

You can jump in and play Rocket League with friends who have never played before in local co-op and have a great time. The nice thing about Rocket League is the low barrier to entry for new players and the high skill ceiling for veterans. The concept of Rocket League is simple use your car to score points on the other team. But, did you know you can also play Rocket League with a friend? Or Soccer, depending on what Shadow office you're at. If you’re a gamer, chances are you have driven a tiny racecar around a field for the purpose of scoring goals using your car. If you want to test the strength of your friendships, ears, and patience, this is the game for you. And, if you’re feeling daring, you can also play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes in VR. One player, the defuser, finds himself trapped in a room with a bomb, while the rest of the players, the bomb defuser experts, must shout instructions to defuse the bomb from a bomb defusal manual the defuser cannot see.Įvery bomb is randomly generated, so you’ll never defuse the same bomb twice. Keep Talking and Nobody explodes is a local co-op game that requires friends to work together in order to defuse a bomb. Some of these local games you may have heard before and others will certainly be hidden gems you can share with your friends. We put together a list of our favorite 20 local co-op games we play. Many of the titles we're writing about work best with a controller, so prepare for that. As you can imagine, jamming four friends together on the same keyboard and mouse isn’t an ideal way to play. Most local co-op games need controllers to play. However, local co-op games with IRL ( in real life) friends, still brings a massive amount of fun that cannot be replaced with online games. Most games today don’t offer local co-op, opting for online gaming instead, with matches that hold anywhere from 1v1 duels, all the way to massive battle royal campaigns with up to 100 players. If you were lucky, or creative, you may have played local games with your friends across consoles, also known as a LAN party. Back in the day, gaming with your friends meant meeting up at one friend’s house, bringing a controller or two, and pulling an all-nighter while trying to beat an entire campaign at the highest difficulty setting.
