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The game has all kinds of tools and materials that you can acquire and use to build whatever you can imagine. From housing, furniture, weapons, to any type of structure, the possibilities are almost endless. Which is great for children who enjoy building and problem solving – and for adults who enjoy the same. It also makes for a great objective-less game, where you can do just about anything you want at your own pace. See More

Top Pro

Allows for freedom of expression for all ages, all at your own pacing

Top Con

Progress can feel slow

Quite often you'll have to collect tons of materials to craft the necessary tools, equipment, and boss summoning items to advance. This can take a really long time, especially if you're unlucky with the items dropped by mobs. See More

Top Pro

Really fun, especially when playing with others

Terraria, for many years, has been a reliable multiplayer game with endless fun. Even beating the game, there are so many things to do you practically can't stop. See More

Top Con

Unintuitive menus

Menu system can be a bit cumbersome and confusing. See More

Top Pro

Rewarding progression system that hinges on your own collecting and crafting abilities

The vast majority of items in Terraria can be used to create other items, often requiring specific crafting stations (which themselves must be crafted). This is the core of character advancement, since gear defines nearly everything about your character. The better ones gear is, the longer they can survive, thus rewarding the players who work the hardest at it. See More

Top Con

Gameplay can feel slow

There is little to show progress in the game other than gaining items and building structures. Progress can seem to take a long time because you have to collect every item needed to craft the necessary tools, equipment, and materials to advance. See More

Top Pro

Great flexibility and dynamic generated worlds

Randomly generated worlds ensure each time you start a new game you are going to experience something unique. See More

Top Pro

Contrasting bright and happy graphics against the suspenseful survival gameplay makes for a game creates a feeling of urgency

Instead of building a deliberate feeling of suspense, Terraria uses bright palettes and arcade action to provide a fun experience outside of the survival elements. When those elements gradually appear one by one, each is all the more shocking, This contrast makes for an ever growing sense of urgency in the game, in order to craft a safe space as well as weapons to protect oneself. See More

Top Pro

It has tutorials, a large calm community and great number of bosses

This a game for all ages, a story based and an addicting game. See More

Top Pro

Items

There are more than 300 weapons and more than 4000 items to find and craft , chances are, that you go for your fifth playthrough and you still have things left to see. See More

Top Pro

Gives drive and purpose by hybridizing sandbox and adventure elements

In Terraria, the game itself provides you many incentives and goals to work toward, so it's much more "focused" during the course of playing than a pure sandbox game. Exploration feels meaningful and rewarding, and assuming you start your character at the same time as your playmates, cooperation feels legitimately helpful rather than a tacked-on. See More

Top Pro

Find servers, tutorials, and streams within minutes online

Terraria has a very large community of players on just about every platform including mobile, desktop, and console. With many players come many servers to play on, as well as tutorials and Let's Plays. Finding content or help getting started will be quite easy. See More

Top Pro

Active modding community

Tmodloader provides a nice interface for modding allowing for downloading, installing and updating mods directly from their servers with the click of a button. All from an extensive and big list with all you could need to improve your experience even further. See More

Top Pro

Fun combat

It starts out simple, with you whacking away at slow moving zombies and flying eyes, gradually shifting to more fierce and fearsome enemies such as flying demons, agile lizardmen, and many more. To survive you'll have to be always on the move, dodge enemy attacks, and be accurate when you retaliate. There are also plenty of weapons to choose from. Melee weapons such as swords, hammers, lances, and flails. Ranged weapons such as bows, crossbows, rifles, and miniguns. And various items that allow you to cast spells. Whatever you choose, it feels great to destroy hordes of enemies. See More

Top Pro

Intriguing world

Terraria uses a bright color palette and an upbeat chiptune soundtrack to ease you into its world. However, once you start exploring and spend time in it you'll notice it's not as cozy as it first seemed to be. Blood Moons that rouse the dead from their graves. Goblin armies trying to destroy everything in their wake. Vast and dark cave systems, filled with odd creatures and various dangers. Ancient ruins, teeming with the restless dead and evil spirits. Pockets of decaying land, thriving with misshapen monstrosities. It's really fun to explore and discover something new about the world of Terraria. See More

Top Pro

Constant rewards

From the start the player can get weapons and items without trouble nor grind and this holds for the rest of the game, most enemies have unique drops which means that sooner than later you'll find some nice gear from a common enemy and the world is filled with traps, treasure and biomes, so you never feel like you're not progressing, add the random events and optional bosses and you get a never ending stream of enterainment. See More

Top Pro

Really great indeed

If you liked classic, side-scrolling, beat 'em up arcade games like Double Dragon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, or Alien vs. Predator, you will thoroughly and really enjoy Castle Crashers as its gameplay is based around the classics listed above. Move side to side and up and down the screen with a 2D character, while trying to attack bad guys who are doing the same. It is a balancing act of aligning you character up with the bad guys, in order to hit them while avoiding being hit. Overall a classic style of play that many will be familiar with. See More

Castle Crashers

Top Pro

Nostalgic beat 'em up gameplay that is familiar, making an easy game to jump into

Top Con

Fair amount of grinding

A good amount of grinding is required to advance past certain bosses. Not true anymore. See More

Specs

Co-Op:4 Player Online / 4 Player Couch

Genre:Action / Adventure / Beat 'em Up

There are several joke moments sprinkled throughout the game, all of which are accomplished without any spoken dialogue. Having the humor infused into the game itself keeps the mood amusing. What is more amazing is the technical aspect of creating joke that lands well, all with zero dialogue, is quite the feet in and of itself. See More

Top Pro

Silly humor keeps the game light hearted and amusing

Top Con

Bugs that appeared in the original Xbox title were not fixed for the PC port

There are still bugs and glitches in the game that were in the original Xbox version. Even though some of these errors could be fixed fairly simply, especially since there was enough time between releases, neither the developers nor the publisher bothered to address them. See More

Top Pro

Supports co-op up to 4 players

The most fun to be had with the game is during four player co-op play. The unlockables and upgrades also keep the player wanting to come back and play just a bit more with their friends. The co-op is available as local and online. See More

Top Con

Bad balance

Not very balanced! See More

Top Pro

Gameplay stays fresh with the distinctive look to each of the level designs

Each level in the game has its own look and design. Needing to explore to discover what comes next keeps the gameplay varied. From desert to ice-filled settings, there is no level that looks the same. See More

Top Con

Bugs

Bugs are frequent in this neat game. If you change the game ini file to textures = 2, it will greatly improve experience on low end systems. Plus there are mods to assist your experience. See More

Top Pro

Co-op keeps you coming back for unlockables

The most fun is to be had during local or online 4-player co-op play. The many unlockables and new upgrades will keep you coming back to play just a bit more with your friends. See More

Top Con

Hitboxes are questionable

You'll miss many times when you think you should be hitting someone. See More

Top Pro

Fun levels

Lots of fun lava castle, crazy mazes, and other stuff to explore makes the levels very fun with lots of cool and nice collectibles. Don’t forget to equip your armor in level 3. See More

Top Con

Poor item ballancing

Some weapons are clearly better than the others. See More

Top Con

Controller heavily recommended

It’s understandable that a controller is the best tool for a beat 'em up, but actively discouraging the use of a keyboard is a bit crap for a computer game. Not only are there many players who don’t have controllers to begin with, but there’s also a large population who prefer to use a keyboard. Compounding the problem is the fact that the game does not change its prompts based on the user’s input device, which can make it very confusing to figure out what buttons perform what action. See More

Top Con

Bugs that appeared in the original XBox title were not fixed for the PC port

There are still bugs and glitches in the game that were in the original XBox version. Even though there were simple fixes for some of these the dev nor publisher bothered to address them. See More

Limiting a game that thrives on multiplayer to local-only co-op really hampers the fun that can be had, especially on PCs. Not many PC gamers own four controllers or have the space and screens to host that many people. See More

TowerFall Ascension

Top Con

Limited to local multiplayer only

Top Pro

Any skill level can figure out the gameplay, while still keeping it challenging for everyone

Anyone can pick up the game and reach a level of basic competence in a matter of minutes. To become a great player, however, there is a lot of technique and strategy to learn. The gameplay remains pretty basic and easy to grasp, but there is a level of skill that can only be learned through repeated practice. See More

Pancakes4ever's Experience

Needs some arcade skills, otherwise very enjoyable for 2-4 people See More

Specs

Co-Op:4 Player Local

Genre:Action / Indie

The co-op quest mode takes around seven hours to complete. For those looking for a longer game with full co-op quests, this may not fit the bill. Fortunately this isn’t the only game mode. See More

Top Con

Co-op quest mode is short

Top Pro

Well balanced risk-reward gameplay by way of limited ammo

Players are limited to three arrows at the beginning of each match. Once they are fired, the arrows can be collected by whoever is nearest. Therefore players need to think strategically in order to ensure their arrows don’t fall into the wrong hands. See More

Top Pro

Friendly fire during local co-op means communication is key but also leads to humorous banter

While not the core play style of the game, there is a 2-player local co-op quest mode that pits you and a friend against hordes of bad guys. Friendly fire will harm your teammate, so without communication this mode is difficult, which is what makes this such a fun mode for local co-op players who are already in the same location, as it leads to a lot of back and forth banter. See More

Top Pro

Gameplay lends itself well to small local gatherings

Up to four players can play locally in TowerFall Ascension, making it a good game to play with small groups and gatherings. See More

Top Pro

Old-school, arcade-like design adds a level of complexity not found in many modern games

In the style of Asteroids, everything that flies of the left side of the screen appears on the right. This allows for trick shots and adds to the level of complexity that you need to plan for. You also need to remain aware of your partners’ location, as they can be damaged by an errant shot. See More

Top Pro

Refined power-ups and arenas creates a situation where the gameplay has no fat

TowerFall Ascension features more power-ups and arenas than the previous title in the series. The game has been refined and expanded, making for a better gaming experience. See More

The varying classes and play styles are designed to work together and promote co-op play. One player may be a tank, with large guns and durable shields, while another may have medic abilities and a long-range sniper rifle. This makes for a scenario where each class compliments each other, which is a fun way to play together. See More

Borderlands 2

Top Pro

Complimentary classes that are great for teamwork based co-op

Top Con

Gameplay can become repetitive

The best strategy is often to run away, take cover, shoot, and repeat. The AI doesn't do much to pursue you, which gives the player a significant advantage and makes patience vital. It can also lead to long firefights with little actual danger – a recipe for boredom. See More

Case Cowboy's Experience

Nothing beats it! It aged very well, it's cheap and has a lot of replayability! See More

Specs

Co-Op:4 Player Online / 4 Player LAN / 2 Player Couch

Genre:Action RPG

Borderlands 2 makes it feel like Christmas every time you kill an enemy or open a chest. Whether it's ammo or health or a new and better weapon, whatever you find will reward your curiosity and pique your appetite for more. The potential to find the best loot in the most humble locations makes killing enemies and finding chests incredibly exciting and satisfying. While many loot-based games succeed due to this mechanic, Borderlands 2 surpasses the competition by delivering randomized goodies with unique appearances and stats. The guns and items in Borderlands 2 have distinct visual features depending on their attributes. For example, a gun with a melee attack bonus might have a blade on it. The customization goes beyond pallet swapping (where the only difference is the color), which leads players to become much more attached to their guns than a bunch of polygons should make them. You will also find tons and tons of different types of guns. Six different types of guns exist in the game. Each gun can be made by one of eight different manufacturers. Each gun is also made of five additional parts. All of which are generated randomly. With the many millions of combinations available, you never know what attributes the next gun you will find will have. This also gives a slightly different experience to each playthrough, because it’s entirely unpredictable what weapons you will find and when. See More

Top Pro

So much loot, that you will barely see any twice

Top Con

Boring bulletsponge enemies

A lot of the enemies, and especially bosses, are just bulletsponges that require no different tactics in place to beat them. See More

Top Pro

Actual couch co-op that can also be played online

Those playing on local split-screen can play online with others at the same time. This way even if playing locally with a friend, both can experience online play on the same machine and screen. See More

Top Con

There is little actual cooperation between players

Most of the "cooperation" in Borderlands 2 is limited to shooting the same mob. There are almost no skills or perks that integrate with other characters in a meaningful way (there are a few stat bonuses, but that's pretty much it). See More

Top Pro

Contains fun low-brow humor that can still be serious when it needs to be

Despite being an in-your-face action game with an ostensibly serious plot, Borderlands 2 features a fun-loving sense of humor. This is exaggerated in the sidequests, which feature some of the funniest and most creative writing. This helps the player dive into the main plot while also having the choice to go on sidequests that offer an expanded sense of humor. The humor is often based on popular memes or lowbrow concepts, which should appeal to a wide range of players. See More

Top Con

Potential lost loot due to sharing

Loot isn't reserved for each individual player when playing co-op, meaning the first person to get to the loot can take as much of it as they want. This can lead to contention between co-op players, which defeats the purpose of cooperative play. See More

Top Pro

Stylish comic book like art style that breaks from the herd

The solid black outlines and bright colors make this game look great and stand out from other first-person shooters. The artistic style is similar to the art in comics, clean and bright and breaks with the trend of gray and brown in recent FPS video games. See More

Top Con

Tedious to check gun stats

Being forced to check the stats on each gun you find in order to be able to compare it to the items already in your inventory can become tedious. See More

Top Pro

Each playthrough is a different experience

Borderlands 2 is all about options. With near-infinite weapon options and six character classes, you can play the game multiple times and have a different experience each time. The classes have multiple skill trees that let you tweak your character’s moves and abilities to match how you want to play. This all adds up to a gaming experience that is difficult to beat for customizability. See More

Top Con

Limited visual customization of characters

For a game that is full of choices, Borderlands 2 is somehow lacking in visual customization options for the player’s character. There is no way to customize the characters’ faces or body styles; for the most part all that can be changed is the color of their outfit. This can lead to online games full of identical characters, which is not only confusing but also makes it difficult to feel any sort of pride or ownership over your character. See More

Top Pro

Runs well on low-spec hardware

It even runs well on a core2duo from 2007, and the comic look is timeless without looking outdated. See More

Top Con

Unbalanced enemies

Whether by bugs or by poor design, you may be fighting weak minions at one moment and an enemy that's stronger than the final boss at the other, Crystalisks are almost immune to DLCs characters due to bugs, Pyrotrashers can instakill players just by spawning, the second boss represents a huge difficulty spike right at the beginning, some mini-bosses like Saturn can easily down the player in half the time that the final boss while having roughly the same HP. See More

Top Con

More tedius with each run

Each time you try to play again in a new difficulty the game becomes even more grindy, slow and brutal. After the first playthrough a lot of strategies and builds become useless and after the second one only the most OP synergies and builds have a chance to survive, so get ready to search up in google and grind for the most OP stuff you can find. See More

Top Con

Overrated

It gets old doing the same thing over and over. I think this is overrated and boring!!! See More

With proper planning users can "code" together very precise ways to create all the things needed for the game, some in very inventive ways that can differ quite a bit. This allows for tons of replayability. See More

Factorio

Top Pro

Endless solutions

Top Con

Can become rather repetitive

There's really little payoff for being able to build really long chains of automation, it usually results in being able to open a new tech tree which allows the player to continue the process of building automation chains ad infinitum, which, admittedly can become rather boring after a while. See More

Chris McGee's Experience

One of the best Games i have played in my ~ 22 years of gaming experience!!! See More

Specs

Genre:Realtime Strategy (RTS)

Some people would consider this a pro. See More

Top Pro

Addictive and challenging game play

Top Con

A single play through can take multiple, multi-hour co-op sessions

Top Pro

Cooperative or PvP building

Factorio also supports multiplayer, allowing many players to cooperate and assist each other, or work against each other in PvP. By default, multiplayer games run the CO-OP freeplay scenario where all players work together to launch a rocket with a satellite into space. See More

Top Con

Massive CPU usage on a single core makes it lag

Even on very powerful computers, the game will start to lag somewhat late game. This makes it challenging to get groups of friends playing together, since not everyone is likely to have a perfect computer. Some players will be forced to quit after putting dozens of hours in to a factory (base), simply because their computer can't handle the calculations. See More

Top Pro

Massive and infinite procedurally generated world

The playing world is as large as you want to explore, it automatically generates it as you explore more areas. See More

Top Pro

Great automation/economic management gameplay mechanics

Top Pro

Charming old school graphics

While not the most technically advanced graphics the look of the game is much like a game from the 90s but seeing it in action when an assembly line starts moving there is an impressiveness to it that suits the game quite well. See More

Top Pro

Under active development

The game is still in Alpha which means endless future possibilities. See More

Left 4 Dead 2 features a co-op versus mode that pits two teams against one another. One takes on the role of survivors, which is very similar to the normal campaign. The other team, however, plays as the infected, opening up a whole new play style and set of strategies. See More

Left 4 Dead 2

Top Pro

Turn the gameplay upside down by hunting the hunters in a unique co-op mode where you play as the zombies

Top Con

AI not the smartest

The AI has a tendency to make ridiculous choices that can screw up what players are doing. This can become a big problem when relying on AI teammates in order to get through a level. See More

FunEpiphron's Experience

Good game See More

Specs

Co-Op:1 Player Online / 100 Player Couch / 400 Player LAN

Genre:FFFPPPSSSSSSS

Left 4 Dead 2 requires players on the same team to cooperate to survive. This makes for an interesting dynamic for teammates, as it will be increasingly difficult to make it through a level if any one player decides to go off on their own. See More

Top Pro

Invigorating cooperation based survival dynamic

Top Con

Very difficult without team engagement

For those looking for a casual co-op experience, Left 4 Dead 2 probably isn't the best option. Without a good sense of teamwork and focus, this game can get very challenging. See More

Top Pro

Highly improved over Left 4 Dead

Those who loved the original Left 4 Dead will find this game even more enjoyable. Almost everything has been improved, including the AI. Other additions to the game include new enemies and melee weapons. See More

Top Con

More of the same

While the game has been improved compared to the original, there are no wildly different game mechanics. If you did not have much fun with Left 4 Dead, you will probably not get much enjoyment out of the sequel. Some have gone so far as to complain that it feels like a large DLC update rather than a discrete game. See More

Top Pro

Melee weapons have the best visceral experience

Left 4 Dead 2 includes melee weapons for the player to use during the game. These allow for not only more graphic violence, but also a more personal and visceral experience. See More

Top Con

There is no variation of gameplay

Making it very boring after a few hours of playing. Slaying zombies is fun and all, but it gets exceptionally dull once the "wow" effect of blowing zombie's brains out wears off. See More

Top Pro

AI teammates work great in single player gameplay

For those that prefer to play with AI, this is one of the best co-op games for offline bot play. See More

There is a modified co-op campaign that requires players to coordinate their actions to succeed. This makes it a fun couch co-op game due to the importance of communication (as well as how fun it is to grief your teammate in person). See More

BattleBlock Theater

Top Pro

Co-op adds a completely new element of coordination to the gameplay

Top Con

Competitive play feels lackluster

Competitive play is not as enjoyable as the co-op modes due to stiff combat. The mechanics of this wear out pretty quickly. See More

EncouragingMastoratia's Experience

Best game ever See More

Specs

Co-Op:2 Player Online / 4 Player Couch

Genre:Platformer / Indie

The witty humor, enjoyable songs and cutscenes all demonstrate the high level of care and consideration that went into BattleBlock’s design. These things all add up to a game with polish that still stays unique enough to stand out. See More

Top Pro

Thought-out presentation that balances style and humor well

Top Pro

No difficulty spikes, the game is very well balanced

The difficulty curve for Battle Block Theater is so evenly programmed that the player will barely notice things are getting harder. It really does an impressive job of training the player to handle any challenge the game throws at them. See More

Top Pro

Sort of funny but not too much

Light hearted gaming that you can play with your significant other. See More

Top Pro

Good mix of co-op and PvP multiplayer modes keeps the game enticing

The 2-player co-op campaign is very similar to the single-player one, except that it requires cooperation between the two players. It can be played online or with 2 local players. There is also an arena mode with competitive levels that supports up to 4 players (local, online, or mixed). This gives a good variety of online and local play modes, which should keep the game fresh. See More

Top Pro

Endless replayability through the level editor and its easily sharable creations

The game has a built-in level editor, and levels (or level packs) can be shared through the Steam Workshop. This makes for a situation where there is an inordinate amount of content for the player to try out, or even create themselves. See More

The main protagonist is capable of scaling buildings, jumping over obstacles, and vaulting over zombies. This makes traversing the open-world city a lot of fun, as it is intuitively controlled as well as gives a sense of power to the player that they can artfully traverse the world with ease. See More

Dying Light

Top Pro

Intuitive and fluid parkour movement gives a sense of power and control

Top Con

Extremely low ammo count once you get guns

You may have to use melee weapons always See More

EmpatheticAltjira's Experience

i want dyling light 2 fast oh plzzz See More

Specs

Co-Op:4 Player Online / 4 PLayer LAN

The combat is visceral and offers a great deal of variety in terms of available weapons and different enemy types. It presents a reasonable amount of challenge that is rewarding to overcome, as well as multiple ways of emerging victorious in each encounter. See More

Top Pro

Challenging and visceral combat that offers a lot of variety of gameplay and outcome

Top Con

Poor plot and characters

The story is nothing new, and many of the plot elements are all too familiar at this point: Another reluctant hero and cold government agent mixed up in a plot that can be seen coming from miles away. See More

Top Pro

Deep weapon-crafting system that encourages exploration in order to create more and more destructive weapons

There are blueprints found throughout the game world that can be used to modify existing weapons in a number of ways. You can add various elemental powers to the ones you have, or create new weapons such as enemy-seeking grenades, exploding throwing stars, and makeshift bats with nails through them. This selection of enhancements to weapons makes great incentive to find the blueprints and items to create them, as well as creates a fun scenario where exploring your options of attack is quite deep. See More

Top Con

Poor multithreading

Sadly, Dying Light does not handle multi-threading very well, which results in low frame rates. See More

Top Pro

Easily play with friends online or locally

Dying light features up to four player LAN and online co-op. This way it is easy to play with friends, whether all in the same room, or online. See More

Top Pro

Take a break from the main story with numerous side-quests

There's a wide variety of side-quests, and a large portion of them are multi-part adventures with great storytelling, meaning they will each take some time to work through. This not only adds depth to the story and world, but elongates the game with extra things to do for when the player is bored or finished with the main quest. See More

Top Pro

Enjoyable co-operative multiplayer

Dying light features up to four player LAN and online co-op. See More

Top Pro

Satisfying combat

The combat is impactful, visceral and offers a great deal of variety in terms of available weapons and different enemy types. It presents a reasonable amount of challenge that is rewarding to overcome and offers multiple ways of emerging victorious in each encounter. See More

Top Pro

Subtle co-op rewards

This game really rewards coop players who work as a team. Even something as simple as healing is much more effective if someone else does it. If you heal yourself, it takes time and can be incomplete. If a play partner heals you, it is instant and complete and they get experience for healing you. The zombies are great at cornering you as well, meaning players who stick together and watch each other's backs will thrive. Add to all of that the game's scaling. If you play new game plus while a friend is just starting then the game intelligently scales combat to provide just the right amount of challenge to both of you, even when you are going after the same enemy. See More

Top Pro

Expansive weapon-crafting system

There are blueprints found throughout the gameworld that can be used to modify existing weapons in a wide variety of ways by adding various elements to them and creating weapons such as enemy seeking grenades, exploding throwing stars, and makeshift bats with nails through them. See More

Top Pro

Rewarding side-missions

There's a wide variety of side-quests and a large chunk of them are multi-part adventures with great storytelling. See More

Top Pro

Fluid parkour movement

The main protagonist is capable of scaling buildings, jumping over obstacles and vaulting over zombies with ease making traversing the open world city a lot more enjoyable. See More

Top Pro

Fun zombie slaying

Great fun to grab the chainsaw and flamethrower and rip through a horde. Using golf clubs and even car bumpers to smash them. Good and cool. See More

Top Pro

Smooth controls

Double tap to jump and do flips between obstacles is smooth. Can even triple jump and flip between if you time it right. Spin kick and then jump is great fun. See More

To be successful, you must learn to craft a variety of things, ranging from farms, to ensure a steady supply of food, to items like weapons and armor that help you survive the various evils you encounter while exploring. The crafting system has a lot of depth to it and there are hundreds and hundreds of things to make. See More

Don’t Starve Together

Top Pro

Deep and varied crafting system with hundreds of items

Top Con

Constant restarts can be drawn out and boring

The game is a roguelike, so permanent death is something that will be encountered often. The beginning of a playthrough starts out pretty slowly, which is exacerbated by the fact that the player will need to restart so many times. See More

TranquilZirnitra's Experience

its fun See More

Specs

Co-Op:2-4 Player Local

Genre:Roguelike, Survival, Horror

Random quips from characters, silly info text, and things like the existence of werepigs reflect the dark sense of humor that pervades the game. See More

Top Pro

Pleasantly twisted sense of humor

Top Con

A lot of grinding

The game requires quite a lot of grinding in order to gather materials that can be used to craft needed items. It is a slow process that becomes even more repetitive when you consider the fact that you will have to start gathering from scratch any time your character dies. See More

Top Pro

Maintains depth while still being accessible

The game starts out easy. There is very little in terms of mechanics and the only objective is not to starve. Then, over time, new mechanics are introduced as you explore more of the game world. The game provides very little guidance, leaving players to figure out how things work for themselves. Goals and story elements are also unveiled organically over time. See More

Top Con

Steep learning curve

The first few attempts will last only a couple of in-game days. This is because the game has various punishing mechanics, which you can only learn through trial and error. One such mechanic is the darkness, which will kill you in under a minute if you don't have a light source. Followed by packs of hounds that randomly spawn to kill you. In most cases preparation is key and you can't prepare without knowledge. See More

Top Pro

Gameplay stays fresh thanks to random generation

With randomly generated (customizable) levels, different characters, ever-unfolding story elements, and permadeath, the game offers a lot of variety as you strive to survive as long as you can. See More

Top Con

Local multiplayer lag

Game has significant lag even on local play making it unplayable at times. See More

Top Pro

An organic story generator that never gets old

Goals and story elements are unveiled organically over time, and they are different in each playthrough. See More

Top Pro

Sense of progression is pretty rewarding

The basic gameplay revolves around gathering resources for crafting, in a wilderness where the flora and fauna are constantly trying to kill you. Levels are procedurally generated each time the player dies, which will be a lot. The gameplay itself requires a lot of trial and error, by design, which can be rewarding when you finally progress past your last death. See More

Top Pro

Unique mix of 2D and 3D art offers a change of pace

Don't Starve has a very unique art style that places two-dimensional characters in a three-dimensional setting. Even the waves in the sea look like cardboard cutouts used in a puppet show. The hand-drawn look and feel to the graphics is a nice change of pace from ultra-realistic games. See More

Top Pro

Tweak the gameplay settings to fit any skill level

The game gives you a lot of customization options. You can change the length of day, weather patterns, and spawn rates for resources and monsters. This allows you to adjust the difficulty level to suit your skill and preference. See More

Top Pro

The further you get, the more you will learn

As the game progresses, you will encounter more and more mechanics that require constant attention to function properly. See More

Top Pro

Easy to find mods to fit any interests

Don't Starve has a very active modding community on the Steam Workshop. With nearly 800 mods currently available, your Don’t Starve experience is immensely customizable. See More

Top Pro

Great replay value

Don't Starve Together has randomly generated (customizable) levels, unlockable characters, a story mode, and you can also play it with up to 5 other friends. All of this helps keep subsequent attempts/playthroughs fresh. See More

Since the main gameplay mechanic of casting spells is skill based on how quickly you execute a certain key combination, there's a high chance of misclicking or mistargeting and accidentally attacking your ally. There’s nothing quite like thunderbolting or summoning death on your friends. See More

Magicka

Top Pro

Chaotic gameplay that results in amusing friendly fire

Top Con

A bit of a learning curve

With the number of spells you have at your command comes the challenge of discovering and remembering them all. But once you know them, you'll be able to counter anything that's thrown at you. See More

Boris Yakubchik's Experience

Great fun -- just watch a YouTube video of people playing it with their friends :) See More

Specs

Co-Op:4 Player Online / 4 Player Couch / 4 Player LAN

Genre:Action RPG

Magicka has a unique spell-casting system based on adding elements such as fire, water, and stone to an action queue. There are eight basic elements (each assigned to a key), of which up to five can be queued at a time. Some elements can be combined in the queuing process (such as fire and water to create steam). The effect of the spell changes to match the elements you add to the queue. Additionally, there are four casting methods: beam (right-click), area (shift+right-click), self-cast (middle-click), and imbue weapon (shift+click). See More

Top Pro

The spell system is pretty unique

Top Con

Memorizing spells is extremely difficult

The vast combination of elements make it all but impossible to blindly figure out what spell combos the game has and even the wiki page has no usefulness in finding spells for your play style. See More

Top Pro

Two different gameplay modes

Other than the standard campaign mode there's also a survival mode that's your standard affair with increasingly difficult waves of enemies. There's also an online leader board for survival mode. See More

Top Con

Optimization could be better

At certain times during competitive play, the game can lag or slow down (not rare for an online game), which may mess up the timing of skill shots in the game. Being that timing is highly important to the gameplay, having a poor netcode that fluctuates during play can be upsetting, especially if it results in a loss. See More

Broforce features 4-player local and online co-op modes. The gameplay is pretty much built around this type of play, much as it was in arcades, so having the ability to team up locally or online makes for a versatile multiplayer mode. Each additional player will increase the hilariously frantic nature of the game by a significant margin. See More

Broforce

Top Pro

Being designed around co-op play makes for crazier and crazier gameplay, the more people join in

Top Con

Poor character balancing

Some characters are obviously better than the others, or are highly situational. See More

Specs

Co-Op:4 Player Online / 4 Player Couch

Genre:Action / Indie / Platformer

Many objects in the levels can be destroyed by large explosions, keeping the gameplay frantic. This effect will multiply depending on the number of players, making very hectic gaming sessions possible. See More

Top Pro

Frantic and satisfying levels of destruction

Top Con

Split screen limits

If you and other player(s) go in diffrend directions or places on map, they may disappear from the screen making it hard to coma back to each other. See More

Top Pro

Over the top exaggeration that glorifys the best of 80's action movies

Much like an 80s action movie, the violence, destruction, and plot are all overly exaggerated. Players can blow apart their enemies with bullets as well as blow up whole sections of the game environment with explosives. There will be blood everywhere and explosions all around. See More

Top Con

Incredibly buggy

Online co-operative play often falls apart due to bugs. Prepare to be extremely frustrated if you play co-op over the network. Multiplayer on the same machine works better but still very buggy. See More

Top Pro

The huge amount of unlockable characters really adds to the replay value

Unlocking and playing with all the different characters adds to the game’s replayability and is fun in and of itself. With more than 40 "bros" to play as currently (and more being added sporadically) there are plenty of different characters to mess around with. See More

Top Con

Single player not as fun as multiplayer co-op

The single-player mode becomes boring pretty quickly. In this mode, the game is more of a puzzle platformer than a multiplayer co-op frag fest. See More

Top Pro

Nice graphics

Pixelated graphics are really nice and fun See More

Top Con

Extreme over-the-top difficulty without any settings

The game feels like a puzzle platformer most of the time, rather than an action game, since even one bullet can kill you. See More

Top Pro

Extremely fun gameplay

Destructible environments, large explosions, dirt and blood flying everywhere, scaling a wall with just your knife, shooting rockets larger than the body of a man, and many more over-the-top gameplay elements. Broforce is just a blast to play. See More

Top Con

Large amount of repetition

Enemies are repeated often, and the environments do not have a great deal of variation either. The majority of the game takes place in a jungle, with a few urban or tunnel environments thrown into the mix. Enemies both look and act the same; the only substantive difference is how many there are. The level of "sameness" with this game may tire some people out. See More

Top Pro

Great references to the 80s action movies

Much like an 80s action movie, the violence, destruction, and plot are all overly exaggerated. The playable characters are the members of an underfunded, under equipped military organization that somehow outguns everyone else. Their bullets seem to have the magical property to explode everything they come in contact with. There's also an insane amount of explosions and blood everywhere. Even their names are references such as Brobocop (Robocop), Bro Lee (Bruce Lee), or Brominator (Terminator). See More

Top Con

Lack of things to do, while your character is dead

The action breaks up heavily if you're playing co-op, and poor players will spend more time looking at other people play, rather than playing themselves. See More

Top Pro

Varied characters keep the gameplay fresh

There are more than 20 different unlockable characters to try out. This keeps otherwise really simple gameplay from going stale as fast by allowing you to enjoy a variety of playstyles. See More

Top Pro

Excellent at co-op

Four players can join a single game both locally and online. It just feels really awesome spreading mayhem and destruction with three of your friends as blood, guts, and explosions surround you from all sides. See More

Top Pro

Collectible cards

Each level has hidden cards to power you up. Trying to find them is great fun and very cool. Some are tricky! See More

There is a lot of task handoff and delegation so it's not just multiple players doing the same thing, but requires actual strategizing, communication, and cooperation. Working together and communicating with your friends through couch co-op or online play is a constant stream of laughter and excited shouting as you mess up, learn, and hopefully get things done. See More

Overcooked

Top Pro

Requires close cooperation

Top Con

No online multiplayer

Local multiplayer only. Can't play with friends online. See More

Pancakes4ever's Experience

Very chaotic and tense, good if you want to test someone :) See More

Specs

Co-Op:4 Player Local

Genre:Cooking / Simulation

Top Pro

Lots of scenarios that require different strategies

Some levels in Overcooked are dynamic and greatly adapt the way you have to play in order to successfully complete a level. For example, at one point you and your partner(s) will be split up across multiple moving trucks and it requires quite some strategy to create meals together. See More

Top Con

Can be incredibly frustrating

Trying to work at such a fast pace with so much mayhem going on at once can wear on you after a while. There's a lot to keep track of at once, and it's easy for things to spiral out of control as your mistakes pile up. If your group isn't doing well and you're running out of time, you might find yourself losing your patience with your team and yelling at them. This might not be the game for you if you don't have a team that's willing to be patient and cooperative with each other, even when you're not doing so well during a particular round. See More

Top Pro

Play happens on a single screen

Everything in Overcooked happens on a single screen, meaning you won't have to deal with annoying split-screen modes where you view is limited. See More

Top Pro

Fast and frantic cooking action

Overcooked is really fast-paced and keeps you on your toes. You play as a chef in a crazy kitchen with a ton of things going on all at once, with you mixing, preparing, and cooking in between the chaos of moving platforms and environmental obstacles. There's a time limit constantly ticking down at the bottom of the screen; finishing your tasks on time or ahead of schedule earns you a better score in the end. It's such a manic yet well-done mix of many different genres and ideas that all come together in the best ways. See More

Top Pro

Simple to pick up and learn

Overcooked is easy to figure out right from the get-go. The recipes for each dish are familiar even if you're not much of a chef, so you can remember which raw ingredients you need as you make your way around the kitchen and work with your co-op partner(s). Once you play a few rounds, you should have a good handle on things, helping you focus on getting everything done as quickly as possible from there on out. See More

At its heart, Spelunky is a roguelike. This means each game session tends to be short, as the player will die quite often. As a result, Spelunky can be played in quick bursts throughout the day. The convenient save system facilitates this play style by making it easy to pick up where you left off. See More

Spelunky

Top Pro

Lends itself well to quick play sessions

Top Con

Difficult to the point of frustration

Spelunky is pretty difficult and some could say abusive, but with practice and a desire for masochism the game can be mastered. See More

Specs

Genre:Platformer / Indie / Roguelike

Co-Op:4 Player Couch

Spelunky gives the player every tool and ability needed to succeed from the start. The only thing you gain from playing is a greater level of skill and experience – both of which will be necessary to progress further than you last did. See More

Top Pro

Progression is skill based, there are no unlockables, you will genuinely need to get better at the gameplay in order to progress

Top Con

Co-op is boring and confusing

In co-op this game is very confusing with little instruction on how to play and with little to spice up the game play it gets boring quickly. See More

Top Pro

Single screen local co-op gets pretty hectic when everyone is sharing the same screen

Spelunky features 4-player local co-op. Players share the same screen, which can make things a bit hectic. See More

Top Pro

Tons of replayability thanks to an acitve modding scene

There are a ton of great mods for Spelunky, all of which make for distinctive gaming experiences and vastly increase the replayability. See More

Very few game worlds have the same interactivity as D:OS2. Because of this, it can be easy to forget that using fire near an oil barrel will cause it to blow up in your character's face, or if a fire is blocking your way, you can just douse it with water. As a result, it might take a while until you get fully used to the interactivity. See More

Divinity : Original Sin II

Top Pro

Really well suited to co-op gameplay

Top Con

Slight learning curve

Niels Tobias Nørgaard Svendsen's Experience

And updated combat system makes this game far superior than it predecessor. Also regular updates means that things keeps getting balanced See More

Specs

Co-Op:2-4 Players

Genre:Turn-based RPG

Controller Support:Yes

Every single dialogue line in D:OS2 has a voice-over. From the prattling of an overzealous city guard, to the lines a sketchy shopkeeper feeds you, to even the conversations you have with forest animals. You even get a narrator to read out long walls of text for you. On top of that, each and every voice actor's performance is superb, providing depth and nuances even to obscure side-characters, which is hardly ever experienced in games. See More

Top Pro

Excellent and thorough voice acting

Top Con

Heavy narrative

Like other RPGs the story is important and the dialogue is lengthy. Must listen and pay attention to complete quests. Can lack focus and direction. See More

VigorousAbhartach's Experience

Way too difficult See More

Top Pro

Very deep turn-based combat

Winning battles in D:OS2 is equal amounts of preparation and tactics. When preparing for battle, you need to consider your group setup, your formation as you enter the battle, and even what equipment you bring with you. For example, during one battle you fight against an ice dragon that constantly freezes the ground. Any character that steps on the frozen ground will slip. To avoid this, you can equip spiked shoes on your characters before the battle, allowing them to retain footing. During combat, you always need to keep in mind things like turn order, positioning, height, and how various magical effects interact with the environment and characters. For example, standing on a cliff increases your range and visibility, using a lightning spell on a puddle electrocutes all characters standing in it. Fast characters will get a turn first, so a group of fast characters could end a battle without letting enemies retaliate. As a result, the combat has enough depth and variety to satisfy any RPG fan and even entice newcomers of the genre. See More

Top Pro

Huge amounts of content and choices

The main campaign has a staggering amount of content. The maps you'll explore are massive with various routes, containing numerous quests, battles, secrets, and even ambushes along the way. Even if you rush through the story, a single playthrough will last you about 50 hours. D:OS2's greatest strength, however, is the ability to choose. This includes choosing your character, your companions, what builds to use for them, what route to take when exploring the map, how to solve various encounters and quests, and many more. Every single choice affects how the story progresses, and a bad decision early on can come back to haunt you later. As a result, there's enough variety to keep multiple playthroughs new and exciting from start to finish. See More

Top Pro

Complete freedom when building your character(s)

Even though you choose a class when creating your character, it only affects your starting equipment. You can create a character build with any skills you like without class or archetype constraints. This includes a fire mage that wears heavy armor while wielding a shield and a hammer, an archer that can use teleportation magic to always keep the distance, and countless more. You even get to build your companion characters from the ground up, allowing for hundreds of party combinations. As an added bonus, once you complete Act 1 of the game, you can respec your build whenever you want, free of charge. Because of this, you don't have to worry about messing up your build, allowing you to freely try out any skill combination/setup. See More

Top Pro

Great soundtrack

D:OS2 has an expertly composed soundtrack, giving the world a great amount of color and atmosphere. From the mellow flute permeated with ambience and a divine chorus when you travel down a road, to the upbeat strumming of string instruments as you ransack a tavern, to even a ominous orchestra during a confrontation with a dragon. Wherever you are in the game, the soundtrack is a joy to listen to. See More

Top Pro

Outstanding multiplayer mode that allows for endless content

D:OS2 features a Game Master mode, which lets you create custom multiplayer campaigns for up to 4 players, with the 5th player assuming the role of a Game Master. When creating a campaign, you can use any asset within the game, such as characters, items, etc, and import new, user-made assets as well. You can even create new quests, levels, and alter any of the existing assets, allowing you to go as far as creating a sci-fi campaign if you have the patience. Additionally, because there is a game master, you can create various role-playing events not possible in a normal campaign. For example, you can designate one of the playable characters as a kleptomaniac, so whenever they're near an object that can be stolen, you'll have to roll a dice to determine if that character resists the urge to steal or not. On top of that, the game master can control NPCs, add quests, and make rule adjustments on the fly. There's enough creative freedom to create any campaign/story you want, keeping you interested in D:OS2 long after you've finished the main campaign. Even if you don't want to create a campaign on your own, you can just download a campaign made by another user. See More

Unlike Rayman Origins, Legends has all of Rayman's powers unlocked from the beginning. Players are able to jump float, wall run, and attack starting at the first level. This way the gameplay is not drawn out with trying to earn these skills. See More

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Rayman Legends

Top Pro

There is no need to earn your skills with drawn out gameplay, all skills are unlocked from the beginning

Top Con

No online multiplayer

These days it’s disappointing to see a multiplayer game released that does not support online multiplayer. A company with the size and scope of Ubisoft should have no problem incorporating this feature. See More

FearlessCizin's Experience

The game is way too easy and uninteresting. I've played my fair share of it in my friend's house that was far ahead in the campaign, I had a great time and I felt challenged. However if reaching those good levels means wasting my 4 hours on the first couple of stages, no thank you. There's no way to skip the easier levels and get me to the ones I actually want to play. See More

Specs

Co-Op:Local Wireless

Genre:Platformer

Levels are beautifully made and very atmospheric, giving the game a feeling of polish and a world that one can feel involved in. See More

Top Pro

Wonderfuly fantastic hand-drawn graphics

Top Con

Jump is floaty

The jump action feels a bit floaty, which may take a bit to get use to. Normally platformers will offer tighter controls, which many players are now accustomed to, so changing this up can be disorienting at first. See More

Top Pro

Great local co-op that works well with single room group play

Up to four local players can play on a single screen at the same time in Rayman Legends. This is not often the norm on PC, but is starting to become more common in new releases. It is especially good for those with Steam Machines or living room PCs that can host a number of friends in one room. See More

Top Pro

One of the best all-around platformers released in years

From the beautiful look of the two-dimensional cartoon graphics, to the great level design, controls, soundtrack, and local multiplayer mode, Rayman Legends is on par with the best platformers out there today. See More

Top Pro

Visually impressive mechanics bring the boss stages alive

The visual mechanics in the boss stages are pretty impressive. These sequences use three-dimensional rendering but still hold to the 2D graphical look of the game. This allows for bosses that weave in and out of the player’s plane, as well as attacks that can come from the foreground or background depending on where the boss is located. See More

Top Pro

Fun daily and weekly online challenges that keep the player busy with new things to do

There are daily and weekly online challenges that enable players to compete against their friends or the high score chart. This gives the player something new to accomplish in the game on a daily and weekly basis. See More

Over the course of the game, different monsters are unlocked and the dungeons change. Also, each playthrough has different bosses. This makes the game remain interesting as time goes on. Available items change each playthrough as well, so players will have to modify their play style to match the tools they have available. See More

Crawl

Top Pro

Replay value

Top Con

No online multiplayer

While the game is designed around multiplayer play, there is sadly no online multiplayer support to date. See More

Specs

Genre:Dungeon Crawler / Action / RPG / Indie

Co-Op:4 Player Couch

The overarching objective of Crawl is for the lone hero to enter a dungeon, find the boss, and strike it down. However, other players wish to take that glory as well, and will use all means possible to make themselves the heroes by striking the killing blow. Whoever plays as the hero must struggle through the dungeon, killing monsters and gaining money and experience to get new equipment and grow stronger. All the while, the other players take control of monsters and traps and attempt to kill the hero. Players controlling the monsters must work together, but they can’t get too comfortable because the act of killing the hero causes the roles to reverse. The player who was controlling the monster now has the chance to be the hero, and must prepare to defend against the monsters that were once allies. See More

Top Pro

Unique gameplay that blends cooperation and betrayal

Top Con

Confusion as to who is who

This happens quite often due to the way the sprites are made and colored. You might find yourself thinking you are controlling your character when that isn't actually your character. See More

Top Pro

Retro graphics

The art style of Crawl is reminiscent of the eight-bit games of yore, and yet still detailed enough to have very different designs for the monsters in the game. See More

Top Pro

Local, 2- to 4-player, asymmetric multiplayer

Crawl has built in support for local, asymmetric multiplayer for two to four players. Three of the four players control monsters and work together to take down the fourth. See More

Torchlight 2 has all the typical RPG mechanics such as classes, loot, skill trees etc. However all the little touches and details come together to make playing the game really fun and a great balance between depth/complexity and being able to get started killing hordes of monsters. Killing monsters is very satisfying and the loot system keeps things very interesting without feeling like you're just grinding for better items. See More

Torchlight II

Top Pro

Well implemented and fun action-RPG combat

Top Con

Limited respec system

Much like an old school dungeon crawler, there is little to no useful respec system here. You can respec the last three skill points used on a character, but that is it. This tends to lead towards plenty of skills in the skilltree that ended up going nowhere, which are just wasted points. Unless you know specifically where you will be putting each and every skill point for your build beforehand, no respec may have an impact on making a perfect build. See More

Specs

Genre:Dungeon Crawler RPG

You can team up with up to 5 other plays to take on the hordes together. There is also a PvP mode if you'd rather kill your friends instead of team up with them. See More

Top Pro

Well implemented co-op

Top Con

Lacking in story

The characters are flat and the overall story is pretty boring/standard. While not unexpected for such a game it would have been nice to have something other than loot driving advancement in the game. See More

Top Pro

Extensive mods that add to the fun

More than any other ARPG currently on the market, Torchlight 2 has accumulated a good number of mods to improve the game in a variety of ways. See More

Top Con

Tanky engineer can make the game trivial

In co-op mode, a tanky engineer can make the game trivial. See More

Top Pro

Saves competition between characters, that they can carry over into different worlds

Top Pro

Tons of variety in loot

Top Pro

No out-leveling

Torchlight II has a large world and wonderful pacing ensures that you don't out-level the content before the end of the game. See More

Top Pro

Skill variety is very good

Top Pro

Works on different OSs: Linux/Mac/Win

Torchlight II is a multi-platform game that works on OSX, Linux and Windows. Which is great for users who dual-boot as the game can be played no matter what OS is booted at the time. See More

Top Pro

Varied level design

Unlike the first title there are many areas to see in the game that all have different looks. Plus there are large open ares as well as close quarter caverns. See More

Top Pro

Incentive to replay due to limited respec system

Much of leveling up is permanent, which not only gives a sense of connection to ones built characters but also means there is a large incentive to replay to make different builds. See More

Top Pro

Elaborate loot system

Loot in Torchlight II is varied and dependent on a wide array of circumstances. There are so many variables that come into play as to what a player will find that makes searching out better and better items a game in and of itself. See More

Both the story and art style are beautiful and playful, keeping things lighthearted even in difficult or complicated scenarios. The soundtrack carries you along with a light but fast-paced beat that reflects the balance between fun and focus. See More

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Top Pro

Adorable aesthetic

Top Con

Co-op is local only

Unfortunately, online co-op is not an option. However, forcing players to be side-by-side aids in coordination and makes for a more personal experience. See More

Specs

Genre:Shooter, Platformer

Co-Op:4 Player Local

As offense, movement, and defense are entirely separate stations, you simply can’t beat the game alone in co-op mode no matter how good you are. This holds true especially in harder difficulties, where constant communication and coordination are critical. See More

Top Pro

Teamwork is demanded

Top Pro

Players must rely on their teammates

Much like a good marriage, the game focuses on having each player rely on the other in times of need. When executed properly, this shows how much of a team two people can be. See More

Top Pro

Catchy techno soundtrack

Lovers has a very interesting and catchy soundtrack that goes great with its retro, neon-based aesthetic. See More

Top Pro

Gameplay focuses on relying on the other player

Much like a good marriage the game focuses on having each player rely on the other in ties of need. This makes for an experience that when executed properly shows how much of a team two people can be. See More

The game gets tougher as time passes. By minute 40, you’re playing at a hardcore difficulty. This is good for learning the mechanics, because you will have a chance to replay many levels of differing difficulty each time you die and restart. This helps you gain a better grasp of the ins and outs of the game, each time. See More

Risk of Rain

Top Pro

The better you get, the longer you survive, the more difficult the game gets, keeping everything challenging

Top Con

Unclear how to unlock things

The in-game explanation of how to unlock items is not very clear or intuitive, which can lead players to waste time trying to figure it out. See More

ResoluteEkecheiria's Experience

Game is broken and fool of bugs See More

Specs

Co-Op:4 Player Online / 4 Player Couch

Controller Support:Partial

Initially, the player can only choose to play as one character. Over time and as a result of completing certain objectives, you will be able to unlock all 12. Each character has unique stats, moves, strengths, and weaknesses; for example, the sniper attacks slowly from distance while the soldier attacks quickly but must be much closer to the target. See More

Top Pro

12 unlockable characters allows for many differing playstyles

Top Con

Last level lags on many systems

There's something wrong with the last level of Risk of Rain that causes many systems to play sluggishly – i.e., everything moves at one-third the speed it should. See More

AwareEnbilulu's Experience

this gaem is boering See More

Top Pro

High replayability thanks to unique levels created by random generation

Levels are randomly generated, which makes every playing experience unique. This in turn makes the game highly replayable. See More

Top Pro

Co-op multiplayer mode lends itself well to those looking for a non competitive mode

Each player has to help the other survive, which makes the co-op multiplayer a fun mode for friends, as it leaves out any competitiveness. See More

The co-op campaign in Portal 2 is about 4 hours long for experienced players, meaning it could be beaten in a just a couple days. With almost zero replayability, this makes the game feel incredibly short. Luckily, hundreds of hours of user-generated content is available. See More

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Portal 2

Top Pro

Creates a sense of accomplishment through a high level of teamwork

Game is shit See More

Top Con

Main co-op campaign is short

Yanis's Experience

Portaaaal ... 2 ! What a game ! See More

Specs

Co-Op:2 Player Online / 2 Player Couch / 2 Player LAN

Genre:FPS

The game has more than 60,000 co-op puzzles created by users through the Steam Workshop and through mods. Because it is user-generated content, the quality and size of these puzzles vary widely, including everything from simple, one-off chambers to full-fledged expansions with high-quality stories, voice-overs, and new gameplay elements (for example, Mel). By having such a selection of content, there should be something that appeals to just about anything someone is looking for. See More

Top Pro

Huge selection of user-generated content that should appeal to any use-case

Top Con

It's already on every coop list since 2011

Steve's Experience

The co-op in Portal 2 was an enjoyable experience when I played it with a close friend. It was fun trying to figure out how to solve each puzzle and none of the puzzles felt overly difficult to solve. There was additional fun and challenge added in when trying to earn Steam achievements/PS3 trophies and finding new and funny ways to kill each other. See More

Top Pro

Co-op does not punish when you want to goof off with or troll the other player

While Portal 2 requires focus and logic, it does not punish players for causing a bit of mischief. The instant respawn system means trolling your friend will affect almost nothing in the game, as there are no in-game setbacks when you die. Being able to stop at any point in the game to just goof around is great for releasing some steam, even when it is at the expense of your co-op partner. See More

Top Con

Steep co-op learning curve

Although the single-player campaign features a gradual learning curve, co-op offers no mercy. The puzzles start off hard and only get harder. It’s highly recommended that you play through single-player first if you are not familiar with Portal's mechanics. See More

彪飙's Experience

prefect interaction See More

Top Pro

Entertaining and well delivered voice acting

Voice acting for Wheatley the AI robot is done by Stephen Merchant (Extras, The Office UK, Life's Too Short) in humorous fashion. His delivery is well executed on all dialogue. On top of this specific experience, the rest of the voice acting of every other character in the game is performed just as well, in part due to the fact that the dialogue was written in a funny smart and entertaining cool fashion. This makes for a top quality listening experience that shows a lot of care was taken with the acting of the game. See More

Top Con

Late game single player can be quite difficult

While the single player learning curve is quite gradual, late game the puzzles can become quite difficult, sometimes leading to the player being stuck for long stretches of time. While not impossible to solve, some creative thinking will need to be done in order to finish. See More

StrongAtropos's Experience

good best See More

Top Pro

Challenging puzzles that require creative thinking

Jayrani's Experience

superb See More

Top Pro

Well implemented tools that improve teamwork

CapableVedenemo's Experience

Best game! See More

Top Pro

So large in scope that it takes multiple playthroughs to see everything

Portal 2 is larger in every way when compared to the first title, from the longer and more detailed story to the larger levels and new game mechanics. This makes for a title that will last 8-9 hours minimum, with many elements that are worth revisiting, not to mention the co-op section of the game, which is separate from the single player story. See More

Top Pro

Witty and funny character driven story

Four major characters drive the single player poop campaign, and they are amazing. Three of which have explosive personalities, bring humor, suspense, sadness, and empathy. The other being Chell, who doesn’t speak but her interactions with the rest of the cast make her all the more mysterious and interesting. Most of the time you don’t even see or directly interact with the characters, but that just shows how great and cool they are. See More

Top Pro

Versatile selection of co-op multiplayer

It’s possible to play a multiplayer game for free online using the Steam servers, as well as locally on your machine using split-screen (the second player must use a gamepad controller if playing locally). This keeps the multiplayer options versatile to any players needs. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform co-op

As long as both players have a Steam account, the co-op is able to be played even if one user is playing on the PS3 while the other is on a PC. See More