Looking for an online co-op game your whole group will actually enjoy? These are some of the best co-op games on Steam: shooters, survival sandboxes, a farming game and one of the biggest RPGs of recent years. Each entry explains what you do together and why it works for a group.
1. Deep Rock Galactic
A co-op FPS for one to four players about dwarven space miners. You dig through fully destructible, procedurally generated caves, mine minerals and hold off swarms of alien bugs. Each class covers a different job, from drilling tunnels to lighting the cave, so a squad that talks to each other gets much further.
Play together: Online co-op
2. Valheim
A survival and exploration game for one to ten players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. You build a base together, sail to new biomes and fight bosses for the gods’ favor. With room for up to ten friends on one world, it suits larger groups who like to play at their own pace.
Play together: Online co-op
3. Stardew Valley
You inherit your grandfather’s overgrown farm and turn it into a thriving home. In co-op, friends farm the same land, split the chores between fields, animals, fishing and the mines, and slowly upgrade the farm together. It is one of the calmest picks on this list and an easy start for friends who rarely play games.
Play together: Online co-op, Remote Play Together
4. Terraria
A 2D action-adventure about digging, fighting, exploring and building. A shared world lets one friend focus on building, another on mining and a third on gearing up for the next boss. Its long list of bosses and events gives a group goals for many evenings, and it also has PvP.
Play together: Online co-op, Online PvP
5. Baldur’s Gate 3
A story-rich, party-based RPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, where choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal. In co-op, each friend controls their own character in the party, makes their own decisions in conversations and fights in the turn-based battles together. Plan for a long campaign rather than a quick session.
Play together: Online co-op, Remote Play Together
6. Left 4 Dead 2
A co-op action horror FPS set in the zombie apocalypse, across five campaigns from Savannah to New Orleans. Four survivors fight through hordes together, and the game punishes anyone who wanders off alone. Rounds are quick to start, and the versus mode lets a group play as the special infected too.
Play together: Online co-op, Online PvP, Remote Play Together
7. Satisfactory
A first-person open-world factory building game on an alien planet. Together you explore, gather resources and build multi-story factories connected by conveyor belts. It suits groups who like to plan: one friend designs the production lines while others scout and expand the base.
Play together: Online co-op
8. Portal 2
A puzzle game with a separate co-op campaign for two players. You and a friend each place your own portals, and most test chambers only open up when you combine them. Expect a lot of talking, pointing and laughing at failed attempts. Two friends who like puzzles will hardly find a better co-op game.
Play together: Online co-op, Remote Play Together
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