Hi guys!
Soon I’ll be traveling and visiting family. I’d like to be able to hook my Steam Deck to their TV and let their kids have a rip at couch multiplayer games allowing up to 4 simultaneous players. The good ole classic WiiU Mario Kart is there and been played until exhaustion by now, so I’d be happy if I had more titles (either SD-compatible or just plain emulated) at the ready if they wanted to try.
Thanks!
I would recommend Overcooked and Moving out, the kids i played this with picked it up fairly quickly.
Another good coop game is Unrailed, but it is more stressful and might be more frustrating.
Our most played game is ultimate chicken horse though, but its versus and does not really provide guardrails so you can kind of deadlock your match quite easily
Overcooked (4-player)
Lovers in a dangerous space time (4-player)
Death squared (2-4 player)
Toybox Turbos (4-player)
Trine (3-player)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (infinite player)
Magicka (4-player)
The various Jackbox Party Packs (players depends on which game. Most support 4 players, some up to 100 players, each player must have a phone to play on)
Worms W.M.D (6-player)
Untitled Goose Game (2-player)
Love in a Dangerous Space Time is a great co-op game that is actually cooperative.
Towerfall
Gang beasts
Overcooked 2
Broforce
Or taking turns in 1v1 games
Check out Armed and Gelatinous on steam. Up to four players can battle each other. It’s an Indie game and it’s a lot of fun.
Assault Android Cactus!
Been having a blast with Make Way lately, it’s a top down racer where you start each round by building new sections of the track and adding traps to it. It’s really chaotic and fun, and supports up to 6 local or online players
Thanks! Second time I see it recommended, I’m definitely getting this one.
D&D Chronicles of Mystara (side-scrolling co-op) I think is 4-player
Cuphead - 2 player
A Hat In Time - 2 player
Streets of Rogue - up to 4 players
Vampire Survivors - I think 2 player for local co-op?
Most of the old Telltale games have co-op in the form of voting for responses
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth has full co-op now, I think up to 4 player. You may need the DLC for the best co-op experience
Crypt of The Necrodancer has solid couch co-op
Baldur’s Gate 3 has a full split-screen 2-player couch co-op mode. Both players need to use a controller. Works great.
I can’t help but laugh at the idea of a couple of 8 year-olds playing through Baldur’s Gate 3 lol.
Lmao, that’ll teach me not to skim ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you like roguelites ember knights is awesome as a group of 4
don’t sleep on Portal 2
Agreed, although it’s wise to have a backup option for this. It’s entirely possible that you have two solid Portal players go at this, which should be a really fun romp. However, in my experience, any skill gap between the players usually turns every stage into “how do I carry my friend through this puzzle?” An extreme version of this can be seen in Game Grumps’ playthrough.
Moving Out and Overcooked are my favorite co-op games right now. Both have more than 1 title in the series, and, so far, none of them have been bad.
I was having fun with my 5 year old and It Takes Two, but the damned wasp boss level cut our adventure short. It proved too much for the kid
I greatly enjoyed It Takes Two with my wife.
Currently on split fiction by the same developers, it’s amazing as well but a bit more challenging. A Way Out is also decent but we strongly disliked the end.
Unraveled 2 was also very nice but a bit darker.
That’s interesting that you thought split fiction was harder than it takes two. My partner and I thought the opposite, since split fiction seems to let you get away with skipping a lot of things when one of you is dying (i.e. checkpoint reached by one player counts for both of you). In saying that my other theory is my partner has actually gotten better at games since we played it takes two.
You might have saved him from a rather…traumatic experience right on the next chapter :)
Welp… Good to know
Overcooked 2, Conduct Together/Deluxe. Both are tough but fair, and they’ll have to communicate effectively to do well.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a bit more chill, more of a party game.
I had a lot of fun with TMNT: Shredders Revenge
It’s a super fun sidescroller that sends you back to the good old SNES times.
You can play with up to four players.
The only downside, it’s relatively short, especially for the price they ask. I think it’s curently on sale though.
Streets of Rage 4
Edit: just saw that this is for playing with kids so maybe not a great one for that, sorry! I’ve had a blast with it playing with friends though.
