Best Co-Op Games With High Replayability

Oftentimes, the best way to play video games is with friends and family in co-op, either through local split-screen or online co-op.

Not every game offers co-op functionality, of course, but for those that do, the ability to play with friends and family often heightens gaming experiences by being able to explore fictional worlds and solve problems together as opposed to just playing games solo.

Split-screen and local co-op games may not be as prevalent as they once were during the 1990s and early 2000s, but there are still a vast number of fun co-op games to dive into together from the past and recent years.

Many of these co-op games feature high replay value due to the various ways friends can replay their stories, how playing together improves the overall experience, and how their innate gameplay sets up different scenarios in every playthrough with companions new and old.

10 Castle Crashers

One of the Best Xbox Live Arcade Games

In the early days of the Xbox 360, Microsoft Game Studios collaborated with many developers to have their relatively small titles debut on Xbox Live Arcade and introduce console players to a vast number of new and intriguing games, with one of the best being Castle Crashers.

The third game developed by The Behemoth, Castle Crashers is a fun, side-scrolling, beat 'em up game set in a cartoony medieval world centered around colorful knights striving to rescue four princesses from a dark wizard.

Castle Crashers can be played solo or with up to three other players in both local and online co-op, with players able to unlock and select from 32 characters to play, including the generic colorful knights and even characters from Behemoth's other games, such as the Alien and Hatty Hattington.

There's a ton to do in Castle Crashers, from trying to unlock every item to striving to beat Insane Mode, but a lot of Crashers' fun comes from just reacting to the game's wacky story and events with friends, such as encountering UFOs and playing beach volleyball with Saracens.

9 LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

The Greatest LEGO Game of All Time

Traveller's Tales' many LEGO games are famous for being some of the best co-op titles out there, especially for kids, due to their comical reinterpretation of some of the greatest films and characters of all time, but the best one to replay has got to be LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga.

A combination of both LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, The Complete Saga is George Lucas' entire Star Wars saga retold in a mumble-focused slapstick comedy that LEGO games would become famous for.

Only two players can play The Complete Saga at once, but it's still a ton of fun to play through each episode's six chapters together and replay them in Free Play or with cheats to make revisiting Star Wars' iconic events all the more chaotic and hilarious.

What makes The Complete Saga more replayable than later LEGO games such as LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is just how easily digestible and balanced each level in The Complete Saga is compared to The Skywalker Saga's sometimes overwhelming open world.

8 Portal 2

Having Fun With Portals

Valve struck gameplay gold when they acquired Narbacular Drop and released the first-person, portal-focused puzzle platformer simply called Portal, but they improved upon greatness when they released Portal 2 in 2011.

Once again, Valve delivered an incredible single-player campaign starring the human test subject Chell fighting against the maniacal AI GLaDOS and the new aspiring AI Wheatley, but what made Portal 2 special was its cooperative mode starring the robots Atlas and P-Body.

Portal 2's cooperative mode can be played locally with split-screen or online, and here, players can embody either Atlas or P-Body as they're tasked with completing challenging, often dangerous portal test chambers for GLaDOS set after the events of the single-player campaign.

It's always a blast to play through Atlas and P-Body's tests with friends, especially with those unfamiliar with Portal, as it consistently results in hilarious accidents resulting in the robots' repeated destruction but also in a sense of accomplishment when friends finally complete the mode together.

7 Halo 3

Master Chief, Arbiter, and Friends

The early days of the original Xbox and Xbox 360 were full of great co-op titles such as Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge and Gears of War, but one of the best Xbox exclusive co-op games to routinely play with friends is the phenomenal Halo 3.

Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 both offered great co-op experiences both in their campaigns and multiplayer, but their campaigns only allowed two players to play together at a time with clones of Master Chief and Arbiter.

Halo 3 was the first Halo game to offer four-player campaign co-op, albeit only allowing two gamers to play locally, but what made Halo 3 co-op more unique than other games was that each person played a distinct character instead of just clones, with players three and four being the Elites Usze 'Taham and N'tho 'Sraom.

Aside from Halo 3's interesting playable characters, Halo 3's campaign is simply just a ton of fun to playthrough in co-op as one playthrough can have everyone hunting for the terminals and skulls while another playthrough can have everyone struggling to fit in a warthog or trying to save every marine.

6 Overcooked! All You Can Eat

Master Chefs in Digital Kitchens

Similar to LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Overcooked! All You Can Eat is basically a remastered collection of both Overcooked and Overcooked 2 with all DLC content and completely brand-new content.

A third-person, top-down perspective cooking game, All You Can Eat features teams of up to four chefs working together to serve food in an orderly, oftentimes hectic, manner from restaurants, food trucks, and unconventional locations such as a space station and icebergs.

Overcooked and its sequels are a ton of fun to play with friends as it essentially translates the chaotic nature of cooking shows into a cartoony game with people having to learn together in order to meet order deadlines and achieve world-renowned status.

In terms of replayability, All You Can Eat can be replayed constantly with all kinds of friends and family, resulting in different scenarios and roles for people to play on top of the numerous chefs and stars players can earn.

5 Peak

2025's Best Multiplayer Game

2025 was a fantastic year for new multiplayer game releases such as ARC Raiders, Battlefield 6, and Split Fiction, but I'd argue that the best 2025 multiplayer game to replay again and again is Aggro Crab's Peak.

A first-person climbing game, Peak features up to four player online co-op, with each player embodying a young scout struggling to survive and climb on an uncharted island's mountain.

Peak's core gameplay is centered around players helping each other climb the mountain and its various biomes, with players being able to pull each other up and climb on most surfaces as long as they can maintain their grip.

This often results in players slipping and falling in hilarious fashion thanks to the game's proximity chat, but Peak is especially replayable thanks to the map randomly regenerating every 24 hours, making each playthrough a unique adventure.

4 Left 4 Dead 2

Valve's Multiplayer Masterpiece

Alongside the Portal series, Valve was arguably best known during the seventh console generation for its fast-paced zombie survival game Left 4 Dead and its immediate sequel, Left 4 Dead 2.

First-person shooters, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 both center around four survivors struggling to survive in a zombie apocalypse filled with sprinting infected and monstrous special infected, with players able to go solo alongside three AI companions or join three other players in online or local co-op.

Most of the first Left 4 Dead's campaign would be added to Left 4 Dead 2, complete with the sequel's gameplay improvements such as the addition of melee weapons and new special infected such as the bull-like Charger, the annoying Jockey, and the area denying Spitter.

The way special infected spawn in Left 4 Dead 2 constantly changes each playthrough, as a Smoker may drag one player behind in one run, while a Charger could incapacitate players in another run, not to mention the numerous ways mods can keep L4D2 fresh 16 years later.

3 Lethal Company

Cosmic Horror Made Fun

Sometimes the best and most viral co-op gaming experiences can come from the most unlikely of premises and even from titles that aren't even officially fully released and such is the case for Zeekerss' Lethal Company.

A first-person game, Lethal Company centers around a group of employees sent out to recover items from abandoned exomoons and sell them for scrap, all while avoiding the natural satellite's many horrifying yet somewhat comedic aliens.

Lethal Company is intended to be played in four-player online co-op, but there are many popular mods players can use to play in eight or even 16-player co-op.

What makes Lethal Company have high replay value is the way the exomoons randomly generate, forcing players to navigate the abandoned outposts in several ways, such as having one player monitor everyone from the ship or just having everyone goof around with airhorns.

2 Stardew Valley

Cozy Pixelated Farming

Much like how Zeekerss managed to develop Lethal Company alone to become one of the most viral PC co-op games of all time, ConcernedApe managed to do so long before Lethal Company's release with the pixelated hit Stardew Valley.

A third-person, top-down perspective farm simulation game similar in appearance to early Pokemon games, Stardew Valley's premise is that the player-character has inherited their grandfather's old farm plot to begin a new rural life away from the boring office city life.

Stardew Valley can be played solo, but it can also be played in four-player co-op on consoles or up to eight-player co-op on PC, with a host player able to invite up to seven friends to their farm as farmhands.

Everyone builds up their farm and interacts with the local NPC community differently, so it's especially fun to replay Stardew Valley with family and friends to see how they'd build their farm differently or see how players would form different relationships with NPCs.

1 Minecraft

The Ultimate Co-Op Gaming Experience

Mojang Studios' Minecraft is, without a doubt, one of the most popular video games of the 21st century, if not of all time, and a major source of this success is the game's replayability, both in single-player and in co-op.

Every time players create a new world in Minecraft, they'll never have the same experience as they did before, with one world being focused on surviving in a desert village while another world may be centered around a lighthouse on a lonely ocean island.

These experiences can be improved when played in local or online co-op with dozens of players, such as a world with players creating their own metropolis, while another could be played as a group of nomads striving to find rare biomes and loot.

There's literally limitless co-op replay value with Minecraft's Survival mode alone, not to mention the infinite ways gamers can play Minecraft in its Creative, Hardcore, and Adventure modes.