Couch co-op on PlayStation

Two writers are trapped inside their own stories and can only get out together.

A hand-painted platformer where missing a jump costs nothing but a second.

A role-playing game the size of a house move — and the two of you may carry all of it.

Two parents on the brink of divorce wake up as rag dolls. Neither of them gets back into their own body alone.

A world of cubes that belongs to you both and where nothing gets lost.

One of you sits in front of the bomb, the other holds the manual — and neither may see what the other sees.

Four archers, one arena, and whoever gets hit pops.

Batman’s beginnings in LEGO bricks, with Arkham-style combat and an open Gotham — the whole story for two on a split screen.

A turn-based role-playing game where the scenery is deadlier than any weapon — and where you are allowed to double-cross each other.

Blast away dirt until none is left — now for two on a split screen as well.

An action role-playing game in a grim world where two people can set out from one television.

Two buttons, a street full of thugs, and a roast chicken you will end up arguing over.

Nine films, four hundred characters, and a death that lasts one second.

A spaceship with more stations than two people can crew at once.

Build a farm together. Losing is not provided for; neither is stopping.

A Marvel fighting game where even the unpractised look good — and whose problems all lie elsewhere.

A beat ’em up with randomised runs from the Streets of Rage 4 people — and considerably easier as a pair than alone.

A racing game where the track switches into another world mid-race.

Fourteen professions on an island you build up, plus a trip to a past age you build up as well.

You build the course you then have to run yourselves — and the other one is building too.

Four knights punch their way across the kingdom to rescue princesses. That is all the plot anybody needs.

A Marvel beat ’em up in pixel art where each of you runs two heroes and swaps between them.

A knitted doll jumps through a world of fabric, buttons and zips.

A school for escape artists, and every exam is a room with a clock.

Kitchen chaos against the clock — a classic among relationship tests.

Two siblings search for their missing friends, and the camera never lets you more than a step apart.

Three heroes — a wizard, a thief and a knight — and puzzle after puzzle that gets easier with two.

Two convicts break out. Nobody gets over that wall alone — the two of you included.

A shooter with role-playing gear for people who enjoy comparing weapons.

A shooter with bazillions of guns — and each of you finds your own.

A boat that carries the departed to the afterlife, and a cat helping out.

A hand-drawn cartoon from 1935 — and it wants you dead.

A train sets off, the track is not built yet, and it will not wait.

Two yarn figures, joined by a single thread, climb together through a warmly lit world.

American football from EA — for two on the same television, against each other or on one team.

Carry furniture out of flats as a pair, as fast as possible and with as little regard for the windows as you can manage.

A climbing game where the two of you share one character — an arm each.

Two people ran away together and now live on an abandoned planet off whatever they find there.

Scott against seven evil exes, in pixel art and for four on one screen.

Two wobbly rubber figures solve puzzles in dreamlike landscapes — though the falling off takes up the larger share.

Dig out a two-dimensional world, build it up, and clear its bosses one at a time.

An arcade shooter with 1988 standards — for two on one screen, and unforgiving.

Survive the next winter together. Nothing is explained, dying is frequent.

A driving simulator that lets you race each other on the same TV — once you have talked it into it.

Australian rules football in the style of NBA Jam — for two on the same television.

A Middle-earth role-playing game for three that finally gets a split screen on PC.

An arcade racer that turns the right stick into a drift angle — and asks for real practice in return.