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Some splitscreen multiplayer games I’ve played and enjoyed:
- It Takes Two - 2 player couch. Amazing game
- Octodad - 4p. Every player controls one or two limbs of an octopus, who needs to pretend to be a normal father
- Nom Nom Galaxy - 2 player couch, 4 player online. Land on an alien planet and build a soup factory. Collect ingredients and fight against another corporation.
- Crawl - 4p. One player is a hero running through a dungeon, the other players control monsters trying to kill them. Whoever kills the hero then becomes the hero. Whoever kills the boss first, wins. Great soundtrack and art.
- Stick Fight - 4p. Competitive yet silly ragdoll combat game
- Magicka 1 and 2 - 4p. Wizard game, create spells by mixing elements and blow up a bunch of goblins.
- Stikbold! - 4p. Dodgeball game, a decent bit of skill involved. Can fight each other or against AI.
- Tooth and Tail - 4p. An RTS game that works well on controllers, you control an army of woodland creatures and have to kill / eat the others. Great soundtrack and art. Can play PvP or against AI.
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - 4p. Work together to pilot a spaceship and kill monsters and save people.
- Guns, Gore & Cannoli - 4p. Arcadey shoot lots of zombies side scroller.
- Treadnauts - 4p. Fight each other by driving tanks on walls
- Ultimate Chicken Horse - 4p. Design a shared platforming level with traps, so that you’re able to get to the end but the other players can’t.
- All the Lego games - 2p.
- Stardew Valley - 4p. Grow a farm and befriend villagers
- Speedrunners - 4p. Just run and do parkour faster than the other players
- the Trine games - 3p. Cooperative adventure / puzzle game.
- Wizard of Legend - 2p. Wizard roguelike
- Boomerang Fu - 4p. Fight each other by throwing boomerangs
- Kingdom Two Crowns - 2p. Side scroller town builder, protect your town against the evils outside
- Spelunky - 4p. Roguelike, delve into a cave searching for gold and riches
I got Far Cry 5 for like $7.50 on sale and have been playing it with a friend, and it’s actually been pretty fun, mostly driving around blowing stuff up with a rocket launcher.
I also got Doom Eternal, which has been more interesting than I expected; I thought it would be mostly just hold-left-click kind of gameplay, but you actually really need to think about managing ammo and positioning and cooldowns and tons of stuff like that. I feel really bad at it but it’s been lots of fun.
Yeah, maybe I was too impatient back then, but for me it felt like mostly a whole lot of work, just watering the plants every day and trying to make money.
When I picked it up again later playing splitscreen with family, and then again with a friend, then we could get hyped for some goal we could all work towards. And if I was bored doing my thing then I could look over at what other people were doing, or just chat. And it’s fun to see them running around interacting with the NPCs and doing their things as well.
Sometimes it can be a little annoying yeah, like if they want to do something together while I’m busy watering the plants or whatever.
It does have assist options if that’s what you want, Game Maker’s Toolkit actually made a video about it. I haven’t finished it myself but it was pretty fun, even just exploring and getting the story bits and such.
Celeste is $2 right now, I got it for free on the Epic Games store but I got it again for the steam cloud saves.
I got Doom Eternal and started playing that, it’s actually really good. I feel like I’m pretty bad at it but that means lots of room for improvement.
Of course Terraria is a must-buy if you don’t have it already. Same with Portal and such. Stardew Valley is also really good, but I didn’t really enjoy it until I played multiplayer with my friends.
Started playing Factorio again with a friend, been fun so far. Just today I played Tooth and Tail again which is really cool, as well as Skullgirls Second Encore which I’m not great at but is still fun.