Co-op shooters
Steam data, rebuilt 2026-09-11
Four players, one objective and more ammunition than sense. The oldest working formula in co-op and still the most reliable evening.
44 in the catalog · 4 free to play · 8 under $10 · median Steam score 85% · busiest right now — Delta Force, 66 493
The list — 40
Delta Force
Free tactical shooter with a co-op operations mode.
Mixed 58%
Free to play
Warframe
Free, enormous, and best learned with someone who already plays.
Very Positive 88%
Free to play
HELLDIVERS™ 2
Democracy delivered by orbital strike, mostly onto teammates.
Mostly Positive 76%
$39.99
PAYDAY 2
Heists that survive on improvisation after the alarm.
Very Positive 89%
$9.99$4.99
ARC Raiders
Extraction against machines, where trusting strangers is a mechanic.
Very Positive 82%
$39.99
Hunt: Showdown 1896
Bayou monster hunting where every sound is another team.
Mostly Positive 74%
$29.99$11.99
Left 4 Dead 2
The original four-player horde run. Still the benchmark.
Overwhelmingly Positive 98%
$9.99
Borderlands 4
The newest loot shooter built for four. Reviews are split — the numbers are right here.
Mixed 58%
$69.99
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Three armoured tourists in a bug apocalypse.
Very Positive 84%
$59.99$14.99
Destiny 2
Free-to-play space shooting with the best raids in the genre.
Mostly Positive 79%
Free to play
Ready or Not
Tactical entry where talking is the whole mechanic.
Mostly Positive 79%
$49.99$24.99
The First Descendant
Free looter shooter built around four-player bosses.
Mixed 57%
Free to play
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
The same swarm, in a city that hates you.
Mostly Positive 72%
$39.99
Risk of Rain 2
Roguelike shooting that ends when the numbers get silly.
Very Positive 94%
$24.99
Deep Rock Galactic
Dwarves, caves and the most reliable four-player loop on Steam.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$29.99$8.99
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
An entire country to dismantle, four to a squad.
Mostly Positive 78%
$49.99
Killing Floor 2
Slow-motion gore against waves of everything.
Very Positive 88%
$29.99
Dying Light
The original rooftop parkour, still the tensest night in the genre.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$24.99
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
Parkour zombies with a friend on the next roof.
Mostly Positive 79%
$59.99
Far Far West
Bounty hunting in the west, four to a posse.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$19.99
No More Room in Hell 2
Eight players, one dark street, no ammunition to spare.
Mixed 57%
$29.99
Sniper Elite 5
Long shots, split screens and slow-motion bones. Survival mode holds four.
Very Positive 84%
$49.99
Borderlands 2
The loot shooter that taught the genre how co-op should feel.
Very Positive 90%
$19.99$4.99
Far Cry® 5
The whole campaign playable with one friend riding shotgun.
Very Positive 81%
$59.99
Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Melee horde clearing with a very good sense of weight.
Very Positive 85%
$29.99
Borderlands 3
Loot shooter built entirely around a second player.
Very Positive 81%
$59.99
World War Z
Hundreds of bodies on screen and four people holding one corridor.
Very Positive 82%
$29.99
Dying Light: The Beast
The same rooftops, four to a squad and much angrier.
Very Positive 87%
$59.99
REMNANT II®
Souls-adjacent gunplay for a party of three.
Very Positive 82%
$49.99
PAYDAY 3
The same heists, louder and newer.
Mixed 46%
$29.99$14.99
Back 4 Blood
Left 4 Dead with a card deck bolted on.
Mixed 69%
$59.99
Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Occult zombies and a 1940s campaign built for four.
Very Positive 86%
$49.99
Left 4 Dead
Where the four-player horde run started.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$9.99
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Tactical entry planned on a whiteboard, executed by four.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$24.99
Killing Floor 3
The newest wave shooter for six. Reviews are harsh — the numbers are here.
Mixed 44%
$39.99$19.99
Halo: Campaign Evolved
The first Halo campaign rebuilt, still played four abreast.
Mixed 61%
$49.99
Quake
The 1996 campaign in four-player co-op, online or on one screen.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$9.99
DOOM + DOOM II
The 1993 campaigns, still played four abreast over the network.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$9.99
Tears of Metal
Highlanders, hordes and a roguelite loop for four.
Very Positive 86%
$24.99
Killing Floor
Six players against waves of the ugliest things in 2009.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$19.99
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.
