Video game buddies, banter and battles: Casual couch co-op chaos

Get ready for a riotous round up of co-op games that will have your friends and family laughing, shouting, and possibly questioning their life choices. — Photo by RDNE Stock project: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-view-of-a-person-holding-game-controller-7915431/

My partner and I are massive fans of the chaotic couch co-op game Overcooked, but after we completed our umpteenth play of the game (blindfolded and upside down for an extra challenge), we decided to look for another good co-op game to play together.

Shockingly, this was much more difficult than expected. Websites like Co-Optimus (co-optimus.com) might list various kinds of multiplayer games, but we’re both very different kinds of players – she’s a fairly casual gamer, whereas I like memorising entire game wikis to theorycraft optimal play strategies, so Overcooked was like a unicorn for us.