Best Two-Player PC Games: Split-Screen Co-Op Picks

Split Screen games are games you can play with friends on the same PC, without having to connect to any server or to Hamachi. The games on the list, which you can reach through Steam, are PC games that have received the highest ratings from players.

What Is in the Two-Player Games List?

Best Two-Player Action Games

A Way Out

A Way Out is an action-adventure game developed by Hazelight Studios and distributed by Electronic Arts. The game has no single-player option. It can only be played online or as split-screen co-op on the same computer.

Awesomenauts

Awesomenauts is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed by the video game development company Ronimo Games. In Awesomenauts, 3 players can team up locally or online and play against bots.

Bionic Commando: Rearmed

Attention! It may have a nostalgic effect for players who spent time on the Atari. Bionic Commando Rearmed, after its release 20 years ago on the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, recreates its original world with a complete "2.5D" visual overhaul. It is much more than just a remake and has brand-new features such as 2-player co-op play, smarter enemies, new bionic arm abilities, new weapons, bigger Bosses and online leaderboards.

Mercenary Kings

A game with the flavor of Metal Slug that we remember from the Atari, Mercenary Kings is a side-scrolling shoot'em up game developed and published by Tribute Games. In local split-screen co-op or online co-op mode, four players can shoot, stab, loot and carve their way to victory.

Best Two-Player Platform-Puzzle Games

ADIOS Amigos

In the platform game that has won praise in gaming circles, ADIOS Amigos, you dive into a space journey while playing with your friends. For 1-4 players, it is a game with serious astrophysics in a funny setting, and while trying to find your home on this space journey you can also explore solar systems.

Caveblazers

Caveblazers is an action-focused platform game set in a fantasy world. Every run is unique, with procedurally generated levels to explore and plenty of items, weapons and equipment to discover. The game takes place in a recently discovered cave said to hold "unimaginable power". You play as an adventurer setting out to explore the cave and find what riches it holds. But be careful, because you are not alone in the game.

Caveblazers has local multiplayer. To join as player 2, just press the start button on your 2nd controller before entering the caves. Alternatively, you can use a keyboard or a gamepad. There is also a mod called "Caveblazers Together" that adds a 4-player online co-op mode.

Darksiders Genesis

Darksiders Genesis is an action role-playing game developed by the American studio Airship Syndicate and published by THQ Nordic. In the game, you alternate between Strife, the brother seen for the first time in the series, and War, the apple of the first game's eye. Its story takes place long before Darksiders 1. As in other Darksiders games, the foundation of the game is platforming and puzzles.

Human: Fall Flat

Human: Fall Flat is a fun, physics-based platform game set in dreamlike places suspended in the air, developed by No Brakes Games and published by Curve Digital. It can be played alone or online with up to 8 people, and it includes brand-new free levels for regulars.

Trine 2: Complete Story

Trine 2 is a side-scrolling action, puzzle and platform game developed by Frozenbyte, with up to three players, in which you play as one of three heroes overcoming untold dangers in a fantastical fairy-tale world. Each player controls one of the characters Amadeus the Wizard, Pontius the Knight and Zoya the Thief.

Best Two-Player Strategy Games

Dungeon Defenders

Dungeon Defenders is a Tower Defense Action RPG in which you must save the lands of Etheria from an Ancient Evil! Create a hero by choosing one of four different classes, summoning defenses and jumping directly into the action-packed battle! Along with the quests you do with your hero, you can win various loot.

Tooth and Tail

Tooth and Tail is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by the indie development team Pocketwatch Games. Players constantly have to come up with a new strategy, because no clash is ever the same with randomly generated maps and customizable armies. Imagine an army of flamethrower boars, skunks that launch mustard gas and owls that spew paratroopers. What could you not do with such an army!

X-Morph: Defense

X-Morph: Defense includes a split-screen co-op mode. All missions have different game scenarios designed especially for co-op play. Since enemies attack very quickly and from different directions, cooperation is quite important. That is why it can be played in many different ways: one player can focus on tower placement while the other shoots enemies, or both can focus their firepower on the strongest attackers.

Best Two-Player Racing Games

Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-based competition, developed and published by Psyonix. If you have played Haxball before, it is worth trying this game.

Need For Speed: Most Wanted

Need For Speed: Most Wanted is the 9th game in the NFS series, featuring the BMW M3 GTR that graced the dreams of many of us at first sight. Unlike the previous two games, the game takes place in the daytime, not at night. Police chases, modification and the story have an important place in the game. The game is entirely focused on street racing. It was released in 2 versions: Need For Speed: Most Wanted and Need For Speed: Most Wanted Black Edition. It is for those who say tracks are not for me, street racing is my thing.

F1 2018

F1 2018 is the official video game of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship, developed and published by Codemasters. The game includes all twenty-one tracks on the calendar and the twenty drivers and ten teams racing in the season. If you are a Formula 1 fan, do not waste any time!

Best Two-Player Fighting Games

Fight Crab

Fight Crab is a new 3D action game in which you take control of a crab and fight other giant enemy crabs. The rules of physics let the crabs move powerfully and quickly in this tough battle arena. You can freely control your claws to use and upgrade weapons and create your own crab fighting style.

Street Fighter Series

Street Fighter is a video game series designed by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, first released by Capcom in August 1987, that has drawn a wide player base. Although many of us know it from arcades, the Ken or Ryu? debate is still not settled.

Mortal Kombat Series

Mortal Kombat is a fighting game developed by Midway that has managed to win a place in players' hearts with its 28-year story. Although it is just as fun to play, it really requires nerves of steel. The new graphics engine shows you every skull crack and eye-gouging moment while also bringing you close enough to the fight to feel them. It is also getting ready to meet its fans on the big screen soon.