Not you can always make friends play co-op games on the couch, but there are plenty of titles that let you have fun from afar. We assume that you are familiar with such classics as mine craft, fortnite, Among us, left 4 dead 2and GTA OnlineThat’s why we’ve compiled a fresh alternative list of the very best online co-op games.
Our selections cover all sorts of genres: ninja squad fights, first-person paranormal investigations, pixelated farm sims, and more. Whatever you and your friends are into, there’s a PlayStation, Xbox, Windows PC, or Switch here to try.
Updated May 2022: We’ve added eight games, including Walheim, Phasmophobia, Beast Gang, and Warhammer: Vermintide 2, and removed some headers.
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Hordes of undead
World War ZWorld War Z takes the smart, fast, anthill-forming zombies from the Brad Pitt movie and tosses them into the anthology format of the original book. This allows many different regions and cultures to be shown through the lens of a particularly devastating zombie apocalypse. The game is somewhat light in content, but it has enough difficulty levels, character classes, and unlockable items to keep four-player co-op hunting for the undead fresh and alive for a long time to come.
2 to 4 players can team up online.
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Difficult fight
ResolverResolver is a meditative martial arts class that teaches you how to make friends through fisticuffs. You can team up with one or two buddies to conquer the game’s small open world and additional dungeons that encourage teamwork. And if you don’t have any friends to play with, you can meet other players in the open world and try to make spontaneous friendships with simple in-game hand gestures. Resolver it’s not just fighting, it’s also socializing, and that makes it a collaborative action-adventure game unlike anything else.
2 to 3 players can team up online.
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