Cooperative (co-op) for PC — top best games in the Cooperative (co-op) genre

Roblox - a game in the Cooperative (co-op) genre

Arcade, Action, Online, MMO, Platformer, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Roblox is a huge online sandbox for creativity. Its toys are mini-games of all kinds of genres, with arcade-style gameplay and visuals that aren’t weighed down by...

Valheim

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting, Online

Early Access: PC → 2 February 2021; Game released: PC → 9 September 2026

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 89/100

A fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and raiding tombs, building bases...

ARC Raiders

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 30 October 2025

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 86/100

The third-person online extraction shooter ARC Raiders combines arcade gameplay with a post-apocalyptic “machine uprising” setting. Players leave their underground...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 23 October 2026

VGTimes: 7.7/10

Players: 8/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 44/100

The game continues the story of a large-scale military conflict in the dark and tense action of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, set against the backdrop of North...

It Takes Two

Arcade, Adventure, Online, Platformer, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 26 March 2021

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 87/100

A co-op platformer about shared adventures, understanding each other, and overcoming disagreements. The story follows Cody and May, a married couple who turn into...

Enshrouded

Role-playing game, Action, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting

Early Access: PC → 24 January 2024; Game released: PC → 15 October 2026

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 88/100

The main character is Born of Flame, the last hope of a dying race. In a bloody struggle for power, the ancestors caused a plague that consumed the world and...

Gears of War: E-Day

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 6 October 2026

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The game's actions take place fourteen years before the events of the first Gears of War. The events unfold fourteen years before the original game and tell the...

WARDOGS

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Construction

Early Access: PC → 10 September 2026; Game in development: PC → 2028

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 74/100

A large-scale tactical first-person shooter that combines dynamic gunfights with elements of construction and destruction in a vast combat sandbox. Battles unfold...

Split Fiction

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy

Game released: PC → 6 March 2025

VGTimes: 9.5/10

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Cooperative action from the creators Its Takes Two and a way out, where magic is intertwined with technology, and unexpected turns change reality in the eyes. The...

Counter-Strike 2

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Action

Game released: PC → 27 September 2023

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Improved and redesigned version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, created on the Source 2 engine. The game received a new interface, reworked maps (some of...

Dying Light 2 Stay Human

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Zombies, Parkour

Game released: PC → 4 February 2022

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A sequel to Dying Light with a new protagonist, characters, setting, and story that expands the game universe. The original’s celebrated formula of “zombies...

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Online, Flight Simulator, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: PC → 2 October 2026

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Aviation action dedicated to fast aerial battles and the control of modern combat aircraft. The campaign unfolds in vast airspaces with detailed cloud systems and...

Sons of the Forest

Action, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration

Early Access: PC → 24 February 2023; Game released: PC → 22 February 2024

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Continuation The Forest about survival in the woods. The main character sets out to search for a missing billionaire on a remote island and ends up in a...

Zenless Zone Zero

Action, Online, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 4 July 2024

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Free role-playing action game from the creators of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. In the near future, the world was shaken by a catastrophe: mysterious...

Dying Light: The Beast

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Open world, Zombies, Online

Game released: PC → 18 September 2025

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 77/100

The story-driven spin-off of the Dying Light 2 Stay Human series with an open world and drivable vehicles. The game takes place in an entirely new location...

Abiotic Factor

Action, First-person view, Science fiction, Shooter, Collectible card game (CCG), Cooperative (co-op), Online, Crafting, Old school, Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Survival

Early Access: PC → 2 May 2024; Game released: PC → 22 July 2025

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 88/100

The GATE network of secret laboratories is engaged in research in all areas, including the paranormal. One day, one of the experiments ends in a massive failure...

Project Zomboid

Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Zombies

Early Access: PC → 8 November 2013; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 93/100

A zombie apocalypse is about to occur in the world of Project Zomboid. So far, humanity has not understood what happened, but the houses still have water and...

REANIMAL

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 13 February 2026

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A dark game from the authors of Little Nightmares 1 and 2 with a cooperative mode. Brother and sister must save their missing friends and get off the creepy island...

Aniimo

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Exploration

Game released: PC → 16 September 2026

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 78/100

An adventure role-playing game with an open world, based on exploration, collecting creatures, and interacting with them. The vast continent of Idill is filled with...

How to Fish

Action, Shooter, Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 20 August 2026

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Cooperative game for 1–4 players, where regular fishing turns into an absurd adventure on deserted islands. After a boat accident, a group of friends finds...

Dead Island 2

Action, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies

Game released: PC → 22 April 2024

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Continuation of the zombie action in the open world, which takes place in Los Angeles. Almost all the inhabitants turned into zombies. Players can choose from six...

Fortnite

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 30 June 2020; Early Access: PC → 23 April 2018

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Most of the planet was destroyed by a cataclysm that brought strange, zombie-like creatures into the world. The survivors called them Husks. The last remnants of...

Marvel Rivals

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Comics, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 6 December 2024

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A free team-based PvP shooter featuring Marvel comics characters. Fantastic Four supervillain Doctor Doom has teamed up with his successor from 2099. Together, they...

Subnautica 2

Action, Adventure, Horror, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting

Early Access: PC → 14 May 2026; Game in development: PC → 2028

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 93/100

The continuation of the popular survival simulator, the events of which unfold on a new planet. After the failure of a colonization mission, the survivors must...

Bodycam

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: PC → 7 June 2024; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Multiplayer tactical shooter with body camera view, real-life graphics and 3v3 combat. In deathmatch mode, two teams of one to three players compete to be the last...

Borderlands 4

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy, Open world

Game released: PC → 12 September 2025

VGTimes: 7.2/10

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The game takes place six years after Borderlands 3. The setting is the never-before-seen planet Kairos. For a long time, this distant world was cut off from the...

Active Matter

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Horror

Game released: PC → 15 September 2026; Early Access: PC → 10 September 2025

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 80/100

The game takes you to a world where death is not the end, but only a return to the beginning. An operative stuck in a time loop is sent again and again to...

Rust

Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Crafting

Game released: PC → 8 February 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Rust has come a difficult path from the alpha version of another DayZ clone in 2013 to an independent survival simulator. The basics of the game are standard for...

Little Nightmares 3

Adventure, Horror, Online, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 10 October 2025

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Low and One are trying to get out of Nowhere. They joined forces to survive in a dangerous world full of illusions and shadows. The main feature of the sequel is...

Bellwright

Action, Strategy, Online, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, City Building, Open world, Medieval era, Construction

Early Access: PC → 23 April 2024; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 79/100

A survival simulator in the Middle Ages. The main character is a man accused of murdering a prince and sentenced to death. Having escaped punishment, he decides to...

Helldivers 2

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Space

Game released: PC → 8 February 2024

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A large-scale cooperative third-person extraction shooter, Helldivers 2 continues the story of humanity’s fight against alien invaders across fronts spanning the...

HumanitZ

Action, Online, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting, Zombies

Early Access: PC → 18 September 2023; Game released: PC → 6 February 2026

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 73/100

The main action takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting in which zombies have destroyed most of the planet's population. Hordes of bloodthirsty dead have firmly...

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Steampunk, Science fiction, Strategy, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 7 December 2023

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Players will take on the role of a Rogue Trader, descendant of an ancient dynasty of brave privateers, ruling their own trading empire and exploring the outskirts...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Shooter, First-person view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies, Action

Game released: PC → 25 October 2024

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Continuation of the Black Ops series in the setting of the Gulf War of the early 90s. This is a time of great change in global politics, brought about by the end of...

DragonSword: Awakening

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 23 July 2026

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A role-playing action game with an open world, where the player embarks on a journey across a vast fantasy continent in search of legendary heroes. The story...

Once Human

Action, Horror, Online, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Survival

Game released: PC → 9 July 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Post-apocalyptic sandbox with survival elements and an open world. Players set out to conquer a world torn apart by a war with demons. The opening of the mysterious...

Borderlands 3

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Role-playing game, Online, Open world

Game released: PC → 13 March 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Borderlands 3 is a role-playing adventure first-person shooter with action elements and the first game in the series where players visit new planets, where they...

We Were Here Tomorrow

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration

Game released: PC → 20 October 2026

Steam: 53/100

A new cooperative adventure in the We Were Here series. Two heroes awaken inside mysterious capsules among strange mechanisms and an unfamiliar world behind glass...

The Forest

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world

Game released: PC → 30 April 2018

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The Forest is an adventure action-horror game with survival elements set in an open world and presented from a first-person perspective. The main character is the...

Big Walk

Adventure, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: PC → 4 August 2026

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Multiplayer game from the creators of Untitled Goose Game, based on teamwork and communication. The heroes travel through a world full of challenges, puzzles, and...

Cooperative (co-op)

Best Games in the Cooperative (co-op) genre for PC