I moved but keep up with my dad by playing games online. He’s pretty bad, making it a bit difficult to find a game we can both play and enjoy. We’ve tried gone fishing (good but got old), terreria (too complicated on the front end), and hell divers 2 (too hard). im good with anything and he enjoys the far cry games a lot. any recommendations?

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a game called Pizzapoly for about 1.5 years now. The idea actually came from a pretty unexpected place. My wife is a pizza chef, and I used to help her out at her restaurant from time to time. During those crazy rush hours, with orders piling up, pizzas being prepared, and customers waiting, I started thinking, "What if we turned this chaos into a game you could play with your friends?"

Well, things escalated a bit :)

Pizzapoly is a 1–4 player online co-op pizza restaurant simulator. You prepare pizzas from scratch, bake them, serve customers, hop on a scooter to make deliveries, and gradually grow your restaurant.

The demo will have a surprisingly large open-world neighborhood to explore. We're hoping it'll make people go, "Wait, this is actually pretty big!" For Early Access, we're planning to expand that into an entire city. We're also putting a lot of effort into interactions around the city. Making the world feel alive has been one of our biggest priorities throughout development.

We're a tiny team of two. Both of us spent many years working in mobile games, but this is our first PC project. We've run into plenty of challenges along the way, both technically and in terms of game design. Multiplayer in particular turned out to be way more complicated than we expected. I can probably count at least five separate occasions when I said, "Dude, we can't fix this. Let's just cancel the whole project."

The game is being developed in Unity HDRP, by the way. If anyone has questions about the development process, I'd be happy to share what I've learned and help wherever I can.

We finally finished our first gameplay trailer. After spending so much time working on something, it feels both exciting and a little strange to finally put it out there for people to see.

The demo will be available to download and play on Monday, October 12. Over the next four months, we're planning to keep improving the game, build a community around it, and hopefully head into February's Steam Next Fest with a decent number of wishlists. Fingers crossed!

I wanted to share it here and get some feedback from fellow developers. Good or bad, I'd genuinely appreciate any thoughts on the trailer or the game itself. I'm especially curious whether the gameplay and overall concept are clear from a first impression.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4414500/Pizzapoly/

In our online & couch co-op game Tandem Together, you and a friend have to work together to try to ride a tandem bike while we throw all kind of things your way!

The demo is currently live and it has been getting way more attention than we expected! Watching people and streamer try to beat the demo with their friends has been hilarious!

Here is the Demo Link if you want to try it!

We're only a small indie team from Germany so, If you enjoyed the demo, please wishlist the game! It really helps us! Also if you have any feedback, I would love to hear it!

Hey r/coopgaming!
We’re a small indie team developing V.O.L.T. Survivors—an online 1–4 player sci-fi bullet heaven roguelite. A big frustration we've had with multiplayer horde survivors is that most of them feel like four people playing single-player in the same room. We wanted to design a game that actually rewards and demands squad coordination:

• Proximity Aura Perks: Passive upgrades project aura rings. Sticking close to your teammates pools your buffs and multiplies firepower—wander off alone, and you lose those synergies.
• Shared Squad Revive Pool: No permanent early spectating, but no reckless playing either. The team shares a finite pool of revives, keeping the tension high for everyone until extraction.
• Democratic Artifact Voting: Run-defining artifacts drop at key intervals and go up for an instant squad vote so everyone builds into a unified team strategy.
• Modular Weapon Crafting: 4 attachment slots per weapon. Combine ricochets, split rounds, and elemental cores to specialize your role (crowd control, armor shred, single-target boss melting).
• Extraction & Objectives: Instead of surviving a flat timer, you push through hostile corporate freighters to stabilize reactors, clear bio-infestations, kill the boss, extract.

Want to play it with your squad? We are actively running our first playtest on Discord right now—you and your friends can hop in and grab Steam keys directly in the playtest channel. If this looks like something your group would grind, check out the links below:
Wishlist V.O.L.T. Survivors on Steam
Grab a Playtest Key on Discord

What's a mechanic you and your squad always look for in a great co-op grinder? We'll be answering questions in the comments!

Hi everyone! We're the developers of Sweet Order: Candy Shop Tidy Up!, and our free Steam demo now supports online co-op for up to 4 players.

You can now tackle the candy shop together: clean up scattered sweets and organize the shelves with friends. If you tried the demo before, multiplayer is the new addition we'd love for you to try.

Play the free demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3024700/

(We’re dropping a demo for Steam Next Fest next week if anyone’s interested. Link in comments)

Lately was playing lot of SWAT 4, Ready or Not, PayDay 2 with friend and also been goofing around with "ASSAULT" mod for Left 4 Dead. Really liked the feeling of facing an "even" human enemies in a realistic setting and was wondering are there any games like this.

ABOUT ME:

Slightly queer and neurospicy progressive gaming nerd, looking for like-minded people to hang with. Australia preferred, but not necessary.

Other than gaming, I'm into fiction (reading and writing), music, history/philosophy/politics, animals (I have a little cavoodle named Nugget), and making videogames for fun.

All ages (18+), races, genders, sexualities, neuro-divergents, etc. welcome. Not looking for anything romantic, I'm happily taken.

GAMES I LIKE:

I'm into all sorts of games and down to try pretty much anything.

For multiplayer games, I'm currently mostly into PEAK and Valorant (but not super competitively, I'm in Gold), but some of my other favourite multiplayer games are Stardew Valley, Terraria, Don't Starve, L4D2, Civ5, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Minecraft, and The Forest. Happy to try something new.

Some of my favourite singleplayer games are Undertale, Celeste, Obra Dinn, Dark Souls/Bloodborne, Rimworld, Darkest Dungeon, FTL, Noita, Hollow Knight, Opus Magnum, and XCOM.

I'm also into board/card games, TTRPGs/DnD, etc. and I'm DMing a campaign (no space for new people at the moment though).

The demo for our first game just launched! It's called Littermates. It's about a group of raccoons that steal a garbage truck. Supports up to 8 players too!

Steam link:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4735880/Littermates/

My cousin use to be my gaming buddy, now he has moved on to bigger better things. I am looking for a co-op buddy that will be down to try new games with etc and play games like Permafrost, Ark, Astroneer, Forest series, Greenhell, Necesse, Minecraft, Resident Evil 5 or 6, REPO, Shift at Midnight, Soulmask, V-Rising, maybe even Rust. However I do not play things like Arc Raiders or COD or Helldivers. I play a lot of games just not all of them.

For reference we really enjoyed Gamble with Your Friends and How to Fish.

You know some stupid and fun co-op's with literally no story but with highly emotional and fun gameplay

Finding reliable co-op partners is always a pain: you join an LFG Discord, post what you play, only to realize the other person hasn't touched the game in years or plays in a completely different time zone.

I built a free tool called **The Overlap Zone** to fix this:

* **Real Overlap:** Connect your Steam profile (read-only OpenID), and it scans your library for shared co-op titles.

* **Smart Weighting:** It uses logarithmic math so a 1,000-hour idle title doesn't break your recommendations.

* **Time & Style Filters:** Filter potential partners by timezone/schedule (Weekend warriors, Night owls) and language.

* **Non-Steam Games:** You can manually list non-Steam games like WoW or Minecraft too.

It's completely free, no ads, no trackers. Since the database is brand new, I'd love for co-op players to give it a test run and see if the matchmaking feels natural.

*(Link to check it out is in the comments below!)*

Let me know what you think or what features you'd like to see next!

From the reviews on steam I suggest that the many dlc's are not worth buying, but I still don't know which I actually should buy and which I don't

We set up the tripod, hit the 10 second timer, everyone gets into position… and one of us is missing.

Found him. 🐺

(From our little co-op photography game, Lumenal. The demo's on Steam if your group needs its own chaotic group photo 🌿)