Best played with friends! Friend group game thread

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We all know that a good friend group can make even the worst game a blast, so go ahead and tell us what you and your buddies like to play together. All games welcome, as long as you're having a blast playing them with your friends.
I'm personally waiting for BF6 to drop, because of how fun the open beta was, but also for an important reason: I want to wean my friends off War Thunder, for their own sake! Hopefully, with your recommendations, I'll be able to save them from the snail.

 

[qw90700]

The last game me and my gamer group liked to play is Craftopia but these days we have no game to play. We are not interested in any other currently existing or upcoming game at all.

Craftopia is a game that is still in early access on Steam that is about building and surviving together. We did build our city but everyone built their own street and their home room by room and even "similar furniture" inside, and then I built "crazy racing track" and gave everyone motobikes to race, and then we also defeated bosses in the world. There are much to do in the game but unfortunately performance of the game due to engine issues and online features can be problematic sometimes but it was even managable when we played the game a lot a year ago so it's probably polished further by now.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

These are some of my go to multiplayer games, although usually for when I catch up with friends in person. Some have online options, but I think you could play most of them through Steam remote play or Parsec or something

I think most Lego games make for decent 2-player co-op, so it could also be any Lego game really.

 

[RustySK]

I don't really know many people in real life that play videogames personally, but I did manage to convince a couple friends to play AoE2 and HoMM3 once a week by leaning on their nostalgia - both are great, comfy games to just hang out and chat over with a couple beers on hand once everybody knows what they're doing.

I've always been kinda envious of people that had friends that also play videogames - I've been on my own with this hobby for most of my life.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Halo 1-Reach on legendary
Best game series with your bro

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

Yeepee!

 

[PhrawzT]

Toejam & Earl (Genesis)
Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis)
NBA Jam Tournament Edition (SNES)
Tetris Attack (SNES)
Super Puzzle Fighter 2 (PS1)
Rifftrax (PS4/PS5)
Jackbox (PS4/PS5)
Halo series (Xbox 360)
Tekken Tag Tournament (PS2)

 

[qw90700]

I've always been kinda envious of people that had friends that also play videogames - I've been on my own with this hobby for most of my life.

Well I have 2 IRL gamer friends left and 1 brother to play games with but we are all so old we don't have time to play anymore, so had to find friends to play games with online on internet. In my case I can say I have no general overall gamer friend group to play, but they are mostly specific to video games that only one of them is my "partner in crime" in a few other games and that's all about it. Huge issue of gaming together is finding a suitable time and day to play games or finding stable players who won't go offline in 10 minutes because of some IRL issue. For example why I can't play online anymore in Craftopia and Sword Art Online Fatal Bullet is people got bored which is a risk and "that's the way it's" thing about playing an online game when people wanna play it within a specific time of frame because afterwards all the fun and laughters happened with you or without you so now you gotta be lone player.

As for me 2 IRL friends, with one of them I used to play new Battlefield games together but since we saw how sucks and boring 3rd game was we kinda broke this tradition. We also played GTA Online and may play a new GTA Online but that's all about it. If my other former friends didn't stop playing video games I would have more gamer friends IRL but life changes yo.

 

[ThunderBoy]

Left 4 Dead

 

[Moreno909]

Minecraft
SAS Zombies

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Abiotic Factor.

Deep Rock Galactic.

Barotrauma.

Killing Floor 1 and 2.

 

[Bonkers225]

UNO
Sorry!

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Was never much of a multiplayer guy personally, but Halo 3, ODST and Reach back in the day with the boys was unmatched.

Another one I rarely see get mentioned, but is an amazing time if you get 4 people together, is Dragon's Crown

 

[jon2]

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It's already fan-translated, and has a online private server too!

 

[PhrawzT]

Was never much of a multiplayer guy personally, but Halo 3, ODST and Reach back in the day with the boys was unmatched.

Another one I rarely see get mentioned, but is an amazing time if you get 4 people together, is Dragon's Crown
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Dragon's Crown is amazing, but I can never get anyone to play with me.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Dragon's Crown is amazing, but I can never get anyone to play with me.

It was definitely one of those games you had to invite people over for. I was the only guy I knew who had a copy lol.

 

[Clippy]

Beat'em ups are always a good choice for couch co-op.

 

[Cu1tur3D_Gam3R]

Left 4 Dead 2 with mods is crazy fun. Apologies for the cursed screenshot.

 

[Mal]

These are some of my go to multiplayer games, although usually for when I catch up with friends in person. Some have online options, but I think you could play most of them through Steam remote play or Parsec or something
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I think most Lego games make for decent 2-player co-op, so it could also be any Lego game really.

dokapon kingdom to catch up with friends is wild, i love it.

oh and to thrown one out, arcade games that got ported like metal slug games are also on my list for mulyiplayer with my friends.

 

[nobitakun]

Always Seiken Densetsu 2. ALWAYS.

 

[030079AR]

since my studio team and interns loves MK8D, we spent these two years, playing that game almost everyday. having blast with it, and sometimes revenge, curse, and praise are often slip easily. even though it's kinda competitive, we usually teaming so it's good for building team bonding.

Other game I recall most is Monster Hunter Rise, our studio member mostly had Nintendo Switch, and we casually plays MHR when we got the chance. but last time we got too serious, and almost forgot the deadline. so as my role is studio owner, i forbid MH for a while, until the works done, but dang, our work is getting crazy this year, we even skip new MH for now : ))

other game we usually play is counter strike, the old one, so we can do LAN party.

back before we also play torchlight 2 together

mostly we play offline LAN

 

[Sunnyside]

Currently on rotation:
Phantasy Star Online, Phantasy Star Universe, and sometimes PSO2 New Genesis
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers
Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate