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Cuphead might just be the best-looking game of the last decade, or at least the most stylish. Having another player on screen can actually make it more cluttered, and therefore more difficult. But the struggles are worth it when you finally down that boss on your 34th try, and whoop for joy over your headset. This might not be quite as welcoming to newcomers as regular players are so insistent to insist, but stick with it and Monster Hunter World is huge amounts of fun as you take down big monsters as a team.

Who doesn't want to be a tiny kiwi bird who just got hired to work a post office? No-one, that's who. KeyWe sees you working as kiwi birds Jeff and Debra to get all sorts of mail delivered.

Make sure packages have the right stamps and address labels, decode messages, send letters of your own. It's a big job and it's going to take two of you to do it. Did we mention there are unlockable outfits? After years of updates and additions, it has become and expansive digital playground of things to do with friends. Everything from team games to bank heists, races, stunt courses and more. Completing Phogs definitely requires plenty of co-operation as you and your pal will take control of a two-headed sausage dog - each of you taking one of its heads, connected together by a long, stretchy body.

Together you'll have to bite, bounce, and bark your way through a series of puzzles set across three unique worlds. Each one is utterly adorable, and is themed around a phog's favourite things - Food, Sleep, and Play.

As you work your way through them, it's easy to appreciate the fact each world - and the levels within it - offers a unique way to utilize your good phog abilities and your co-op power. It's a delight that also feels like going on a walk in a cheese dream with a friend.

Just wait until you see the hat shops too. Stardew Valley hands you the keys to a run-down farm in a small, lazy town and asks you to turn its fortunes around. You can chop up wood and plant crops, fish and trade, craft and scavenge, or you can just wander around town chatting to the pleasant townsfolk.

This game became famous for its relaxing singleplayer mode, but the online co-op is, in our opinion, the best way to play. With up to three co-op partners, you can come up with freeform projects, dividing up tasks to hasten production. Taking on the roles of tough girls Nessa and Demelza, Knight and Bikes sees you exploring Penfurzy Island in a Goonies-inspired tale where bikes are king, and mischief is paramount.

It's made by Moo Yu and Rex Crowle, who are both ex-Media Molecule, so, as you can imagine, it's infused with quirk, cuteness, and the kind of spirit you can only find in a Famous Five book.

Yes, the gameplay is about puzzle solving, mini-games of crazy golf, and riding your bike as fast as you can humanly pedal, but it's also a heartfelt adventure about two kids that offers the kind of gameplay experience that you can rarely have.

And it's even better with a real-world friend by your side. Although you can play Sea of Thieves solo, this is very much a game that encourages you to tell stories, and, more importantly, create those tales with other people.

Galleons can be sailed by crews of up to four, with adventures spinning out from the various voyages you undertake. That might be finding buried treasure, collecting goods to trade with the merchants, or hunting down undead pirate captains.

Or, you know, fighting a Kraken or taking on a huge Skeleton Fort. At their heart, the Diablo games have always been about the pursuit of ever-shinier loot. Having someone to share your latest, shiniest ring with makes those rare finds all the more thrilling, and being able to share drops between your party makes it easier to create powerful characters.

Bungie's sci-fi epic is built on the ability to join up with other players as much as possible. Part FPS, part MMO, Destiny 2 's outstanding shooting mechanics and tempting loot grinds will keep you and your friends in for the long run, or at least until Destiny 3 inevitably comes out and everyone jumps ship.

Not only are there a ton of Adventures, Strikes, Nightfalls, and six-person raids to participate in, but you'll also find yourself working with random players you encounter in the world. Public Events literally fall out of the sky, tasking you and anyone nearby to fight off hordes of enemies for that extra piece of loot. If you've somehow never jumped on the Destiny train, you still have time to find and friend and become a Guardian pf the galaxy today.

The newest entry in one of the most wholesome series ever made feels like the perfect game to play in self-isolation. Pick up sticks. Shake trees for fruit. Valheim doesn't reinvent survival games, but it gets rid of all the stuff we don't like about them. This relaxing, but punishing PvE camping trip to Viking purgatory will never let you starve to death, and you'll never need to pay a dime to repair your items.

All the busywork is gone, replaced by a gorgeous, threatening world, and an elegant crafting system that lets you make everything from ugly lean-tos to the flippin' Eye of Sauron. Teaming up with friends to plan adventures and build a home together makes the experience even better.

In his Early Access review , Chris sums it up nicely: "Valheim is an utterly engrossing experience that blends thoughtfully-designed survival systems with exciting RPG-like adventures, where each small nugget of progress sets the stage for the next. Even in early access, Phasmophobia has become a serious co-op hit. Armed with pro ghost hunting tools like EMF readers, flashlights, salt, crucifixes and oh so many other items, you and your co-op partners will have to enter haunted buildings to determine what kind of spirit is running amok.

You can each only carry a few tools at once, so you'll need to divide and conquer to collect clues about its identity. Ghosts will mess with you by turning off lights, locking doors, and popping up to give you a fright or outright murder you.

Oh, and they'll listen to you talk via Windows voice recognition, so be careful not to go shouting their names too often. A good ghost hunting team can work together to figure out which kind of ghost registers an EMF reading of 5 paired with freezing temperatures and escape with all their heads in tact.

Proximity voice chat paired with walkie-talkies for distance makes exploring each dark locale a tense adventure for friends who are willing to put their communication to the test. It's almost just as fun if you and your friends are terrible at your jobs though. Here's why we think it's the best ghost game ever made. Release date: Players: Link: Steam. Rare's swashbuckling sandbox makes for a decent co-op game but it really shines as a co-op hangout.

Sea of Thieves is one of the most stunningly beautiful open world games and it can be completely undemanding—board a ship with your friends, pick a direction, and just sail around drinking grog until you barf, playing musical instruments, and firing each other out of cannons.

Or just chat for an hour while you cruise around taking in the picturesque sunsets. The Anniversary update adds a series of quests that are sometimes frustrating but frequently serve up some thrilling Goonies-esque moments of adventure, and will make you feel like a brilliant crew of swashbucklers. For excitement you can chase down other crews for some bracing ship-to-ship combat, hunt for buried treasure, or take down a skeleton fort, but it's just as enjoyable to treat it like a chat room with beautiful waves and the occasional Kraken.

No Man's Sky has been a fun redemption story to watch unfold. Developer Hello Games has spent the last four years updating its galactic exploration-survival sim with expansive new features like base building, guilds, and most importantly, online multiplayer. In , No Man's Sky is some of the most fun you can have in a co-op survival sim. The game still occasionally buckles under the weight of annoying bugs, but it's worth powering through for the joy of discovering planets and bizarre creatures with friends.

If you're looking for a space-faring survival game with a bigger focus on building, you should also check out Astroneer. You can play through all of Monster Hunter solo, or with random strangers from the internet, but co-op is where this game truly shines.

Combat channels the combos of Capcom action games like Devil May Cry but feels more risky and deliberate, forcing you to learn the attacks of these giant beasts. Tougher monsters force you to collaborate and stay constantly on your feet, and fights go much better when you and your hunting party specialize with different weapons. And grinding for the rare drops you need to make gear out of monster parts is just so much more fun with a few friends in Discord. The Iceborne expansion, released in early , adds tons of new monsters to fight and new abilities that encourage teamwork.

It's a good time to go hunting! According to our reviewer, Divinity: Original Sin 2 is "a sprawling, inventive adventure and one of the best RPGs ever made.

Chaos and player agency reign supreme in such a reactive world, meaning one friend could piss of a guard or reveal their undead identity at an inopportune time—but that's exactly what makes OS2 so great with friends. You're no longer dealing with a loyal party of characters you shape over time. You're dealing with three other stubborn people, all vying for different outcomes.

It's a beautiful role-playing mess set in one of the most lush, engaging RPG worlds ever. The first Divinity: Original Sin is a great co-op experience, too, if you need another hundred hours of RPG adventuring. Release date: Players: Varies Link: Steam. The Halo series may have the most replayable FPS campaigns ever. Each game has a handful of levels that put you in wide open spaces, free to tackle enemies when and how you choose.

Steal a ghost or warthog and careen around the map running over Covenant enemies are they dive out of the way. Seek out a rocket launcher to blow them to smithereens. Hide behind cover and ping down their shields with headshots. Harder difficulties are made easier with a co-op partner, since as long as one of you is alive, there's a chance to respawn.

In the Master Chief Collection, you can even toggle on a scoring mode and modifiers that tweak enemy behavior or make them explode into confetti. It's a good time. All the games in the Master Chief Collection are being released one-by-one throughout Reach is a great starter if you're brand new to the series. Release date: Players: 2 Link: Steam.

We Were Here is a puzzle adventure series designed entirely around co-op. Seriously: You can't play it any other way. The puzzles are inspired by escape rooms and games like Myst, and you and your co-op partner have to talk each other through what you're seeing and doing to get through together.

As we wrote about one of the sequels, you and your partner are the real puzzle—figuring out how to communicate is the challenge and satisfaction of this trilogy. Top 10 Best Original Xbox Games. Top 10 Far Cry Games. Top 12 Horror Games on PC. Top 10 Assassin's Creed Games.

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