Coop

Fail with friends

In a cooperative game all players work together with shared goals.

Mechanics

Shared goals & outcomes

Inter-dependant roles

Shared resources

Couch / Online

A game that has multiple players using the same system is called a couch co-op or a local co-op games. If each player has it's own system it is called an online co-op or multiplayer co-op. Some games combine it and let more then one player on each system that also play online.

Split screen

Asynchronous co-op

Games

• • Saints Row The Third - 2011

  • Left 4 Dead 2 - 2009

  • SWAT 4 - 2005

  • Neverwinter Nights - 2002

  • Doom - 1993

• List of cooperative video games

Reference

• • Avoiding the "Tagalong Trap" - 2016

  • Tagalong Trap Part 2 Creating co-op experiences - 2016

  • Different player types for coop games - 2015

  • Replayable Cooperative Game Design: Left 4 Dead - 2009