You build the course you then have to run yourselves — and the other one is building too.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasualReleased4 Mar 2016
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A co-op tag does not make a good evening together. We sort by what matters to a duo: does one copy do it, can you play the whole campaign together, and does it still work when one of you is far better?
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Four knights punch their way across the kingdom to rescue princesses. That is all the plot anybody needs.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased26 Sept 2012
A Marvel beat ’em up in pixel art where each of you runs two heroes and swaps between them.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased1 Dec 2025
A knitted doll jumps through a world of fabric, buttons and zips.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasualReleased12 Nov 2020
A school for escape artists, and every exam is a room with a clock.
local2online2Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasualReleased13 Jul 2022
Grounded
85
Shrunk to the size of an ant in your own back garden: the sprinkler is now a natural disaster.
online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromHobbyReleased27 Sept 2022
Portal 2
85
Two robots, two portal guns, one test chamber after another — and a computer doing its level best to turn you against each other.
local2online2Co-op scopeSeparate co-op modeSuitable fromHobbyReleased19 Apr 2011
Reanimal
84
Two siblings search for their missing friends, and the camera never lets you more than a step apart.
local2online2Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased13 Feb 2026
Three heroes — a wizard, a thief and a knight — and puzzle after puzzle that gets easier with two.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased7 Oct 2019
Raft
84
On a raft in the middle of the ocean, hook floating debris, build a floating home from it and stay clear of the shark.
online2–8Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased20 Jun 2022
Two convicts break out. Nobody gets over that wall alone — the two of you included.
local2online2Co-op scopeTwo-player onlySuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased18 Jun 2020
The war over ancient Hyrule, for two on a split screen — with half a controller each.
local2online2Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased6 Nov 2025
A shooter with role-playing gear for people who enjoy comparing weapons.
local2online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromHobbyReleased11 Sept 2025
A shooter with bazillions of guns — and each of you finds your own.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromHobbyReleased13 Sept 2019
A boat that carries the departed to the afterlife, and a cat helping out.
local2Co-op scopeMost of the gameSuitable fromCasualReleased18 Aug 2020
Cuphead
82
A hand-drawn cartoon from 1935 — and it wants you dead.
local2Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromGamerReleased29 Sept 2017
Four people, narrow alleys and more rat-men than fit on the screen.
online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromHobby–GamerReleased8 Mar 2018
A farming game on a tropical island that also has you rebuilding a coral reef.
online2–4Co-op scopeShared world (async)Suitable fromCasualReleased14 Nov 2023
Crashed on an alien planet, against ever more monsters — and a little more absurd with every pickup.
online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromGamerReleased11 Aug 2020
Separated inside a snowbound castle, connected only by a radio — and each of you sees something different.
online2Co-op scopeTwo-player onlySuitable fromHobbyReleased10 Oct 2019
Two yarn figures, joined by a single thread, climb together through a warmly lit world.
local2Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased4 Jun 2020
Carry furniture out of flats as a pair, as fast as possible and with as little regard for the windows as you can manage.
local2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasualReleased28 Apr 2020
Valheim
80
Make a Viking world habitable as a pair: fell trees, raise a hall, put out to sea.
online2–10Co-op scopeShared world (async)Suitable fromHobbyReleased2 Feb 2021
Turnip Mountain unreviewed
79
A climbing game where the two of you share one character — an arm each.
local2Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromHobbyReleased30 Jul 2026