Co-op games for 5 players
Steam data, rebuilt 2026-09-11
Five is the size lobbies forget: four-player games leave someone watching and the eight-player ones feel empty. These take exactly five without a spare seat.
55 in the catalog · 5 free to play · 15 under $10 · median Steam score 89% · busiest right now — Valheim, 99 716
The list — 40
Dead by Daylight
Four survivors, one killer, endless grudges.
Mostly Positive 78%
$19.99
PANICORE friendslop
Escape a collapsing building with people who panic louder than you.
Mostly Positive 79%
$9.99
Valheim
Vikings, boats and a base project that eats the whole month.
Very Positive 94%
$29.99
Rust
The base is only as safe as your least awake friend.
Very Positive 87%
$39.99
Palworld
Creature collecting with an industrial-scale labour problem.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$29.99
Path of Exile 2
Free, enormous and merciless. A party makes the maths survivable.
Mostly Positive 75%
$29.99
Stardew Valley
A farm that runs on quiet evenings and shared chores.
Overwhelmingly Positive 98%
$14.99
Project Zomboid
Everyone dies. The question is how boringly.
Very Positive 94%
$24.99
Terraria
Two decades of content and the best drop-in co-op in 2D.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$9.99
Don't Starve Together
Beautiful, cruel, and much easier with a second person.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$14.99
Farming Simulator 25
Harvest logistics for people who like a plan.
Very Positive 87%
$29.99
7 Days to Die
Build the fort, watch the horde night take it apart.
Very Positive 87%
$44.99
No Man's Sky
An entire galaxy, best used as a place to meet friends.
Very Positive 85%
$59.99$23.99
ARK: Survival Ascended
Dinosaur logistics with a taming schedule.
Mixed 60%
$44.99
R.E.P.O. friendslop
Carry fragile valuables out of a haunted building without dropping them.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$9.99$6.49
Factorio
The factory must grow, and it grows faster with four people.
Overwhelmingly Positive 98%
$35.00
Destiny 2
Free-to-play space shooting with the best raids in the genre.
Mostly Positive 79%
Free to play
Gamble With Your Friends friendslop
A casino crawl where the whole group shares one bankroll.
Very Positive 90%
$7.99$4.95
Sons Of The Forest
Cannibal island with a companion who is better at this than you.
Very Positive 88%
$29.99
Ready or Not
Tactical entry where talking is the whole mechanic.
Mostly Positive 79%
$49.99$24.99
Raft
A floating shack that grows faster than the shark can bite it.
Very Positive 93%
$19.99
Enshrouded
Building and combat with a fog that keeps the map tense.
Very Positive 86%
$39.99
ICARUS
Timed drops onto a planet that punishes overpacking.
Mostly Positive 75%
$34.99$8.74
Supermarket Together friendslop
Run a shop badly, with friends, until it collapses.
Very Positive 94%
Free to play
The Planet Crafter
Terraform a dead planet with up to ten people breathing the results.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$23.99$11.99
Among Us
The ancestor: social deduction that made arguing the gameplay.
Very Positive 92%
$4.99
theHunter: Call of the Wild™
Quiet forests, eight hunters and a lot of waiting.
Very Positive 89%
Free to play
Core Keeper
Terraria underground, with an automation habit.
Very Positive 93%
$19.99
Party Animals
Puppies in a physics engine that hates them.
Very Positive 80%
$19.99
The Forest
The first island. Still the tenser one.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$19.99
Killing Floor 2
Slow-motion gore against waves of everything.
Very Positive 88%
$29.99
Big Walk
A walk across an island with friends, where voice chat fades as you drift apart.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$19.99
Goose Goose Duck friendslop
Social deduction with birds and proximity voice.
Very Positive 87%
Free to play
V Rising
Vampire base building with a castle worth defending.
Very Positive 89%
$34.99
Windrose
Piracy without PvP: ships, islands and a crew that has to agree on a heading.
Very Positive 87%
$29.99
Barotrauma
A submarine crewed by people who should not be trusted with it.
Very Positive 94%
$39.99$19.99
No More Room in Hell 2
Eight players, one dark street, no ammunition to spare.
Mixed 57%
$29.99
Teardown
Demolish a building however you like, with up to twelve accomplices.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$29.99
Space Engineers
Ships you build yourself, and the physics that punish it.
Very Positive 89%
$19.99
Abiotic Factor
Office workers surviving a science facility incident.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$34.99
How this list is put together
Everything here comes from Steam on the last rebuild: co-op modes, prices, review scores and the number of people playing at that moment. Nothing is ranked by hand — the only hand-written part is the one line explaining what each game is.
