Couch co-op on Nintendo Switch

Mario travels the world with a hat that takes over other bodies.

The classic for two in front of one television — and one of the few racers where beginners cannot fall off the track at all.

A two-dimensional Mario in which a flower rewrites the rules of the level mid-jump.

Donkey Kong digs his way through a world of destructible rock, with Pauline sitting on his shoulder, singing.

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.

Four characters on one screen, and at the end of every level exactly one gets the crown.

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

Mario Kart leaves the single track behind: between races you drive across one connected world map.

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.

A pink ball vacuums up an abandoned world, with somebody alongside carrying a spear.

A hotel with fifteen floors, a vacuum cleaner and a second Luigi made of green slime.

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.

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.

A board game with minigames where you mostly play against each other — and in four modes expressly with each other.

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

A squad of tiny plant creatures clears out a garden, and the sun is going down.

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.

Two paper figures snip each other into whatever shape the puzzle happens to need.

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.

Two robots, two portal guns, one test chamber after another — and a computer doing its level best to turn you against each other.

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.

The war over ancient Hyrule, for two on a split screen — with half a controller each.

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

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.

A tiny blocky platformer that gets past not one single level without you two talking.

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.

Tennis with special shots, four on one console — and as a doubles team together rather than against each other.

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.

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.