The Best Cooperative Split Screen Games Of 2024

While many gamers enjoy online multiplayer titles with friends from around the world, nothing beats the fun of a great couch co-op game paired with food, drinks, and tons of laughs. These kinds of titles aren’t as common as they used to be, but finding the best couch co-op games in 2024 can prepare you for any incoming party.

Luckily, many game studios focus solely on developing split-screen titles, like Ghost Town Games (Overcooked) or Hazelight Studios (It Takes Two), bringing more and more options to the table. While you wait for their next projects, let’s take a look at the best couch co-op games of 2024.

10

Goons: Legends & Mayhem

• Developer: RageCure Games
• Publisher: Firestoke
• Platforms: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC

Hockey games are always fun, but what if you merged hockey gameplay with a co-op adventure full of magic and creatures? You get Goons, Legends & Mayhem. You can play in different stages in co-op, and your gameplay revolves around destroying stuff and scoring goals with hockey pucks.

Every stage brings something new to the gameplay, whether it adds obstacles, new enemies, or both, so you’ll have a lot of fun even if you play solo. You can even play it as a hockey game in versus mode if things go wrong in co-op.

9

Chained Together

• Developers: Anegar Games
• Publishers: Anegar Games
• Platforms: PC

In the category of co-op games where you’re tied to your friend in an obstacle race, Chained Together is the winner. Each player is chained to each other at the bottom of Hell. You’re tasked with ascending a precarious variety of platforms to try to reach the top to escape.

It became the viral game of July 2024, thanks to streamers all over the world teaming up to get to the finish line in one piece. It’s great fun until one of you makes the wrong step, so be ready to lose a friendship or two.

8

Garbanzo Quest

• Developer: zagawee
• Publisher: zagawee
• Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux

With pixelated graphics and a unique protagonist that attacks enemies with their spit, Garbanzo Quest is described as a “bullet-heck platformer”. You can play it on your own or with a friend, which makes the adventure much more fun, especially when dealing with powerful and annoying enemies.

Featuring lots of secrets, challenges, abilities, and even cosmetics to unlock, Garbanzo Quest has it all for players looking for a co-op platformer. With so much variety in stages and enemies to defeat, you won’t get bored any time soon.

7

Windowkill

• Developer: Torcado
• Publisher: Torcado
• Platforms: PC, Linux

You can play Windowkill solo, but we recommend going co-op because everything gets better. The title is a twin-stick shooter similar to Asteroids, but all the action happens inside floating windows that move, shrink, and expand. Shooting the windows’ walls will make them bigger so you’re not constantly cornered, and you need to defeat waves of enemies to get upgrades.

Bosses are a different story and are very innovative, so you won’t have a dull moment in this unique shooter.

6

Ants Took My Eyeball

• Developer: Bosmic Forge
• Publisher: Bosmic Forge
• Platforms: PC

Ants Took My Eyeball sounds like Zombies Ate My Neighbors. While the games are not much alike, the vibes are definitely there. Platformers are always fun to play with friends, especially in couch co-op, and Ants Took My Eyeball supports four-player co-op, so you’re in for a treat.

Explore dark and twisted stages, defeat all kinds of monsters, and get better items and bigger weapons to win in this action-packed roguelite where the ant hill changes each time you restart.

5

Abathor

• Developer: Pow Pixel Games
• Publisher: JanduSoft
• Platforms: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC

Another great title for fans of retro classics from the 16-bit era is Abathor. It’s an action platformer that supports up to four players in local co-op, letting you embark on an epic adventure with a Golden Axe vibe.

And while the game looks inspired by other classic titles, it features wonderfully crafted stages and bosses that will take your breath away. You can enhance your heroes with different items and permanent upgrades, as long as you keep crushing your enemies’ skulls to offer them to the deities.

4

Anima Flux

• Developer: Avantaj Prim
• Publisher: JollyCo
• Platforms: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Mac, Linux

If you’re not into roguelikes and roguelites, maybe a good old metroidvania is best for you. And let’s make it hand-drawn while you’re at it, to add to the atmosphere and narrative. Anima Flux has all of that and the possibility to play it in two-player co-op from start to finish with two characters with distinct abilities.

On top of that, expect huge and challenging bosses and visually stunning cutscenes during this short and sweet adventure in a unique sci-fi setting.

3

Surmount: A Mountain Climbing Adventure

• Developers: Jasper Oprel and Indiana-Jonas
• Publisher: popagenda
• Platforms: Switch, PC, Mac

Mountain climbing was never this fun, thanks to characters that don’t take any fall damage. Surmount lets you climb the biggest and weirdest mountain in the world tethered-up with a friend or own your own with physics-based gameplay.

You can explore a variety of biomes as you climb up Mount Om in procedural environments that will put your skills to the test. With a cast of interesting characters and many useful items to unlock, Surmount: A Mountain Climbing Adventure is a wonderful co-op experience.

2

Quest Master

• Developers: Julian Creutz, Skydevilpalm
• Publisher: Apogee Entertainment
• Platforms: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC

If you’re a fan of classic adventure games and RPGs like The Legend of Zelda, you’ll love Quest Master. After a couple of tutorials that teach you the basics, you’re ready to go on your own adventure in Quest Master, building your own dungeons or trying out those made by other players.

The game features many different intuitive mechanics you can take advantage of when challenging or building dungeons, and with many players on all platforms, you’ll find tons of levels to try in this beautiful title.

1

Speed Crew

• Developers: Wild Fields
• Publisher: Wild Fields
• Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux

If you’re looking for co-op experiences that can break friendships the same way Overcooked or Moving Out! do, Speed Crew is perfect for you. In this game, you’ll be the crew waiting for cars at the pit stop, ready to fix whatever problem they have, from parts set on fire to tires and engines completely destroyed.

With four big circuits and dozens of levels to clear, Speed Crew is constantly adding new tools and game mechanics to keep things fresh and challenging from start to finish.