It takes two is amazing, but AFAIK only allows for two players.
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Yes, only two players (hence the name), but a helluva game
And Split Fiction
Casual Games
- Untitled Goose Game: silly, funny, and easy for anyone to pick up
- Overcooked Series: work together in a kitchen, may test your friendships haha
- Human Fall Flat: frustrating but funny platformer
- Any Lego Game: great to play with kids
- Minecraft: the most popular game for a reason
- Minecraft Dungeons: fun rpg based on Minecraft
- Terraria: 2D Minecraft but with easier crafting and more to do
- Pico Park: puzzle platformer, good for large groups
More Difficult Games
- Stardew Valley: adventure farming simulator (not very difficult but more involved than casual games)
- Portal 2: FPS puzzle game
- Cuphead: very difficult side scrolling shooter
- Borderlands series: FPS looter shooter
- Castle Crashers: side scrolling hack and slash rpg
- Left 4 Dead (1+2): FPS zombie shooter, playing with mods is hilarious
Non-Cooperative Couch Games
- Jackbox series: assorted party games, good for lots of people
- Super Bunny Man: silly fighting game with wonky physics
- Fall Guys: battle royal platformer
- Lego Party: looks like the Lego version of Mario Party though I've not played it
Magicka and Magicka 2 are magic casting games that are absolutely hilarious and will have you freezing, soaking, burning, crushing and electrocuting your team mates all as you frantically try to combat enemies.
Terraria. Seriously. Do a blind play through without a wiki. Super duper fun. It can be short or hundreds of hours, depending on your style. Great for groups as well, as it requires a surprising amount of team work.
- Absolum
- Brotato
- Crawl
- Ember Knights
- For the King 1&2
- Lovers in a dangerous spacetime
- Rotwood
- Dome keeper
- Heavenly Bodies
- Sea of stars
- TMNT: Splintered fate
These are all I could recall for now and since I don't know what type of games you prefer specifically I just dumped a list of the games that I enjoyed playing with my GF and friends recently. Hope it helps!
Good party games:
- Ultimate Chicken Horse
- Gang Beasts
- Unspottable
More intense coop:
- Gauntlet
- Cuphead
- Spelunky
I've heard good things about DuneCrawl, but I've never played it.
If you are looking for a horror movie type experience, Until Dawn and The Quarry are great. You pass the controller when the character changes, but they're designed to be enjoyed by a group.
Gauntlet is great!
The Trine games are pretty fun with multiple players if I remember correctly
We're currently playing Sunderfolk, it's a great game so far, kids and grown ups (it's got a bunch of reading and strategy, so it depends on the kid)
As someone else said, Jackbox games are plenty fun, much lighter, each party pack has 4-5 different games, and they go on sale often on steam. Look through the videos for each pack to get an idea of the games it comes with.
Sunderfolk is so good!
Overcooked 1 and 2
Yes! That is always my go to game with up to 4 players.
Goat simulator 3
For real.
It has 4-player local split-screen drop-in co-op.
What type of game are you looking for?
The absolute top 3 I can think of right now:
- Broforce
- Heave Ho
- Hidden in Plain Sight (not co-op, but it's hilarious to play with others and doesn't take much skill so it doesn't feel unbalanced if some of the players have played it for much longer than others)
All 3 are 2D, funny, and great fun to play in a group.
Another vote for Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
If you like electronic dance music, Just Shapes and Beats.
If you liked Eye of the Beholder and wish there were a co-op Minecraft-visuals version, it's Barony.
Overcooked 1 and 2
Cooking game they even most inept video gamers can enjoy.
If they are good enough, try Plate Up for a more difficult similar game.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes? I love that game.
- Ibb & Obb
- DYO
- Wild Woods
- unrailed 2
- Lovers in a dangerous spacetime
- picopark
If you don't mind 2 player games, you could maybe swap after each team gets captured:
Pizza Possum
Fast paced and hilarious. Pretty short overall but it still takes a bit of time to collect all items.
You need a copy and a PC for each person but I've been playing Slay the Spire 2 with my kids as a couch co-op game and it's good
Not co-op, but Unspottable is fun. It's a casual couch multiplayer where you and your friends pretend to be bots while trying to punch each other.
Wobbly Life is decent especially if you have younger people playing.
My boys and I played DuckGame an entire 3day weekend once. I set up 2 TVs so we could team up in Fortnite with a PS4 and a Switch, but honestly we played DuckGame more. I spent this summer with my 16yo playing Divinity Original Sin 2 coop split screen. It was fun until Act 3. Can't recommend it, but ymmv.
Oh, when my kids were little we put a lot of time in Amazing Frog. And Minecraft, obv.
Blazing Beaks is a fun little twin stick shooter rogue like that my kid & I had a blast with.
There's a fun risk/reward mechanic that lets you temporarily make things harder so you can be more powerful later.
Shooter game with weapon upgrades, great fun with a group, once you get used to it.
Like Quake merged with DukeNukem
Unravel 2
Co-op penis stream! ๐ Played this one a few times, myself. ๐
Genital Jousting!