10 best co-op games for PC

Cooperative games are a great way to spend time with a partner, friends, or family. You can solve puzzles together, fight enemies, explore worlds, and just have fun. This selection includes the 10 best cooperative games for PC: from the legendary puzzle game Portal 2 to the brand new and unknown Bunhouse, where you play as a rabbit transporting concrete.

Haven

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"We and Key decided to run away from everything: from the system that wanted to separate us, from misunderstandings and judgments. We found a planet where there is no one, where you can be yourself and love. Now we are free: exploring a new world, shattered to pieces, fighting pursuers, protecting our home and our relationship."

Haven is a game about the love adventure of two people, about rebellion and freedom, and how they found their paradise in space. The gameplay here is not revolutionary, and you definitely won't find any new mechanics. You don't need to invent something new to experience unforgettable moments together with the main characters.

The heroes explore the world, try local fruits for the first time, talk about their fears to each other, engage in farming and building a base. They communicate with each other in the kitchen, eat by the fire, play strip cards, and sleep cuddled up.

The game has a cartoonish 3D style, subdued pastel color palette, and a soothing atmosphere. At the same time, the project hints at sexual scenes between the characters, kisses, and the possibility to choose the gender of Yu and Key.

Bunhouse

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Are you a rabbit who loves working in the greenhouse? Wait, are you by any chance the hero of the game Bunhouse? In this sandbox, you need to use your fluffy paws to push a cement cart, build beds, equip a greenhouse, and engage in trade.

If the boss yelled, and the Linkedin page didn't load. Subordinates don't do their work and are lazy. The pancake burned and the milk ran away. Bunhouse will calm you down after a hard day's work. Create the greenhouse of your dreams with a friend: choose the color, filling, shape.

Engage in growing crops, peeking into a book about plants, where it's written which flower needs intensive watering, and which requires a lot of sunlight. You'll have to carry the watering can in your own paws, or ask a friend, and instead of watering, take up decorating the interior.

PlateUp!

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Good evening, your table is ready, please come in. Yes, that very table for two by the panoramic window and two laptops with PlateUp, so you and a friend can play the restaurant simulator. Would you like me to tell you more about what awaits you?

You and a friend will start building a restaurant business — and fail. But don't despair too soon! If you want to reach the heights of the restaurant business and stand cooking steak in the kitchen with huge cat-men, you're going to have to sweat it out.

Start with a dive, literally 2 tables and 4 dirty stools — that's enough to earn the initial capital and build the profitable dream restaurant. After that, you need to expand the menu, prepare yourself for madness, as you will repeat the same recipe over and over again, hoping for a change.

Wildermyth

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In the fairy-tale world of Yondering, all people were dumb and happy until evil monsters came. They wanted to eat everyone and take over the world. But some farmers decided to fight back. They took up pitchforks and shovels and went to war. Thus, they became heroes and legends. This is our story in Wildermyth, but your legend will be completely different!

In Wildermyth, you can create your story from scratch or use one of the provided templates. The game gives you choices and consequences that change your characters and the world, making for a unique fairy tale. There are 3 modes:

The game's design can be described as when you read books in childhood and imagine the heroes stepping off the pages and dancing across the leaves. A special thanks to the developers for such a beautiful and unique style.

If you love tactical role-playing games, procedural generation, and tabletop strategies, then Wildermyth is the game for you.

Witchtastic

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Have you ever dreamed of becoming a witch? A real one, who brews potions, flies on a broomstick, gathers roots, mushrooms, and eyeballs... Try the casual simulator Witchtastic. It can be played in pairs or by up to 4 people.

The essence of the game is simple: brew potions and deliver them to customers quickly. Of course, bypassing all obstacles on the way, outpacing competitors, and to brew the potion, you need to unlock the recipe and find all the ingredients.

The game's world is diverse, with locations in forests, near villages, in snowy mountains, at cemeteries, and many other places! Together with friends, you can build a base, dress up the witch, and set delivery records. Witchtastic is a great cooperative game if you want to have fun with friends.

Untitled Goose Game

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Honk-Honk! In Untitled Goose Game, you control a goose that joyfully honks, ruins the gardener's life, and steals jam sandwiches. For what? Just for fun, such is the goose's to-do list for the day. Your task is to ruin the day for everyone you meet along the way. If you don't know where to start and are afraid of getting lost, the game will give you a hint. For example, steal a hat, break a vase, ruin a picnic, and much more.

The game will delight fans of cooperative games with its simple yet humorous gameplay. Minimalist cartoon graphics and cheerful music create an atmosphere of impunity, just what a ruthless goose needs!

There should be a conclusion for this game here, but a goose stole the text.

Stardew Valley

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Heard about Stardew Valley but kept putting it off for some reason? Consider this text a sign. Head off to the cozy and quiet Stardew Valley with a friend. Mayor Lewis welcomes newcomers with open arms and will give you some seeds for a successful start. The first day will surely be spent clearing the plot from weeds and stones, creating beds, and sowing. In the evening, you can visit the saloon to meet the townspeople.

Stardew Valley is unique in that it combines several full-fledged gameplay options. Don't like dealing with beds, watering potatoes, chasing crows? Take a fishing rod and head to the nearest river, maybe you'll be lucky and catch a few cans of cola, a wet newspaper, and a trout! The game has a lot of fish, different kinds can be caught in certain weather conditions, in specific places and times.

Want adventures and battles? Then descend into the mine, take a slingshot, sword, flashlight, and some protein bars. Mine ore, fight slimes, ghosts, and other inhabitants of the dark cave. Go deeper and deeper. Just remember to return home by 2:00, or you'll lose consciousness and half of your treasures.

In Stardew Valley, there's plenty to do: animal husbandry, traveling, romantic relationships with the merchant's daughter and the woodcutter's son. You'll definitely find something to do with a friend in this game.

Super Bunny Man

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A game for fun, very simple and without a plot. The main characters are strange rabbits that must pass the platformer level and reach the hole. Points for completing are awarded based on 3 criteria: for completing the mission, for finding a carrot, and an additional reward if you manage to beat the testers' time.

Let's detail the last point. Initially, you're already doing great by completing the level and finding the hole, but an additional reward is given for speed. When you see the time in which the developers ask to complete the level — you'll laugh and cry. The figures seem unreal. The maps are indeed challenging because in Super Bunny Man, you can't just run and jump; there's a unique physics you need to get used to. Some platforms can only be passed with a friend.

The passage will be unpredictable and funny. You will fall on spikes, off cliffs, but at the same time laugh until you cry. Write in the comments, will you test your relationship with your significant other or friend for strength?

Portal 2

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Portal 2, the sequel to the first part, takes you to the Aperture Science laboratory, where new characters, puzzles, and trials await you. You'll meet GLaDOS, an ominous and sarcastic computer that will provoke and rudely comment on your actions. For example, it might say: "Here are the test results: You're a horrible person. That's what it says. Weird, we didn't even test for that or 'If you like that piece so much, why don't you marry it?"

Challenges must be passed using a special device that creates portals and helps move through space. In co-op, each has one. There are 2 portals: blue and orange. One is for entry, and the other for exit, and they only work in tandem with each other. You must solve puzzles together, using portals, gravity, lasers, cubes, and other objects.

It Takes Two

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The most talked-about title in recent years. Everyone loves It Takes Two so much that people are willing to overlook the scene with the pink elephant. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then we're very glad. It's said that psychologists show this scene when a patient's payment for therapy services fails, and they fall into depression.

An amazing and astonishing game!

The story is about a couple who wants to divorce, but they've turned into cloth dolls that must pass trials to regain their bodies and love. Guiding them on this challenging journey is a book with a powerful, deep bass voice — Dr. Hakim. It's a metaphor for an eccentric author of a book on family relationships, who will assist and give advice throughout the game.

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