in playing on their own I think it would have potential as an early game for them.
it’s an indie city builder in which your first goal is to secure the survival of the settlement. Graphics are adorable and retro-ish and the gameplay is challenging. Although it could use a it more polishing and there is some getting used to the games quirks. But it’s quite cheap (~3€) so I feel it’s okay.
May be hit or miss but Moving Out (1 or 2) is a lot of fun. You spend most of your time failing to do anything and just laughing about how goofy it is.
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