Couch co-op games
Steam data, rebuilt 2026-09-11
Split screen or shared screen: one room, one TV, no second copy of the game and no lobby to join. Steam marks these itself, so the list is not guesswork.
43 in the catalog · 17 under $10 · median Steam score 95% · busiest right now — Project Zomboid, 67 191
The list — 40
Stardew Valley
A farm that runs on quiet evenings and shared chores.
Overwhelmingly Positive 98%
$14.99
Portal 2
The co-op campaign that every puzzle game is measured against.
Overwhelmingly Positive 99%
$9.99
Project Zomboid
Everyone dies. The question is how boringly.
Very Positive 94%
$24.99
It Takes Two
Two players only, and it never repeats a mechanic.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$39.99
Cuphead
Beautiful, brutal, and better with someone to blame.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$19.99
Human Fall Flat
Floppy puzzle climbing where cooperation is the joke.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$19.99
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Turn-based chaos where teammates are the main hazard.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$44.99
Castle Crashers®
Four-player beat-em-up that still holds up.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$14.99$4.49
Split Fiction
Hazelight again: two players, two genres, one screen split.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$49.99
Brotato
A potato with too many guns, now with three friends attached.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$4.99$2.99
BattleBlock Theater®
Two players, one theatre, an unreasonable number of cats.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$14.99
Broforce
Explosions, destructible everything, four bros.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$14.99
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Build the level that kills your friends, then survive it yourself.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$14.99
Just Shapes & Beats
Bullet hell on the beat, four people dodging the same song.
Overwhelmingly Positive 98%
$19.99$11.99
Wobbly Life
Odd jobs in a sandbox town, ragdolls included.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$24.99
DOOM + DOOM II
The 1993 campaigns, still played four abreast over the network.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$9.99
Goat Simulator 3 friendslop
Four goats, one town, no plan. Works on one screen too.
Overwhelmingly Positive 98%
$29.99
Bopl Battle friendslop
Tiny physics blobs with too many abilities.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$9.99
Untitled Goose Game
Two geese, one village. By the people who then made Big Walk.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$19.99
Rabbit and Steel
Raid mechanics from an MMO, compressed into a run for four.
Overwhelmingly Positive 97%
$14.99$7.49
Streets of Rogue
An immersive sim where four players break every level differently.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$19.99
Quake
The 1996 campaign in four-player co-op, online or on one screen.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$9.99
Trine Enchanted Edition
Where the three-hero physics puzzling started.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$14.99$2.99
PlateUp!
A kitchen roguelite where the restaurant fails a little further every run.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$19.99
Overcooked! 2
A kitchen, a timer, and everybody shouting the same word.
Very Positive 90%
$24.99
Trine 2: Complete Story
Three heroes, physics puzzles and the prettiest light of 2011.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$19.99$3.99
A Way Out
A prison break that only exists as a duo.
Very Positive 88%
$29.99
Bang-On Balls: Chronicles
Rolling through history, on split screen or online for four.
Overwhelmingly Positive 96%
$24.99$8.74
Quake II
The Strogg campaign, also four abreast.
Overwhelmingly Positive 95%
$9.99
Chained Together friendslop
Climb out of hell while physically roped to everyone else.
Very Positive 90%
$4.99
Unrailed!
Lay track faster than the train arrives. You will not.
Very Positive 93%
$19.99$2.99
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
One ship, too many stations, not enough hands.
Very Positive 93%
$14.99
Barony
A roguelike dungeon where four friends kill each other by accident.
Very Positive 91%
$19.99
Risk of Rain Returns
The original run, remade, still four players deep.
Very Positive 90%
$14.99
Minecraft Dungeons
Blocky loot crawling for four, easy enough for anyone at the table.
Very Positive 90%
$19.99
Move or Die
Four-second party rounds designed to end friendships.
Very Positive 89%
$14.99$3.74
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
Three heroes, physics puzzles and very pretty light.
Very Positive 89%
$29.99$5.99
Machine Party friendslop
Violent party games with the failure states left in.
Very Positive 87%
$7.99
Party Animals
Puppies in a physics engine that hates them.
Very Positive 80%
$19.99
Portal Knights
Blocky action RPG for four, or two on a split screen.
Very Positive 83%
$19.99$2.99
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.
