Co-Op games are the best way to have fun with your friends. Whether you are playing PlayStation or Xbox, here are the best Co-Op games to play.
Team Up: Best Co-Op Games To Try Out
Assemble Your Team
It’s time to squad up! With Black Friday sales around the corner and the festive season coming up, what better time to get your friends, partners, or even a family member together to play some games. Create some wholesome memories on the virtual battlefield, farm, or whatever you want with the present variety of some of the coolest multiplayer games you can play with someone right now!
With so many options to satiate your cooperative needs, where does one begin? Carry on reading, and you definitely will be leaving with at least one game in your cart. All the games on the list can run on the majority of modern gaming consoles.
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Tango Down
For those looking for competitive and adrenaline-fueled shooters for their squad, one title amongst these will pique your interest.
Starting with an obvious classic, Fortnite is a free-to-play battle royal with an animated art style and a combat system where building is essential to survival. You only have to spend on the cosmetics if you choose to, but these cosmetics do not give you any competitive advantages, making it a free-to-play game without a pay-to-win aspect, as you will find in many free games. You can play with up to 4 friends in regular game modes.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is for those who enjoy boots on the ground realistic battle simulators. Attackers versus defenders is the general premise using terrorists and SWAT to spice up the agent selection. You will find that Siege is not all about running and gunning but rather precise setups. With quick times to kill and the ability to make a bullet-sized hole in a wall to aim through, you may not want to run in without a proper sweep of the surrounding perimeter. Having friends and playing together makes video games more enjoyable. When you try Siege with people you know, you will benefit from the power of communicating and working together. Communication is key to success.
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Cooperative Gaming Experience & Chill
Get ready to cuddle up or just have some wholesome fun with a family member or friend. These are for the couple gamers and even the gamer who wants someone they know to try gaming!
Unravel 2 is an EA game with almost no microtransactions. It is by far the best game in this category if we are talking from a storyline, graphics, ease of controls, and all-around wholesomeness perspective. Take control of two woven characters that must solve platformer puzzles. Our woven friends in blue and red, the colors of friendship, are attached by a string. That comes in handy later. What makes this game perfect is the simple mechanics that allows for easy gaming. Plus, that string is used to pull your partner towards you if they are struggling to complete a part of the gorgeous platforming adventure Unravel has created for you.
Minecraft is the perfect game for adults to relax and create together. This highly complex cube world can become a raytraced world, assuming your hardware is capable of it. Build whatever you and your buddy desire and create your little reality away from the hustle and bustle of the real world. Let the wonderful music that Mojang Studios picked soothe your soul as you embark on an adventure of a lifetime.
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Find Your Missing Puzzle Piece
Puzzle games with friends create a fun yet stress-inducing environment where brains and friendship will be tested. Puzzle games with cooperative gaming features are abundant, but some stand out far more than others.
Once VALVE made the Portal series, the innovative mechanisms of shooting portals around a room to get to places and solve puzzles was a new and never-before-seen way of playing games. It has inspired games such as Splitgate, which came out earlier this year. Their opus magnum has got to be GLaDOS. The artificially intelligent computer system, GLaDOS, is the main antagonist of the video game Portal and the first half of Portal 2's single-player campaign. Her insults and evilness as an AI are tear-inducing yet simultaneously hilarious.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ “Visiting a friend's island” is a pleasant experience. Share your collected resources, shop in their stores, and work on projects together. There is even a postcard feature to say thanks when you become their friend. Until you name them a Best Friend, visitors to your island can only do a limited amount of stuff that eliminates unwanted scenarios such as grieving (a player damaging or doing something you do not want in your world.) Animal Crossing: New Horizons is so adorable! Its world is filled with colors. Its style is animated well in a cuter than average manner. Its possibilities are endless, making it a fun experience for friends and family.
Honorable, and its Mentions
With hundreds of co-op games, it would be impossible to talk about them all. However, some should not be ignored, these gems may be overlooked, but they are worth trying.
For the longest time, the attraction in Borderlands has always been shooting ever-crazier weapons at ever-crazier enemies. What fun is it to shred enemies alone? Borderlands 3 has fixed many issues, and now you won’t have to fight for the weapon drops as each player will see their unique weapon drops.
Cuphead is a puzzle, platform, and survival game like no other. It is fair to say it is rage-inducing. However, with Cuphead, you and your co-op partner Mugman are duped and have to fight for their souls. It is nothing short of a stunning artistic achievement. This game is classified as a 2D-shooter, but it is far more magnificent and would not be doing anyone justice if it was not part of the honorable mentions.
So grab a friend or someone else you love and get immersed in the world of cooperative gaming.
