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.

  • plofi@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Rayman Legends is without a doubt my favourite coop platformer with fantastic music and great fluid controls. I strongly recommend it, it’s tons of fun

  • Psymonkee@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Not seeing any love for Toejam and Earl Back in the Groove. Reimagining of the 90’s Mega drive classic made by the original dev.

      • BossDj@lemm.ee
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        7 days ago

        I don’t know how young the cousin is, but I played Castle Crashers with my kids. It is incredibly fun. Still our favorite co-op of all time.

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
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    7 days 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.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    If you wanna go retro at all you should check out UFO50. 50 very old school style games, many of which have 2 player modes.

  • Strider@thelemmy.club
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    7 days ago

    +1 for a tentative Overcooked suggestion but only if you think you and your cousin won’t strangle each other in a high stress scenario. I can’t play the game with my wife because she’s too goofy and I’m too serious.

    Bread and Fred looks like a lot of fun but I haven’t actually played it yet.

    Diablo 3 was fun playing couch co-op and reminded me more than a little bit of playing Gauntlet in the good old days.

    • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      Bread and Fred looks great but my wife and I turned it off after half hour. The mechanics are proper hardcore physics sim with very little room for error or hand holding. It honestly just wasn’t fun for us. I think there’s a demo available so maybe try that before you spend money on it.

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days ago

      Honestly overcooked was stressful but manageable. The only time I wanted to strangle a friend (through my monitor) was in one of the “we were here” games because it was impossible to solve anything with him.

      Edit: Oh I saw bread and fred on a stream a while ago (Jerma), forgot about that one. I think chained together was very much inspired by it.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    I’ve been playing Broforce with my buddy recently. Lots of shooting and blowing shit up platformer but pretty funny if you’re into the classic action movies like Rambo, Commando, etc.

    Gears of War if you want to branch into 3rd person cover shooter. (Gears 5 is the only one on steam I think.)

    The Lego games usually have couch co-op I think and I’ve enjoyed those a lot with younger people.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
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      7 days ago

      It sure does. It’s quite different to other games suggested in this thread, but if it’s the kind of game OP is wanting to try then it’s very good as a couch coop game (on PC, not sure if supported on other platforms). Though I get the feeling OP is looking for action or round based, rather than a quiet tending of a farm and exploring the local area.

  • DaniloT@lemmy.world
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    7 days 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
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      7 days 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
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      7 days 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
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        7 days 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

  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

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