I am looking to make some last minute purchases to play with one or more friends, and I have poked around Steam’s Co-Op page. I’m curious what new co-op games everyone on Lemmy is playing.
I just picked up Raft and Deep Rock Galactic the other day, but you can never have too many new (never played) games!
My group just finished Remnant From The Ashes, which was a pretty fun souls-lite with guns, and the sequel is due in a couple weeks. Other games we enjoyed as a group that I didn’t see mentioned already are Gunfire Reborn, Divinity 2, Wildermyth, Division 1/2, Escape Simulator, and Helldivers. All on sale for under $20 each
Helldivers looks interesting. Based on the trailer on Steam I’m getting a starship troopers vibe.
Me and my friends started yet another Terraria campaign together and it’s still probably the greatest co-op game we’ve ever played.
Biped, Temtem, Portal 2, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Borderlands, Destiny 2, Escape Room Academy, any Telltale (or similar) game is fun to play together.
We actually just looked into Destiny 2 the other day, and it seems the game is taking a pay to win nosedive. +1 for Portal 2 and Borderlands. I’ll take a look at the others. Thanks!
Yeah, I’ve seen people say that. I’m not sure I follow the logic. It’s not a free to play game. It’s more “free to try”. Most of the content is locked behind the purchase of an expansion or season. There’s nothing you can outright buy to get a permanent advantage, especially if we’re talking co-op. I guess you could level the seasonal battle pass by paying for it, but the advantages that offers are so miniscule in PvP, and make no difference to the PvE portion of the game.
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a lot of mods are locked behind rank seven, which is a forced season buy just to get them, even if you have all the dlc’s,
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dungeons are not included in seasonal content, you have to buy them separately
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you can buy a campaign skip so you don’t have to grind
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pre-orders of the lightfall DLC gave access to an exclusive exotic months in advance
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you can complete the season pass, which includes equipment drops and exp boosts day one, with money, ofc,
it goes on and on, it’s fully pay to win at this point, and only getting worse
Pay to win isn’t the right label, you’re just paying for access to the content and all games with expansions do that. The main issue for newcomers is how the content is broken up and sold. If you want access to all the content in the game then you need to buy
- Lightfall ($25 on sale, $50 normally)
- The Legacy Collection ($24 on sale, $60 normally)
- The Forsaken Pack ($7 on sale, $20 normally)
And if you want access to all the dungeons you’ll have to buy
- The 30th Anniversary Pack ($10 now, $25 normally)
- $20 for last year’s dungeons
- $20 for this year’s dungeons
And then there’s the season pass for $12
That’s over $100 even on sale, $200 at normal prices.
It’s just an enormous barrier to entry for newcomers and it’s really not clear what you’re even supposed to buy.
Source: I play Destiny 2 a ton and have tried throughout the years to get friends into the game with varying degrees of success
I’ve been playing Bread and Fred with a friend, it’s pretty fun but we can only play it in short intervals
Here are some that our group has enjoyed:
Project Zomboid: amazingly vast and deep Zombie long-term survival isometric game. If you’re into this, you’ll play for hundreds of hours. The cost-playtime ratio is off the charts.
Heave Ho: super crude 2D graphics, but absolutely hilarious gameplay
The Ascent: beautiful cyberpunk-themed isometric shooter
Broforce: very entertaining pixel-art 2D platformer/shooter (think in the style of Contra, but funnier) - we played this through to the end, which is rare for us
Overcooked: very entertaining 3D co-op cooking isometric game (you’re running a restaurant kitchen)
Unrailed: similar to overcooked, but you’re keeping a train running instead of cooking
SWAT 4: old 3D FPS, but still good. I think this is only at GOG, not Steam
Honorable mention: Hidden in Plain Sight. While not a co-op game, it’s relatively friendly, funny, and not heavily slanted to make better players run away with it because it doesn’t rely heavily on reflexes and coordination. Check it out if you can. Works great for couch play too (everyone playing on the same computer/monitor).
Edit: all of these handle at least 4 players, which was a requirement for us. Some of them, like Zomboid and SWAT, can handle more than 4. I’m not sure how high the others can go.
Edit 2: check https://www.co-optimus.com/ too, if you’re not already familiar with it.
The Ascent keeps going on sale for $9 so I’m mildly tempted to pick it up, but the reviews for it are horrible. Notably, people talk about frequent crashes and losing all progress. Have you noticed these as serious issues in your time with the game?
Yikes! Thanks for letting me know. We have not run into that yet. Good reason to rotate save games each time we play. We enjoy it though. Worth the money for sure if you enjoy the genre and art style.
