20 Best Co-op Games | GPA Scores Compare How Friends Play Together
Overcooked, Monster Hunter Wilds, Phasmophobia, Valheim, Portal 2, and more — 20 co-op games selected via GPA scores, sorted into 4 types by cooperation vs. versus balance.
"I want to play with friends — but is that couch chaos, online hunts, shared scares, or building a base together?" Co-op lives or dies on how it designs being together.
Co-op is not one flavor. Same-screen shouting, voice-chat role splits, and asymmetric mind games all count as “playing together” — the label alone will not pick your next session.
This article breaks co-op experiences into playable types — for party laughers, hunt completers, and friends who only face horror together.
Using GPA (Gamer's Profile Analyzer) tag scores as the spine, we curate 20 titles into 4 types.
Four Co-op Types—Unpacking What "Together" Means
Read through GPA tags — Co-op, Action, Horror, Crafting, Survival — and cooperative games cluster into four design philosophies.
① Local / Party Co-op
Built for the same room and the same screen — chat becomes input, laughter rides shotgun with victory. GPA's Co-op tag tends to light up hard here.
Representative games:
Overcooked! 2 / Portal 2 / Divinity: Original Sin 2 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
② Online Co-op Action
Online co-op where weapons, roles, and timing have to lock in together. GPA often pairs high Co-op with Action — the payoff is that shared boss-kill high.
Representative games:
Monster Hunter Wilds / Monster Hunter Rise / Granblue Fantasy: Relink / Destiny 2
③ Co-op Horror / Asymmetric
Fear designed to be shared out loud — symmetric squads and 1vMany asymmetry both belong here. When GPA Horror and Co-op overlap, stream clips write themselves.
Representative games:
Phasmophobia / Lethal Company / Dead by Daylight / Inside the Backrooms
④ Survival & Craft Co-op
Split gathering, building, and exploration until a world feels like yours. GPA Crafting, Survival, and Co-op often stack — ideal for long-haul friend servers.
Representative games:
Valheim / Core Keeper / Grounded / ARK: Survival Ascended
Co-op Games—Article-Exclusive 'Co-op Score' Ratings
Indie games often have limited platform support. Browse the platform list below to filter games from the GPA database featured in this article.
| # | Title | Platform | Co-op Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Overcooked! 2 | Nintendo SwitchNintendo SwitchPS5PS4steamXbox | 98% |
| 2 | Portal 2 | Nintendo Switchsteam | 97% |
| 3 | Phasmophobia | steam | 97% |
| 4 | Lethal Company | steam | 95% |
| 5 | Monster Hunter Wilds | PS5steamXbox | 94% |
| 6 | Granblue Fantasy: Relink | PS5steamXbox | 93% |
| 7 | Monster Hunter Rise | Nintendo SwitchPS5steam | 92% |
| 8 | Dead by Daylight | Nintendo SwitchPS5PS4steamXbox | 91% |
| 9 | Divinity: Original Sin 2 | PS5PS4steamXbox | 90% |
| 10 | Valheim | Nintendo SwitchNintendo SwitchsteamXbox | 90% |
| 11 | Grounded | Nintendo SwitchPS5PS4steamXbox | 89% |
| 12 | Destiny 2 | PS5PS4steamXbox | 88% |
| 13 | Core Keeper | Nintendo SwitchNintendo SwitchPS5PS4steamXbox | 88% |
| 14 | Inside the Backrooms | steam | 86% |
| 15 | Tom Clancy's The Division 2 | PS5PS4steamXbox | 85% |
| 16 | Hide or Die | steam | 84% |
| 17 | ARK: Survival Ascended | PS5steamXbox | 83% |
| 18 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Nintendo SwitchNintendo Switch | 82% |
| 19 | No Man's Sky | PS5PS4steamXbox | 80% |
| 20 | Fall Guys | Nintendo SwitchPS5PS4steamXbox | 78% |
* Article-exclusive ratings (not official GPA scores). Informed by GPA trends on Co-op, Action, Horror, and Crafting tags.
Co-op Game Classification Matrix
Classified by cooperation vs. versus scores. Tap or hover a point to see the title and scores.
* Article-exclusive chart. Editorial placement informed by GPA tag tendencies.
① Local / Party Co-op
Built for the same room and the same screen — chat becomes input, laughter rides shotgun with victory. GPA's Co-op tag tends to light up hard here.
Overcooked! 2
Genre: クッキングアクション
A frantic co-op cooking game for up to four players, demanding split-second teamwork and vocal coordination in increasingly chaotic kitchens — the ultimate test of any friendship, and the perfect way to forge new ones.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Co-op / Action / Graphics / Strategy / Logic
The co-op textbook: split the kitchen or watch tickets die. Chopping, cooking, and plating run in parallel, and silence is how you fail. GPA's Co-op tag almost always spikes — category ① distilled into one chaotic night of yelling and making up.
Portal 2
Genre: パズルアクション
Valve's near-perfect puzzle game sequel expands the Portal gun's spatial wizardry into an ingeniously designed co-op campaign and a solo story bursting with wit, personality, and one of gaming's most satisfying conclusions.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Logic / Co-op / Emotional Story / Story Depth / Graphics
Still the gold standard for smart two-player co-op — portals only work when both brains are in the room. Miss one viewpoint and the chamber stalls; talk, look, and hand off become the controls. GPA tends to stack Co-op with puzzle wit — category ①'s quieter, sharper face next to kitchen chaos.
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Genre: CRPG
Larian Studios' Metacritic 93-rated CRPG masterpiece that paved the road to Baldur's Gate 3 — offering unparalleled player agency through fully reactive co-op storytelling and deep elemental combat with a hand-crafted world.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Strategy / Turn-Based / Story Depth / Multiple Endings / Co-op
A wildly flexible co-op CRPG where who lights the oil puddle can flip a fight — and origin agendas can turn teamwork competitive. GPA Co-op depth bleeds into the narrative layer; category ① for couch sessions that feel like a shared tabletop campaign.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Genre: レースアクション
The definitive Mario Kart, expanded with the Booster Course Pass to deliver the richest track selection in franchise history — offering polished kart racing at its finest for players across every skill level.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Co-op / Graphics / Action / Strategy / Logic
Not pure 'two controllers required' co-op, but living-room item chaos is still one of the best on-ramps to party play. Share track intel, cover the leader, laugh when a Blue Shell ruins everything. GPA-friendly breadth makes it a natural category ① pick when dedicated duo titles aren't on the sheet.
Fall Guys
Genre: バトルロイヤルパーティ
A chaotic free-to-play battle royale party game sending colorful jelly-bean characters through absurd obstacle courses, guaranteed to generate infectious laughter — and passionate ragequitting — among players of all ages.
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Key tags: Co-op / Action / Logic / Graphics / Turn-Based
Obstacle-course mayhem that flips into real teamwork the second a squad round drops — push, hold, and sacrifice for the bean next to you. Clip-bait fails beat solemn victory. Co-op purity sits below Overcooked on GPA instincts, but category ① needs this warmer for the room.
② Online Co-op Action
Online co-op where weapons, roles, and timing have to lock in together. GPA often pairs high Co-op with Action — the payoff is that shared boss-kill high.
Monster Hunter Wilds
Genre: Action RPG
Monster Hunter Wilds is the most ambitious entry in the series, featuring a massive living ecosystem that dynamically shifts with weather and seasons, transforming every hunt into a breathtaking encounter with a world that feels truly alive.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Action / Graphics / Co-op / Character Building / High Difficulty
Live-service hunting co-op at full volume — carve roles against a moving ecosystem and talk through who holds aggro. GPA Co-op and Action tend to spike together; category ②'s 'it only clicks in a squad' thesis, current-gen edition.
Monster Hunter Rise
Genre: Action RPG
翔蟲を使った空中アクションと「傀異討究」システムで遊び応えが拡張されたシリーズ作。Switch版から始まりPC・PS5でも普及。サンブレイク拡張で高難度コンテンツが充実し協力狩猟の快感がさらに深化。GPAでは多彩な武器種ごとの立ち回りと、生態系の美麗な描写を評価軸として設定する。
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Action / Co-op / Character Building / Graphics / High Difficulty
Wirebug mobility plus multiplayer focus-fire — brisk hunts that still demand callouts. A softer on-ramp into category ② without losing the series' co-op grammar. GPA Co-op feel stays familiar; great practice before Wilds-scale sessions.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink
Genre: Action RPG
国民的スマホRPG「グランブルーファンタジー」を原作とした本格アクションRPG。空の世界をグランたちが旅する王道ファンタジーを迫力のリアルタイムアクションで体験できる。協力マルチプレイと個性豊かなキャラのスキルビルドが魅力。GPAでは横断的なキャラクター活用の設計と協力プレイの達成感を評価する。
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Action / Graphics / Co-op / Character Building / High Difficulty
Four-player skill stacking against boss telegraphs — builds are roles, and callouts speed the clear. GPA Co-op payoff sits up front; category ② for anyone who wants flashy online synergy without a battle-royale edge.
Destiny 2
Genre: FPSシューター
SF宇宙を舞台にした基本無料のルートシューターの先駆作。精緻に設計された銃撃感と、シーズンごとに展開される叙事詩的ストーリーがコアプレイヤーを惹きつけ続ける。ファイアチームでの協力レイドは「高度な連携要求」の代表例として知られる。GPAでは長期的コミュニティ形成と「シーズナルナラティブ」の設計を評価する。
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Action / Graphics / Co-op / Character Building / High Difficulty
Raids that still define 'tight callouts required' loot-shooter co-op — miss the mechanic order and the wipe is on you. GPA Co-op longevity shows up as seasonal fireteams; category ② endgame written in neon.
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
Genre: Action RPG (TPS)
An open-world cover-based TPS set in a collapsing Washington D.C., where cooperative loot-driven gameplay and a deep endgame loop keep agents returning to reclaim the capital from warring factions.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Co-op / Action / Graphics / Character Building / Dystopian Setting
Cover-to-cover co-op through a ruined city — builds and positioning click into real fireteam play, especially in endgame. GPA Co-op and Action sit in a clean balance; category ② for players who want synergy you can feel in the gunplay.
③ Co-op Horror / Asymmetric
Fear designed to be shared out loud — symmetric squads and 1vMany asymmetry both belong here. When GPA Horror and Co-op overlap, stream clips write themselves.
Phasmophobia
Genre: Co-opホラー
A four-player cooperative ghost-hunting investigation game that uses real speech recognition to communicate with spirits, creating authentic dread as you gather evidence to identify the entity before it identifies you.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Horror / Co-op / Dystopian Setting / High Difficulty / Logic
Evidence runs and voice recognition that make the ghost answer back — one player lights, one asks, one watches the exit. GPA Horror and Co-op spike together; category ③'s purest 'without voice chat it barely exists' design.
Lethal Company
Genre: Co-opホラー
廃工場から価値ある物品を回収して月の会社に提出する奇妙なコンセプトの協力ホラーゲーム。ランダム生成の建物と予測不能なモンスターが毎回異なる恐怖体験を生む。配信者を通じて爆発的に普及した低価格インディーの傑作。GPAでは「仲間と共有するパニックと達成感」の設計とコメディとホラーの絶妙バランスを評価する。
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Co-op / Horror / High Difficulty / Roguelike / ダーク
Quota scrap runs colliding with unpredictable threats — the real game is the radio call of 'what was that?' Panic is the feature. GPA Horror × Co-op overlap is loud; category ③'s stream-clip engine.
Dead by Daylight
Genre: マルチプレイ対戦ホラー。
The asymmetric horror multiplayer that defined its genre, pitting one supernatural killer against four survivors in a tense cat-and-mouse struggle fueled by a legendary roster of licensed horror icons from film and gaming.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Co-op / Horror / Action / High Difficulty / Strategy
4v1 asymmetry that literally is category ③'s 'asymmetric' clause — survivors coop gens and saves, the killer plays mind games. GPA Horror plus survivor-side Co-op; a different tension than all-friends-vs-AI horror.
Inside the Backrooms
Genre: 協力ホラー
最大4人マルチプレイ対応のBackrooomsサバイバルホラー。謎解きとクリーチャーからの逃走が美しく融合した設計で、協力プレイによる「仲間がいても怖い」という体験が独特。GPAでは「Backroomsゲームの中で最もゲームとして完成度が高い協力ホラー」と評価。
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Horror / Dystopian Setting / Co-op / ダーク / Logic
Liminal yellow halls, entity pressure, and puzzles that want one player watching while another moves. GPA Horror leans forward; category ③'s cleanest Backrooms-flavored co-op ride.
Hide or Die
Genre: 協力型かくれんぼホラー
Dead by Daylightで火がついたかくれんぼ系ホラーのアプローチをさらに突き詰めた協力型対戦ホラー。スラッシャー映画の要素を盛り込み、フレンドと緊張感を共有できる設計を重視している。GPAでは「かくれんぼ要素を純化させたDbDフォロワーの一例」として評価する。
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Co-op / Horror / ダーク / Action / Dystopian Setting
Asymmetric hide-and-seek pressure — mute up, bait, or read the hunter. Co-op here means surviving and out-thinking together more than DPS stacking. GPA Horror meets mind games; category ③'s asymmetric bench next to DbD.
④ Survival & Craft Co-op
Split gathering, building, and exploration until a world feels like yours. GPA Crafting, Survival, and Co-op often stack — ideal for long-haul friend servers.
Valheim
Genre: サバイバルクラフト
北欧神話の世界で生き延びるオープンワールドサバイバルクラフト。2026年9月にバージョン1.0として正式リリース予定で、PS5・Switch2版も同時発売が決定している。GPAでは「収集・協力マルチという軸を持つサバイバルクラフトの中でも、北欧神話の世界観で独自性を確立した一作」と評価する。
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Key tags: Crafting / サンドボックス / Open World / Co-op / Action
Norse biomes, shared bases, and boss nights that only work when roles split — wood, iron, walls, then the fight. GPA Crafting, Survival, and Co-op tend to stack; category ④'s long-server poster child.
Core Keeper
Genre: サバイバルクラフト
謎の地下世界で掘り進みながらボスを討伐するサバイバルクラフトゲーム。最大8人の協力プレイに対応し、農業・採掘・釣り・装備強化のループが中毒性を生む。GPAでは「クラフト×協力プレイ×育成の三軸が全プラットフォームで均質に楽しめる現代型サバイバルクラフトの到達点」として評価する。
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Crafting / Co-op / Character Building / サンドボックス / Action
Dig downward, grow a farm base, and split exploration tunnels until progress snowballs. GPA Crafting and Co-op light up cleanly; category ④ for players who want underground depth without Minecraft's infinite surface sprawl.
Grounded
Genre: サバイバルアクション
A survival game where you've been shrunk to ant-size in a suburban backyard, crafting gear, building bases, and facing genuinely intimidating insects whose scale creates an entirely new perspective on the familiar.
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Crafting / Co-op / Graphics / Action / サンドボックス
Shrunken-yard survival where insect threats force base and gear crafting in co-op — scout, haul, fortify. GPA Survival and Crafting sit up front; category ④ tuned for small friend groups that want a finished, focused loop.
ARK: Survival Ascended
Genre: サバイバルクラフト
恐竜が生息する島で自給自足のサバイバルを行うオープンワールドアクション。原作ARK: Survival EvolvedをUE5で全面リマスターした最新版。GPAでは「収集・協力マルチを軸にしたサバイバルクラフトの王道として、Palworldとは異なるリアル路線を追求する一作」と評価する。
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Key tags: Crafting / Open World / サンドボックス / Graphics / Character Building
Dino taming plus base politics — tribe labor splits crafting and husbandry until the map feels huge. GPA Crafting, Survival, and Co-op run hot; category ④'s glorious time-sink pole.
No Man's Sky
Genre: サバイバルアドベンチャー
発売当初の批判から数年にわたる無償大型アップデートで完全復活を遂げた宇宙探索サバイバルの奇跡作。協力マルチプレイ・VR対応など機能が大幅拡張。GPAでは「失敗を糧に再定義される作品価値」という観点とともに、プレイヤーが自ら物語を生成する「エマージェントナラティブ」の設計を評価する。
Gameplay Profile
Key tags: Open World / Graphics / Co-op / サンドボックス / Emotional Story
Galaxy-scale exploration survival where bases and expeditions are meant to be shared — crafting feeds the journey. GPA leans Survival/exploration; category ④ for friends who want to widen a universe together more than micromanage one fortress.
Conclusion
Co-op is not one mood. Couch chaos, online hunts, shared horror, and survival crafting all mean “together” differently — pick the flavor of company you actually want.
GPA tag scores and similar-game rankings make the “if you liked this, try that” path clearer. Decide your co-op axis first — party, hunt, horror, or craft — then browse the list.