The 46 Best Co-op Multiplayer Games of All Time

By YPB TeamOct 29

Couch classics sit beside online squad shooters here, and every pick plays better with a friend yelling in your ear.

1
It Takes Two
Hazelight's 2021 split-screen adventure built entirely for two players, winner of Game of the Year at The Game Awards.
1000pts
2
Portal 2
Valve's 2011 puzzle game whose separate two-robot co-op campaign is a landmark of cooperative design.
817pts
3
Secret of Mana
Square's 1993 action RPG that let up to three players fight together in real time.
708pts
4
Sea of Thieves
Rare's 2018 shared-world pirate adventure where crews sail, plunder and battle together.
686pts
5
Halo 3
Bungie's 2007 finale to the original trilogy, with a four-player online co-op campaign.
663pts
6
Resident Evil 5
Capcom's 2009 survival horror shooter built around two-player co-op as Chris and Sheva.
645pts
7
Gears of War 2
Epic's 2008 cover shooter with a two-player campaign and the wave-survival Horde mode it popularized.
645pts
8
Cuphead
Studio MDHR's 2017 run-and-gun with 1930s cartoon art and punishing two-player boss fights.
645pts
9
Army of Two
EA's 2008 shooter designed from the ground up around two mercenaries working as a team.
645pts
10
Super Mario 3D World
Nintendo's 2013 platformer that brought four-player co-op to 3D Mario.
599pts
11
TMNT: Turtles in Time
Konami's 1991 four-player arcade brawler starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
599pts
12
Split Fiction
Hazelight's 2025 two-player adventure hopping between sci-fi and fantasy worlds.
599pts
13
Streets of Rage 2
Sega's 1992 two-player beat 'em up with an iconic Yuzo Koshiro soundtrack.
599pts
14
Payday 2
Overkill's 2013 four-player heist shooter about planning and pulling off robberies.
599pts
15
Phasmophobia
Kinetic Games' 2020 four-player ghost-hunting horror game that became a streaming phenomenon.
599pts
16
Diablo II
Blizzard's 2000 action RPG whose Battle.net co-op runs became a cornerstone of online gaming.
548pts
17
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Asteroid Base's 2015 couch co-op where players frantically run stations aboard a neon spaceship.
548pts
18
Warframe
Digital Extremes' free-to-play space-ninja shooter, built around four-player squad missions since 2013.
548pts
19
Left 4 Dead 2
Valve's 2009 four-player zombie shooter, the benchmark for squad-based survival co-op.
547pts
20
Baldur's Gate 3
Larian's 2023 Game of the Year RPG, playable in full with up to four friends.
490pts
21
A Way Out
Hazelight's 2018 prison-break story that can only be played by two players, split-screen.
490pts
22
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Larian's 2017 RPG with a four-player campaign where every player can pursue their own agenda.
490pts
23
Tom Clancy's The Division
Ubisoft's 2016 online shooter where squads retake a pandemic-stricken New York.
490pts
24
Lethal Company
Zeekerss' 2023 indie horror hit about scavenging abandoned moons with friends and proximity chat.
490pts
25
Rayman Legends
Ubisoft's 2013 four-player platformer acclaimed for its musical levels and gorgeous art.
425pts
26
Contra
Konami's 1987 run-and-gun, a two-player NES classic famous for its 30-lives code.
425pts
27
Monster Hunter: World
Capcom's 2018 hunting game in which four players team up to track and slay giant monsters.
425pts
28
Don't Starve Together
Klei's 2016 multiplayer take on its gothic wilderness-survival game.
425pts
29
Halo: Combat Evolved
The 2001 Xbox launch title whose split-screen campaign defined couch co-op for a generation.
425pts
30
Minecraft
Mojang's 2011 sandbox phenomenon where friends build, mine and survive together in endless blocky worlds.
350pts
31
Diablo III
Blizzard's 2012 sequel with drop-in four-player co-op on PC and couch co-op on consoles.
350pts
32
Risk of Rain 2
Hopoo Games' 2020 four-player roguelike shooter where runs escalate into item-stacked chaos.
350pts
33
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
TT Games' 2007 drop-in, drop-out co-op romp through all six Star Wars films.
350pts
34
Borderlands 2
Gearbox's 2012 four-player looter shooter on Pandora, beloved for its loot, humor and villain Handsome Jack.
350pts
35
Destiny 2
Bungie's 2017 online shooter famous for six-player raids that demand tight team coordination.
264pts
36
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Nintendo's 2009 platformer that put four players in the same Mushroom Kingdom levels at once.
264pts
37
Valheim
Iron Gate's 2021 Viking survival game for up to ten players that sold millions in early access.
264pts
38
Left 4 Dead
The 2008 original that introduced the AI Director and the four-survivor co-op formula.
264pts
39
Castle Crashers
The Behemoth's 2008 four-player beat 'em up with hand-drawn knights and silly humor.
264pts
40
Deep Rock Galactic
Ghost Ship Games' 2020 four-dwarf mining shooter with destructible caves and a devoted community.
264pts
41
Overcooked! 2
Ghost Town Games' 2018 chaotic kitchen co-op that tests friendships one order at a time.
163pts
42
Stardew Valley
ConcernedApe's 2016 farming sim whose co-op update let friends run a farm together.
163pts
43
Helldivers 2
Arrowhead's 2024 four-player shooter about spreading managed democracy, with friendly fire always on.
163pts
44
Gauntlet
Atari's 1985 four-player arcade dungeon crawler that pioneered simultaneous co-op.
163pts
45
Terraria
Re-Logic's 2011 2D sandbox adventure of digging, building and boss fights with friends.
0pts
46
Dying Light
Techland's 2015 parkour zombie game with four-player co-op across a quarantined city.
0pts