The Best Couch Co-Op Games On Xbox
Official Xbox Magazine|September 2019

From Halo’s split-screen campaigns to the storytelling experiments of A Way Out, we dive into one of our very favourite ways of playing games

Alex Spencer
The Best Couch Co-Op Games On Xbox

Forget fancy joysticks and steering wheels, the best gaming peripheral is a sofa with enough room for a few mates. Couch co-op is incredibly flexible, improving everything from shooters to puzzle games. It can be a great accompaniment to just hanging out with friends, giving your hands something to do while you catch up, or the better-not-blink focal point of an intense gaming session.

But, with split-screen increasingly phased out for online multiplayer, is this an endangered feature? We spoke to the developers behind some of the best co-op games in recent years to find out whether couch play still has a bright future ahead of it.

There’s a particular magic to playing local co-op, there’s a certain crackle in the air that’s only possible when you’re sharing a room and a screen with your compatriots. It’s a great chance to bond with new people, as you work together to beat a particularly tricky section, or to work out years of unresolved arguments with old friends by shouting at one another – apparently about this incoming missile or those invaders they let slip past, but you both know it’s really about those unwashed dishes and that money they borrowed and never paid back.

You can do plenty of shouting over a headset, of course – god knows we’ve had plenty of experience with that – but not all communication is verbal. Whether it’s a highfive or a moment of silence, or nudging them off the sofa because they’ve just messed everything up, there’s a whole world of human connection that no emote can replace. No, not even the one where your character dances like a robot.

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