Sunday, March 27, 2022

2022 PC Coop Games

Welcome the definitive listing of all the cooperative oriented PC video games for 2020!

This list will be continuously updated throughout the year.

Coop list for a different year 

The games on this list, must meet the following criteria:
  • PvE - Player vs Environment
  • Online, split screens limited
  • Available/announced for PC
  • Involve 2 or more human players
  • Players must work along a progressive storyline, campaign, or various goals
  • Generic RTS Skirmishes and Team based game types like CTF and Deathmatch are not included
  • No MMOs (game must have a conclusion or set goal)
  • Greenlight & Early Access games are generally not listed unless intent for release is stated
  • I'll be subjective with Survival/Horde modes as the genera has matured a bit. However, most are slapped-on after thoughts and not list worthy.

Shooter

Evil Dead: The Game - 4 player
Metacritic - 76 ]
World War Z developer creates a L4D clone with a back of an existing movie license.  
 
Gotham Knights - 4 player
[ Metacritic - 68 ]   
World War Z developer creates a L4D clone with a back of an existing movie license.  
 
Warhammer 40000 - Darktide - 4 player
[ Metacritic - 74 ]
Vermitide in the future, A L4D formula with Space Marines [Imperial Guard actually].
 
Back4Blood - 4 player
Metacritic - 77 ]
 From the developers of Left4Dead sans Valve payrole.  More zombies, Very much a spiritual successor
 
Grounded - 4 player 
Metacritic - 82 ] 
What if honey I shrunk the kids was made into a survival video game?  Here you go! 
 
Outlast Trials - 4 player
Survival - psychological horror
 
Halo Infinite
Will have campaign coop, but not until after launch.  Expecting low reviews for the delay.
 
Ripout - 3 player
3D Realm take Doom like game.  No real campaign, as much as random maps with loot gathering and shooting demon things.
 
Rainbow Six Extraction - 3 player
R6 take on a L4D formula, but adds countless of gadgets, classes, and mixed tactics that should add a butter layer of depth. Aliens, not Zombies, look like something from the Venom universe. 
 
Sker Ritual - 4 player
Takes place in their previous universe, Maid of Sker.  4 players go against waves of zombies.  Seems like a CoD zombie game.
 
Clash: Artifacts of Chaos - 2 player - June 2022
Co-op in the official twisted imagination and art style of the Zeno Clash universe

RPG

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - ARPG
Metacritic - 78 ]
Set in the Borderlands universe, not a shooter 

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2 - ARPG - 2 player
[ Metacritic - 61 ]
 
Nobody Saves the World - 2 player
From the makers of the colorful Guacamelee, an aRPG that involved a lot of shapeshifting.

Strategy

Barotrauma - 16 player
Early Access
FTL in a coop chaos submarine.  Thought we just had this with We Need to go Deeper.  Though FTL space ship v submarine.  Basically same thing anyways. 

DwarfHeim -3 player
An RTS with Dwarfs. Mix and match your classes and abilities for the best outcome against hoards of bad guys invading your realm.

Phasmophobia - 4 player 
Early access.
A slow and methodical psychological horror about ghost hunting.

We Were Here Forever - 2 player
4th in the escape room series. 
 
Monster Hunter Rise - 4 players
Arpg
 
WarTales - 2 player

Dune: Spice Wars
RTS, Skirmish v AI
 
Rusty Lake: Path Within - 2 player
Adventure/puzzler game where each play is in control in two different timelines.

Action

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge - 6 player
The classic arcade side scroller fighter returns in what seems to be a resurgence in the classics.
 
Babylon’s Fall - 4 player - March
Nier/Dark Souls style creature combat with 4 players.
 
Shoulders of Giants - 2,4 player -
A Frog and a Robot work together, compared to the classic Banjo-Kazooie game.
 
Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga - 2 player
A retelling of all the Star Wars movies, Lego style.  
 
Conan: Chop Chop - 4 player
Metacritic - 77 ]
Cartoony hack n slasher in the Conan universe.  
 
The Ascent - 4 player
Cyberpunk world using a top down shooter fest. 
 
Powerwash Simulator  - 6 player
Wash stuff, the ultimate OCD simulator.
 
Contraband
Smuggling game themed in the 1970s
 
Space Punks - 4 player
Top down shooter, similar to Helldivers.  Done with a Borderlands art style and overlal theme.
 
Ship of Fools - 2 player
On a ship, shooting at baddies. Collects stuf along the way.  Tower D, on a ship.

Saints Row - 2 player
Its the reboot of Saints Row, with drop-in out coop that allows you to keep your progress.
 
 

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