The best PC games for couch co-op and multiplayer

By Robert Zak

The PC isn’t traditionally associated with social, same-screen multiplayer. In fact, the very geometry of a human body hunched towards a monitor with one hand spidering across a keyboard and another on the mouse seems to create a barrier of body language that deflects all social contact.

But times have changed. Today, all major console gamepads are plug-and-play compatible with Steam and Windows 10, and it’s easy to seamlessly connect your PC to your TV via Steam Link (which is also integrated as an app into modern Samsung TVs). These days, Windows is as viable a platform for couch multiplayer as a console, and to celebrate, we’ve amassed 10 of the best local multiplayer games for your PC, just in time for TechRadar’s PC Gaming Week 2018.

Crawl

Rather than blurring the line between competitive and co-op multiplayer, Crawl abuses it, violently throwing you into fleeting alliances in a game where there can only be one winner.

It’s a dungeon crawler, in essence, but one in which one player is the ‘hero’, while the other 1-3 players are ghosts who summon demonic creatures and possess traps in a bid to stop you.

Whoever lands the killing blow then becomes the …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming