The best co-op games around right now in 2026 ...

Panoptic (2020) is an innovative ‘PC vs. VR’ game that plays out like a game of 1v1 hide-and-seek, with one VR player seeking out a flatscreen PC player who tries to blend into the crowd. Now the ...

The Nintendo Switch is more than a handy single-player console. It offers a wide range of titles worth sharing, but which Switch co-op games are worth your time? There are many options, so we’ve ...

Eventually the schtick gets old. That’s the thing about “black hole” games—games like Valorant, Fortnite, Overwatch, and any other that’s designed to eat up as much of your free time as possible, ...

Best co-op games continue drawing millions of players long after release due to enduring gameplay, teamwork, and community engagement. Titles like "Left 4 Dead 2" still peak at 50,000 concurrent Steam ...

Why it’s great: Easy to pick up, impossible to put down. The chaos of shells, bananas, and last‑second blue shell strikes makes it perfect for mixed‑skill groups. Who it’s for: Families, casual ...

Dino Patti made his name as co-founder of Playdead – the studio behind the indie classics Limbo and Inside – alongside Arnt Jensen back in 2006. But Patti left the company in 2016, shortly after the ...

There’s no shortage of hit multiplayer games I could be playing right now. I could be tearing up the streets of Brooklyn in Battlefield 6, taking down Nightlords in Elden Ring: Nightreign, or diving ...

Over the past couple of weeks, friends and colleagues have made me aware of multiple ingeniously implemented, browser-based ways to play classic MS-DOS and Windows games with other people on basically ...

As many video game publishers continue to desperately push multiplayer-oriented live service games, often in ways that end in disaster, it turns out that most players still prefer single-player ...