The founders of Coffee Stain Studios, the team behind Goat Simulator, have a new studio called Feeble Minds. Their minds might not be as strong as yours or mine, but these guys do have an interesting game in the works. Serpent's Gaze is a cooperative Souls-like action RPG that's coming to PC in 2026. There's already a demo, so the game must be pretty far along.
During the cold winter months, sometimes you need a game to match the season. Wendigo Blue is a beat 'em that's currently in Steam Early Access, and it might just fit that bill. Indie developer EndlessFluff published the game early in 2025 and continues to develop new content for it. The game already features 4-player local co-op, so it's right up our alley.
What could be a better way to spend a day than to spend it playing games and raising donations for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals? I can't think of anything. But what would make it even better would be your company in our Twitch chat, and, of course, DONATIONS! We're joining thousands of other gamers in our favori...
This Saturday, November 8th, Co-Optimus will be joining thousands of other gamers during the Extra Life Game Day celebration. We'll be playing games and raising donations for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals all day. We welcome you to join our team, donate on our Extra Life page, or just hang out with us on Twitch! Extra Life is ...
...and that's a wrap for October. As expected, the month was filled to the brim with new releases big and small. Some of them hit their mark (Escape Simulator 2, Absolum), others are still a bit rough around the edges but show potential (DAIMON BLADES, Fellowship). And then there is your usual lineup of titles that should've been a slam dunk - but someone managed to stumble (Painkiller, Little Nightmares III).
We counted 69 (nice!) releases last month in our calender across all platforms. We know: Its a theme across many of these updates that we focus on the huge amount of games hitting store shelves. But time and time again we are baffled at how much there is to play these days. So many really good games both with and without co-op functionality are vaiing for our attention. It is literally impossible to play them all which in turn makes us a bit sad. All those adventures we will never have. All that joy we will never experience with our friends. Just because we are limited by such mudane things like time and money...
As one of the last remaining big gaming conventions, Germany's gamescom was once again the place to be in August. Okay, that's a bit of a lie. There were already too many people there. So instead we chose to just watch from the sidelines the unveiling of long-awaited titles like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV and Darksiders 4. Witness the surprise announcements of Daimon Blades (read our preview!), LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight and others. And read all of the new information for upcoming games (see for example our preview of Hela!) that came down the old press-release-chute.
French development house Streum On Studio just announced their newest title: Daimon Blades. It’s a first-person slasher set inside an ancient temple filled to the brim with unique environments and hordes of monster to slay, along with online co-op for up to four players. The developers, however, also want to make the game enjoyable for l...
July saw the release of a couple of highly anticipated Remasters/Enhanced Editions/whateveryouwanttocallit featuring a co-op mode: System Shock 2, Stronghold: Crusader and Neverwinter Nights 2. However, it seems like such things are not created equal. While Nightdive Studios did a banger job with System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster and FireFlys Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition was also well received, Aspyr Media didn’t hit the mark with Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition. The reviews show that They basically just released the same old game with no fixes or improvements to decade old problems. And it’s even worse now, since they added more than a couple new bugs. Hopefully they can turn the ship around in the coming weeks/month.
If there's one thing that PC gamers and keyboard users in general can agree upon, it's that cleaning keyboards is a pain. Air dusters are expensive and won't remove some of the debris, plus, the longer you use the duster, the more it feels like the can is going to explode. Am I the only one who worries about that? The can gets so cold, dude! Well, the folks at FurZapper have an alternative that can clean keyboards and clothing alike: LintZapper.
June was, as we call it in the industry, quite a month. We did expect it to hit hard with over a dozen Summer Games Fest showcases and Steam Next Fest afterwards. That's always a busy time. But the amount of titles with co-op that were announced this year? Very high.
We always love when a game is listed as "co-op" on the digital store. Sometimes, however, games with the co-op tag end up not actually having cooperative multiplayer. This can happen when the game's developer or publisher mistakenly considers all multiplayer to be co-op, or when they consider team-based competitive multiplayer to be co-op. When that happens, we'll say the game is Not So Co-op.
