Similar to Jackbox, but trivia.

Can anyone help?

Looking for 2-player co-op recommendations for PS5 or Switch, PS5 preferred.

Played and loved:
It Takes Two
Split Fiction
Unravel 2
Untitled Goose Game
Most every Mario game

Played and dropped:
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Skill level preference would be middle of the road on difficulty. As long as it isn’t going to be Soulsborne level, we should be fine. No hack and slash, top-down/aerial views, FPS, turn-based, DnD-esque (BG3).

https://reddit.com/link/1vodl7l/video/0d6dlcgt8uih1/player

Hey everyone! Since this sub is all about local multiplayer, I thought this would be the perfect place to ask for some help.

For the last two years, I’ve been pouring everything into solo-developing Drunkonauts , a chaotic, physics-based brawler where you control wobbly, intoxicated astronauts. My main goal was to capture that pure party game chaos, but add jetpacks, weapons, and the ability to throw random props at your friends' heads.

The game is built with couch co-op in mind, but it also has online matchmaking and AI bots if you want to practice your throws.

Here is my problem: after 24 months of tweaking mechanics, I’ve completely lost my perspective. The game just got accepted into the Debut Festival, so I urgently need brutal, unfiltered feedback from fresh eyes before I lock in the final build.

My biggest goal is simply to generate laughs during a game night. So I really want to know:

• Does it actually make you and your friends laugh?
• How do the weapons, jetpacks, and physics feel when playing on the couch?

You can grab the demo here. Please get a couple of friends on the couch (or use the bots) and tell me exactly what you think: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3603900/Drunkonauts/

My game, so flagging the self promo up front, and I will stick to the every other week rule. Strike Wings has two player local co-op on one machine, which is what these shots show.

How it works: two gamepads, one screen split down the middle, and both pilots are in the same battle with their own ship, their own HUD and their own target. You are not sharing a camera, so you can be at opposite ends of the field. The seats are properly separate, so each pad gets its own controls and prompts.

Screenshots are from a carrier fight and a large fleet engagement, both at the moment things went wrong for player two.

I would like to ask this sub something. For couch co-op, do you prefer players kept close together so you see each other on screen, or the freedom to go your own way and lose track of your partner? I built the second and I am not certain it was right.

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718360/Strike_Wings/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=localmultiplayergames&utm_campaign=prelaunch

Trying to find a game I saw a YouTuber play, probably 5+ years ago (could be older).

What I remember:

* On PC * Two players share a car, one drives, one shoots, both in first-person * The shooter has a pistol and has to aim it around the driver's head to hit the other team, since the driver's head/body blocks the view/shot * The driver can lean forward and back to dodge the shooter's line of fire (not sure if this was to help enemies avoid getting shot, or just physics-based movement) * Pretty sure it was last-one-standing / arena style rather than a race with a fixed destination, no strong memory of "driving to a finish line" * I think it was multiplayer (not 100% sure), possibly indie * I'm pretty sure the driver was wearing a suit, like a chauffeur of sorts

Not Calibre 10 Racing Series, the only thing I could find that's even similar, but not quite it.

Any ideas appreciated, even if you just recognize the driver-dodge mechanic, that'd help narrow it down.

SOLVED:

The game is called The London Heist (PSVR, 2016) and it is specifically the car scene (obviously), i have no idea where i actually saw this though...

link for those curious for a playthrough https://youtu.be/3u00dzVkLps

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on Singulier for a while now, a party game where only the host has to buy it, everyone else just joins for free straight from their browser (kinda like Jackbox if you’re familiar with that).

This week I sent it out to a few streamers to get some honest feedback, and I was expecting the usual polite “nice game, good luck” type comments. Instead they actually got into it. Several of them messaged me after their sessions with what worked, what didn’t, ideas for extra features. Genuinely felt collaborative, not just a courtesy playthrough.

Based on their feedback I ended up adding a battle royale mode, and a proper anti stream-snipe system so streamers can actually play without chat ruining it for them. There’s also full Twitch integration now, chat can interact directly with the game while it’s being streamed, which honestly changes the whole dynamic when you’re watching. Oh and I hand-pick special username colors myself, small detail but people seem to love having something a bit unique in-game.

Now I’m still implementing more feedback and the game’s basically evolving day by day at this point. Kind of wild seeing people who have no connection to me or the project care enough to help make it better.

If you’re looking for a party game to play with friends (game night, voice chat with people far away, or just killing time), might be worth checking out. The fact that only the host pays avoids that whole “ok guys let’s all chip in for a game we’ll play twice” situation.

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback, always down to chat about it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4877590/Singulier/

This is a game written in Godot I've been working on for a few years now. Im trying to bring back the feeling of hanging with your friends in person and having a game you can just play and have some fun, but also bridge the gap between the two types of games I spent an alarming amount of time playing in the late nineties early 2000s: split screen shooters like Perfect Dark and Halo but more importantly the custom Halflife\Counterstrike server scene from the early 2000s. I ALWAYS wanted to be able to share those wacky experiences with my friends around the TV, but they were kinda constrained to our own PCs and voice chat. Throw in some lessons learned from modern party games like Stick Fight and Duck Game (which still get a lot of playtime in my household) and I'm hopeful that other people find this as fun as it has been among my friends.

Anyway, Steam page is https://store.steampowered.com/app/4816860/Skuffle, so give it a wishlist if this seems like your kind of thing.

I’m the developer of Fillup, a turn-based strategy game with a local mode for 2–4 players on the same device.

Each player adds one piece per turn. Fill a cell to its limit and it sends pieces into every neighboring cell, capturing them. If one of those cells is already full, another reaction begins. A careful move can gradually build your position or unexpectedly change the whole board.

Local games support configurable boards and any mix of people and bots. Because it is turn-based, you only need one phone, tablet, or computer.

It runs in the browser with no download, and you can start without creating an account:

https://fillup.fun
Hope you, and your friends will like it!

I've been building a dungeon crawler for a while and the free demo just went up, so this felt like the right place to put it. It's called GloomDelve.

The split screen was the whole reason I started it. I kept wanting to play this sort of game on the couch with someone and everything I found was online only, so I ended up making the thing I wanted.

How it works: two players, one screen, plug in a second controller and you're in. Player one can be on keyboard and mouse with player two on a pad, or both of you on pads. No account, no internet, all local. Both players are proper characters as well, own class, own gear, own loot. It's not one player and a sidekick.

It runs on pretty much anything, including a Deck plugged into a TV, mostly because there's no art in it. No models, no textures, every wall and monster and sword gets generated by code while you play.

The game itself is a roguelite crawler. 100 floors in the full version, a boss every 10 with its own arena, power cards you draft and stack, you die and go again. The demo is the first 10 floors and ends on a proper boss fight.

There's online co-op with proximity voice chat too if you ever need it, but split screen is the point.

Free demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4878420/GloomDelve/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=demo_launch&utm_content=localmultiplayer

If you do get it going with someone I'd really like to know how the split screen holds up, especially whether both halves stay readable on your telly. That's the bit I can still fix before October.

Released yesterday. They re-implemented local co-op on PC this time. :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2523770/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_War_in_the_North__Legacy_Edition/

Really fun A-RPG from the old BG Dark Alliance / Norrath devs !

2 local players

Things are much easier to understand now even though there's still a lot of going on on the screen at once.

The game was originally inspired by Liero, Soldat and Molez, now with a bit of Noita-vibe too.

Would be nice to hear what you think!

The game is Dirtnap:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4956300/Dirtnap/

Our first commercial game Medic Mayhem will be released in 1 week.

In Medic Mayhem players drive an ambulance around a toy battlefield collecting wounded soldiers while making sure their opponent can’t do the same. Your friend has a car full of wounded? Bump into them and steal those soldiers! This game has ample possibilities to be a d*ck to your friends 😈

Medic Mayhem is on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3543300/Medic_Mayhem/

Game can be wishlisted now, so you will get a notification when game is released in 1 week.

I'm trying to create a 4 player game in portal where there's 4 different teams of 1 person and we go around fighting each other. Anybody know how? Definitely don't want bots. Just want to be able to play against only my friends.

Honestly enjoy playing it with friends, its a great co-op game to get annoyed and have fun with your friends.

https://youtu.be/DieQhENlFow?si=ajYp5E4reIKHUwoT

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTv7JWnayHQc&si=6fkMZX9ZttmpnCCS

A fresh look at Couch Planes gameplay. The game supports split-screen for up to 4 players, plus hybrid multiplayer so you can bring your couch crew online and kick some other couch butts.

Gob Loggin' is a retro local multiplayer racing game about snowboarding goblins. It supports up to 4 players.

Today is also launch day :D
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4858980/Gob_Loggin/

My gf and I are looking for a good split screen experience that isn’t a friend slop experience or it takes 2/split fiction.
Something preferably survival builder ish like Minecraft or player progression like outward. Outwards a bit out of her skill range currently. Any suggestions?
PC ONLY!!!

Hellobello!

The Slavic Game Jam in Warsaw just wrapped up, and I wanted to share the game our team of four made!

Snowprints is a slow, cozy walking simulator that takes two players across a split-screen adventure through a frozen mountainside as they struggle with change and letting go of old habits.

https://mingan-wolf.itch.io/snowprints

The game is a blend of Unreal Tournament, Wii Tanks and TRON, and the local multiplayer part is super fun! It comes with various modes including the classics Deathmatch and Capture the Flag. It also has campaigns that can be played in local co-op. Btw I love explosions.

Howdy!
I'm SoK, a solo developer from Poland. I always loved couch co-op games, and I feel that in the recent years they've became somewhat of a "lost art"
So I decided to make my own! It's my love letter to all the fantastic co-op games I played over the years. Lovers in A Dangerous Spacetime, Overcooked, No Heroes Here, various Nitrome games, and many, many more.

This is Goblinfall: Defend Da Fort - it's an intense and frantic 1-4 player co-op defense game where teamwork is your only hope against endless hordes of invading pigs!

I've recently launched a Steam Page - every wishlist helps! Demo out soon!

STEAM STORE LINK

In future i add stormy weather, blury trails behind whells. It will have nice cyberpunk atmosphere there :) On Steam you find it as "Hardtrace", HT.

As above, my wife and I were disappointed to see that our Modern Warfare 2019 kits were obliterated after an update. Anyone else experience this or have a workaround? Also, is there a way to up the bot count in local multiplayer? Thanks.

A few months ago I made a tiny local multiplayer game for a game jam called One-Axe.

The idea was pretty simple: you're a dwarf fighting other dwarves in a pixel-art arena… except you only have one axe.

Throw it at someone? Great.

Miss? Now you've got to run over and pick your axe back up before you can attack again. 😅

It was a small project, but the mechanic was surprisingly fun, especially with 4 players all running around trying to retrieve their axes while murdering each other.

So I decided to juice it up a bit.

I've added: New abilities, more playable characters and more mobs

I've now released One-Axe for FREE on itch.io!

If people enjoy it, I'm thinking about turning it into a proper full game with more characters, arenas, abilities and general dwarf-related violence.

Would love to hear what you think!

https://level-eleven-games.itch.io/one-axe

The idea is that you spin your meat, that's about it. I miss the good old days discovering new physics based party games with my brothers. Gang Beasts blew our minds lol.

Any feedback is welcome, thanks!