Best Local Co-Op Games on Steam
Cooperative games played together on the same machine or local setup.
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1Left 4 Dead 2 - Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Nov 16, 2009
In this game, you can…
- play as the infected in multiplayer, coordinating ambushes and hunting your friends as special monsters.
- have a giant brute show up mid-fight and start throwing cars at you in the middle of your escape route.
- run the same campaign twice and get different enemy spawns, item placement, lighting, and even weather, changing every fight and route.
- rip through a crowd with a chainsaw, then swap to a frying pan and keep clearing zombies up close.
- get grabbed by a long tongue and dragged around a corner while your team has to sprint after you.
- startle a crying witch, and she instantly mauls the nearest survivor.
- get vomited on, and it immediately calls a horde straight onto your whole team.
- race to fill a generator with gas cans while the other team tries to stop you, turning the match into a frantic objective sprint.
2The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Nov 4, 2014
In this game, you can…
- shoot tears that orbit you, float in place, explode, become knives, or turn into screen-filling lasers.
- sell your soul for devil powers like wings, then keep descending into your mother's womb and even hell.
- unlock a dead version of yourself, use it to kill yourself, and get dice powers as the reward
- turn one item pickup into a complete reroute of how you fight and survive.
- find secret rooms and hidden shops by probing walls, then turn a quiet floor into a jackpot of weird items.
- step into a dice room and reroll the whole run's fate in a single gamble.
- start as a naked baby, get a cat for making a deal, then climb deeper through basement floors via holes in the ground.
- stack item synergies until bosses die instantly and your attacks become an unstoppable flood.
3It Takes Two - Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Mar 25, 2021
In this game, you can…
- pilot a pair of underpants.
- dj a night club inside an air conditioning vent for a crowd of living glow sticks.
- stop the story to play mini-games where you can electrocute the other player.
- fly a plane made of underpants later on.
- use a magnet turret to shoot magnets and turn a wall into a huge co-op traversal puzzle.
- fight through a shooter chapter where one player stuns enemies with goop while the other ignites bugs with flares.
- drop into an isometric hack-and-slash chapter where one player is a wizard and the other is a knight.
- get shrunk into dolls so a bed, a book, and a tiny pond become massive obstacles you have to climb and cross together.
4Vampire Survivors - Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- fight a giant praying mantis while 10,000 skeletons pack the screen around you.
- turn into the bullet hell: you only move while your weapons auto-fire until the screen is pure lasers and explosions.
- stack golden eggs to turn even the weakest character into a ridiculous monster.
- start with a whip and end up an immobile tree that kills by radiating garlic.
- open a chest and instantly level up multiple weapons at once, plus grab a big cash payout mid-run.
- combine the right weapon and passive to evolve them into dramatically stronger versions.
- use a shield and a time-freeze as panic buttons, then calmly reposition while everything else is stuck.
5Human Fall Flat - Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Jul 22, 2016
In this game, you can…
- lay siege to a Viking village, launch yourself from a catapult, slam a rock into a chasm with a battering ram, then barrel-ride through fjords to a longboat finish.
- play online with up to eight people, where seven other players flail around the same objectives and everything becomes a moving pileup.
- learn to scale walls, start chaining speed hops, and even pull off stuff like climbing straight up or "levitating" with a stick.
- grab your friends by the arms and collars, hoist them up, then toss them off cliffs or into the void when they get in the way.
- break a window, stack mattresses into a janky staircase, and climb through to skip the route the level clearly wanted you to take.
- swing on vines like Tarzan, row boats, fire yourself out of catapults, and mess with trucks and cranes to move through puzzles.
- drag a plank around for 20 minutes, finally line it up as a perfect bridge, then watch it vanish the moment you celebrate.
6Cuphead - Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Sep 29, 2017
In this game, you can…
- watch a boss go from two battletoads into a slot machine, then keep warping into stranger cartoon forms as you keep landing hits.
- bounce off pink bullets in midair to charge your super meter, then cash it in for weapon specials or a full super.
- run local co-op where one player can parry to revive the other mid-fight, turning near-deaths into sudden comebacks.
- fight bosses that transform mid-battle into new forms, sometimes with no health bar, until the next phase suddenly takes over.
- equip two weapons and swap instantly, changing your plan for a boss—or even a single phase—on the fly.
- thread through tiny safe zones while two or three attacks overlap, with timings that shift enough that you have to react in the moment.
- play brief run-and-gun levels that end fast and restart instantly, turning retries into a rapid-fire loop of experimenting and improving.
7Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition - The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
Sep 14, 2017
In this game, you can…
- teleport 30 corpses into a boss room, then detonate them all at once to erase the boss.
- eat body parts as an elf to gain the dead person's memories and quest-changing visions.
- rip someone's face off, then wear it to use their identity.
- throw death fog barrels at living enemies to kill them instantly, while undead allies can stand in it safely.
- turn water into an electrified stun pool, or freeze wet ground so enemies slip and get knocked down.
- teleport enemies into hazards, drag archers into melee, or fling someone far away to break an encounter.
- talk to animals and get full conversations, like a chicken insisting he's a mighty wizard.
- set up ambushes by keeping some party members out of combat while others start the fight, then spring the trap.
8Castle Crashers® - Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Sep 26, 2012
In this game, you can…
- ride a deer that rockets forward using its own poop.
- finish a boss fight, then duel your co-op partner for the princess and turn teamwork into a winner-takes-all brawl.
- make and upload your own custom knight, assign powers, and still toggle back to the classic visuals whenever you want.
- juggle enemies in midair with combo chains so they can't touch the ground before you relaunch them.
- swap to weapons like a chicken or a slab of meat, and watch the stats change your strength, magic, defense, and speed.
- collect tiny animal companions that follow you around and grant perks like extra health, XP, or other effects.
- replay the whole campaign on a New Game+ difficulty where enemies hit and survive so much harder that one mistake can end a run.
9Split Fiction - Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Mar 6, 2025
In this game, you can…
- hit a sequence where the same map exists in cyber and fantasy at once, and you move through both versions simultaneously.
- become a ball and navigate through an actual pinball machine level.
- kill your co-op partner in absurd ways, then keep doing it on purpose for fun.
- get pulled into a machine that steals creative ideas, then watch your sci-fi and fantasy stories mash into one shared prison.
- jump from taming dragons to fighting as cyber ninjas in back-to-back chapters.
- fight across a futuristic flying highway, leaping between moving vehicles, swinging a laser whip, and carving enemies with a katana.
- play optional side stories like a full mini-adventure where you're two pigs on a farm.
- hunt down hidden Easter eggs like a Dark Souls-style bonfire tucked into the world.
- trigger a giant, unexpected dance battle as a sudden genre pivot.
10Stick Fight: The Game - Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.
Sep 28, 2017
In this game, you can…
- shoot guns that spit out chasing snakes that swarm whoever they find.
- fire a black hole cannon that sucks everyone in and forces the fight into the next level.
- take control of a boss and use it to wreck your friends for a round.
- get launched across the map by your own shotgun, rocket, or minigun recoil.
- shoot chains or supports to collapse platforms and drop people into pits or hazards.
- fight on stages packed with spikes, lasers, lava floors, and shifting safe ground that turns each round into a scramble.
- pull off movement tricks like diving, flipping, wall-climbing, and tossing a gun just to pick it up for an extra jump.
