Multiplayer video games are a guaranteed source of fun and chaos for you and your friends. Cooperative multiplayers add a new layer of fun, teamwork and coordination. Experiences in which you and your team need to reach a common goal, retrieve valuable items, or race against time to free yourselves. Multiplayer games are a unique source of interaction and social gathering during the week.
Multiplayer, cooperative or competitive experiences during your normal schedule can help decrease your stress by offering a break from routine and a chance to focus on shared goals or light competition. These video games encourage interaction and push away isolation. They stimulate quick thinking and laughter, all which can contribute to a more relaxed and balanced mood during the week. Also, as we have previously investigated, games help you age slower.
Chained Together
👤Players: 1-4
🤝Cooperative
Chained together is a cooperative multiplayer video game where teamwork is NOT optional. You and your friends must climb your way out of hell, chained together. All players are physically bound by chains and every miscalculated move could be fatal. The game emphasizes high-stakes, physics-based teamwork, and requires precise coordination to navigate complex, vertical environments.
As challenging as this multiplayer might seem, it also includes three different modes to choose between a less challenging experience, to a speed based game.
- Beginner mode: is an easier game mode that includes checkpoints. So when a player falls they’ll respawn at the last checkpoint.
- Normal mode: in this mode, falling sends the players back to the beginning of the game, without the checkpoints to save their progress.
- Lava mode: similar to normal mode, but the fact that lava appears and rises slowly above the ground.
Attention gamers! : This video game is also tagged as a friendship ender, because of the tension and the need of group coordination in every move.
💡You can also play Chained together in solo mode.
A similar game to Chained together is Fling To the Finish in which players are connected by an elastic rope and you can launch, pull, and mess each other up constantly.
Pico Park
👤Players: 2-8
🤝Cooperative
Pico Park is a cooperative action-puzzle game that requires teams between 2 to 8 players to communicate and work together to collect keys. Each new puzzle adds a new challenge. You could be chained together, required to jump on other players to reach the platform, or keep a certain distance from your other teammates in order to complete the puzzle.
Cooperation in Pico park is not only about coordination, but also task distribution, and team communication.
The main goal of every level is to obtain the key and reach for the door to escape. Pico park is a perfect game for cooperative casual gaming, as it has over 45 levels to test your teamwork skills.
💡Pico Park supports both local and online play and it is designed to be flexible for different group sizes.
R.E.P.O.
👤Players: 1-6
🤝Cooperative
R.E.P.O. is an indie horror game, its name stands for Retrieve, Extract and profit Operation. Many multiplayer games take a similar mechanic to enhance a need for cooperation to enjoy and survive the game. Phasmophobia, for example, could also fall into this category. However, R.E.P.O sprinkles a bit of chaotic fun into the horror genre.
In this cooperative survival, the gamers play as robots to find and retrieve valuable objects while avoiding monsters. The maps are randomly generated and incorporate realistic settings and objects. The dark ambiance contrasts with the creative use of the microphone by the players. Also, the loot movement is physics-base, statues, electronics, fragile items, with the largest items being the most difficult to carry.
Lethal Company
👤Players: 1-4
🤝Cooperative
Lethal company is a cooperative survival horror game in which players portray contracted workers collecting scraps from abandoned and industrial moons. Your team objective is to make as much profit from the retrieved item to meet the strict profit quotas for “ the Company”.
Explore the dangerous facilities, escape the monsters and return to the mothership before nightfall. The cooperative dynamic in lethal company is communication and a common end goal to make the most of the objects found. Audio in this game is local, meaning crewmates must be near each other or use walkie- talkies to communicate long-distance. Afterwards, you and your team can use the money earned to travel to other moons with higher risks and better rewards.
💡Usually one player stays on the ship to operate the terminal, unlocking doors, and guiding the rest of the team away from monsters.
A similar game to Lethal Company is Deep Rock Galactic, where players take on the role of space dwarves employed by the Corporation Deep Rock Galactic. Missions include collecting Minerals, retrieving objects, and eliminating enemies.
Backrooms: Escape Together
👤Players: 1-6
🤝Cooperative
Back rooms is another cooperative horror experience. It requires players to navigate procedurally generated yellow maze scenarios that include monsters and puzzles for the players to solve. It centers on high-fidelity horror powered by Unreal Engine 5, featuring proximity voice chat and a strong emphasis on teamwork to survive and escape. During the game, players explore the levels to find VHS tapes, and complete objectives to survive. When monsters arrive, players must hide, stay quiet and coordinate their movements carefully to avoid detection, as a single mistake can put the entire team at risk.
A similar game to Backrooms is Labyrinthine. In which players also explore maze-like environments, solve puzzles and avoid creatures to survive.
Let’s play multiplayer and unleash the fun!
Sometimes we don’t have enough time to have a little fun during the week, or socialise with friends. Step out of single-player experiences and encourage your gaming friends to try a cooperative multiplayer game. Connect with your friends and create breaks during your week schedule. Multiplayer video games can help you maintain long-distance friendships, encourage communication within your friend group, and help reduce stress levels.
Game on!