Co-op games for Christmas?

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Starting to think about the kids' Christmas presents, and I usually grab them a few games as a bonus present in the sales. I'm mostly wanting some games we can play together (me and the two lads, that is).

We've had some good co-op fun in the past - played Remnant, Gauntlet, Orcs Must Die 2, and Sanctum with one lad, Portal 2 with the other, and RDR2 and Overwatch with both of them.

Remnant and RDR2 are the stand-outs and the ones we spent by far the most time in. Torchlight 2 and Borderlands 2 we didn't end up playing much for some reason.

I've been looking at Deep Rock Galactic, as that looks fun. It might be a bit simple though. The open-world feel and ongoing progression of RDR2 and Remnant were good points. I've been trying to talk them into some Dark Souls jolly cooperation, but they don't seem interested.

They play games for far more time each week than I do, so something like Remnant would be ideal, where you can progress alone but also team up as and when without it mattering if you've outlevelled each other (this is what killed our BL2 and Torchlight 2 playthroughs now I think about it...).

Anything around worth looking at?
 
Deep rock is great fun, I'd highly recommend it

When you say "kids" how old are we talking?

Risk of rain 2 is good coop, but needs a bit of patience as if you die in a round, you need to wait until the other players complete it (or die as well).

L4d2 & payday 2 are similar to Deep Rock, different themes, but they play similarly, bit more mature though (especially payday).
 
Deep Rock Galactic is good. You level up but from memory your level itself means nothing, it's the points you've put into your equipment that matters rather than your level as such. It is simple I suppose, central hub where you select your mission, you can't leave the hub. Down in a drill to the level which will be procedurally generated with a random mission.

Strange Brigade is alright, 4 player 3rd person shooter. You can level up alone in that because the levelling unlocks more of your ability and different guns rather than making things more difficult.
 
Cool. Getting a nice little list going now. Cheers all.

I had no idea GoW was coop (played the first one years ago, but only SP) so that's a new one. Strange Brigade I have heard of but knew nothing about. It looks pretty cool, though. GRWL is also one I played briefly but forgot was made for coop.

We did all grab The Division for free not too long ago, but for some reason I haven't been able to talk them into installing it. :(

EDIT: Just saw the post mentioning Risk of Rain as well. I've added that. Looking for games to play with teenagers, and so long as we're not talking really disturbing content most stuff is probably okay. I ruled out GTA V since I actually found that quite disturbing myself.
 
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Borderlands 3 is a must play for co-op. It now also doesn't matter what level each of the party members are, I believe the enemies are scaled appropriately per player now.
 
Ah cool. That's good to know. It was a mess in BL2. One of the lads played a lot on his own and whenever we teamed up again it was barely playable for us. I remember one game just getting repeatedly one-shot by trash mobs. In the end he made a new chatacter just for co-op but his heart was never in that one and it just petered out.
 
All three of you just get Ghost Recon Wildlands. I think this will hit the spot. It plays really well coop and can be a great laugh.

I have been playing it with two mates for about 3 months now and we play once a week at the weekends for about 4-5 hours. We log in, have a great laugh, progress the story and our characters. Really look forward to it every week.
 
Sea of thieves is probably the best co-op ive played. I would've thought it would be great with kids too

Wreckfest can be hilarious too
 
Satisfactory looks... complicated?

None of us are really into driving games, so don't think I'll add Wreckfest to the list to run by them.

And I forgot to include Sea of Thieves in my original post! We played loads of that too. They were addicted to it, and it was great fun joining them for missions. It's kind of fallen out of rotation now, but we certainly got our money's worth out of it for a good while.
 
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