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Best co-op story games
Co-op campaigns with a written story to follow alongside the action or puzzles. Follow characters and events together, with early-access and upcoming releases clearly marked.
- 105 games
- 14 coming soon
- Newest first
Out now
Two explorers trade clues over walkie-talkies and use different tools to solve puzzles inside a strange research facility.
- 2 online
- Crossplay
A dark squad shooter with a four-player online campaign and a twelve-player Horde mode.
- 12 online
- 2 split-screen
- Crossplay
A Middle-earth hack and slash for up to three players online or two on one split screen.
- 3 online
- 2 split-screen
Up to three friends work a night shift at a gas station and decide which customers are really doppelgangers.
- 3 online
- Crossplay
Two players follow a couple through a road trip that turns into a shared horror story.
- 2 online
A LEGO Gotham adventure where two players share a split screen, one as Batman and one as an ally.
- 2 split-screen
A horror adventure for two, where a brother and sister sneak past monsters and solve puzzles together.
- 2 online
- 2 shared-screen
- Crossplay
- Only one needs to buy
Build a train with friends and gather supplies while travelling through a strange floating world.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
Two small friends use a bow and wrench to escape monsters in an online horror platformer.
- 2 online
- Only one needs to buy
A first-person zombie game where up to four friends all play Kyle Crane, scavenging by day and surviving the night.
- 4 online
Two small bricks build paths, cross obstacles and help each other reach an abandoned spaceship.
- 2 online
- 2 shared-screen
- Crossplay
- Only one needs to buy
A co-op loot shooter where Vault Hunters fight a planetary dictatorship and build their powers around changing weapons.
- 4 online
- 2 split-screen
- Crossplay
Early accessTitan Quest II
Early access
An action RPG where up to four heroes fight Greek monsters and combine two skill paths into each character.
- 4 online
Turn office supplies into survival tools as your science team searches a broken research facility for an escape.
- 24 online
- Crossplay
Two stranded explorers solve puzzles on separate screens while keeping their personal goals secret.
- 2 online
- Crossplay
Build a flying home with friends and search the ruins of Earth for a cure in this survival game.
- 4 online
A two-player adventure where two writers are trapped inside their own science fiction and fantasy stories and escape together.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
- Crossplay
- Only one needs to buy
A survival game where up to eight friends play dwarves who mine, craft and rebuild the ruined halls of Moria.
- 8 online
- Crossplay
A long turn-based fantasy RPG where up to three people can play the whole story on one system.
- 3 on one screen
Two runaway boys see different worlds and solve puzzles by telling each other what is on their screens.
- 2 online
- Crossplay
A turn-based fantasy role-playing game built on Dungeons and Dragons rules, where up to four friends share one story.
- 4 online
- 2 split-screen
- Crossplay
A turn-based monster-collecting RPG where a friend can take over your partner character on the same screen.
- 8 online
- 2 shared-screen
- Crossplay
A gory first-person zombie RPG where up to three players fight through Los Angeles together online.
- 3 online
Guide a wolf cub and fawn through the snow in a cooperative adventure about finding their families.
- 2 online
- 2 shared-screen
Free co-opA free detective puzzle game for two, played on two devices, where you describe your clues to each other.
- Exactly 2 online
- Crossplay
Free co-opTwo-detective puzzle case. PC, Mac, iOS, Android. Online for 2 players.
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Two players exchange clues across past and future in a puzzle adventure played on separate devices.
- 2 on separate devices
- Crossplay
A crime drama you watch and steer together, with up to eight friends voting on each choice.
- 8 online
- 8 shared-screen
- Crossplay
A teen horror story you steer with choices, where up to eight people share one controller.
- 8 shared-screen
A two-player escape puzzle campaign where separate clues lead you through a cursed castle and its ruined town.
- 2 online
- Crossplay
A split-screen LEGO game where you and a friend play all nine Star Wars films, swapping characters to solve puzzles.
- 2 split-screen
A fantasy looter shooter where up to four friends fight through a campaign narrated by Tiny Tina.
- 4 online
- 4 split-screen
- Crossplay
A fantasy strategy game where up to eight friends each lead a faction through one shared campaign map.
- 8 online
A gory side-scrolling adventure where a knight and his squire fight through castles together on one screen.
- 2 shared-screen
A story-driven open-world zombie game where up to four players climb, glide and fight through a ruined city.
- 4 online
Free co-opA short, free two-player puzzle game where you and a partner share one keyboard and help each other along.
- 2 shared-screen
Free co-opTwo-player levels. PC, Mac, Linux. One device for 2 players.
The page offers the whole game as a name-your-own-price download.
Feel and other extras describe the whole game. Store buttons can include paid editions.
A fantasy role-playing campaign where friends manage heroes, build bases and command armies together.
- Online
A horror story where your choices decide who lives, for two online or up to five passing one controller.
- Exactly 2 online
- 5 shared-screen
A first-person open-world shooter where you and one online friend fight a dictator's soldiers across a large island.
- 2 online
A tactical RPG where friends each lead their own heroes through one campaign, online on PC or on one console.
- 5 online
- 4 on one screen
A co-op looter shooter where up to three friends mix class powers and gear on a hostile alien planet.
- 3 online
- Crossplay
A two-player story game where a couple on the edge of divorce is turned into dolls and must work together.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
- Crossplay
- Only one needs to buy
A romantic story game where two lovers glide over a lost planet, with local co-op for two players.
- 2 shared-screen
A real-time strategy game where friends command infantry and diesel-powered mechs through a war campaign.
- 3 online
Split a Ranger squad with a friend and make hard choices across a frozen, post-nuclear Colorado.
- 2 online
A music-based action game where two friends share one screen as a rock duo and beat giant musical bosses.
- 3 shared-screen
Share a ferry as Stella and her cat, growing food and caring for spirits before their final goodbye.
- 2 shared-screen
A tactical open-world shooter where up to four players scout enemy bases, sneak in and shoot their way out.
- 4 online
A souls-like anime action RPG you can play alone, with an AI partner or with one friend joining online.
- 2 online
The other 43 games, newest first
- Cat Quest II
- Borderlands 3
- Gears 5
- River City Girls
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
- Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
- Far Cry New Dawn
- Degrees of Separation
- LEGO DC Super-Villains
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
- Guacamelee! 2
- Far Cry 5
- Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
- A Way Out
- Pit People
- Full Metal Furies
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2
- Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
- LEGO City Undercover
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
- Dead Island Definitive Edition
- Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
- LEGO Jurassic World
- Resident Evil Revelations 2
- Dying Light
- Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
- Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
- Octodad: Dadliest Catch
- Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
- Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
- Trine 2: Complete Story
- Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
- BattleBlock Theater
- Resident Evil 6
- Borderlands 2
- LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
- Saints Row: The Third
- LEGO Star Wars III - The Clone Wars
- Resident Evil 5
- LEGO Star Wars - The Complete Saga
Coming soon
Not out yet. Features and feel describe announced design and may change. Soonest first.
5 November 2026Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School
Coming 5 November 2026
A puzzle adventure where you and a friend explore a school campus of escape rooms, online or on split screen.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
2 December 2026Blind Descent
Coming 2 December 2026
A survival game for up to four in a jungle cave under Mars, where you search for a missing team.
- 4 online
3 December 2026Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV
Coming 3 December 2026
A real-time strategy game where friends team up to build bases and command Warhammer 40,000 armies.
- 3 online
8 December 2026Never Be Alone
Coming 8 December 2026
A zombie survival game where you and friends scavenge ruined places, fight infected and defend a walled safezone.
- Online
2026IKUMA - The Frozen Compass
Coming 2026
A story adventure in the Arctic for one or two players, as a stranded boy and his husky.
- 2 split-screen
2026Wyldheart
Coming 2026
An action RPG for up to four friends where you cross a hex map and clear dungeons together.
- 4 online
21 January 2027Arizona Sunshine
Coming 21 January 2027
Fight zombies in third person with a partner online or on a split screen, including a playable dog.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
4 March 2027Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember
Coming 4 March 2027
A hard Three Kingdoms action RPG where you fight demons and can bring up to two friends online.
- 3 online
- Crossplay, platforms unclear
May 2027Haunted Paws
Coming May 2027
A short two-player mystery where you and a friend are puppies sniffing out clues in a haunted mansion.
- Exactly 2 online
- 2 on one screen
- Only one needs to buy
2027Age Twisters
Coming 2027
A grandfather and granddaughter change ages to combine powers and solve puzzles in a two-player family mystery.
- 2 online
- 2 shared-screen
- Only one needs to buy
2027Blighted
Coming 2027
Fight through a corrupted world alone or with a friend in an action RPG where success changes your enemies.
- 2 online
- 2 on one screen
2027Greak 2: Alliance of the Storms
Coming 2027
Two siblings use different versions of the same world to solve puzzles and fight their way home.
- 2 online
- 2 on one screen
2027My Time at Evershine
Coming 2027
Build a frontier town with friends in a story RPG about settlers, relationships and life beside a hostile empire.
- 4 online
2027Stage Fright
Coming 2027
Solve escape rooms with a friend while guiding three children through a town full of strange creatures.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
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