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.

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
    14·
    3 months ago

    Phogs - simple puzzle platformer where you play an end of a 2 headed snake dog.

    Lovers in a dangerous space time - share control of your spaceship to rescue cute animals. Take turns driving, manning the weapons or shields. Top down camera

    Overcooked 1 and 2 - flammable chaotic cooking adventures. Top down camera.

    Trine 1-4 are all pretty decent for some side scrolling puzzle action platforming.

    Diablo 3 (on console as pc doesn’t have local for some stupid reason) is a great action RPG.

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    3 months ago

    Plateup! - Overcooked but a bit different in a way my wife and I find more enjoyable.

    Crawl - Dungeon crawler type game with a twist

    Death Road to Canada

    Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

    Battleblock Theater

    Divinity Original Sin 1/2

    Speed runners

    For the King 1/2

    Ship of Fools

    Moving Out

    Octodad

    Pico park 1/2

    Portal 2

    Project Zomboid

    Pummel Party - More of a party game tho

    Sackboy A Big Adventure

    Streets of Rogue

    Struggling

    Tools Up!

    Trash Patrol

    Ultimate chicken horse

    Unrailed

  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee
    10·
    3 months ago

    Have you tried Broforce? It seems like a run and gun, but the key is thinking how to get out of situations.

    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      3 months ago

      I’ll second Portal 2, and other’s mentions of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.

      It Takes Two is fun, but if you’re paying attention to the story I found it to be a bit preachy about what the writer thinks a good relationship should be.

      Smash Bros and Mario Kart are both competitive not co-op.

      • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        I play smash with my 7 year old on the same team. We cooperate as teammates to defeat the other team. I’d call that co-op. The same can be done with Mario Kart, but whatever.

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    A friend and I had a little fun with Ultimate Chicken Horse. It’s a goofy little Mario Maker type of game where you create levels and challenge each other to complete them but I think you can also run through them cooperatively.

  • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    3 months ago

    WRT Secret of Mana - maybe play the first little bit yourself until you unlock a second character, then save and you two can start from there. Trust me.

    Also, I know it’s a side scroller, but Castle Crashers is great fun if you haven’t tried it yet.

    Pretty much any of the SNES era arcade ports: TMNT, Knights of the Round, Sunset Riders… Though maybe not all of them in one sitting.

    That’s all I’ve got off the top of my head. Happy gaming!

  • DaniloT@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    Most of my suggestions that I’ve been playing with my brother are already posted, so I’ll just add 3 more I haven’t seen yet:

    • Human Fall Flat
    • Enter the gungeon
    • Vampire survivors
    • Grimy@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’m going to second human fall flat, it’s a lot of fun. I’ll also add any of the Lego games to the list but the star wars one are definitely the best.

    • philmiworld@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      If you like Enter The Gungeon, definitely try AK-xolotl. Same type of game, but more linear in a way. Rather than a single dungeon with multiple rooms to explore around, you go into a room, clear it, then choose 1 of 2 doors. Each door has a symbol to tell you which reward you will get after clearing it. Modding your weapons is much easier too.

      • DaniloT@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Oh, it didn’t have co-op when I saw it before, but it has now, wishlisted, thanks, but I’m playing through baldurs gate 3 and that is gonna take over 200h before I move on :p

  • ImpulseDrive42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    My list of coop games

    • Baldur’s Gate 3
    • Broforce
    • Castle Crashers
    • Children of Morta
    • Divinity Original Sin 2
    • For the King
    • “FORCED: Slightly Better Edition”
    • Helldivers 1
    • Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
    • Rocket League

    ^ All of these are on Steam.

  • Shard@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    Lovers in a dangerous space time: pilot a space ship with a friend and fight rogue constellations.

    Ship of Fools:

    Man the decks in a rogue-lite game where you fight sea monsters and find treasure

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Some retro suggestions:

    • Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 - it sounds like your cousin is probably too old for this but this has one of the best “younger sibling” modes. They help collect and shoot bits. Which ultimately doesn’t matter much
    • The Legend of Zelda 4 Swords Adventure - It’s basically multi-player Link to the Past! Bonus points if you dig up a GameCube, link cables, and GBAs
    • Kirby Super Star - a mix of competitive and coop games
    • Super Mario World (any) - you take turns but if you don’t go 6 levels without dying to his one it can be fun
    • Halo 1-3 + ODST - Great classic shooters, the campaigns are customizable for difficulty, and a little kid probably loves alien shooters
    • Borderlands 1/2 - Looter shooters with a sense of irreverance
    • Dead Rising 2/Off the Record and 3 - Zombie hoard murdering with combo weapons
    • The Simpsons '91, Battletoads, TMNT, Streets of Rage, etc - Beat Em Ups are great for multi-player