What Steam games could I play with my sister?

[pipnina]

Since she moved out I haven't seen her much in person due to, well, you know...

She has a laptop with mouse (2018 DELL, with an i5 and a Radeon 530 GPU) but decent internet so anything that works with Steam's play together should be fine if I host it.

 

She isn't so much a fan of the more serious or warlike games (so a lot of RTS games or first person shooters might be off the table), but based on what she's played before:

Pharaoh

Kingdom Hearts (so ARPGs)

Animal Crossing (passive / relaxing games?)

Pokémon (so turn based RPG)

Splatoon (so maybe very casual shooters?)

Portal (Puzzlers?)

 

Do you know based on these examples, what we might enjoy playing together on steam? Browsing steam itself to find co-op games is a bit fruitless to me because all searches are littered with DLC spam and Steam's search seems a little clumsy to me. All the big lists online of "top 20 co-op games" tend to list the same stuff, and it seems usually to be beyond her laptop's spec.

 

Which games do you like to co-op on?

Cheers.

[JamesTheFolf]

1 minute ago, pipnina said:

Since she moved out I haven't seen her much in person due to, well, you know...

She has a laptop with mouse (2018 DELL, with an i5 and a Radeon 530 GPU) but decent internet so anything that works with Steam's play together should be fine if I host it.

 

She isn't so much a fan of the more serious or warlike games (so a lot of RTS games or first person shooters might be off the table), but based on what she's played before:

Pharaoh

Kingdom Hearts (so ARPGs)

Animal Crossing (passive / relaxing games?)

Pokémon (so turn based RPG)

Splatoon (so maybe very casual shooters?)

Portal (Puzzlers?)

 

Do you know based on these examples, what we might enjoy playing together on steam? Browsing steam itself to find co-op games is a bit fruitless to me because all searches are littered with DLC spam and Steam's search seems a little clumsy to me. All the big lists online of "top 20 co-op games" tend to list the same stuff, and it seems usually to be beyond her laptop's spec.

 

Which games do you like to co-op on?

Cheers.

You could always play some games that only have local multiplayer using parsec.

[ki8aras]

rockt league?

i think her laptop could run forza horizon 4 if shes into that kind of stuff

[RONOTHAN##]

Overcooked might be a fun one. I believe that supports remote play together or whatever it's called. 

[WaggishOhio383]

Stardew Valley comes to mind. They recently added split-screen coop to the game, and along with it they added the Steam remote play together feature. But if you ran into issues using that, her computer could most definitely run the game natively as well.

 

I don't know of many other popular games that support remote play together at the moment, but you could look through the Steam remote play together library and see if anything catches your eye: https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay_together

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

1 hour ago, pipnina said:

Since she moved out I haven't seen her much in person due to, well, you know...

She has a laptop with mouse (2018 DELL, with an i5 and a Radeon 530 GPU) but decent internet so anything that works with Steam's play together should be fine if I host it.

 

She isn't so much a fan of the more serious or warlike games (so a lot of RTS games or first person shooters might be off the table), but based on what she's played before:

Pharaoh

Kingdom Hearts (so ARPGs)

Animal Crossing (passive / relaxing games?)

Pokémon (so turn based RPG)

Splatoon (so maybe very casual shooters?)

Portal (Puzzlers?)

 

Do you know based on these examples, what we might enjoy playing together on steam? Browsing steam itself to find co-op games is a bit fruitless to me because all searches are littered with DLC spam and Steam's search seems a little clumsy to me. All the big lists online of "top 20 co-op games" tend to list the same stuff, and it seems usually to be beyond her laptop's spec.

 

Which games do you like to co-op on?

Cheers.

I'm a huge fan of Trine, which is a puzzle platformer for up to 3 people...and there are 3 Trine games (or it might be 4) so there's tons of content. 

 

A Way Out is also a very intriguing two player game which can only played in co-op. 

 

I urge you to check it out and watch a video on You Tube as it will do it justice in a way I can't. 

 

It's the quintessential two player co-op experience. 

 

[Soag]

ULTIMATE CHICKEN HORSE!

 

Plus I support Maury on Trine, was planning to suggest it as well ;).

Drawful 2 is also fun but would require at least one more person.

Castle Crashers is a pretty fun couch co-op.

Human Fall Flat is worth a try. I had a blast in it with friends but she might dislike the controls as they are pretty unique.

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is a typical co-op people suggest. Personally haven't fired it up, yet, but am planning to do so in whatever future.

You could also try good old Borderlands 2.

To end the list I have something I haven't played, haven't even bought but seen the game and heard VERY good opinions on it. Simple, low point of entry, fun, nice aesthetics:  Deep Rock Galactic.

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

2 hours ago, Soag said:

ULTIMATE CHICKEN HORSE!

 

Plus I support Maury on Trine, was planning to suggest it as well ;).

Drawful 2 is also fun but would require at least one more person.

Castle Crashers is a pretty fun couch co-op.

Human Fall Flat is worth a try. I had a blast in it with friends but she might dislike the controls as they are pretty unique.

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is a typical co-op people suggest. Personally haven't fired it up, yet, but am planning to do so in whatever future.

You could also try good old Borderlands 2.

To end the list I have something I haven't played, haven't even bought but seen the game and heard VERY good opinions on it. Simple, low point of entry, fun, nice aesthetics:  Deep Rock Galactic.

Love me some Trine.

[invision2212]

dont starve together

[Logorrhee]

Trine is a good option, i enjoyed playing some left for dead 2 with my brother and also keep talking and nobody explodes. Good fun in different styles of games.

[DelavorexIndustries]

On 2/13/2021 at 10:44 PM, pipnina said:

Since she moved out I haven't seen her much in person due to, well, you know...

She has a laptop with mouse (2018 DELL, with an i5 and a Radeon 530 GPU) but decent internet so anything that works with Steam's play together should be fine if I host it.

 

She isn't so much a fan of the more serious or warlike games (so a lot of RTS games or first person shooters might be off the table), but based on what she's played before:

Pharaoh

Kingdom Hearts (so ARPGs)

Animal Crossing (passive / relaxing games?)

Pokémon (so turn based RPG)

Splatoon (so maybe very casual shooters?)

Portal (Puzzlers?)

 

Do you know based on these examples, what we might enjoy playing together on steam? Browsing steam itself to find co-op games is a bit fruitless to me because all searches are littered with DLC spam and Steam's search seems a little clumsy to me. All the big lists online of "top 20 co-op games" tend to list the same stuff, and it seems usually to be beyond her laptop's spec.

 

Which games do you like to co-op on?

Cheers.

BattleBlock Theater, Brink, Castle Crashers, Rocket League, Sims maybe, Spelunky local device, Xcom, Civilization 5, new tropico maybe

[OrangeSunshine]

Im a bit late, but my favorite types of games to play casually with people are games where we work to build or explore together. I would recommend "Terraria" and "Don't Starve Together".  If you are looking for something more story driven that you can play together, I would suggest "Divinity Original Sin 2." 

[Colty]

Overcooked, Fall Guys, Rocket League, the original Dungeon Defenders, MineCraft, Garry's Mod (TTT is still tons of fun), TableTop simulator, any of the 2D worms games. 

[AnUnQuietMind]

Hey if you love the "Kingdom Hearts" esc feeling of RPG that you can do co op, id suggest Genshin Impact. yes it runs on iphones and android phones, but it also runs on the new playstation, PC's and OSX. because it was a mobile game first intel integrated graphics can run it. Its free to play, the other game id suggest is Warframe, its on steam and is free to play and as long as she didnt try to set it above 1080p she could get decent performance using the original graphics engine and not the new beta one.

[mon1ka]

Not sure steam play together supports this, but unravel 2 is a pretty good game. the soundtrack is easily one of the best I've listened to in years

[axulurion]

A couple of tower defense/resource management games have multiplayer (BTD6, Mindustry, Factorio), so if your sister is into that kind of stuff, you could try it out (btw you can download Mindustry for free, but you don't get achievements, workshop maps/schematics and multiplayer is harder to set up)

[PanagioPeren]

It takes two 

[Giganthrax]

Nioh 2. That's a nice easy game for coop.