My wife and I like to play games together, but PC devs often skip couch co-op options. For example, I bought Halo Master Chief Collection because I know Halo co-op is legendary and I never really played Halo growing up, nor did she. But the PC version specifically doesn’t have split screen co-op where the console version does.
We already own and play Stardew Valley, Outward (fantastic game if you aren’t aware), and Civ 5 (we prefer it over 6).
So what other options have you enjoyed that I may have missed?
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Not “split screen” but “same screen”:
Unraveled 2
Great for couples.
We started that when I had ea play or whatever for a bit, but I didn’t keep that and we never got too deep into it. Should go back to it.
Unraveled 2 is great but my missus doesn’t like the “gloominess”.
The Goose Game, Bro Force, Diablo 3/4, Don’t Starve, Moon Hunters. Just for a short list, I got more!
The goose game and moon hunters are easily two favorites. Peace was never an option.
You mean Untitled Goose Game.
Diablo 3/4 is not split screen on PC
Fucking love Bro Force!
Seconding Moon Hunters. Very cool game
Diablo 4 does not have couch coop on PC, which I find infuriating. I am not sure about 3, but I think it does not have one too, only on consoles.
Both Rayman games are really nice
Not really familiar with them tbh I’ll look into them
Renegade Ops is a favorite of mine, with its 90’s action movie vibe and explosions-filled gameplay. It’s reminiscent of Desert Strike but more forgiving.
HELLDIVERS is another top-down shooter which borrows from Starship Troopers and features surprisingly engaging and deep mechanics.
Rocket league is a great split screen game!
I love rocket league and just absolutely forget it has local play for years at a time.
It Takes Two is a masterpiece for co-op gameplay and is great for casual gameplay. A Way Out was made by the same studio before It Takes Two and it’s easy to see where they were able to improve on the experience, but it’s also a great game for local co-op.
Me and my gf loved playing Divinity: Original Sin 2.
And we’re super excited for Balder’s Gate 3 made by the same Devs as DOS2. It’s just had its release date move forward to Aug 3rd woo!
My wife and I tried D:OS and she got really bored really fast. I think the pacing of the first couple of chapters is really slow and there’s a lot of reading and not a lot of action and she just lost interest really quickly. Too bad but I get it.
Yeah, D: OS 1 is boring at the beginning. D: OS 2 is verrrrrry good though. If you can , I highly recommend giving it a try. I believe it to be better than either Pillars of Eternity games
So I forget about this game, but I do own it and have hardly ever played. Can’t remember why? Maybe I had controller support issues or something. I’ll have to fire it up.
How DOS2 solves the issue of story progressions and cut scenes when you play online coop?
Not sure we played split-screen co-op. The cutscenes would roll just like 1player.
Much like others, I can’t say enough good things about It Takes Two.
The storyline, great! The gameplay, fantastic! The soundtrack, amazing!
That damn book, pissed me off to no end. (you’ll understand that if you play it)
I’d put it up there in my top 10 games I’ve played of all time.
LEGO games are fantastic
It Takes Two and A Way Out are co-op masterpieces
We’ve played a couple of the Lego games and found it a little too kiddish simplistic.
I’ll check out the other two thanks
I’ll second A Way Out, then. It’s pretty simple, but very well done
Agree with the latter, the former can be slow and I don’t like how so many stages are so so heavily filled with ‘bring X character with y colored power back here eventually’ spots
Played through It Takes Two with my 13 year old daughter and it remains one of our favourite days. So much fun and the story is just brilliant.
A lot of great games mentioned so far. I’d like to add Streets of Rogue to the list. It’s a lot fun playing it together. Especially when things don’t exactly go to plan :)
I’ll give it a look sounds interesting
if you want some chaos; unrailed, overcooked, and plateup are good
if you want some chaos; unrailed, overcooked, and plateup are good
She loves overcooked but it stresses me the fuck out
There’s a mod that allows borderlands 2 to be split screen
I thought it was natively split screen? I remember I had to mod BL3 to be split screen though
I tried playing the switch splitscreen version and it kind of hurt, and I love BL2. I might buy it for my SO on PC just so we can have a better play experience.
My roommate and I played so much borderlands using nucleuscoop
Interesting, I’ve actually never played any borderlands. Is 2 fine to start from? Is that mod very taxing on the PC in question? I’m squeezing every ounce of power I can out of an old dell gaming laptop with a 960M, so I could see maybe struggling if it’s like the hacky way you can do that with Halo MCC where it basically runs the exe 2 entire times.
I believe it is the same mod/framework as the halo MCC split screen so you might have a bas time.
Any of the Borderlands games are fine to start from. The stories are mostly self contained, and the parts that aren’t are explained in the opening cutscenes.
A 960m will probably run Borderlands 2 but definitely not with the splitscreen mod.
I know I could run the game, I’m making RDR2 work somehow. Split screen sounded likely taxing though
Not exactly a recommendation (most of what I would have said has been covered below) but, my partner and I use Co-Optimus to find new games to couch play together. Here’s a filtered list of PC split-screen and couch co-op games.
Hope that helps!
Awesome resource thank you for sharing!
Cheers and happy gaming!
Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light is really nice coop
