Teaming up with friends can transform an ordinary gaming experience into something much more unique and enjoyable. Cooperative gaming can strengthen friendships, help you create unforgettable memories, and often add a bit of hilarity and chaos to the experience. Co-op games also usually offer a wide amount of replayability, and thankfully, there is no shortage of games you can play with your friends on PlayStation 5.
Below, we’ve listed our picks for the best co-op games you can play on PS5 in 2025. This list is in no particular order and highlights a variety of games that feature online or couch co-op modes. We’re featuring a wide range of genres, with a few of the games being award-winning titles, and all are currently available to play on PlayStation 5.
If you’re looking for top games on another platform, check our picks for the best PC games, best Switch games, and best Xbox games.
It Takes Two
It Takes Two is an award-winning title from Hazelight Studios, and it’s one of the most wholesome and whimsical co-op experiences on PS5. This game is specifically designed for split-screen cooperative multiplayer, which means that it must be played with another player through either local or online play with both players’ screens displayed next to each other.
This two-player story places you in the role of a young girl’s parents, who are preparing to get divorced. A little bit of magic shrinks the parents into a pair of dolls, and you and your co-op partner must help the couple find a way to return to their old selves. Not only does the game feature a wide variety of well-designed levels and mechanics, but it also includes a heartfelt story about love, understanding, and the challenges of relationships.
It’s also worth noting that It takes Two includes a friend pass, meaning that as long as one player owns the game, their co-op buddy can join without paying for anything.
Baldur’s Gate 3
Baldur’s Gate 3 served as our 2023 Game of the Year, and while it can be played as a single-player campaign, it makes for a great time as a co-op experience. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a massive RPG, and it allows you to create a custom character who ultimately becomes infected by an alien parasite. You and your party must find a way to remove your parasites before it transforms you into one of the game’s villainous Mind Flayers. Baldur’s Gate 3 is heavily inspired by the rules and mechanics of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, and like D&D, you’ll be able to solve problems through combat, conversation, or finding inventive and creative ways around obstacles. It allows you and up to three friends to explore the world together and hopefully roll some natural 20s.
Split Fiction
Hazelight Studios scores another co-op hit with Split Fiction. Just like It Takes Two, it’s specifically designed for split-screen cooperative multiplayer, which means that it must be played with another player through either local or online play, with both players’ screens displayed next to each other.
Split Fiction follows two aspiring writers, one who specializes in science fiction and the other who prefers fantasy, whose worlds become quite literally smashed together by a tech firm. The writers become imprisoned within an AI simulation and must fight and survive their way through their stories, while the corporation tries to steal their ideas. The uniqueness here comes in how Split Fiction pulls levels and gameplay through the blend of the two writers’ opposing styles. The story also creates a heartfelt narrative around several themes, including facing one’s fears, learning to compromise, and being understanding.
Split Fiction also includes a friend pass, meaning only one person has to own the game and their co-op buddy can join without buying anything.
Overcooked 2
Overcooked 2 is a game that can quite possibly make or break relationships. This is a cooking simulator that can be played in couch co-op or online co-op with up to four players. In the campaign mode, you’re working together with other players, but the multiplayer mode lets you compete in head-to-head cookoffs for the highest score. Success in any Overcooked game relies on good communication and teamwork, as players work together to run the different stations in a kitchen to keep the food coming. The kitchen can get chaotic and frustrating if someone isn’t doing their part, so you’ll want to keep your wits about you and provide useful communications.
You can play Overcooked 2 or Overcooked 2: All You Can Eat on PS5, but you’ll need the All You Can Eat edition if you want to use crossplay.
Gears of War: Reloaded
The 2025 Gears of War: Reloaded is a faithful remaster of the original Gears of War from 2006, and for the first time ever, players can experience a Gears of War game on PlayStation. This third-person shooter includes a two-player co-op experience that places emphasis on using cover to avoid taking damage while taking down enemy forces. Gears of Wars’ story focuses on the now iconic COG Army soldiers Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago and their efforts to wipe out the Locust enemies on their planet. Gears of War Reloaded can be played as local split-screen or online co-op.
Minecraft
Minecraft offers a co-op experience where creativity knows no bounds. You and several friends can team up to play anyway you want. You can explore, battle, build whatever your heart desires, and even design your own minigames. Minecraft can be as cozy or as adventurous as you want, and despite being an older game, it still gets consistent updates and new content.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
The Lego games make a great choice for couch co-op game sessions. There are a variety of Lego games with major intellectual property crossovers, but one of the standout choices is Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. It combines all nine of the mainline Star Wars movies, providing Lego-style moments for some of the most iconic scenes in the franchise’s history. It’s also unique in that you can choose to start the game from any of the three Star Wars trilogies and complete them in any order you wish.
Like most Lego games, Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is couch co-op-only and doesn’t support online play.
Diablo 4
Diablo 4 is the latest installment in Blizzard’s action-RPG series. This is a top-down dungeon crawler with up to four-player online or two-player couch co-op. In Diablo 4, you can create a character from one of six playable classes: Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue, Sorcerer, or Spiritborn. Then, you use their abilities to fight through procedurally generated dungeons and gain loot to level up. The story in Diablo 4 focuses on the return of Lilith, the daughter of Mephisto, and your characters must work to uncover her plans, as well as fight the forces of Heaven and Hell.
TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge is a side-scrolling beat ’em up game inspired by the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, and styled similarly to the retro TMNT games developed by Konami during the ’80s and ’90s. You’ll team up with your friends to play as the turtles and face off against some of their most iconic foes, such as Bebop, Rocksteady, and Shredder. The game features both online and couch co-op.
Gang Beasts
Gang Beasts is a good pick if you’re looking for a competitive and wacky party game to play with a group of friends. Gang Beasts features simple characters with wobbly jelly-like bodies, and players battle with them across a variety of different maps. The game’s hilarity comes from its ragdoll physics as you try to pull, slap, and sabotage the other players until you’re the last one standing. It’s also really easy to die from an environmental hazard on the map, making for a lot of laughs and randomness. Gang Beasts features both couch co-op and online play.
Sea of Thieves
Sea of Thieves has been a popular online co-op game since its release in 2018, but the game only recently arrived to PlayStation 5. Now you can be a pirate and sail the open seas on PS5 with your friends. You’ll need to captain a ship and keep it afloat while you and your pirate buddies search for treasure, complete quests, and partake in open-water battles against other players. Sea of Thieves is still receiving seasonal content updates in 2025, meaning there’s always something to do for new or returning players.
Helldivers 2
While you can technically play solo, Helldivers 2 is designed as a co-op game, and it can make for a really fun time with friends. The game allows you to squad up with up to three other players and battle against an alien scourge that’s “threatening” the safety of your home planet, Super Earth. The game features satirical moments, and its deadly weapons are made even deadlier by the game’s addition of friendly fire. Overall, it can be a hilarious bug-killing adventure with friends. Helldivers 2 also has high replay value, as the game features randomized missions, a large variety of enemy types, and plenty of gear to unlock.
The Borderlands series
Borderlands 4 brings a brand-new tale of Vault Hunters in 2025. Our Borderlands 4 review labeled the latest entry as a good time for fans of looter-shooters, but if you’ve never played the series before, you might want to start at the beginning. In the Borderlands games, you play as one of four Vault Hunters, who are outlaw mercenaries fighting to uncover one of the many treasure-filled Vaults left behind by a long-dead civilization. The Borderlands games feature an eclectic cast of supporting characters, and the game often features over-the-top humor.
All of the games provide a satisfying co-op experience, but Borderlands 2 remains the strongest of the series. It features an iconic villain and a great lineup of characters, plenty of loot, and the most satisfying story and ending of all the Borderlands games.
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a platformer spinoff of Media Molecule’s successful Little Big Planet series. This game features the adorable little Sackboy on a 3D-platforming adventure, instead of the side-scrolling design of previous entries. Its levels have a variety of colorful themes and a large size, perfect for exploration and hunting collectibles. Sackboy: A Big Adventure is also highly praised for its soundtrack, which features original tracks and remixes of classics. The game is fully playable in both local and online multiplayer for up to four players, and includes optional co-op-only levels with puzzles that require a bit of communication and teamwork.
A Way Out
A Way Out is another co-op hit from the developer of Split Fiction and It Takes Two. Just like the others, this game is specifically designed for split-screen cooperative multiplayer, which means that it must be played with another player through either local or online play with both players’ screens displayed next to each other.
A Way Out is a two-player game designed around teamwork, but it doesn’t feature the same colorful and whimsical feel of the other Hazelight games. It tells the story of Leo and Vincent, two convicts who work together to break out of prison and stay on the run from authorities. This is an emotional adventure with heavy vibes of Frank Darabont’s 1994 film adaption of The Shawshank Redemption.
Like the other Hazelight titles, this game also includes a friend pass, meaning only one person has to own the game and their co-op buddy can join without buying anything.
Dying Light 2
Dying Light 2 is an action, survival, horror video game featuring a zombie apocalypse-themed open-world environment. Dying Light 2 makes some improvements on the first game, and it’s often praised for its fluid parkour movement. The entire campaign can be played in co-op online with up to four players, and killing zombies is always more fun with friends.
It’s worth noting that the latest game in the franchise, Dying Light: The Beast, just released in 2025. Either Dying Light game can be a fun choice for online co-op, and here you can find our full review of Dying Light: The Beast.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a third-person shooter with hack-and-slash elements, and as the name suggests, it’s set within the Warhammer universe. This story features the Ultramarines chapter of Space Marines, and it takes place during the Fourth Tyrannic War. The entire campaign can be experienced in three-player online co-op. You can check out our full review of Space Marine 2 here, which praises the game’s combat and worldbuilding.
Back 4 Blood
Back 4 Blood is a cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the Left 4 Dead games, and the game is said to be a spiritual successor to the original series. It brings back the tense and action-filled moments of trying to survive against hordes of undead in four-player online co-op. Back 4 Blood also introduces a deckbuilding element. At the start of each level, players need to build a deck with cards that adjust various elements of gameplay, such as modifying their health, damage, and stamina. But the computer-controlled Director that runs each level will also use a card against them, as a random modifier to make the game more difficult and add variety. Back 4 Blood can be played solo with AI teammates, but it’s at its best when partying up with friends.
Destiny 2
Destiny 2 is a free-to-play online first-person shooter, and while it might’ve released in 2017, this game is still getting regular updates. The sci-fi shooter features a whole lot of different multiplayer activities for players to take on as a team. Most campaign activities can be experienced in squads of three, but Destiny 2 also features intense endgame raids that are designed for teams of six.
Even if you’ve played Destiny 2 in the past, it’ll be worth revisiting in 2025. The game recently released the Edge of Fate expansion, and there’s an upcoming Star Wars-inspired Destiny 2 expansion called Renegades arriving in December. Although Destiny 2 is a free-to-play game for the base content, it’s important to note that the expansions are paid content.
Palworld
Despite lawsuits from Nintendo, Palworld remains available as an adorable Pokemon-like game that combines battle, monster-capturing, and base-building mechanics. The similarities are strong between Palworld and Pokemon, but there are a lot of fun times to be had in the former. Most recently, the game featured a major crossover with Terraria, adding a new boss battle, the ability to fish, and plenty of new “Pal” monsters to catch. Palworld can be experienced in four-player co-op online with the game’s official servers, or you can purchase community servers to host up to 32 players in a world.
As Dusk Falls
As Dusk Falls is an interactive storytelling game set in a dusty motel in the ’90s. The game follows two families whose lives collide following a failed robbery that turns into a hostage situation. As Dusk Falls features a choose-your-own-adventure-style approach to gameplay that’s similar to titles from Telltale Games. The story can be fully experienced in co-op, with players voting on how to approach the narrative branches of the story.
Our review of As Dusk Falls praises the game for its voice acting, compelling script, and selection of player choices.
Dead Island 2
Dead Island 2 is a first-person action-RPG set within the same zombie plague that caused the outbreak in the original game’s story. Dead Island 2 lets you fight back against the undead with a range of upgradable weapons across a large open-world environment. There are both melee weapons and firearms, but the game is at its most fun when you’re slashing away with the game’s satisfying melee combat. Dead Island 2 can be experienced with up to four-player co-op.
Moving Out 2
Moving Out 2 is a cooperative simulation game with physics-based movement. The game is themed around characters who move furniture and pack up homes, and the gameplay offers hilarious moments as you and your friends attempt to move objects from one place to another and avoid any obstructions. Packing and moving boxes sound easy until physics gets in the way, and levels increase in difficulty as you progress. Moving Out 2 can be experienced in online or local co-op with up to four players.
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley is a cozy farm simulation game, where you take on the role of a character who inherits their deceased grandfather’s rundown farm. You manage this farm by clearing land, growing seasonal crops, and raising animals. You can also level up skills for farming, foraging, fishing, mining, and even combat. Originally, the game was single-player-only, but multiplayer was added in recent years. Stardew Valley allows a maximum of four players to play together on one farm, and it can be experienced online or through couch co-op.
7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die is a game set in a sprawling open-world environment during the apocalypse. The game includes elements of first-person shooters, survival horror, tower defense, and even has RPG-like elements. You start out with nothing and must quickly work to find or craft shelter, armor, weapons, and other essentials needed to survive the deadly zombie horde that arrives every seven days. 7 Days to Die features satisfying base-building mechanics that allow you to create traps and other defenses against the undead, and this can be an even better experience with friends. The game supports up to eight players online for PS5.
Marvel Rivals, CoD, Fortnite, and more
In addition to the massive variety of cooperative experiences listed above, there are also plenty of competitive-style shooter games you can play with your friends in multiplayer modes. These include Marvel Rivals, Fortnite, Rainbow Six Siege, Battlefield 6, multiple Call of Duty titles, and more.
