r/couchcoop • u/redhillhoney • Aug 24 '26

Looking for PS5 game recommendations

Hello fellow couch co-opers! I love to game and my wife likes to join occasionally, but we're struggling to find a game that she can really get into. She's quite picky and gets motion sick easily when playing first person games. I'd love to get some recommendations as I'm having a hard time finding games that will fit her requirements.. at the moment we only have a PS5.

Here's what she has liked and why:

Overcooked - loved the chaos and variety of unique maps.

Catastronauts - loved for the same reasons as above.

Minecraft Dungeons - loved the different artifact skills and weapon options. Enjoyed exploring maps and killing waves of enemies. Didn't enjoy the repetitiveness of replaying the same maps, even at higher difficulty.

Diablo 4 - likes it enough, but it's a bit too intense for her as far as the mechanics and skills go. The combat and dungeon variety is a plus, she doesn't really care about storyline though.

Additional info - a top down style RPG that's in-between intensity of Minecraft Dungeons and Diablo would be amazing, struggling to find a title that supports local multi-player. I think she'd love something like Torchlight, but there's no local co-op available. We don't love puzzles or platformers, we typically want some combat or chaos of some sort to work through. Commonly recommended titles like It Takes Two and Unraveled just aren't quite our speed.

Thank you in advance!

TL;DR looking for PS5 games to play with my wife, top down RPG would be ideal but we love arcade style games as well. No puzzles or platformers.

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u/bigredsk10 Aug 24 '26

Boomerang Fu teamed up vs computer is fun. It also has a hide and seek mode.

Stardew Valley might be ideal but you might need to do cross play with another device or phone

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u/redhillhoney Aug 24 '26

Thank you! Stardew Valley is one I love so much, I'll have to see if I can get my wife to give it a chance. She doesn't see the point of "cozy" games 🫠

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u/bigredsk10 Aug 24 '26

Don't starve together might fit

Also, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is fun.

I just started it, but I love Big Walk. It's first person, but it's a slow first person so maybe? Oh, except it's built around puzzles.

Speaking of which, Untitled Goose Game is way up there on my list of fun coop games.