The war over ancient Hyrule, for two on a split screen — with half a controller each.
local2online2Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased6 Nov 2025
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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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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
Four soldiers spread democracy, and the biggest threat is your own airstrike.
online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromHobby–GamerReleased8 Feb 2024
A train sets off, the track is not built yet, and it will not wait.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased9 Sept 2019
A tiny blocky platformer that gets past not one single level without you two talking.
local2–8online2–8Co-op scopeTwo-player onlySuitable fromCasualReleased7 May 2021
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
Madden NFL 27 unreviewed
80
American football from EA — for two on the same television, against each other or on one team.
Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromHobbyReleased13 Aug 2026
Tennis with special shots, four on one console — and as a doubles team together rather than against each other.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased12 Feb 2026
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
Haven
79
Two people ran away together and now live on an abandoned planet off whatever they find there.
local2Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasualReleased3 Dec 2020
One of you is inside the building, the other at a terminal, and you see completely different things.
online2Co-op scopeTwo-player onlySuitable fromCasualReleased1 Jun 2021
Scott against seven evil exes, in pixel art and for four on one screen.
local2–4online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased3 Mar 2026
A submarine under the ice of a Jovian moon, and nobody can man every station at once.
online2–16Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromGamerReleased13 Mar 2023
A dark house, a ghost, and instruments that tell you only half of it.
online2–4Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasualReleased18 Sept 2020
R.E.P.O.
76
Retrieve valuables from dark houses without dropping them — and without being retrieved yourself.
online2–6Co-op scopeFull campaignSuitable fromCasual–HobbyReleased26 Feb 2025