My wife and I like to play games together, but PC devs often skip couch co-op options. For example, I bought Halo Master Chief Collection because I know Halo co-op is legendary and I never really played Halo growing up, nor did she. But the PC version specifically doesn’t have split screen co-op where the console version does.
We already own and play Stardew Valley, Outward (fantastic game if you aren’t aware), and Civ 5 (we prefer it over 6).
So what other options have you enjoyed that I may have missed?
Out of Space is a ton of fun, starts out hard, but stock with it and you can overcome.
Others I’ve seen mentioned already, but deserves more: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and It Takes Two
I tried “Out of Space” last night with my partner and wow, you weren’t kidding. I really liked it, but we died every time. Eventually we switched to the easier “zen mode” and were able to win a few matches. I couldn’t help but wonder if the balance wasn’t finely tuned for 2 players, maybe they balanced it for 4.
For anyone interested: this is a really fun game, but it’s not quite as much like “The Sims in space” as I expected. It’s closer to “Overcooked, but with some placeable furniture that you need to interact with”.
If anyone knows of a co-op (not necessarily local, but that’s a huge plus) game like “The Sims”, I’d be very interested. Rimworld is close, but the multiplayer mod didn’t work well for us. I think my partner’s old laptop couldn’t keep up at 3x speed, causing big desyncs. Factorio is great for co-op IMO (though not at all like “The Sims”, more like Sim City)), but my partner doesn’t really like it because of the gritty environment.
It Takes Two is incredible, I can’t recommend that one enough.
If you’re looking for split screen co-op you won’t do much better than this.