Dad’s Coming
After a whole afternoon at home with your sibling, the kitchen’s a mess, your room’s in disarray, you haven’t hung the laundry: a normal day. SUDDENLY… you see on that phone notification that your dad will be coming home early - you hear the garage screeching and opening and… RUN!! DAD’S COMING!!
Meet Bob, the goofy brother who’s scared and clumsy because he can’t contain the anxiety of thinking about the horrible consequences of his actions - not playing video games for the rest of the night. It’s chilling!
Kate, on the other hand, was born for this. It’s been years of intensive training of putting everything away and pretending she’s asleep while her mother’s on the way from the hallway to her bedroom, never once being discovered! And this time’s not going to be different.
To be able to clean up this mess and pretend that nothing happened you will need to:
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Cooperate by throwing items between rooms until you place them in their respective places
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Be careful not to break windows or fragile items like grandma’s urn - your mom won’t be too happy if your grandma breaks twice!
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Keep an eye on Jack, the siblings’ cat! He is always messing around and knocking things over.
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Use the means in each house to be even quicker, such as service elevators!
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Watch out for blackouts when it’s raining! Sometimes you will have to reactivate the circuit breaker!
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And much more!
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Catty & Batty: The Spirit Guide
Catty and Batty is a lighthearted game about the friendship of a cat and a bat solving over 50 different puzzles TOGETHER. It fits in a series of indie games I have come to appreciate for their romantic theme, cooperative game-play and casual difficulty which is perfect to introduce computer gaming to your girlfriend. Hand-drawn sprites and original music also provide a special charm.
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
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A wonderful short adventure about Catty and Batty using all the carboard boxes in the world to help a bunch of spirits to get home.
Everything in this game is charming - from hand drawn characters sprites to piano music.
Puzzles are inventive, you getting a new stuff every level, but they’re not hardcore, you can literally complete the whole game in one evening.
A perfect gift to someone you like and an oppotrunity to spend a relaxing and fun night playing it in Co-op.
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– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Operation: Tango - Friend Pass
Look, was it fun? Yes. My friend and I played the entire story on both roles. So, my hours reflect two completed campaign runs, 100%ing the game besides for achievements. Nevertheless, my friend, who was the one who bought the game, was very disappointed by how few missions there were. He felt that he didn’t get his money’s worth out of the game. If you and your friend are willing to have a short lived experience, then go ahead and get the game. However, if you are expecting a little more meat and potatoes than a campaign that can be completed in 2 to 3 hours, look for another game.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
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“We were here” mixed with “Keep talking and nobody explodes' ‘. I thoroughly hope that this game will show the world that asymmetric coop games are one of the best multiplayer experiences you can have.Both sides have their own view of the world, and have different tasks, but can only complete them when working together and communicating with each other.
It only takes about 3 hours to complete, but it contains some story time, and a lot of condensed gameplay.
The world is neatly built and the way forward is clear as long as you communicate with your teammate.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Duo Defenders - Tower Defense
It’s amazing. It’s beautiful. It’s hilarious. This game was made for Steam Remote Play, but I can’t wait to play it on a TV with a friend! #TeamKoko
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
Duo Defenders mixes fun co-op gameplay with one of my favorite game genres, tower defense. The tower defense gameplay is delightfully simple, and it feels more focused on team work - you can quickly get overwhelmed if you don’t work together and communicate, but that’s also the fun of it! Levels are pretty well-designed such that each level is a new teamwork challenge. The later levels are daunting for non-gamers, almost wish there was another faster/better character to select if one of the players is struggling, which would make it more casual.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
D-Corp
When we were offered this key, we honestly didn’t know what to expect–we’d beaten the heck out of Overcooked and Dungeon Defenders before, and this seemed similar, but we were skeptical.
Welp, WE WERE WRONG.
This game hooked us quick and DIDN’T LET GO–it’s sci-fi a cousin of Overcooked with an emphasis on harvesting and defending, and couples will especially love this one and will probably find it a lot less frustrating than others in the genre. There’s some room for this to grow up, but it’s got more polish than existing games in the genre that have been actively refined for years. Check out the WeHeartCo-op review on YouTube, coming soon!
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
TLDR: fun game, but if you are unsure check out the DEMO :)
D-corp is a really nice coop tower defense game and it would probably be even better if I had friends to play it with.
While it seems meant to be played locally from your couch with a group of friends it does also support steam remote play and is pretty good to play solo as well (what I mostly did).
Some Pros:
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Throwing things into pits or acid (including your now ex-friends).
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Different themed levels, enemies, guns (towers) and elements to make each level feel unique.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
Eye in the Sky
If you have someone around to play this with… friend, spouse, kid, whatever… get this game!
Caveats:
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People who are not very experienced with computer games in general should probably play in VR. The PC controls can be tricky if you are not used to them and it might get frustrating. If both players are gamers, you are sure to have a blast regardless!
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There is no controller support. The PC player has to play with keyboard and mouse or you somehow get a controller to emulate the keyboard (as is possible with the Steam Controller, not sure about others).
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
Underrated game!!!
This game is fun! Good coop puzzles. I like the unique “industrial” look. I like the tiny robot!
I played with a Quest 2 + Virtual Desktop + Parsec (for coop) + Discord. Everything worked perfectly.
So the VR player is a flying sphere, which can interact with objects, but only within a limited space. The other player on the PC is a tiny robot that can go in most places the VR player cannot. They have to work together so that the tiny robot can get to the exit.
I like the way the game is explained to you. In fact, you sort of understand everything without a lot of explanation. It is rather intuitive. You can talk to your friend to figure things out together.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
Operation: Tango
Operation: Tango is an asymmetrical co-op game (similar to a game like We Were Here) where one player plays as an agent and the other as a hacker, and you must communicate with each other to progress through the game. I generally found the missions to be interesting and challenging, with parts of one or two missions being a bit unclear what you were supposed to do (even after having completed it as both the agent and hacker!). There are 6 missions and 10 challenges, with the missions taking about 6-7 hours to complete, and the challenges taking 3-4 hours to complete at the highest level. The game’s overall aesthetic and UI is nice, and I enjoyed the music.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
Goods about the game:
Hella fun if you like cooperative play
Big teamwork, make sure you get a good gaming buddy
Bads about the game:
Not really a lot to play
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
S.U.B.
Small and simple co-op but very fun
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Small co-op station game.
1 submarine, 2 players, 4 stations (steering, weapons, scanner, smelter), 1 level. essential, this feels like a minimalist version of Catastronauts that is also less exciting. You navigate the deep looking for keycards and scrap metal while fending off laser sharks, and when you enter the enemy base, it turns out they’re in another castle, and the game ends. Mind you, the concept isn’t that bad, and if the devs had put some effort into making a campaign and different enemies, it could be a lot better; but as it is, If you want to do couch co-op, I recommed springing for a better game that has more variety.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Run Crabby Run - adventure
Funny game. Interesting adventures, but is a little bit difficult. Great entertainment for everyone.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
i spent an hour trying to beat level 2 and as soon as i got the last crystal, the game crashed… my whole life is falling apart now. every day i lay in bed and watch the clock tick. theres no longer a point in living. run crabby run has destroyed my life.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Animal Rivals
Animal Rivals is a collection of local split screen multiplayer only party minigames where you control a funny/toy animal. Games are things like obstacle courses, action/box destroying games and so on.
The quality here is very poor unfortunately, and there’s no network play, which isn’t really right for 2017 when this was launched. The game doesn’t work right off the bat and loads into a black screen, so you have to press “R” then hope you can tweak the game resolution such that it will work and not just crash out.
– Real player with 65.4 hrs in game
Black Screen of Death.
Actually, I got past the black screen by hitting R which reset the settings. Unfortunately, that also means you can only play at the base settings.
Once you get past all that, you are confronted with a completely bland and dead game.
Skip this one unless you have a group who wants to play this together for whatever reason.
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– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game