My younger cousin comes over today (like every few months) and we will be playing some couch coop games over the weekend.

So far we tried a lot of games and found some great ones along the way. Sidescrollers work sometimes, but third person and isometric is better. And I won’t touch another twin stick shooter haha. Do y’all have any suggestions, it’s always so much work to find a good new game (as opposed to just going after steam review, buying, and returning within 30min of playtime because it sucked).

Honorable mentions:

  • Swords of Ditto (literally no one plays this, but it’s a pretty neat co-op zelda-like
  • Darksiders Genesis (hack n slash)
  • It takes Two (co-op puzzle)
  • Children of Morta (great roguelite)

I also bought Secret of Mana, maybe we’ll play this.

  • @ace_garp
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    21 month ago

    Best couch-coop games

    -= FLOSS games =-

    Fish Fillets NG

    Battle for Wesnoth

    Minetest (websearch: Minetest Split Screen Howto)

    -= 80s/90s arcade games =-

    Bubble Bobble (lesser: Snow Bros or Tumblepop)

    Heavy Barrel or Calibre .50 (lesser: Midnight Resistance or Ikari Warriors) [all need 8-way rotator joysticks]

    Smash TV(is twin-stick, but awesome) or Narc

    Rampage

    Gunforce

    Double Dragon

    Bad Dudes v Dragon Ninja

    Final Fight

    Golden Axe

    Sunset Riders or Vendetta

    Silkworm

    Cabal

    Top Gunner

    Side Arms

    Alien Syndrome

    Gauntlet

    • @MrShankles
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      21 month ago

      Damn, I forgot about Smash TV. Idk how much time my friend and I spent on that game as kids

      • @ace_garp
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        11 month ago

        Lots of time!

        …And even more after renting Running Man on VHS :P