Any CoOp Suggestions?

[JohnnyKaizen he/him]

My friend and I enjoy playing games together. We've played through all the Borderlands titles, Terraria, and most recently Elden Ring (through a fantastic coop mod).

Are there any recent games that come to mind that are well suited for coop play? I've tried googling and it seems like the same 10 or so games are suggested in every list. Are there really no good coop games out there from the last few years, or are the 10-20 that pop up on google searches all there is?

 

[Quantus he/him]

My wife and I have been on a similar search.  PC or Console or both?  Are you looking for a living-room shared and/or split screen sort of thing, or separate PC's interacting over the network?

 

It Takes Two is the most overt Coop recently, other than a few Shooters or Survival games.  The problem these days is Coop modes have been mostly replaced by general Online Multiplayer (with varying degrees of quality).  We played ARK for a few years on a private server, but it's like Skyrim in that it takes a ton of Mods just to make it even a little playable.  No Man's Sky was a cursed launch but has evolved into a surprisingly fun game now, it it has functional Multiplayer/Coop now.  

[JohnnyKaizen he/him]

On 6/28/2023 at 5:07 PM, Quantus said:

My wife and I have been on a similar search.  PC or Console or both?  Are you looking for a living-room shared and/or split screen sort of thing, or separate PC's interacting over the network?

 

It Takes Two is the most overt Coop recently, other than a few Shooters or Survival games.  The problem these days is Coop modes have been mostly replaced by general Online Multiplayer (with varying degrees of quality).  We played ARK for a few years on a private server, but it's like Skyrim in that it takes a ton of Mods just to make it even a little playable.  No Man's Sky was a cursed launch but has evolved into a surprisingly fun game now, it it has functional Multiplayer/Coop now.  

I realize I wasn't as clear as I should have been. PC, as we don't have the same consoles, and we're looking for separate PCs that can play together either through a built-in coop or something with functional mods. We've considered the Skyrim together mod, but from what I've read it's not super functional. It pretty much defeats the purpose if the game crashes 2 or more times a session.

I've never heard of It Takes Two, I'll definitely look into that..same with ARK. I've played through skyrim at least a half a dozen times, but always solo. If there is a funtional coop mod, that would be very fun.

[Quantus he/him]

2 minutes ago, JohnnyKaizen said:

I realize I wasn't as clear as I should have been. PC, as we don't have the same consoles, and we're looking for separate PCs that can play together either through a built-in coop or something with functional mods. We've considered the Skyrim together mod, but from what I've read it's not super functional. It pretty much defeats the purpose if the game crashes 2 or more times a session.

I've never heard of It Takes Two, I'll definitely look into that..same with ARK. I've played through skyrim at least a half a dozen times, but always solo. If there is a funtional coop mod, that would be very fun.

Ark was extremely fun for us on a private server, where we were alone and free to build bases and tame dinosaurs (both regular and robotic).  But the main fanbase the game is built and maintained for is a really toxic online area sort of thing, it takes multiple people lots of time investment to make any progress, and every server has "alpha tribes" of players that usually take over completely and kidnap new players for blood generators (actually a thing).  So if you get into it, I highly recommend you find a private modded server that fixes the drop rates and adds the QoL changes that the main dev's never really bothered with (and then they moved on to their pirate game).

[JohnnyKaizen he/him]

5 minutes ago, Quantus said:

Ark was extremely fun for us on a private server, where we were alone and free to build bases and tame dinosaurs (both regular and robotic).  But the main fanbase the game is built and maintained for is a really toxic online area sort of thing, it takes multiple people lots of time investment to make any progress, and every server has "alpha tribes" of players that usually take over completely and kidnap new players for blood generators (actually a thing).  So if you get into it, I highly recommend you find a private modded server that fixes the drop rates and adds the QoL changes that the main dev's never really bothered with (and then they moved on to their pirate game).

Ok wow. I am surprised there are any games out there that still have these problems. That's crazy. Generally speaking, we would always look for a private server, or one that limits troll behavior, but thank you for pointing that out. That would be a seriously infuriating problem to run into blind. I'll check it out, thank you:)