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

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

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...

Roblox

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...

It Takes Two

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

Game released: PC → 26 March 2021

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 87/100

It Takes Two is a co-op platformer where you and your friends become toys. At the center of the game are two dissimilar heroes Cody and May, who were turned into...

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: 80/100

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...

Dying Light 2 Stay Human

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

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, and setting, featuring a new storyline that expands the game universe. The formula of "zombies...

Aniimo

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

Game released: PC → 16 September 2026

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 72/100

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...

Bodycam

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

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

Players: 7.7/10

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...

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: 8.2/10

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...

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...

How to Fish

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

Game released: PC → 20 August 2026

Players: 7.4/10

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...

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: 88/100

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...

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...

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: 7.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 86/100

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

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: 7.6/10

Steam: 79/100

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...

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 → 2026

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: 8.7/10

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...

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

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

Game released: PC → 2 October 2026

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 87/100

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 9/10

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...

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

Большая часть планеты была уничтожена катаклизмом, из-за которого начали появляться странные создания, похожие на зомби. Выжившие назвали их мозгляками. Последние...

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 in development: PC → 15 October 2026

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 86/100

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, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op)

Game in development: PC → 6 October 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.4/10

Steam: 77/100

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...

Subnautica 2

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

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

Players: 8.2/10

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...

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...

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: 7.8/10

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...

RuneScape: Dragonwilds

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

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

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

A cooperative game, the action of which unfolds on the Ashshenfall continent in the world Runescape. You can build, study locations, create equipment and pump a...

Peak

Action, Adventure, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy, Exploration, Online

Game released: PC → 16 June 2025

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A cooperative game in which 4 gamers try to climb to the top of a mountain. The heroes are lost on the island, and this is the only way to salvation. You need 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: 80/100

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...

Neighbors: Suburban Warfare

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Comedy

Early Access: PC → 17 April 2025; Game released: PC → 29 September 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 65/100

Multiplayer PVP explosion, in which eight neighbors are fighting for dominance in a quiet, but turbulent area of Hartsville. Instead of peaceful gatherings...

Remnant 2

Adventure, Shooter, Cooperative (co-op), Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Procedural generation, Action

Game released: PC → 25 July 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The main character goes on an adventure through different terrifying worlds and fights demons to reach the most difficult bosses. It is possible to travel either...

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...

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: 8.1/10

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...

Escape the Backrooms

Action, Adventure, Horror, Online, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Exploration

Early Access: PC → 12 August 2022; Game released: PC → 23 October 2025

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 88/100

A cooperative first-person horror game based on the popular creepypasta about the "Backrooms." Players will explore over thirty levels of an endless maze of empty...

Marathon

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 5 March 2026

VGTimes: 9.3/10

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A reboot of Bungie's classic series, reimagined for a new generation of players. The game is a competitive PvPVE shooter with survival elements, which takes place...

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...

Cooperative (co-op)

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