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.

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
    23·
    28 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.

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    27 days ago

    Plateup! - Overcooked but a bit different in a way my wife and I find more enjoyable.

    Crawl - Dungeon crawler type game with a twist

    Death Road to Canada

    Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

    Battleblock Theater

    Divinity Original Sin 1/2

    Speed runners

    For the King 1/2

    Ship of Fools

    Moving Out

    Octodad

    Pico park 1/2

    Portal 2

    Project Zomboid

    Pummel Party - More of a party game tho

    Sackboy A Big Adventure

    Streets of Rogue

    Struggling

    Tools Up!

    Trash Patrol

    Ultimate chicken horse

    Unrailed

  • Strider@thelemmy.club
    14·
    28 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
      5·
      28 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
      5·
      28 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.

      • BossDj@lemm.ee
        3·
        27 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.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    12·
    28 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.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
    12·
    28 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.

  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee
    11·
    27 days ago

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

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    27 days ago

    A friend and I had a little fun with Ultimate Chicken Horse. It’s a goofy little Mario Maker type of game where you create levels and challenge each other to complete them but I think you can also run through them cooperatively.

  • ptc075@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    27 days ago

    9 Parchments - Surprising gem with some depth and a lot of replay value. Reminds me a lot of the Harry Potter universe. We fire this up almost every weekend. I recommend setting friendly fire to ‘self’ instead, as it encourages actual cooperative play.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shredder’s Revenge - this is just a hack n slash quarter eater, but it’s mindless fun.

  • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    27 days ago

    WRT Secret of Mana - maybe play the first little bit yourself until you unlock a second character, then save and you two can start from there. Trust me.

    Also, I know it’s a side scroller, but Castle Crashers is great fun if you haven’t tried it yet.

    Pretty much any of the SNES era arcade ports: TMNT, Knights of the Round, Sunset Riders… Though maybe not all of them in one sitting.

    That’s all I’ve got off the top of my head. Happy gaming!