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.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Cats Quest 2

    Pretty cute game and if one person is significantly better at games, they can carry the team pretty well.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Dont starve together

    Vampire survivor

    Castle crashers

    And if you are into emulation most of ps2 era and before is designed for couch co op so hit the archives (top x lists on you tube makes it easy), depending on your cousins tastes

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I see lots of excellent responses, but one of my favorite games is never mentioned, so I’ll mention it here, it’s Out of Space it’s essentially overcooked but calmer.

  • SyntaxTerror@feddit.orgDeutsch
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    6 days ago

    This is my Couch Coop To Do List for me and my wife (sorry for bad formatting):

    A Way Out Asterix & Obelix XXXL: The Ram From Hibernia Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All! BattleBlock Theater Biped Bravery and Greed Bread & Fred Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Castle Crashers Cat Quest II Chariot Conduct Together! Contra: Operation Galuga Cuphead Darksiders Genesis Death Squared Degrees of Separation Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Divinity: Original Sin II Dungeon Defenders Dungeon Golf Earth Defense Force 5 Ember Knights Escape Academy Escape Simulator Fly TOGETHER! For The King For The King II Forced From Space Fueled Up Gauntlet Golf With Your Friends Grave Danger Hammerwatch Heroes of Hammerwatch Huntdown Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes KeyWe Knights and Bikes Kukoos: Lost Pets LEGO 2K Drive LEGO City Undercover LEGO Horizon Adventures Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Lost Castle Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Magicka 2 Mekazoo Metal Slug Monaco 2 Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine Moving Out Nine Parchments Nobody Saves the World Operation: Tango Outward PHOGS! Pizza Possum Pocky & Rocky Reshrined Pode Portal 2 Rayman Legends River Tails: Stronger Together Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos Rooms of Realities Rotwood Sackboy: A Big Adventure Shift Happens Sonic Superstars Spelunky Starbound Struggling Surmount Team Sonic Racing The Adventure Pals The Expanse: A Telltale Series The Plucky Squire The Swords of Ditto Tick Tock: A Tale for Two Tipston Salvage Tools Up! Towerborne Trine 2 Unrailed! Unravel Two Unruly Heroes Untitled Goose Game Voyage We Were Here Together Who’s Your Daddy Wizard of Legend II ibb & obb

  • plofi@lemmy.world
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    7 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

  • Grabthar@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I don’t see Out of Space on here. It’s pretty fun and challenging.

    Goat Simulator is silly fun, especially with kids.

    Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is awesome since it lets you play up to 4 player co-op.

    Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse is a good co-op twin stick shooter.

  • 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.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    7 days ago

    My family loves:

    • Spelunky (sidescroller Indiana-Jones-themed platformer action-roguelite)

    • Pikmin 3 (3D silly minion-bossing treasure hunting)

    • River City Girls (sidescrolling beat-em-up with amazing soundtrack)

    • Moving Out (3D “goofy physics” furniture-moving obstacle course)

    • Kirby and the Lost World (3D action adventure)

    • Stardew Valley (isometric farm sim)

    All of these are fully coöp from the beginning.

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days 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