Coming up

Racing on Hot Wheels tracks with loops — Steam lists split screen, as competition rather than co-op.

Top-down loot collecting in Minecraft dress — its predecessor had split screen for four on every console.

He-Man as an eighties-style action game for two — so far the date is settled only to the quarter.

Rayman Legends remade: side-scrolling levels for four on one screen — Ubisoft names couch co-op explicitly.

Toy Box is the reason: an open world for two where nothing can go wrong and you furnish a town together.

Monsters brawl in a city that collapses around them — not co-op but versus, for two on one screen.

A puzzle game for exactly two rather than two to eight — and the publisher names split screen explicitly.

From the people behind Guacamelee: two-dimensional fighting for two on one screen, locally or online.

Two mice in a world built too large for them — locally on a split screen, for two.

Short challenges against each other, four on one screen — the shape where you could stop after four minutes and never do.

A beat ’em up after the 1991 cartoon, four on one screen — the shape where unevenly matched pairs clash least.

Two companions in the ice, each able to do what the other cannot — alone you switch, as a pair you take one each.

Three heroes with different abilities, and part four is already here — split screen, local, campaign and online.

Randomised runs with changing abilities, and co-op is a mode of its own — as a pair you play something different.

A role-playing game between the world of the living and the dead, the campaign for two — online, not at the television.

An adventure filmed by hand frame by frame — for two, but per the publisher only over the internet.