My younger cousin comes over today (like every few months) and we will be playing some couch coop games over the weekend.

So far we tried a lot of games and found some great ones along the way. Sidescrollers work sometimes, but third person and isometric is better. And I won’t touch another twin stick shooter haha. Do y’all have any suggestions, it’s always so much work to find a good new game (as opposed to just going after steam review, buying, and returning within 30min of playtime because it sucked).

Honorable mentions:

  • Swords of Ditto (literally no one plays this, but it’s a pretty neat co-op zelda-like
  • Darksiders Genesis (hack n slash)
  • It takes Two (co-op puzzle)
  • Children of Morta (great roguelite)

I also bought Secret of Mana, maybe we’ll play this.

  • Grabthar@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I don’t see Out of Space on here. It’s pretty fun and challenging.

    Goat Simulator is silly fun, especially with kids.

    Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is awesome since it lets you play up to 4 player co-op.

    Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse is a good co-op twin stick shooter.

  • Psymonkee@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 hours ago

    Not seeing any love for Toejam and Earl Back in the Groove. Reimagining of the 90’s Mega drive classic made by the original dev.

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    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

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    16 hours ago

    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

  • Shard@lemmy.world
    5·
    15 hours ago

    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

  • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    15 hours ago

    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

  • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    17 hours ago

    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!

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
    17·
    21 hours ago

    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.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago
    • Untitled Goose Game has couch coop (just bought yesterday on sale for $8.99!)
    • (I believe) Gun Bros
    • LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Trilogy
  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    19 hours ago

    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.