Best Asynchronous Multiplayer Games on Steam
Multiplayer games where players affect each other without acting at the same time.
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1Super Auto Pets
- Players say: Build a squad of ability-bearing pets with food and positioning, then watch it auto-battle in asynchronous or live matches. Players like: Strategic Team Builds · Cute Pet Designs · Quick, Easy Matches
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Build the strongest team of pets and tussle with your friends!
Sep 24, 2021
In this game, you can…
- leave mid-run, come back later, and fight another player's saved team with no timer or pressure.
- get a completely different pool of pets each week and try to solve what the best team is before it changes again.
- watch your last surviving pet wipe the entire enemy team after the rest of yours are already gone.
- build a team of pets whose abilities combo based on the order you place them.
- turn a weak starter squad into a monster by spending gold on buffs, upgrades, food, rerolls, and swaps between rounds.
- jump into an 8-player live mode where you buy and rearrange under time pressure until one team is left standing.
- mix and match custom packs so every run uses a different self-contained set of pets and interactions.
- build around one specific pet until you max it out, then win with it to earn a ribbon for that exact pet.
2DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH
- Players say: Sam returns to a fractured world to connect Australia, delivering cargo across hazardous terrain while choosing to fight or evade. Players like: Improved Traversal · Helpful Shared Structures · Visuals and Music
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Sam – with companions by his side – sets out on a new journey to save humanity from extinction. Join them as they traverse a world beset by otherworldly enemies, obstacles and a haunting question: should we have connected?
Mar 19, 2026
In this game, you can…
- skate across the map on a coffin that's also your fastest ride.
- build roads and monorails that move bulk goods between settlements and mines.
- summon BTs during combat while you're carrying guns, throwables, and gadgets like a walking armory.
- switch between walking, vehicles, ziplines, roads, monorails, or a coffin board depending on the job and your loadout.
- have dust storms, wildfires, earthquakes, flash floods, avalanches, and other weather events force reroutes mid-delivery.
- hunt down human enemies, BTs, and mech soldiers with a much bigger arsenal than the first game.
- spot BTs from far away, then choose long-range gear, stealth, or brute force to deal with them.
- infiltrate enemy camps with silenced guns, decoys, silent takedowns, and skills that reduce your movement noise.
- leave bridges, donate resources, and use shared lockers so strangers' structures change your routes and yours change theirs.
3We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip
- Players say: Two players stranded near a deserted island solve split-view puzzles and timed trials by describing clues and coordinating moves. Players like: Co-op Puzzle Play · Communication Challenges · Fun With Friends
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Partner up with your friend online and set sail for an unforgettable puzzle adventure in this bite-sized standalone We Were Here experience. Work together to overcome brain-teasing challenges and make fun memories, using your best communication, teamwork and trust skills.
Sep 14, 2023
In this game, you can…
- guide your partner across an invisible road while a giant ship chases from behind, restarting the whole run if you mess up.
- accidentally shred your hard-earned ticket in a paper shredder that's sitting right next to where you turn it in.
- solve a two-player puzzle where math, timing, and teamwork only work if you figure out how both players can win together.
- answer a distress call, land on a deserted island, then take a mysterious boat ride through an abandoned amusement park.
- invent names for bizarre shapes, then yell those made-up names over walkie-talkies to solve the first puzzle.
- earn bronze, silver, or gold tickets after each trial, then physically handle them to upgrade your ship as you go.
- chase a perfect 3/3 gold run, then swap roles to see the other half of every puzzle and get a relationship grade at the end.
- finish the expedition with a wholesome ending where you and your co-op partner actually make it out together.
4Backpack Battles
- Players say: Shop for shaped gear, fit it into a backpack to trigger item synergies, then watch your build auto-battle other players. Players like: Creative Item Combos · Backpack-Packing Puzzle · Relaxed Async Play
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A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.
Jun 13, 2025
In this game, you can…
- pause and replay automatic fights, then check a combat log that shows how much damage, healing, and triggers each item produced.
- unlock secret items by experimenting with hidden crafting recipes and weird item combinations.
- park an item next to the right partner for a fight so it upgrades into something stronger later.
- snap up a rat the moment you spot it.
- spend ten minutes packing your bag, then watch everything click and your whole combo chain starts firing at once.
- follow glowing links that tell you exactly which items want to touch, turning your backpack into a visible web of synergies.
- fight clones of other players' builds, testing your setup against another human's ideas with zero real-time pressure.
- get offered a powerful build-defining choice every few rounds, then suddenly pivot into something like poison bows, fire stacks, or trap engines.
- run into opponents with five dragons and have to beat that with whatever you packed.
5The Past Within
- Players say: Two players explore the past and future in separate 2D and 3D worlds, sharing clues to solve puzzles and uncover a family plan. Players like: Communication-Driven Co-op · Past/Future Split · Shared Puzzle Solving
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The Past Within is the new co-op experience from Rusty Lake! Play together with someone you deem trustworthy: one in The Past, the other in The Future. Observe and communicate what you see around you. Solve the puzzles and uncover Albert Vanderboom’s plan.
Nov 2, 2022
In this game, you can…
- play in the past while your partner plays in the future, describing completely different rooms so the other person can act.
- trigger a music sequence in the future that makes furniture start shaking in the past, unlocking the next step.
- play both sides yourself on two devices, relaying clues between the past and future like you're two players.
- solve puzzles where what you change in one timeline shifts objects and progress in the other timeline.
- race through a timed clue translation, then relay it fast enough for your partner to complete the next action.
- watch a dark man crawl around one player's room while the other player is just calmly sitting in the future.
- choose Bee or Butterfly at the start, which changes puzzle solutions and gives you a different route to replay.
6Turmoil
- Players say: In an 1899 oil rush, lease land, locate deposits, build drilling networks, time sales, and outbid rivals for town shares. Players like: Easy to Learn · Satisfying Oil Loop · Relaxed Short Sessions
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Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Jun 2, 2016
In this game, you can…
- bribe officials or oil companies to lock in a price or dodge spillage fines, turning illegal deals into a real part of your strategy
- fight a stock/share auction against rival tycoons until someone buys a majority and becomes mayor
- chain natural gas boosts into your wells to shove oil upward faster, then scramble to avoid overloading the system and spilling
- lease land at a town auction, send out dowsers, drop a rig, and find out the hard way whether you hit a rich pocket or nothing
- use a trained mole to tunnel through the underground map and reveal hidden territory when oil is deep or blocked by rock
- watch two buyers' prices swing up and down, then decide whether to sell now or stockpile oil in silos for a better spike
- build a pipe network where one skinny bottleneck can slow the entire flow, forcing you to reroute and redesign mid-extraction
7Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)
- Players say: Write anonymous requests about what's troubling you, answer strangers with supportive letters, and collect stickers in a lo-fi room. Players like: Anonymous Letter Exchanges · Comfort From Strangers · Lo-Fi Room Atmosphere
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A game about writing nice letters to real people. Write and receive encouraging letters in a cozy room. Trade stickers and listen to chill music. We're all in this together. Sometimes all you need are a few kind words.
Sep 12, 2019
In this game, you can…
- shuffle through a stack of anonymous letters from real people.
- send tiny paper airplanes with short messages that drift across other players' screens.
- post your own worry anonymously and get kind replies from strangers within minutes.
- pick one stranger's request, then craft a single reply capped at 14 lines.
- trade thank-you stickers that turn into physical decorations in your bedroom.
- write someone a helpful letter, get thanked later, and watch your empty room slowly fill with keepsakes.
- watch a Mail Deer deliver new letters while paper planes float by and lo-fi tracks change as you write.
- write a vulnerable request, hit send, then receive a stream of thoughtful responses with no way to reply back, like, or follow up.
8Root
- Players say: Lead an asymmetric woodland faction, using armies, cards, and unique abilities to outscore rivals in a tactical board-game war. Players like: Faithful Digital Adaptation · Distinct Faction Strategies · Helpful Tutorials
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Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
Sep 24, 2020
In this game, you can…
- sell boats and mercenaries to other players as river traders, creating a price-tagged service market inside the war.
- lock in a turn-by-turn action list as a bird dynasty, then collapse into turmoil if you can't complete every single order.
- play as a lone vagabond, slipping through the map collecting gear and choosing who to help, harass, or betray without running an army.
- build a cat industry of sawmills, workshops, and recruiters, then keep your whole wood supply network connected or your engine stalls.
- plant sympathy as an insurgency, then pop a revolt that flips a peaceful clearing into an armed uprising.
- spring an ambush with one hidden supporter, then chain more ambush cards to turn a tiny token into a lethal streak.
- leave a game for hours, come back to a full move-by-move recap, and reconstruct exactly how the forest changed while you were gone.
- zoom out to a clean tactical map view when the board becomes a dense mess of warriors, buildings, and tokens.
9VHOLUME
- Players say: As Robert pursues restored ration tickets in a bureaucratic dystopia, sprint, climb, and slide through city levels to find routes and beat times. Players like: Fluid Parkour Controls · Brutalist World Atmosphere · Ambient Soundtrack
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VHOLUME is a melancholic first-person parkour adventure set in a dystopian brutalist city where bureaucracy turns a simple task into an odyssey.
Aug 21, 2026
In this game, you can…
- join public lobbies that auto-download workshop maps, then race ghosts on each custom map's own leaderboard.
- leave the intended course and freely explore massive concrete structures with no invisible walls blocking you.
- run workshop recreations of familiar layouts like Dust2 as movement-heavy race maps.
- crouch-jump to turn a simple run into a momentum speed boost.
- land in a slide, jump instantly, and chain wall-to-wall bounces until your speed gets absurd.
- finish a level in minutes, then chase a leaderboard ghost and spend half an hour shaving seconds off one map.
- take a diverging path to unlock an artifact that opens secret levels and B-sides hidden off the main route.
- study a ghost run frame by frame, copy their line, and return with a surgically optimized route.
10Oaken Tower
- Players say: Buy items, build synergies into an automated fighting tower, and test each roguelike run against other players asynchronously. Players like: Build Experimentation · Item Synergy Combos · Quick Run Pace
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Oaken Tower is a synergy-heavy PvP auto battler where your tower of items fights other players. Build deadly combos and scale exponentially. Every decision matters.
Apr 28, 2026
In this game, you can…
- add multicast to a bow so it triggers all your other bows at once and deletes an opponent's health bar.
- manually turn whole item families on or off so your run only offers the archetypes you want.
- keep scaling past the normal 10-win run limit in endless mode until your build reaches billions or trillions of damage.
- stack a lucky set of items and watch the synergies multiply until you're hitting billions of damage.
- make a single 3-star wooden bow scale exponentially just by keeping it as your only item.
- buy witch items, brew potions, apply them between fights, then watch your whole setup scale harder from every use.
- open the combat log to see the exact chain that popped off, including triggers, stacks, and per-slot stat changes.
