Together to reveal secrets, fight and win! A selection of the best games to play with friends to pass the time with interest.
What could be better than a good computer game? Only a good computer game that you can play with your friends. Co-op games will not push you into confrontation, but will allow you to work together to solve puzzles, fight evil shoulder to shoulder, or even cook food together. Meet the top 15 best co-op games.
Dying Light
Plot Dying Light does not shine with originality, this is another story that in a world engulfed by a zombie epidemic, people can be more dangerous than mindless monsters. But the undoubted advantages of the game are the atmosphere, a large and lively open world, thoughtful combat with elements of parkour. And, of course, the ability to go through the entire story in cooperative mode.
The genre of the game combines elements of a conventional first-person shooter and survival horror. Alas, the game was not without a routine - for crafting, you will have to clean all the dark corners in search of resources, but this is unlikely to spoil your experience of playing together. The visual is executed perfectly, and the optimization is not lame. Fifteenth place.
Features:
- The game keeps you in suspense all the time and gives you new challenges, there is no time to relax;
- Excellent physics;
- Parkour in the zombie apocalypse is fresh and original.
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Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
Many classic RPGs, such as Baldur's Gate 2, have a cooperative mode, but it's hard to call it interesting for all players except the host. While he, by right of the protagonist, takes tasks and enters into dialogues, the rest are forced to obediently follow him.
But not in the extended edition. Divinity: Original Sinwhere the developers gave the opportunity to both participants in the co-op campaign to win back their character, and do not even see eye to eye when making important decisions. And while the rest of the game follows the tradition of classic RPGs, you won't find this kind of gaming experience in any other RPG. A must play for all fans of the genre!
Features:
- Full-fledged wagering in a cooperative game.
- Runs even on ancient machines;
- A cool story in the best traditions of old-school RPGs.
Killing Floor 2
Bloody co-op shooter for a team of up to six people. There is no plot, as such, in the game, but there are waves of mutant opponents and strong bosses that follow them. Each next wave is stronger than the previous one, but the heroes also become stronger, because for killing opponents they receive money for which they can buy new weapons and equipment during a respite between waves, and experience that will allow you to upgrade your character by adding new perks to it.
Of course in Killing Floor 2 there is also a single player mode, but who needs it when you can play with friends, covering each other's backs from bloodthirsty monsters climbing out of all the cracks, and then fill up the fat boss with a crowd? If you are looking for meat action to play with friends, this game is a great choice. Visually, the game of stars from the sky is not enough, but good optimization allows you to run it even on weak machines. Let's put it in the symbolic thirteenth place.
Features:
A sea of blood and dismemberment without censorship;
Various opponents and bosses;
Killing hordes of monsters shoulder to shoulder with friends is insanely fun!
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2
If you love the dark universe of Warhammer, then you probably know about this cooperative meat grinder for four players. Play in Warhammer: Vermintide 2 it is possible with a smaller number, in this case the missing comrade will be replaced by a bot, which, although not distinguished by strong AI, is still better than no one at all.
Four heroes defend the city from the hordes of skaven and nurgliths, cracking down on them with particular cruelty. The weak in the world of Warhammer do not live long, so you will have to do your best and hold on to each otherto survive the waves of attackers. To do this, you have five heroes to choose from, each with three gameplay-changing specializations. If you get tired of playing one lineup, you can always try another one, so for a typical survival against waves of opponents the game is quite replayable, and juicy graphics pleases the eye. Twelfth place.
Features:
- The dark and cruel universe of Warhammer with all the consequences;
- High variety of survival strategies;
- Great graphics.
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Gears 5
Alas, this third-person shooter did not reach the top ten leaders of our top, because fans of the series Gears of War expected better from him. The tone of the story changed to a less serious one, and the game featured a far-fetched SJW agenda. This is in a world where people are fighting a bloody war for survival. But the main reason for dissatisfaction was bugs, some developers are still catching.
But still Gears 5 - this is a beautiful, atmospheric story that will sparkle with new colors if you decide to go through it in a cooperative mode with friends. And you want to, otherwise why are you reading the top 15 best co-op games? The game gets eleventh place from us and a separate like for references to the Terminator.
Features:
- Cheerful action that will not let you relax;
- High-quality realistic graphics;
- Continuation of the cult series.
Don't Starve Together
Stylish indie survival game Do not starve remembered by gamers thanks to the design in the spirit of Tim Burton cartoons, and creepy creatures lurking in the dark, which only become scarier from the fact that you do not see them. With the advent of the cooperative mode, the oppressive feeling of loneliness disappeared from the game, but problems were added. Feeding on a whole group of adventurers traveling through portals between different dangerous worlds turns out to be much more difficult than alone.
To sort out Don't Starve Together, you don't have to go through the single version Do not starve, the game will get you up to speed pretty quickly. And when you buy a game on Steam, you automatically get another copy that you can give to a friend. Agree, it's honest and convenient! And the system requirements of the game are low, so even on older machines there will be no problems.
Features:
- Recognizable visual style;
- High difficulty, which turns the game into a real challenge;
- Low system requirements.
Overcooked! 2
Ninth place in our top goes to a game that can piss off even the most balanced gamers. If in the first part the team of cooks prepared crazy dishes to save the world from the ever-hungry monster, now the Onion Kingdom is threatened by walking breads that have risen from the graves. So, it's time to get back to the pans and experiment with recipes.
At first glance, the game looks like some kind of casual game unworthy of our top, but believe me, it's not. overcooked 2 not every hardcore player who has completed Dark Souls using only his left hand will be tough. And the need for well-coordinated cooperative work in the absurd conditions created by the game will be a serious test for your friendship, if, of course, you play with friends.
Features:
- Great absurd humor.
- Simplicity of mechanics does not mean simplicity of the game, Overcooked 2 is a real hardcore.
- No other game will test your friendship like this.
Far Cry 5
Continues our top Far Cry 5. In a fictional town in Montana, power belongs to a totalitarian sect led by a certain Joseph Sid. This charismatic and in his own way brilliant leader has convinced many people that the End of the World will come soon, and he is a prophet who can save the elect. At first, the government used the sectarians for their own purposes, but Sid got out of control, dealt with the representatives of the law and completely seized power over the district. Now the player has to stop him. More precisely, two players, because we are talking about a cooperative mode.
The Far Cry series is well known to gamers, and you should not expect surprises from the fifth part - good graphics, well-thought-out physics, and a tense plot that you and a friend will probably want to go through several times to see all possible endings.
Features:
- Already established game series;
- A tense plot with several endings depending on the decisions made;
- Great graphics.
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Green Hell
Harsh and realistic survival, in which your opponents will not be fictional monsters from a parallel universe, aggressive aliens or sick zombies, but real dangers that exist on our planet in the real Amazon jungle: bloodthirsty predators, poisonous plants, parasites, diseases, hunger, thirst, insomnia ... In Green Hell features both a story campaign where you and your friends follow the trail of the missing translator Mia, whose negotiations with a local tribe of natives went wrong, and a sandbox mode where you have to survive in the jungle with no end goal.
The game has a number of interesting mechanics, such as examining your own body for leeches or small scratches that will turn into festering wounds tomorrow if they are not treated, or sanity, which decreases if your hero does not get enough sleep, eats larvae, or raw meat, or simply frightened by the howl of a predator in the distance. Visually, the game is executed superbly, but it is unlikely that it will be possible to play on weak hardware. With the advent of the co-op mode, Green Hell has become the most popular survival game on Steam. Seventh place.
Features:
- Realistic dangers that really exist on our planet;
- Many inventive game mechanics;
- Hardcore.
Portal 2
This puzzle game in the Universe Half-Life well known to gamers. While somewhere above Gordon Freeman saves humanity from an alien invasion with a tire iron in his hands, somewhere deep underground, the insane artificial intelligence GlaDOS continues to experiment on his test subjects.
In Portal 2's co-op mode, you play as two androids running errands for GlaDOS throughout the lab complex. And everyone has their own portal gun, so feel free to square the number of degrees of freedom. Co-op puzzles are much more difficult and interesting than in the single player campaign, but two heads are better than one, right? So take your best friend or girlfriend on a hike, several hours of exciting gameplay are guaranteed! The game runs even on weak hardware, but it still looks pretty and stylish.
Features:
The game will make you break your head;
Undemanding to iron;
The inimitable GlaDOS.
Cuphead
The top five is opened by a platformer about two circle-headed friends who were smart enough to make a bet with the Devil himself, and, of course, lose it. Now the unlucky couple is forced to become collectors in the service of the Prince of Darkness and knock out debts from his debtors in all the nooks and crannies of hell.
What is the secret of popularity Cuphead? First, the chic visual style. The whole game looks and feels like a colorful cartoon straight from the thirties of the last century. And secondly, this vintage platformer is a tough nut to crack, which is not for everyone. How many gamepads in the world have been broken in an attempt to defeat the next boss. By the way, the whole game consists only of battles with bosses, no long levels for you here with cleaning up boring trash along the way. And at the end - a fight with the Devil himself. Or not. The choice is yours, after all, having correctly completed all his instructions, you can part with the world, but is it worth avoiding the most exciting battle?
Features:
- Gorgeous vintage visual style;
- Cool and diverse opponents, each of which requires a separate tactic to defeat;
- High complexity.
Payday 2
Payday 2 - world's best co-op heist simulator. No more saving the world, heroism and survival, the heroes of this game are the bad guys. True, other bad guys force them to rob, but this is how the criminal world works. Depending on the task chosen, the conditions will change, and you will either have to act with brute force: eliminate the minor security that got in the way and take out the cash register faster than the police appear, or use a covert method, pulling out all the valuables from the bank vault so that no one even won't notice.
Each hero, or rather, the villain, has his own specialization. One knows how to move silently and interfere with enemy communications, the other is excellent with firearms, the third is a professional bugbear, etc. For each mission, you and your friends will have to think over a strategy and choose the best party. Or vice versa, use a non-standard approach. There are no complaints about the graphics of the game, and if there were no annoying microtransactions in it, we would place it in the top three, but alas, fourth place.
Features:
- Unique in its kind cooperative robbery simulator;
- Missions are replayable, you can always try a different approach;
- An uncompromising and brutal game.
Left 4 Dead 2
The third place in our top is a game that no longer needs to be introduced. This team zombie shooter classic, completely sharpened for the passage of cooperative scenarios by a group of four heroes, each of which has both advantages and disadvantages.
In addition to the usual zombies infected with a virus, which are mainly for extras in the game, there are special mutant zombies with a set of unique abilities that you need to resist wisely. And when you get tired of surviving together, you can always play as zombies and tear your buddies to pieces, unless, of course, they shoot you first. Luckily, both are possible in Russia, unlike in Australia, where the game was heavily censored and stripped of all gore and dismemberment.
Features:
- Best co-op survival by gamers and critics;
- A variety of special opponents and the ability to play for them;
- The graphics are a bit outdated, but still look decent and playable even on older machines.
A Way Out
The uniqueness of this game is that it does not have a single player mode at all. A Way Out - this is a game that can only be played together, and nothing else. You will take control of Vincent and Leo - two prisoners who met in prison, and soon find out that both have reasons to take revenge on the same villain.
Together they make an escape and the buddy movie begins. Joint adventures strengthen the friendship of Vincent and Leo, and therefore a powerful ending, which would be dishonorable to spoil, is perceived especially brightly. The game developers have already got their hands on Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, where the gameplay was also built around the interaction of two characters, and A Way Out once again proves that Yousef Fares can write powerful and deeply personal stories for co-op games. Visually, the game is made nicely, there are no complaints about the graphics, however, and frills too. From us - a well-deserved second place in the top.
Features:
- Directing worthy of all praise;
- Living characters that you can't help but empathize with;
- A unique cooperative experience.
Minecraft
In order to guess the winner of our top, just look at the majestic creations created by the work of many gamers brick by brick. Minecraft - is phenomenon game, which was created by the Swedish programmer Markus Persson, who simply loved to play children's constructors and got the whole world hooked on it.
Of course, Minecraft goes far beyond the usual cooperative game, but where else can you join forces with friends to engage in joint survival and defense against a monster, build an exact copy of Notre Dame Cathedral or Barad-dur fortress from The Lord of the Rings, or go explore dungeons in some Minecraft Dungeons. The possibilities of this game are truly endless, and for this - the first place.
Features:
Endless scope for imagination;
Many modifications that change the gameplay;
Alas, all the games that you can play with friends would not fit into our list, but this does not mean at all that if we did not mention your favorite game, then it is somehow bad. Remember that there are as many opinions as there are people, and you, too, can make your own top 15 co-op games.
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