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.

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    5 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

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
    22·
    6 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.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 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

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    Cats Quest 2

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

  • Strider@thelemmy.club
    14·
    6 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.

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      6 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.

    • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
      5·
      6 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.

  • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
    Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

      • BossDj@lemm.ee
        3·
        5 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·
    6 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·
    6 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·
    5 days ago

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

  • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    5 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!