With the recent release of the new co-op game Split Fiction, IGN decided to revisit our Top 10 best co-op games.
Just a heads up, we have a few caveats as we define what “co-op” means for this list. We wanted to focus on coop games that were truly built around that cooperative experience. This is a list of the top 10 cooperative games, not the 10 best games that happen to be playable cooperatively, which is why you’ll see a lot of games that can only be played with two players.
Also, to keep this from stepping on the toes of other genres, we’re omitting MMOs, MOBAs, and any games that are solely focused on competitive cooperative play. We want to highlight the games that bring people together to work towards a common goal that’s not simply “beat the other team.”
This is an update to our list from 2021. While games like Monster Hunter: World, Overcooked 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Rockband 4, It Takes Two, and Sea of Thieves (to name a few) managed to keep a spot on the list, it has been updated to include others.
If you’re looking for “best coop games pc”, “best couch coop games”, “best coop games ps5”, or any co-op games list, this is the one for you.
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Split fiction is an AMAZING game. I hope they come out with a second iteration
Chapters, you selfish pr!cks.
Holy ads Batman. Unwatchable!!
Portal 2 and overcooked are awesome
Your List sucks
this is the best list so far imo
Heroes of M&M 3???????
awful list
Okay I’m not ever watching anything from IGN again.
Gotta go through 6 ads to watch 20 seconds of video, that’s just slimy
meh, co-op is lacking these days (new stuff)
1:17
No contra?!
Too many freaking ads.
Castle crashers is my goat. I played this game all the time as a kid with friends on the couch and just replayed it a couple times online with friends now that the DLC came out years later and it holds up to this day
How many godamn ads can be on one video Jesus Christ thanks 4 nothing
No thumbnails….. it’s 2025 you chuds
Ready or not?
Not even a mention of Borderlands?!
I am shocked a way out is not on the list
Battle Block Theater is an awesome co-op game that I don't see anyone talking about.
For me, the best co-op platform game
video isn't partitionned fuck off
SPLIT FICTION IS SO FREAKING FUN
It's all the games that are single player that would of just been better as co op
Of course Operation Flashpoint: Red River
We need that back
Army of Two is a top one for me…Man I miss those games so badly. One of the best times I have had playing games
You might want to check "Grounded", still one of the games being played even before its official release
The amount of times this dumbass says cooperative instead of co-op hurts my head
No Army of Two is criminal. That game is the definition of co-op.
vaya chusta
It's sad if this is the 'best'.
Some good stuff, but mostly crap.
Baldurs gate 3 is a primarily coop game and happens to be playable solo???
Big AI energy.
Shitty list, n.1. is Helldivers, n.2. is Deeprock Galactic. n.3. is Darktide. n.4. is Vermintide 2.
Full of advertisement
Of all time? Goldeneye takes #1 easily. Can’t dismiss the golden era of gaming just cause they’re old.
Borderlands 3 is great, too.
Should probably make a list that doesn't have so many obvious answers on it.
i never played good games ahh list
video starts at 1:20 thank me later
i didn't like this video because of the narrator
monster hunter worlds co:op sucks
It takes two has a horrible story with the most unlikable character in any game, that bitch of a wife.
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I've grabbed split fiction from steam when it was free lol
This is a horrible list
I would add Polterguys: Possession Party to this list. It just came out, and it's genius!
ayjeeaean what's that on the opening? had a lil stroke? xd
halo wars 2!
You didn't include even a single side scrolling beat em up. You know, the original coop game.
And you forgot A Way Out! The game that jump started modern coop games!
Fucking Halo?!