Comment on Good couch co-op/multiplayer games?

hamsda@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  avoid Magicka 1 for multiplayer if you can. The final update they pushed before abandoning it turned multiplayer into a buggy, crashy mess

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  • hamsda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t plan on playing any of these games over any kind of network anyway. I’m all for couch coop / pvp, it just hits differently :)

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• iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dude…I knew/had only a few in this list. And most of them look amazing. This is a long list of very promising games, thanks so much!

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  • hamsda@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re welcome, I’m glad to spread the old-school pre-internet local couch coop fun :)

    My personal favourites are

    MageQuit

    This is the most addicting of all the played games. I bought this with a “fun little magic-based pvp-only game for now and then” mindest. I thought “super smash brothers but magic”. I started playing it with my friend on his TV “just for an hour” and suddenly, it was dark outside and time to go home.

    The next meeting we planned on playing MageQuit for a round or two and then move on to one of the other, yet unplayed, games. The moving on part never happened, MageQuit was just too much fun.

    Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

    This is the game for the whole family. You (up to 4 players) are in a spaceship. The spaceship has different buttons and levers in different places to control different things like acceleration, changing direction, aiming / firing weapon, directing partial shield or countermeasure etc. and you need to rescue your bunny-friends.

    They are scattered around the levels, sometimes hidden, sometimes locked up, sometimes guarded etc and you need to work together with your teammates to direct the spaceship. You get quite a few different weapons and shields / countermeasures, which can also be combined, you upgrades for the ship, can buy different ships etc.

    It looks and sounds adorable, but if you don’t work together, it’s way harder then it looks. This is a game with a campaign and story.

    Regular Human Basketball

    Think basketball, but stupid and fun. The regular humans are actually motionless robots which need to be moved by using switches and levers inside it, which is what your job is. You even have a jet-boost at some parts of your regular-human body. We laughed our asses off.

    It is similar to Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in the sense that, you need to work together to control a bigger machine. This is just a pvp only game, no story or campaign.

    Ultimate Chicken Horse

    Race each other to the finish of an obstacle course. After each round, everyone picks a new obstacle to place and expands the course. Seldomly have I ever seen such bullshittery as my friends and me created in this game and then had to go through.

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• 2d4_bears@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can confirm that Barony is a fun couch coop experience for two on a steam deck, so long as you are prepared to die and have to start over a lot. It might be tricky with four players, as there is a lot of inventory menuing. You might need a really large screen.

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  • hamsda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good to know, thank you!

    We always play on someones TV anyway. These are typically 46" ore bigger and have at least FullHD resolution. Would this be manageable?

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    • 2d4_bears@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m sure it’s sufficient for two players, but I don’t know how the game rearranges the interface with four. It might be a little crowded.

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      • hamsda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh, well. I’ll see how it is when we’ll play barony. It’s not like this game is the only choice, so we can always switch.

        Thanks for the heads-up!

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