I have very fond memories of the first Halo on the OG Xbox. It was very cool to be able to do the campaign together with a friend.
Overcooked is an amazing couch coop
Yes came to recommend the same. Loving it with the missus and sometimes kid.
Great games
Plateup should be nice too
My sibling plays Ultimate Chicken Horse way too much for their health. I’m a fan of Duck Game, Castle Crashers, and Enter the Gungeon. I’ve also licked up Heave Ho and Pico Park, however those are more for party games for like 4 people or more.
Some I didn’t see mentioned:
- Death Squared
- Rocket League
- various Switch games - Super Mario 3D World, Kirby (2P), etc
Yes definitely, here’s my Steam ‘Local Multiplayer’ collection:
- Biped
- Move or Die
- Overcooked! 2
- Party Animals
- (Portal 2)
- Rayman Legends
- Screencheat
- Stick Fight: The Game
- Tetris Effect: Connected
- Ultimate Chicken Horse
- Unrailed!
Nintendo also has some great couch co-op games,for example:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Nintendo Switch Sports
- Super Mario Party
I also very much agree with the other commenter here, it’s such a shame that couch co-op is dying. The only ones still believing in it seem to be Nintendo.
Another game that’s fun to play is Unravel 2, but for me the Steam version had all sorts of problems so I ultimately ended up refunding it again.
I actually have a Steam collection for this. It’s mostly games I play when I have a handful of friends over. My favorites in the collection are:
- Boomerang Fu
- Duck Game
- Heave Ho
- Human Fall Flat
- Jackbox Mega Picker
- Keep Talking and and Nobody explodes
- Party Animals
- Pummel Party
- Overcooked 2
- Screen Cheat
Overcooked, any version.
Baldurs Gate 3 couch co op works incredibly well.
A lot of what I wanted to post already got put here, but Bunhouse isn’t here yet.
XCOM 1 and 2 are significantly more fun when you have two players controlling the team
The last couch coop i did was with the dark picture anthology stuff from the until dawn devs where me and 3 other people would choose characters we would play as and pass the controller around and make decisions together. It was pretty fun.
Diablo III was fun for my family, as was Minecraft Dungeons even though it’s stagnant and abandoned now.
A bit of an acquired taste, but the entire Earth Defence Force series can be played split screen (2P only). The best entry point into the series is EDF 5 (story reboot, QoL tweaks) which is often deeply discounted. Plus its direct sequel EDF 6 just released in the west last month
EDF!! This is one of my favorite series and one I’m very hyped for again due to the new sequel. Definitely recommend it as a fun coop experience with friends, blowing up hordes of giant alien insects, robots, flying saucers and legally-distinct Kaijus.
Nobody mentioned Guacamelee?
I find a lot of AAA games don’t really do couch coop these days which is disappointing.
One game I always come back to (and it’s ancient and Free to Play) is Awesomenauts. It’s a cartoon sidescrolling hero shooter type thing, but it’s a lot of fun.
I do play couch co-op, though some games are multiplayer some are single player and we hand it off or just experience it together.
Some of the games are: Mario party, Mario kart double dash (truly random items mod), Project Melee, Paper Mario thousand year door (amazing game), Kirby and the amazing mirror, and then a lot of one-offs mostly just trying out the random games.
