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.

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    7 days 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

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    Dont starve together

    Vampire survivor

    Castle crashers

    And if you are into emulation most of ps2 era and before is designed for couch co op so hit the archives (top x lists on you tube makes it easy), depending on your cousins tastes

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    12·
    7 days ago

    My family loves:

    • Spelunky (sidescroller Indiana-Jones-themed platformer action-roguelite)

    • Pikmin 3 (3D silly minion-bossing treasure hunting)

    • River City Girls (sidescrolling beat-em-up with amazing soundtrack)

    • Moving Out (3D “goofy physics” furniture-moving obstacle course)

    • Kirby and the Lost World (3D action adventure)

    • Stardew Valley (isometric farm sim)

    All of these are fully coöp from the beginning.

  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee
    11·
    7 days ago

    Have you tried Broforce? It seems like a run and gun, but the key is thinking how to get out of situations.

  • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    7 days 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!

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    7 days 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.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Cats Quest 2

    Pretty cute game and if one person is significantly better at games, they can carry the team pretty well.

  • ptc075@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    9 Parchments - Surprising gem with some depth and a lot of replay value. Reminds me a lot of the Harry Potter universe. We fire this up almost every weekend. I recommend setting friendly fire to ‘self’ instead, as it encourages actual cooperative play.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shredder’s Revenge - this is just a hack n slash quarter eater, but it’s mindless fun.

  • DaniloT@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    Most of my suggestions that I’ve been playing with my brother are already posted, so I’ll just add 3 more I haven’t seen yet:

    • Human Fall Flat
    • Enter the gungeon
    • Vampire survivors
    • Grimy@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      I’m going to second human fall flat, it’s a lot of fun. I’ll also add any of the Lego games to the list but the star wars one are definitely the best.

    • philmiworld@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      If you like Enter The Gungeon, definitely try AK-xolotl. Same type of game, but more linear in a way. Rather than a single dungeon with multiple rooms to explore around, you go into a room, clear it, then choose 1 of 2 doors. Each door has a symbol to tell you which reward you will get after clearing it. Modding your weapons is much easier too.

      • DaniloT@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        Oh, it didn’t have co-op when I saw it before, but it has now, wishlisted, thanks, but I’m playing through baldurs gate 3 and that is gonna take over 200h before I move on :p

  • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    7 days 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

  • plofi@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    Rayman Legends is without a doubt my favourite coop platformer with fantastic music and great fluid controls. I strongly recommend it, it’s tons of fun