@Edent you probably already know "it Takes Two" and "Split Fiction" ? Both are great fun.

@Edent I don't know if Overcooked and Overcooked 2 meet those parameters, or Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime, but I've enjoyed those as local coop games (on PC and via Steam, alas)

@Edent check out “Plate Up.” You play cooperatively as the staff of a restaurant. Random patrons come in and you serve them. You do all of it from prepping the food, carrying it to the table, clearing the table, washing dishes. Sounds lame but it is super cute and well executed.

Over time days get longer with more customers. You earn money each day that you spend on upgrades like menu items, sharper knives, a dishwasher, etc. You can have up to 4 local players. There are no set roles. You humans have to decide who is doing what. A lot of time you divide front of house/back of house. But it’s more complicated than that. I swear it is more interesting and fun than it sounds.

I played over the holidays with my 3 (adult) sons and it was a riot. Lots of laughing.

@Edent If your into FPS Borderlands 4 is a tone of fun and has local co-op. Borderlands 3 as well though the story was not as much fun, but gameplay and looting is.

@Edent all the Lego Games, It Takes Two, I Hate Running Backwards

@Edent lots of good ideas already here. if you want to check them and/or find new ones, there is https://www.co-optimus.com/games.php

you can filter by "PS5", "couch co-op", and sort by user rating, etc.

I have found many couch co-op games I have come to treasure this way :]

@Edent as you may well know, my favourite “co-op” game is “the other half plays whatever he wants, and I sit next to him on the sofa with the walkthrough open giving him arsey hints like I’m Richard O’Brien on the Crystal Maze” 😄

@Edent Moving Out is a lot of fun - although perhaps a bit similar to Overcooked in terms of frantic short gameplay.

(While not strictly local co-op, Blue Prince, Outer Wilds & Tunic have provided hours of entertainment when played in a group puzzley / pass the controller gameplay way here.)

@Edent since "It Takes Two" & "Split Fiction" were already suggested, I'd add "A Way Out" (from devs of two of those games) and "Baldur's Gate 3". especially the latter if you like D&D.

but "Split Fiction" is 100% top of the list.

@Edent my friend and I had a lot of fun with the co-op focused Resident Evil games (5, 6 and Revelations 2). Unravel 2 is pretty fun if you’re into physics puzzles, and Diablo 4 works well for couch co-op, though it does require a persistent online connection.

@skylar I see you much more as…

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@Edent @skylar my all-time favourite co-op game is watching someone else play The Return Of The Obra Dinn...

@skylar @jackeric
Ugh. I rage quit that so hard. Loved Papers Please, but Obra Dinn just made me feel like I was which and doing homework.

@skylar @Edent I think these detective games could work better without the early "yes you're right" or "no you're wrong" feedback, which can be gamed when you get stuck. let the player continue to the end and then reveal how close they are to correctness

@Edent @skylar

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@alifeee I'm looking for personal recommendations. Which ones did *you* love?

@Edent oh I know how you work by now ;]

my faves are mostly mentioned, but would be: overcooked, heavenly bodies, human fall flat, any lego game ;]

@alifeee ta!

@jackeric @Edent Overcooked is deeply in the aggressive coop genre where technically you’re playing together but only the very strongest relationships will survive it.

@jackeric @jon
Challenge accepted!

@jon @Edent Heavenly Bodies, also fun, 2-player co-op, not as long or as replayable as e.g. Overcooked, on the PS store. Again I played the PC version via Steam