The Best New Co-Op Games From The Last 6 Months

The best new co-op games are those that do something a bit different, offering more than a single-player experience with another player thoughtlessly tacked on. These multiplayer games account for groups of friends all wanting their own role, with a shared goal in sight and plenty of chaos on the path to getting there. Whether you prefer a chilled out co-op experience or something a bit more frenzied, the last six months have been rich with new co-op titles for you and your pals to gather around.

This list looks at the full spectrum of new co-op games, from drop-in party games to detailed story-based adventures requiring two players. These games all require a joint investment from at least two people to really get the most out of them, making them the perfect games to show to friends, partners, kids, and family. If you’re looking for a couples night in, try one of our best two-player co-op games, and if you’re wanting to play side-by side, we’ve got you covered with our best couch co-op games list, too.

100 Cats Lost In China Find And Color

• Developer: Two Cats Games
• Platform: PC
• Number of players: 1-2

The last six months have been … a lot. Sometimes you just need to sit back and relax with a friend in a low-stakes environment, hanging out while scrolling on your phone, sitting quietly and watching a film, or playing a simple sweet–and completely free–coloring game like 100 Cats Lost In China Find And Color.

All you have to do is spot cats and color them in, but this gentle activity is only enhanced by inviting a friend to join you. Create a colorful masterpiece together and hunt for cute cats in an array of detailed environments. It’s the perfect antidote to doomscrolling and a lovely way to spend a chill evening indoors. If you need a chaser, check out our best cozy games list for more ideas.

Deviation Game

• Developer: Tomo Kihara, Playfool
• Platform: PC (with mobile controllers)
• Number of players: 2-6

Whether you love or hate the recent boom in coverage and proliferation of AI services and slop, there’s pleasure to be had in getting one over on a smug artificial intelligence. Deviation Game invites you and your friends to work together to prove that humans do it better, outsmarting an AI by drawing things that only you would understand. It’s basically Pictionary, but played against an art-loving robot.

Deviation Game works best when you and your fellow players all know each other well, using your references and in-jokes to get around the image recognition software and succeeding where AI fails in fostering that human connection. Only one player needs a copy of the game, as everyone else can join using their mobile devices as their controller.

Peak

• Developer: Landcrab
• Platform: PC
• Number of players: 1-4

Peak was one of our absolute favourite games of 2025, rising above the “friendslop” allegations and offering something genuinely interesting and varied in nature. It’s a smartly simple game, allowing players to create their own solutions to the main challenge– climbing a mountain–as well as the smaller challenges that goal throws your way. You could get slowed down by any number of environmental and weather-related hazards, relying on your friends and wits to make it to the top unscathed–it’s no easy feat.

The procedurally generated mountain changes each day, so your judgments can sometimes land you in hot water and sometimes reward you with an incredible result. Work together to get to your ultimate goal or cave in and eat each other, it’s up to you. We’ve put together a few of the best Peak mods that we think improve the experience, so even mastering the mountain doesn’t need to be the end.

RV There Yet?

• Developer: Nuggets Entertainment
• Platform: PC
• Number of players: 1-4

Back in October of 2025, RV There Yet came speeding out of nowhere to become a Steam smash hit, zooming past 1.3 million sales in just one week. It seems the premise caught many peoples’ eye–drive a chaotic RV around/through/over an array of obstacles and use your puzzle-solving brain to help it along if it gets stuck. Between driving and winching sessions, you’ll also have to contend with dangerous wildlife. This is anything but a relaxing end to your camping holiday.

Bridges, ravines, bumps, and steep hills all present their own challenges, requiring you and your friends to work together to get this damn vehicle home. Once you’ve tumbled, scrambled, and trundled over the original terrain map, there’s also a snowy winter map filled with its own unique hazards to try out.

Escape The Backrooms

• Developer: Fancy Games/ Blackbird Interactive
• Platform: PC
• Number of players: 1-4

Escape The Backrooms is one of the best co-op horror games to come out of the last six months, offering both a slightly-silly dynamic and a genuinely unsettling vibe that culminates in a ridiculous, fun time with friends. There have been a number of Backrooms-themed games in recent years, but this one is your best bet for polished and well-rounded co-op fun. If you find liminal spaces inherently creepy, this one’s for you.

Players are tasked with traversing more than 30 creepy Backrooms through long corridors and suspicious facilities. All the while, a collection of horrifying entities stalk you, waiting patiently in the corner of your eyesight. It’ll take a lot of communication and coordination from your friends to successfully escape when literally everything around you could be the enemy, but proximity voice chat means they’re always listening….

Wobbly Life

• Developer: RubberBandGames
• Platform: PC
• Number of players: 1-4

Wobbly Life is an open-world physics sandbox for curious groups of comrades who want nothing more than to explore. Take on a series of jobs, complete wacky missions, and spend your hard-earned cash on items to customize your space and express yourself. The game is suitable for all ages, making it a great release to introduce kids to sandbox gaming. Once they’ve got a familiarity with the genre, you can move them on to some of the best sandbox games from our comprehensive list.

Rather surprisingly, the rights to Wobby Life have been secured by Prime Universe Films, meaning the game could become one of more than 50 games currently being adapted for film or TV. Prime Universe Films have previously adapted Hitman into a series of movies, so who knows where this could end up.

Republic Of Jungle

• Developer: Gerdoo Games
• Platform: PC (with mobile device controllers)
• Number of players: 5-10

Republic of Jungle is for all those social deduction fans out there looking for games like Among Us or The Wolf Among Us. If you and your friends enjoy a bit of sneaky deception, or if you’re confident you know each other well enough to pull the wool over their eyes, Republic of Jungle is a stylish, compact, and free-to-play game that allows you to do just that. It’s great for larger groups of friends and people who enjoy quick-fire party games with a heavy dose of bluffing. Between Loyalists and Leakers, it might cause some rifts.

The game asks you all to play as advisers to the president, whose re-election depends on you keeping his secrets and committing to his campaign. A few of you will be designated as Leakers, subtly undermining him and passing privileged information to the press. It’s up to the Loyalists to weed out the Leakers and secure a campaign victory.

Sync Or Sink

• Developer: Low Effort Interactive
• Platform: PC
• Number of players: 2

Sync or Sink is still in Steam Early Access, but we’re confident recommending it as a short but enjoyable two-player experience. It’s also free, so you’ve got nothing to lose. Both players are trapped on an old Cold War submarine, but separated by distance. You can’t see each other, but you can use your walkie-talkies to communicate. The only catch is, these function like real walkie-talkies, so you can’t speak over each other, and coordination is everything.

You’ll need to keep the ship running if you want to stay alive, doing urgent repairs, managing your resources, and keeping each other safe in an increasingly hazardous environment. You really, really want to team up with someone you’re sure you can trust.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

• Developer: Sega
• Platform: PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S
• Number of players: 1-12

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a bright, colorful, chaotic good time in which you and your pals can race each other at breakneck speed, gathering gadgets and powerups as you go. All your favourite characters are here, like Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Amy Rose, Eggman, and–of course–Sonic, but there are also some unexpected Sega figureheads among the racers, including Persona 5’s Joker, SpongeBob, and even Pac-Man. You can see the full list on our guide to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds characters.

The game includes 24 tracks and 15 CrossWorlds, where characters from various franchises collide (quite literally). You can use local split-screen or online play to work together as a team or compete against other drivers from across the world. If you’ve got a geographically scattered friendship group, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds might be a good shout, as up to 12 of you can join at once online.

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Mars First Logistics

• Developer: Shape Shop
• Platform: PC
• Number of players: 1-3

Mars First Logistics came out of Early Access back in September 2025, and it didn’t disappoint. The game looks fantastic and handles like a dream, presenting you with a big open world in which you can largely do just about anything you set your mind to.

Your task is to help Martians complete their various building projects by moving cargo from A to B. You’ll do this with up to three friends, building transport vehicles and overcoming the challenges of strange shapes, fragile items, and unpredictable gravity. Vehicles can be assembled from over 100 different parts in almost any configuration, so the sky is quite literally the limit.

Absolum

• Developer: Dotemu
• Platform: PC
• Number of players: 1-2

We gave Absolum a 9/10 in our review, praising its excellent fusion of beat-’em-up and roguelike elements, as well as its tight, rewarding combat mechanics. The game’s gorgeous and fully-realised setting only serves to further the immersion in its branching paths and many sidequests, letting you explore at your own pace. There’s a lot to love about this October 2025 sleeper hit, which offers a new challenge every time you play.

But Absolum is even better with friends, supporting couch and online co-op with another player. Elemental combat powers can be combined between the two of you, and timing is key, as you’ll both be able to chain attacks into a spectacular blow if you hit things just right. Absolum is definitely one of the best roguelikes to come out of 2025.

Grounded 2

• Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
• Platform: PC, Xbox Series X/S
• Number of players: 1-4

Grounded 2 is one of the best Xbox-exclusives we had in 2025, but also a great and fully-fleshed out multiplayer co-op experience for up to four friends. It’s still in development, but can be played through Game Pass while the bugs (hehe) get ironed out.

With player characters shrunk down to the size of ants, even the smallest critter can pose a giant threat as you and your pals wield home-made weapons and rely on stealth, cunning, and teamwork to make it through alive. Don’t forget to check out our Grounded 2 guides if you need a push in the right direction.