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Hi everyone! I’ve been feeling frustration about games lately, remembering experiences I had as a kid playing co-op story games with my friends, like Timesplitters and Destroy All Humans, etc.

Modern multiplayer games sometimes have some co-op elements, but many of them are party games like Human Fall Flat or Among Us, or big Battle Royales or Multiplayer shooters. The co-op ones seem to only be survival games like The Forest.

I’m always looking for good co-op experiences to play with my friends, but it’s hard to find what I am looking for. I recently played It Takes Two with my partner and that was so wonderful.

Does anyone know any games like what I am looking for? It seems these kinds of games are so few and far between, sadly.

  • AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    I’m a bit surprised by your premise, games with local co-op have certainly almost disappeared entirely, but I haven’t noticed a trend in online co-op. Some good ones off-hand (that haven’t been mentioned). These are in descending order if my personal playtime as a rough proxy for how good I think they are.

    • Remnant
    • Wasteland 3
    • Outriders
    • Gloomhaven
    • Risk of Rain 2
    • Warhammer Vermintide 2
    • Monster Hunter World
    • Left 4 Dead series
    • Back 4 Blood
    • Borderlands series
    • Magicka
    • Star Wars the Old Republic
    • Helldivers
    • Barony
    • Barotrauma
    • Gods Trigger
    • Action Squad
    • Aragami 1,2
    • Evil West
  • lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 years ago

    Have you played Deep Rock Galactic? It’s a wonderful games where you play a dwarf mining things, fighting off bugs while you do it. You play in a group of up to 4 people trying to complete your objectives together.

    I find it really hard to explain what makes it great, so you’ll just have to trust it’s avid fan base!

  • DarbyDear@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    If you and your partner enjoy RPG’s, I highly recommend Divinity: Original Sin (and Divinity: Original Sin 2, though we haven’t finished that one yet). Very story-driven, the tactical combat is a blast when you get into strategizing and collaborating, and there are all sorts of non-combat shenanigans you can get up to as well (the second even more so than the first).