TOP-100: Best Co-op Games in 2025

The best RPG of this year can be played with friends. And you don't have to buy two copies — Baldur's Gate 3 has a splitscreen, which allows two people to play on one screen. Judging by the reviews, the experience of playing together is different from playing alone, because in this case there will be more unpredictable moments and unexpected situations. Note that for splitscreen on PC, you need to connect two gamepads.

The fourth Diablo turned out to be one of the best Blizzard games in recent years. Yes, it is not perfect, but it is still interesting to destroy hordes of demons in it. Especially if you do it with friends. In addition to the standard online co-op, Diablo 4 has a splitscreen, thanks to which you can play together on one TV. However, it is only available on consoles.

In the fifth part of the action platformer series Trine, as before, you will have to explore large levels, solve interesting puzzles and fight numerous monsters.

The game features colorful graphics and really different characters with unique abilities, like in the classic The Lost Vikings. The game Trine 5 supports splitscreen and co-op for four players.

Asymmetrical horror with maniacs and their victims in the spirit of Dead by Daylight, only with the heroes of the classic "Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

The game is made well and has a signature dark atmosphere. It may appeal not only to fans of the Leatherface films, but also to all lovers of multiplayer horror games.

In 2023, the legendary tactical series Jagged Alliance returned. In it, you will find a choice of mercenaries and their equipment, a competent distribution of finances and battles with superior enemy forces.

The third part turned out to be no worse than the first two — it is still able to please fans of turn-based battles. If desired, it can be completed together with a friend.

A new hardcore game from Team Ninja, the creators of the Nioh dilogy. This is a classic soulslike, only set in Ancient China. You can play Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty with two friends. However, to unlock the co-op mode, you will have to defeat the first boss alone.

A pixel beat'em up that retains the mechanics of the early games in the series. At the same time, it has elements of a modern roguelike and many characters with different combat systems.

The new Double Dragon is worth playing, first of all, for those who caught the first parts on NES. The rest risk getting bored after a couple of hours.

An isometric action game with hordes of monsters and aggressive bosses. To defeat them, the game offers a huge arsenal of weapons, which includes lasers, flamethrowers, machine guns, electric guns and much more. You can complete the story mode with a friend, including on the same screen. At the moment, Greedland is in early access. Over time, the developers will add new maps, unique enemies and additional weapons.

An action game in which you have to hunt huge monsters. To win in Wild Hearts against them, it is important to choose the right equipment and develop your own combat tactics. The closest analogue is the Monster Hunter series. As practice shows, fighting local giants in three is much more interesting than alone.

In this race, you can make your car from Lego bricks, and then start exploring the local open world and taking part in numerous races. The game supports split-screen mode.

A colorful role-playing game with dynamic battles, an open world and numerous dungeons. In terms of gameplay, it resembles Warframe. You can play it alone or in a company of two people.

Here you have to assemble your own team of tame monsters and send them into battle against enemy squads. Something similar was in the games of the Pokemon series. Cassette Beasts differs from them, first of all, in its increased complexity.

A survival game set in medieval Japan. Construction plays an important role here. Building in Sengoku Dynasty is long and difficult, because you need to take into account many parameters, and there are always not enough resources. Friends will help speed up this process, so in a co-op the game reveals itself in a new way.

A large addition to Icarus, which adds six story missions, three new biomes, as well as unique weapons and monsters. We recommend paying attention to the new mode, which removes time limits and allows you to play endlessly.

A post-apocalyptic shooter in which construction plays an important role. You will build intricate labyrinths and attack other players' buildings. To win in Meet Your Maker it is important to show ingenuity and grammaruse available equipment.

In this shooter, you will fight hordes of fantasy monsters. To fight them, Perish uses an arsenal of firearms and bladed weapons. In terms of gameplay, the game resembles the original Painkiller.

A tactical shooter in the spirit of the early parts of the Rainbow Six series. In Operator you are invited to take part in combat missions around the world, alone or in a company with other players. To win, it is important not only to shoot accurately, but also to use gadgets wisely, for example, to conduct reconnaissance of the area using a drone.

An unusual racing, in which you will find difficult tracks with many traps. To overcome them, you need to build your own car with unique properties. In some cases, you will have to reduce its size to pass through a narrow section, or vice versa, install a propeller to be able to fly over an obstacle.

This game is suitable for those who have already completed Valheim and want something similar. You will build your own house, grow plants, forge metals and fight numerous monsters. Dawnlands is not perfect and suffers from technical problems, but it can give a lot of pleasure to fans of hardcore survival games.

A fun puzzle game in which you need to move things from one point to another and overcome numerous obstacles along the way. The game is revealed in split screen, when four friends rush through the levels and try to overtake each other. A great option for a family vacation or a noisy party.

In Wartales the player leads a squad of mercenaries, traveling through the plague-ravaged Edoran Empire and surviving in these lands. You will have to prove that your squad has the right to exist, constantly fighting other mercenaries, bandits, robbers and monsters. The player's squad is not heroes. And the goal in this game is to achieve fame and fortune, but not to save the world.

Turn-based battles without the hackneyed "chance of hitting", the ability to hire new companions with unique specializations, skills, weapons and character traits. The game has a development system, and the creation of items, and the ability to improve the camp in various ways.

The project is largely a sandbox — we travel through the open world, earning wealth and glory, visiting the ruins of the empire and settlements that have withstood the storm of events. In addition to them, you will have to look into abandoned tombs and bandit camps. And having taken a contract, both to protect the innocent and hunt for the famous villains of this world.

Co-op for up to four players will allow you to join forces and, using tactics and strategy, defeat the most difficult bosses of the mysterious world. And yes, you can share resources, loot and money, as well as spend time together by the fire.

Dead Island 2 — a great example of a repetitive zombie action game built around the brutality and atmosphere of a sunny post-apocalypse. In the company of two friends, the player can try to escape from Los Angeles besieged by the zombie virus, completing various tasks, discovering weapon recipes and looting the dilapidated areas of the city. Quite an interesting skill upgrade based on playing cards, as well as the series' signature humor — included.

Gameplay Dead Island 2 is a meaty action game in which we crush zombie skulls 90% of the time, and devote the remaining 10% to repairing and upgrading weapons, as well as searching for useful junk.

The game's locations are quite small, but rich, the story is more for show, but the leveling of weapons and character can be called quite diverse — the combination of these two aspects can greatly affect the gameplay.

Ravenswatch is an action-RPG with roguelike elements, at least for now. We, in a company of up to four players, challenge the Nightmares that have filled the world of Reverie and distorted everything they could reach.

The characters in this game are the main characters of fairy tales. For example, there is Little Red Riding Hood with the assassin class, who turns into a powerful Wolf at night. There are 6 characters in the game, including Aladdin, the Pied Piper, and the Snow Queen.

The gameplay can be called classic — we travel along a map full of marks, fight enemies, complete tasks, and find items that strengthen the heroes. Everything to fight and defeat the main boss at the end.

Heroes have five skills, the sixth is unlocked at the last level. Leveling up opens access to random modifiers, and the equipment received affects various parameters of the heroes. The game has a day and night cycle, affecting the gameplay and the environment.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds is another fantasy about a tiny world. The player will have to survive in a microcosm, fighting insects, exploring forests of grass blades, crossing puddles-lakes and climbing giant trees.

Unlike another project with a similar setting, Grounded, the style in Smalland is more realistic in graphic terms and magical in lore. We will meet fairies, magical creatures and mysterious ruins.

The rest of the project is a "purebred survival game". We build a base, create tools, weapons and equipment, obtain various resources and fight insects and bosses. Among the features, we can highlight the ability to tame animals, a system of changing seasons, as well as a cooperative for 10 people. The project is in early access, but has great potential.

Barotrauma is a 2D submarine simulator in the horror genre for a company of 2 to 16 players, borrowing some mechanics from games such as Space Station 13, RimWold and Dwarf Fortress.

In the near future, people went to the moon of Jupiter, whose ocean is teeming with life. In addition to the four factions with which players can be friends or enemies, this place is filled with various monsters. Gamers take on different roles, such as an engineer or a doctor. Each has their own tasks, but the goal is one — to survive and withstand the monsters and adversity of the sea depths.

But this is the concept. In reality, the game often turns into a farce and a cycle of death. Forgot to close the hatch? Hello, monsters. Dropped natry into the water during repairs? Blew up the compartment. Injected a neurotoxin instead of an antibiotic? Well, what can you do.

A lot of possibilities and well-developed mechanics, 6 classes, various missions and maps with procedural generation, several game modes. Multiply all this by a fun company of friends and you get an excellent project that will last for many pleasant evenings. And when the enthusiasm runs out — just add mods, everything will sparkle with new colors.

The player can only complete the main storyline in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War alone, but two additional modes are available for a group of friends — "Secret Missions" and "Zombies". During secret missions, players will be thrown into a variety of locations — from the icy waters of the North Atlantic to the deserts of Angola. You will even get to visit Moscow in the eighties. You will have to steal a prototype of a new tank, intercept a column of intercontinental ballistic missiles and obtain top-secret intelligence.

The Zombie mode has grown to some incredible proportions. Several modes, story stories, different types of the dead, weapons, many Easter eggs, modifications and perks. In general, the zombie mode in the project can long be considered a separate game, on par with Warzone. In both cases, you will have to play with a company of up to four players.

Sons of the Forest develops the ideas of the first part and improves familiar mechanics. The co-op and crafting systems have been reworked, the open world has grown significantly, and the opponents have become more diverse. But in general, this is still the same The Forest, only with the bugs returning — after all, the early access status obliges.

The main character goes in search of the missing billionaire, but, according to the laws of the genre, everything goes wrong, and we are forced to survive on the island, living side by side with the cannibal aborigines. And therefore, you will have to craft a lot, fight for your life and understand the secrets of the island. You can do this in a company of up to 8 players.

The game is already being completed, there are several endings. The developers decided to first make the "skeleton" of the project and are now expanding the gameplay, fixing bugs, improving the already interesting mechanics and adding new content.

No One Survived is a wild mix of Valheim, Conan Exiles, DayZ and 7 Days to Die in a zombie apocalypse setting. You won't find anything new here, but the project tries to combine the positive features of most games of this genre. You need to loot the map, build a shelter, upgrade the technology tree, create various workbenches, and then on them — weapons and equipment.

There is no plot. But there is an extensive map with several locations, more than 400 items, weapons and armor, a fairly advanced construction system, a water and electricity supply system, as well as NPC traders, hunting and changing seasons. All this can be flexibly customized to your taste and go to survive in the company of five friends.

Figment 2: Creed Valley stands out with its bright visuals and unusual concept. The game takes place in the human mind, which is gripped by nightmares. Together with Dusty, the embodiment of courage, we must save this "world" and defeat the Nightmares.

To do this, you will have to fight a lot, solve puzzles and explore a world filled with music. The heroes and their opponents communicate exclusively in chants.

This is a cute and exciting game with a simple but interesting plot, an interesting concept and high-quality execution. So if you want to go to a fairy tale — this is what you need. In local co-op, the second player's character will be Piper — the main character's bird companion.

Demonologist is similar to the viral Phasmophobia. The player, in the company of three companions, goes to some cursed place, tries to determine the type of evil spirit and exorcise it using equipment and found evidence.

The system of random events and ghosts is responsible for replayability, and the system of customizing your shelter is responsible for progress between runs, which players can upgrade, furnish to taste and boast about achievements. You can even buy a pet!

A variety of maps, non-obvious mechanics, temporary events and daily tasks add interest. The main thing is to endure the low difficulty, on which the ghost does not bother players for a long time. Believe me, even at the average level, he is quite capable of cutting out half of the team by the middle of the game.

Roots of Pacha can be called a "primitive" version of Stardew Valley. We, as one of the members of a primitive tribe, have to lead the people to prosperity: protect them from possible threats, receive the blessing of Mother Nature Pacha, build a settlement and discover new technologies.

Study and grow plants, explore the world, fish, mine rare materials in caves, tame animals — there's plenty of entertainment. As you progress, helping your fellow tribesmen come up with new technologies, the player gains access to cooking, metalworking, ceramics, new buildings and structures.

Every day you need to earn Gifts — local currency, handing in various items to the common "pot". The strength of the tribe and the player's capabilities depend on the number of Gifts. Of course, there is a friendship system — you have to make friends with all your fellow tribesmen, and you can even start a relationship with some. All this is seasoned with a cooperative with the ability to share talents and resources, joint events and multiplayer cutscenes.

If you missed the atmosphere of Stardew Valley, Roots of Pacha will help you plunge into the farming and exploration life again.

Minecraft Legends offers a new perspective on the universe. We will not be digging in a mine, but leading an entire army to protect the cubic world from evil piglins (pigmen). We need to build relationships with different peoples, confront three piglin factions, build bases and break through enemy defenses.

You also need to extract resources, but with the hands of your minions, marking deposits and giving orders. Similarly, with battles — it is much more profitable to build siege weapons, hire more allies for the resources you have extracted and go with your friends to storm the enemy fortress. Of course, you can try alone, but the player is not able to damage enemy buildings on his own.

The project cannot be called deep enough. It has lost the main "features" of Minecraft and at the same time has not become sufficiently developed to be called a strategy. But it has not become less interesting entertainment "for the evening", especially in the company of a younger brother or just any Minecraft fan.