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Best co-op strategy games
Plan battles, decks, defences or production systems together. These picks centre tactical decisions or management, from shared campaigns to repeatable matches and lasting factories.
- 42 games
- 1 coming soon
- Newest first
Out now
A co-op town builder where you run shops, arrange deliveries and turn an empty town into a working community.
- 4 online
- 4 split-screen
Early accessSlay the Spire 2
Early access
A cooperative card battler where up to four players combine their decks against the same tower of enemies.
- 4 online
A turn-based fantasy tactics game for up to four, where everyone plays their cards from their own phone.
- 4 online
- 4 shared-screen
- Only one needs to buy
Early accessSchedule I
Early access
A first-person crime simulation where friends grow a shared drug business, arrange deliveries and expand production.
- 4 online
Up to four players each plan a squad's raid on the same building, then watch the plans run in real time.
- 4 online
A co-op action and trap defence game where four War Mages stop orcs from reaching a magical rift.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
Pick a god, build a base and train mythical monsters, then share a team against the computer or run Arena of the Gods with one friend.
- Online
- Crossplay
Plan simultaneous turns with up to four players and build new combinations of powers on each roguelike run.
- 4 online
A turn-based fantasy campaign where four friends share a party, plan battles and risk their lives on uncertain rolls.
- 4 online
- 4 on one screen
- 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
Up to four players run one mercenary band, sharing money and loot and agreeing who acts next in battle.
- 4 online
A cooperative card RPG where four heroes combine decks and choose a route through a troubled fantasy kingdom.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
Up to eight players run their own factions on one campaign map and can team up against the computer.
- 8 online
A fantasy role-playing campaign where friends manage heroes, build bases and command armies together.
- Online
A tactical campaign for up to four mercenaries who fight with cards and share the consequences of their choices.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
Each player controls their own heroes in one campaign of grid-based fights, with choices that change the story.
- 5 online
- 4 on one screen
Command soldiers, tanks and guns in large Eastern Front battles, with the host handing units to friends.
- Online
Two to four players share a party of four heroes in turn-based fights that follow tabletop dice rules.
- 4 online
- Crossplay
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
You and your friends build an automated factory while its pollution draws attacks from the planet’s inhabitants.
- 500 online
- Crossplay
Every player is a nature spirit sharing one island and planning powers to stop the settlers, as at a tabletop.
- 6 online
- Shared-screen
- Crossplay
A tower defense shooter where two friends arrange traps and fight orc waves before they reach a magic rift.
- 2 online
- Crossplay
Build an economy and an army with a friend in co-op campaigns made for two, or team up against the computer in quick play.
- 7 online
Build and defend an island kingdom with a second monarch, sharing coins, discoveries and responsibility for both borders.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
A fantasy role-playing campaign where your party shares decisions, builds characters and plans elemental battles.
- 4 online
- 2 split-screen
- Crossplay
Up to four players place and upgrade monkey towers on the same map to stop waves of balloons.
- 4 online
- 4 on one screen
- Crossplay
A fantasy board game adventure where up to three friends explore a kingdom and gamble on turn-based battles.
- 3 online
- 3 shared-screen
Two players place their own squads on a hex map, then both squads carry out their orders in turn-based fights.
- 2 online
- 2 shared-screen
Free co-opBuild conveyor belts, turrets and supply lines together and hold off enemy waves in a campaign with no ending.
- Online
- Crossplay, platforms unclear
Free co-opOnline co-op campaign and maps. PC, Mac, Linux, Android. Online. Group sizes not confirmed.
Steam sells the game for $9.99 and the iOS app costs $1.99. The free co-op route is the itch.io download and the Android app.
Feel and other extras describe the whole game. Store buttons can include paid editions.
Two players take the two lords of one race in a shared campaign and can hand units to each other in battle.
- 2 online
Free co-opBuild defenses and fight beside friends in an action RPG about protecting crystals from waves of monsters.
- 4 online
- 2 split-screen
Free co-opBase defense missions. PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series. Online for 2 to 4 players.
Base split-screen defense. PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series. One device for 2 players.
Free console local play supports two. PC local support is not confirmed. PS5 runs the compatible PS4 product with Sony's feature warning. The PlayStation product requires connectivity. PS Plus and Xbox Gold are not required for these free multiplayer editions. Town population is not a mission count.
Feel and other extras describe the whole game. Store buttons can include paid editions.
Two players can play the whole real-time campaign together, with one handling the base and the other the troops.
- 2 online
Share a party of Source Hunters with a friend in a fantasy RPG of elemental battles and difficult decisions.
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
Heroes play cards in turn against one villain while the app tracks every effect, online or on one device.
- 5 online
- On one screen
- Crossplay
Players share Dust, a crystal and defensive modules as they open doors one at a time, with no pause in multiplayer.
- 4 online
Up to eight players share one side in slow World War II skirmishes and split the units between them.
- 8 online
A fantasy role-playing campaign where up to six friends share one party and pause fights to give orders.
- 6 online
- Crossplay
A four-player shooter where you build tower mazes and fight the aliens trying to reach your core.
- 4 online
Two heroes split a fortress's entrances and plan their traps before each wave of orcs.
- 2 online
A co-op tower defense RPG where you build defenses, fight enemy waves and collect equipment for your heroes.
- 8 online
- 4 split-screen
Coming soon
Not out yet. Features and feel describe announced design and may change. Soonest first.
3 December 2026Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV
Coming 3 December 2026
Build a base and command squads side by side in campaigns, Last Stand and team skirmishes.
- 3 online
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