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Quake II (Enhanced)

Fight the hostile Strogg through the gritty, military sci-fi campaign and expansions in 4-player online or local split-screen co-op or take on a team of bots in TDM with up eight players (local and online).

Save games are now supported while playing cooperatively and new rules have been added to improve Quake II's Cooperative modes. If all players die, it's game over and the level will restart. Respawn your teammates by clearing all enemies in the area or finding a safe place to hide. Teammates will spawn near you, letting you get back into the fight quickly.
Create an additional challenge for you and your friends by setting a maximum lives limit or upping enemies' health. To help with communication, you can also ping areas in the map by using the “point” gesture that will be visible to all other players.

Battlestations: Pacific

Up to four players can join up and fight in the skirmish modes against the AI.

Resident Evil 5

The entire Resident Evil 5 campaign supports two player, drop-in/drop-out co-op. Co-op is also supported in the story DLC, "Lost in Nightmares" and "Desperate Escape." Additionally, two player online co-op is supported in the "Mercenaries United" mode.

Overlord

Controls minions with your best (evil) friend as you terrorize the country side.Overlord is set in an unnamed fantasy world, where the player takes the role of a resurrected warrior known simply as The Overlord who has control over hordes of gremlin-like creatures known as "minions". The player must defeat seven corrupt ruling heroes in order to reconquer the lands and establish his lordship over its inhabitants. The game features a corruption feature, similar to that of the Fable games, but allowing the player to "be evil... or really evil", where certain actions and choices affect different aspects of the story and gameplay. While controlling the Overlord in a third person perspective, the way minions are controlled to battle and perform actions brings elements of real time strategy, with upgrades bringing those of role-playing games. The game also uses black humour and often parodies and satires the traditional fantasy setting and plot.

Left 4 Dead 2

Take the role of a different set of survivors as you use all new blunt force weapons, chainsaws and new guns in the sequel to Left 4 Dead. Teamwork is even more crucial as high intensity moments require greater communication to survive.To enable split screen refer to this post.

Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition

Up to six players can team up online or via LAN to battle their way through the campaign

Spec Ops: The Line

A series of objective-based cooperative multiplayer scenarios set in Dubai after a series of cataclysmic sandstorms have wrecked the city. It includes four fast-paced missions, each with its own unique objectives, environments and playable characters.

Portal 2

Portal 2 will have a co-op campaign. Players take control of a robot and work through puzzles that require two players to work together to solve.

Magicka

Four player co-op is available in all game modes and types including a story mode and an unlockable survival mode. While you can't drop in to a game, you can drop out and not break the session if you aren't the host.

Terraria

Terraria is a world building open ended side scrolling action game. Think of it like Minecraft in 2D.

F.E.A.R. 3

Players can take the role of point man, the main character from previous FEAR titles or Fettel, a pscho-kintetic character that can inhabit the bodies of enemies in two player online co-op.In addition the game features two survival style online co-op modes for four players.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

The online only survival mode is called Exterminatus, putting a squad of four Space Marines against Orks and other baddies in a violent score based fight to the death. There are three classes to choose from: the Tactical Marine, Devastator or Assault Marine and players will be able to utilize weapons and perks available to those classes from both co-op and multiplayer versus modes.

Civilization V

Research is shared between players when choosing to play on the same team. If both players research the same item, the time it takes is reduced. When one player discovered a technology, the other gets it as well.Players share the benefits of landmarks, ruins, and other discoveries on the map.Players share the map. Diplomatic options are available as well to trade resources, gold, and units.Co-Op is played in multiplayer with each player picking to join the same "team." It's assumed a balance of 3 players vs 3 AI are chosen, but you can weight it to 3vs1vs1vs1 or 3vs2 or 2vs1, etc.

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record

Two players can play the entire game cooperatively online in both story mode and sandbox mode.  Both characters will earn XP and cash.  Story progress and weapons stay in the host’s game.

Iron Brigade

Team up with three other players and show off your customized Trenched Mech as you work together. The game also features a revive mechanic and will scale difficulty based on the number of players.

Dungeon Siege

Each player takes the role of a character in the party in this real time RPG.

Dungeon Siege II

A patch is required for the full 8 player co-op experience.

Serious Sam 3: BFE

Team up through the campaign with up to 15 other friends for frantic, old-school shooting action.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

The game offers a mode called "Co-op Strike" in which two players go against an AI controlled terrorist team in a story-driven scenario. The game mode can currently only be accessed by playing corresponding maps (prefix coop_) from the Steam Community Workshop or by using console commands. There are however a handful of official maps available made by Valve.

Awesomenauts

Three players can team up locally or online and play against bots.

Borderlands 2

Players work together using four different classes of characters to complete quests, gather loot, and trade items. All three systems support online co-op. Local co-op is available on the console versions.

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Operation Stonewall is the lone co-op mode in Tales of Valor. It throws up to four players into a scenario where they defend a town against an all out attack by an overwhelming AI opponent. You'll have to use everything at your disposal to try and hold out.

Monaco: What's Yours is Mine

Team up with up to four people on the same screen or online to steal everything that isn't nailed down

Trine 2: Complete Story

A side-scrolling puzzle-platforming game featuring up to three players working together to complete the campaign. Three player couch co-op, online co-op, and combo co-op (i.e., a mix of couch and online co-op) is supported throughout the campaign. Each player controls one of the three heroes.

Path of Exile

Form a party of up to 6 players online to adventure through randomly generated areas. Players can join the party at any time and port into a private area that their party has already created. Choose from six classes in this highly character-customizable ARPG.

Resident Evil 6

Team up through the game's story with one of 6 different characters (3 stories, 2 characters each) or play the game's co-op mercenary mode with up to four players.

Prison Architect

Build a prison cooperatively with up to 8 people online! While in a regular sandbox game of Prison Architect you can select to Go Online and host a multiplayer game that people can join. This game can be publicly listed or set to private and protected with a password. When players have joined you can see them as a marker in the world and can see what material or object they have currently selected and are about to build.

Don't Starve Together

Players team up and share resources to survive as long as possible.

Company of Heroes 2

The game's Theater of War mode allows players to team up across 18 missions that can be played cooperatively.

Europa Universalis IV

Play co-operatively by controlling a single nation or aiding each other as separate nations with up to 12 players online. This isn't a hard limit - the real max. player count is 256 which can most likely be achieved on LAN - but it's the recommended maximum size.

The Forest

Crash land with friends in up to 8 player cooperative multiplayer.

CastleStorm

Two players team up in a survival mode or last stand mode. In survival one of you mans the ballista, whilst the other acts as a hero. Last stand mode sees both of you in acting the hero against endless waves of enemies.

Edge of Space

Explore, craft and create with a team of friends in this Terraria-like sci-fi game.

StarMade

8 players is the officially supported amount for normal servers but the player count is only limited by the server hardware.

Space Engineers

The game can be played with up to 15 other players.

Mercenary Kings

Four players can shoot, stab, loot, and craft their way to victory in local split screen co-op or online co-op.

Viscera Cleanup Detail

You can enlist some friends/coworkers to come and help you clean up (or make even more mess).

Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior

You can enlist some friends/coworkers to come and help you clean up (or make even more mess).

Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage

You can enlist some friends/coworkers to come and help you clean up (or make even more mess).

Hammerwatch

Solo or cooperate in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique enviroments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.

Risk of Rain

Team up with 4 friends to fight your way off an alien planet with up to 12 playable characters, randomized levels, and a difficulty level that increases the longer you play

PAYDAY 2

Up to 4 players take perform multiple bank heists and robberies spanning over 30 missions. Gameplay is heavily improved and expanded since it's prequel, with a number of new abilities and items.

FORCED

FORCED is centered on a number of unique and interesting challenges geared towards the number of players present. Additionally, a cooperative combat system is implemented where players can place ‘marks’ on enemies with special attacks, and thus increase the potency of other players' attacks against the foes.

Painkiller Hell & Damnation

Play through the campaign with a friend in co-op either online or locally.

Contagion

Rescue survivors with a team of friends from a zombie outbreak.

Starbound

Join up with friends to create and build in this open-ended game of creation and exploration.

Dungeon of the Endless

A four player roguelike with tower defense elements. Explore your way through randomly generated rooms and mount defenses against hostile aliens in a pixelated top-down action RPG.

Hero Siege

Players team up in as one the available classes like the Viking, Pyromancer, Pirate, and More! Character progression is persistent and saved to the player.

BROFORCE

Get four players together to prove how much you hate terrorism. Prove it with guns!

Insurgency

Team up with friends and work to capture and defend checkpoints against enemy AI across numerous maps. One player acts as a squad leader giving orders.

Stellaris

Co-operative multiplayer mode allows several players to work together to conquer the universe with up to 32 players. This isn't a hard limit - the real max. player count depends on the server hardware - but it's the recommended maximum size.

Plague Inc: Evolved

Two different diseases team up to infect and destroy the world together but Humanity has new tricks up its sleeve to fight back! Work closely with your partner and use brand-new genes, traits and strategies to smash cure labs all over the world before they eradicate you.

BattleBlock Theater

BattleBlock Theater features a co-op campaign for two online or local players. Four local players can play nine different Arena modes against bots.

ibb & obb

Play as ibb and obb in this double gravity defying platformer.

Dying Light

Up to 4 players can work together to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Outland

Story co-op and co-op challenge rooms for two online players.

LEGO Worlds

Two players, either locally or online, can create their own worlds out of LEGO bricks

Survivalist

Once your community is big enough up to three friends can join in and help out.

Resident Evil: Revelations 2

Resident Evil: Revelations 2's co-op gameplay on PC comes only in the form of the Raid Mode.

Killing Floor 2

The game is designed for co-op, as the horde can easily overrun a single player. A multitude of varied playable characters await for players to choose from as they enter the fray in online co-op mode

Bloodsports.TV

Team up with your friends to form a murderous crew and choose from a wide variety of deadly Gladiators, each with their own unique abilities and play style. Work together to shoot, smash, stomp, electrocute, drain, and melt your enemies. Or support your fellow Gladiators through healing and buffing up their skills!

Dungeon Defenders II

The cooperative mode is the true sequel to Dungeon Defenders. Expect more heroes, more towers and even more loot. New features like an expanded story and a 24-player overworld are also in the works.

Stardew Valley

Up to three other players can join the host player as farmhands. Farmhands can do almost anything the main player can do. They can farm, mine, fight, fish, forage, marry NPCs and take part in festivals. Each player has their own inventory. When a farmhand is not connected, their inventory can be managed through a chest in their cabin.

American Truck Simulator

Up to eight players can enter a session and drive together this includes fulfilling contracts together by sharing the cargo. If a player is missing an DLC area, it's not available for all of the players.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Four player co-op will be supported in the main story campaign missions and side missions. Each player will be able to select from one of five characters and upgrade/outfit their character how they see fit. The combined forces of Chaos and Skaven are merciless, and it will require a co-ordinated team effort to survive their never-ending onslaught.

Overcooked! 2

Team up with three friends locally, online, or a mix of the two (i.e., combo co-op). Work together through all of the story maps as you prepare dishes and try to get a high score!

Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis

Up to 12 hunters can take on missions together.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Team up with three friends online and take on story based missions like train robberies, thefts, and clearing hideouts in the Red Dead Online mode. Matchmaking is available or join with a Posse by finding NPCs.

Elden Ring

Up to two friends can be summoned. There are three items available to do so. One puts you in a pool to be summoned by anyone, the next allows to be summend by a specific player and the last makes all players visible that are waiting for a co-op partner to the host. You can set a password for your session to make sure no one can disturb your party. Communication ingame happens using emotes. 

There are restrictions for multiplayer however: You can explore the open world as well as all the dungeons but can't play through the whole story together. Once the area boss is killed, everyone returns to their own session. In addition the horse as well as the fast travel system are not available. And if a friend dies, they are teleported back to their world. If the host dies, everyone is kicked from the session. 

Progress is also only saved for the host e.g. boss kills will only count for the host.

PlateUp!

Co-operate with the rest of your team like a well-olive-oiled machine, or bite off more than you can chew with crying children and dirty dishes.

Lost Ark

Four players can team up in a group and go questing together.