My wife and I like to play games together, but PC devs often skip couch co-op options. For example, I bought Halo Master Chief Collection because I know Halo co-op is legendary and I never really played Halo growing up, nor did she. But the PC version specifically doesn’t have split screen co-op where the console version does.
We already own and play Stardew Valley, Outward (fantastic game if you aren’t aware), and Civ 5 (we prefer it over 6).
So what other options have you enjoyed that I may have missed?
Halo, call of duty, not all games are. Say this some how about halo
It was called halo combat evolved, because combat evolved into something else, it was to smite call of duty, and take halo from being considered any type of military training. Instead beating halo on legendary means you can be a master computer programmer at Microsoft.
It’s just combat evolved probably made it seem like the second game like halo 2, but halo 2 was already on the market. I started doing the same thing customers do with calling on phones to peoples houses or cell phones or their friends neighbors or family’s houses or asking around for them or about them and the calls or anything they do didn’t go on anymore and eventually nothing was bought and sold, and actual slow calling and talking or having meetings business actually went on, and a service economy started where everything was normal and high quality stuff with the real approved formula was bought sold. And just democracy and or business fascism went on and that’s what call of duty was actually still made for. Everyone is forced to buy it and play it for older ones you just download them unless you’re that lazy. It’s too risky to leave the house we could get kidnapped by someone else or have homeless people convincing us about the economy crashing by what they’re doing or saying or how the area looks. When we all hate money or don’t need it or want to use it or it to go on, they all still need and use money for something and expect the other thing called a service economy to go on, bums didn’t work or sell anything in service economies, they all wanted to be cashiers or already were and stole something or money or got fired. And it’s the opposite when we do. Socialist selling businesses can’t exist, it means the employees were doing some kind of communism and breeding.
Where it says the planet turned into a ring world called halo we should have said universe, or there isn’t other planets and stars but halo wasn’t necessary to be Star Wars and traveling through space. Or who knows what can happen with video games, prequels or some new sequel branch. Halo is intense it becomes like fighting bosses in other video games the whole time where you get use to them so they throw more at you and more intense stuff. I let Justin put as much as he could or would ever put in a game into the game, and it was quite a bit that he’d put in it. What great evil man. A god damn award to Justin holt if you may. A windows award print out and a gift card or some big check like in “Happy Gilmore”. I use to do shit like that in person and that’s why they said different kinds of capitalism goes on or that capitalism still went on. I was on the PGA tour, but I didn’t miss while putting. No one wants to walk that far when golfing no one really eats any food and beer is common.
In halo you have to use alien pistols very good to even beat it or to beat it on legendary, the assault rifle sucked completely. I’d still say this blew ass and not to make any more and now we’d have to take them all away. They make someone beat it on legendary for anyone to get paid from it or anything else they did. No one beat it on legendary because they didn’t want too, playing video games is supposed to be fun and not much of a challenge unless your getting better. People just played video games to relax or blow off steam, or wait out natural disasters, they don’t build full on neighborhoods and cities and put in restaurants for it, it’s possible that if you don’t make video games that you may end up playing the same ones. Or any game that ever existed.
So it was that Trojan horse virus Tony doing this yo me or us. He didn’t want me only getting a salary amount and that’s because that’s all anyone wanted to spend in a year as a regular person, but I still needed my investment into it back. I did this thing where I acted like I was his son saying “oh can’t you just give me an allowance dad, like 5 or 10 bucks a day and 20 or 40 on Friday for the weekend movie theaters and places. And him being bisexual he got into it, it turned me into an almost prostitute for my own money back, all because I didn’t beat halo combat evolved on legendary for the master simulator to see. What a long large video game. It seems short until mission 5. They have you go in to the place then you have to fight your way back out when reinforcements arrive.
Then one day I hit my head on something or became immune to him by a vaccine or using Vicodin, he bought them sometimes to stop me from taking them. 25 thousand dollars stuck somewhere with Tony using it as business loan or student loan money making it seem like student loan money gets paid back because he did, yeah well that wasn’t Tony’s money so he had too or he couldn’t use Microsoft Windows anymore or the old versions. The simulator just wouldn’t allow it. So I convinced him not to and to try out Ubuntu and Linux.
But still we could just start programming after using a computer and having ideas for programs of new ones or improving some or by starting over on an operating system and calling it the same thing when the new one comes out.
Divinity: Original Sin (and it’s sequel) are two of my favorites that I played split screen with my wife. They’re classic crpgs, so can be a bit slower paced, but both have great stories and are very good about allowing freedom to both people playing
There are a lot of good suggestions here already. I want throw out Escape Academy. Split screen escape room game. My brother and I started playing it and had a blast in just an hour. Not sure about any story because we glossed over it, but we enjoy puzzles a lot.
Really enjoyed “Heave Ho!”
Co-op 2D arcade-style game where you play a character with two arms, can control the direction and grabbing of each arm, and must cooperate to climb/heave each other through obstacle course levels. Couch co-op, best with controllers.
It’s not co op but head to head. But if you haven’t played duck game, I feel like you are missing out on some of the best local multiplayer pc has to offer.
If that’s too competitive, try Ultimate Chicken Horse - if you want some incentive watch a guy named Northernlion play it on YouTube
Next on the semi co op is Crawl although it’s still a little competitive, I can’t do it justice by describing it but it’s great, videos will do better to describe it.
Extremely weird pick, but Octodad is incredible and has a genius multiplayer mode, where you each control different limbs of the same character.
I played the whole game through with a friend and we had an awesome time :) you can do left/right, or arms/legs, or there’s even an option to randomly assign limbs to each player on each level. Left/right is a really great bonding experience as you learn to walk together haha
It Takes Two is co-op masterpiece. It’s mostly a puzzle platformer but changes up the gameplay style every level. Lots of little mini games to get distracted by too. Can’t recommend it enough
You play the new “Reaper” and his cat. Collect lost souls, that still have some issues to solve, travel the “in between” spirit world, build a house boat, take care of gardens, make music, etc.
The artwork is cute, while the topics of the lost spirits can be unexpected sad. Still a great game to relax!
My girlfriend and I both have computers (i built her a gaming PC so she could move off her laptop). The games we have enjoyed are Halo (no local co-op), Overcooked 2 (local co-op available), The Escapsists 2 (local co-op available), and “Keep talking and nobody explodes” (only 1 person needs the computer other is reading material helping them). Games we play together with co-op but we need to be on our own rigs are Apex legends (if we can call that Co-op), Starship troopers Extermination, Deep Rock Galactic, Left 4 dead 2, Satisfactory, The forest, Terraria, and Call of Duty BO3 custom zombies.
Honorable Mention: Old School Runescape. I grew up playing this game, played it again in college and got my girlfriend into it as well and now we both play often. It can be played on PC or even has a very well made mobile client that lets you play the same game on mobile. (be careful, the joke is that the game is called Run-Escape, since it tends to pull you in like a crack addiction lol)
Not exactly a recommendation (most of what I would have said has been covered below) but, my partner and I use Co-Optimus to find new games to couch play together. Here’s a filtered list of PC split-screen and couch co-op games.
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Halo, call of duty, not all games are. Say this some how about halo
It was called halo combat evolved, because combat evolved into something else, it was to smite call of duty, and take halo from being considered any type of military training. Instead beating halo on legendary means you can be a master computer programmer at Microsoft.
It’s just combat evolved probably made it seem like the second game like halo 2, but halo 2 was already on the market. I started doing the same thing customers do with calling on phones to peoples houses or cell phones or their friends neighbors or family’s houses or asking around for them or about them and the calls or anything they do didn’t go on anymore and eventually nothing was bought and sold, and actual slow calling and talking or having meetings business actually went on, and a service economy started where everything was normal and high quality stuff with the real approved formula was bought sold. And just democracy and or business fascism went on and that’s what call of duty was actually still made for. Everyone is forced to buy it and play it for older ones you just download them unless you’re that lazy. It’s too risky to leave the house we could get kidnapped by someone else or have homeless people convincing us about the economy crashing by what they’re doing or saying or how the area looks. When we all hate money or don’t need it or want to use it or it to go on, they all still need and use money for something and expect the other thing called a service economy to go on, bums didn’t work or sell anything in service economies, they all wanted to be cashiers or already were and stole something or money or got fired. And it’s the opposite when we do. Socialist selling businesses can’t exist, it means the employees were doing some kind of communism and breeding.
Where it says the planet turned into a ring world called halo we should have said universe, or there isn’t other planets and stars but halo wasn’t necessary to be Star Wars and traveling through space. Or who knows what can happen with video games, prequels or some new sequel branch. Halo is intense it becomes like fighting bosses in other video games the whole time where you get use to them so they throw more at you and more intense stuff. I let Justin put as much as he could or would ever put in a game into the game, and it was quite a bit that he’d put in it. What great evil man. A god damn award to Justin holt if you may. A windows award print out and a gift card or some big check like in “Happy Gilmore”. I use to do shit like that in person and that’s why they said different kinds of capitalism goes on or that capitalism still went on. I was on the PGA tour, but I didn’t miss while putting. No one wants to walk that far when golfing no one really eats any food and beer is common.
In halo you have to use alien pistols very good to even beat it or to beat it on legendary, the assault rifle sucked completely. I’d still say this blew ass and not to make any more and now we’d have to take them all away. They make someone beat it on legendary for anyone to get paid from it or anything else they did. No one beat it on legendary because they didn’t want too, playing video games is supposed to be fun and not much of a challenge unless your getting better. People just played video games to relax or blow off steam, or wait out natural disasters, they don’t build full on neighborhoods and cities and put in restaurants for it, it’s possible that if you don’t make video games that you may end up playing the same ones. Or any game that ever existed.
So it was that Trojan horse virus Tony doing this yo me or us. He didn’t want me only getting a salary amount and that’s because that’s all anyone wanted to spend in a year as a regular person, but I still needed my investment into it back. I did this thing where I acted like I was his son saying “oh can’t you just give me an allowance dad, like 5 or 10 bucks a day and 20 or 40 on Friday for the weekend movie theaters and places. And him being bisexual he got into it, it turned me into an almost prostitute for my own money back, all because I didn’t beat halo combat evolved on legendary for the master simulator to see. What a long large video game. It seems short until mission 5. They have you go in to the place then you have to fight your way back out when reinforcements arrive.
Then one day I hit my head on something or became immune to him by a vaccine or using Vicodin, he bought them sometimes to stop me from taking them. 25 thousand dollars stuck somewhere with Tony using it as business loan or student loan money making it seem like student loan money gets paid back because he did, yeah well that wasn’t Tony’s money so he had too or he couldn’t use Microsoft Windows anymore or the old versions. The simulator just wouldn’t allow it. So I convinced him not to and to try out Ubuntu and Linux.
But still we could just start programming after using a computer and having ideas for programs of new ones or improving some or by starting over on an operating system and calling it the same thing when the new one comes out.
Divinity: Original Sin (and it’s sequel) are two of my favorites that I played split screen with my wife. They’re classic crpgs, so can be a bit slower paced, but both have great stories and are very good about allowing freedom to both people playing
There are a lot of good suggestions here already. I want throw out Escape Academy. Split screen escape room game. My brother and I started playing it and had a blast in just an hour. Not sure about any story because we glossed over it, but we enjoy puzzles a lot.
Edit to include: Cuphead Wildermyth Overcooked 2 Terraria TMNT Shredders Revenge
Really enjoyed “Heave Ho!” Co-op 2D arcade-style game where you play a character with two arms, can control the direction and grabbing of each arm, and must cooperate to climb/heave each other through obstacle course levels. Couch co-op, best with controllers.
Such an awesome party game! Absolute recommendation.
We always keep an eye out for Switch games for this exact reason. Our favorites from there are Animal Crossing and Luigi’s Mansion.
It’s not co op but head to head. But if you haven’t played duck game, I feel like you are missing out on some of the best local multiplayer pc has to offer.
If that’s too competitive, try Ultimate Chicken Horse - if you want some incentive watch a guy named Northernlion play it on YouTube
Next on the semi co op is Crawl although it’s still a little competitive, I can’t do it justice by describing it but it’s great, videos will do better to describe it.
If co-op is a must, I second divinity.
Grim Dawn is pretty great
Grim Dawn has split screen coop?
Extremely weird pick, but Octodad is incredible and has a genius multiplayer mode, where you each control different limbs of the same character.
I played the whole game through with a friend and we had an awesome time :) you can do left/right, or arms/legs, or there’s even an option to randomly assign limbs to each player on each level. Left/right is a really great bonding experience as you learn to walk together haha
It Takes Two is co-op masterpiece. It’s mostly a puzzle platformer but changes up the gameplay style every level. Lots of little mini games to get distracted by too. Can’t recommend it enough
It’s not split screen, but an enjoyable game for two players in the same screen (so couch coop):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritfarer
You play the new “Reaper” and his cat. Collect lost souls, that still have some issues to solve, travel the “in between” spirit world, build a house boat, take care of gardens, make music, etc. The artwork is cute, while the topics of the lost spirits can be unexpected sad. Still a great game to relax!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222700/A_Way_Out/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426210/It_Takes_Two/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1225570/Unravel_Two/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/253230/A_Hat_in_Time/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/620/Portal_2/
https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/476600/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/252110/Lovers_in_a_Dangerous_Spacetime/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/Broforce/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/242550/Rayman_Legends/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/584400/Sonic_Mania/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/345180/Victor_Vran_ARPG/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/598550/HUNTDOWN/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/431940/Wildfire/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/360830/YookaLaylee/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016180/Terror_of_Hemasaurus/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/399820/Kopanito_AllStars_Soccer/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/61730/Critter_Crunch/
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thanks man. i missed out on terror of hemasaurus und just love it.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is SO good.
Will y’all stop making me poorer, damnit! 😉
It’s not my favorite but I feel like it deserves to be mentioned: Alien Swarm.
My girlfriend and I both have computers (i built her a gaming PC so she could move off her laptop). The games we have enjoyed are Halo (no local co-op), Overcooked 2 (local co-op available), The Escapsists 2 (local co-op available), and “Keep talking and nobody explodes” (only 1 person needs the computer other is reading material helping them). Games we play together with co-op but we need to be on our own rigs are Apex legends (if we can call that Co-op), Starship troopers Extermination, Deep Rock Galactic, Left 4 dead 2, Satisfactory, The forest, Terraria, and Call of Duty BO3 custom zombies.
Honorable Mention: Old School Runescape. I grew up playing this game, played it again in college and got my girlfriend into it as well and now we both play often. It can be played on PC or even has a very well made mobile client that lets you play the same game on mobile. (be careful, the joke is that the game is called Run-Escape, since it tends to pull you in like a crack addiction lol)
Love overcooked 2. Just be able to laugh at your mistakes!
Not exactly a recommendation (most of what I would have said has been covered below) but, my partner and I use Co-Optimus to find new games to couch play together. Here’s a filtered list of PC split-screen and couch co-op games.
https://co-optim.us/1m8Ysft
Hope that helps!
Awesome resource thank you for sharing!
Cheers and happy gaming!