Best local co-op games

Side-scrolling race-and-sabotage where last place gets eliminated.

Friendship-ruining minigames where standing still means death.

Local and online co-op stress disguised as cooking.

Cling, swing, and fling each other across gaps in panicked co-op.

Restaurant roguelite co-op with satisfying group escalation.

A two-player-only co-op adventure that constantly reinvents how you cooperate.

Co-op only — no solo mode. One Friend's Pass copy can cover the second player online.

Physics-driven stickman brawling that's pure couch chaos.

Local or online physics brawling that gets sillier as people rotate in.

Draw terrible prompts on your phone and bluff everyone else into guessing them.

Head-to-head answer battles judged by the whole room, all played from phones.

Phone-controlled party games for mixed groups.

Control both brothers at once — or hand a stick each to two people on one pad.

Designed as single-player (one person, both sticks); two people sharing one pad is a popular unofficial way to play.

Simple cooperative puzzles that get funnier as communication breaks down.

Lightning-fast 8-duck couch deathmatch where one shot ends a round.

One person defuses the bomb while everyone else frantically reads the manual.

Only one copy needed: one player drives, the rest read the free printable/PDF Bomb Defusal Manual. Scales to a whole room.

Chill farming co-op that works for short visits or long campaigns.

Physics brawling made for casual group nights.

Build the level, sabotage the level, pretend it was fair.

Tiny arena archery with instant readability and local chaos.

Five more phone-controlled party games for a full room or a Discord call.

A party game for funny people and the friends who can't draw, played on phones.

Frame-perfect sword-and-gun duels with instant, readable couch chaos.

A beat-'em-up co-op classic that still anchors a couch night.

Explosive run-and-gun co-op where the whole level is destructible.

Friendly-fire spell-combining co-op that punishes panic and bad aim.

One player is the hero; everyone else possesses monsters to kill them.

Free platform-fighter with deep local versus for a controller pile-up.

Free-to-play. 8 local is supported, though default PC controller drivers often work most reliably around 4.

Blend into a crowd of NPCs and assassinate friends without being spotted.

Free explosive mini-game brawler that scales to a full living room of players.

Free. Not on Steam — download from the official BombSquad site; phones can also join as gamepads.

Run one neon spaceship together, sprinting between turrets, shields, and the wheel.

Guide cubes to their goals without triggering each other's lethal traps.

Turn-based artillery warfare made for passing one controller around the couch.

Tug-of-war fencing duels with a built-in pass-the-controller tournament mode.

A two-player boss-rush classic with community mods that expand the local co-op count.

Native co-op is two-player. Extra-player mods are local and niche.

Community mods expand Cuphead's local co-op limit to 3 simultaneous players.

Source: Cuphead 3 Players Multiplayer co-op