These are the best 4-player online coop games that I’ve played with my friends on PC, primarily on Steam. I’m sharing this list to help others find fun games to play with their friends.

Assumptions & notes:

  • These are based on my personal experiences. I’ve only ranked games that I spent many hours playing and were memorable.
  • You have a good/positive/supportive group of friends to play with.
  • Games within a tier are sorted alphabetically.
  • This list will be updated periodically over time. Games may shift rank as new games are added or my perspective changes.
  • This will mostly contain online coop games as opposed to couch coop games since my friends and I primarily play over the Internet.

S Tier

Traits: Legendary fun; must-play games; soak it in and take your time; replayable

  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Dark Souls 2 & 3
  • Deep Rock Galactic
  • Diablo 2
  • Grand Theft Auto 5 (Online)
  • Left 4 Dead 1 & 2
  • Minecraft

A Tier

Traits: Very fun; you won’t be disappointed; worth buying; amazing, but not quite legendary

  • Grounded 1
  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection
  • Heroes of Hammerwatch
  • Overcooked 1 & 2
  • Payday 2 (OG version)
  • Peak
  • Ready or Not
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 (Online)
  • Risk of Rain 2
  • The Forest
  • Valheim
  • Vampire Survivors
  • Warhammer: Vermintide 1 & 2

B Tier

Traits: Pretty good; fun, but has flaws; worth a quick play-through; not as replayable; solid games, but not amazing

  • ARK
  • Back 4 Blood
  • Borderlands 1 & 2
  • Dead Island
  • Dead Island: Riptide
  • DayZ
  • Don’t Starve Together
  • Dungeon of the Endless
  • Grand Theft Auto 4 (Online)
  • Green Hell
  • Grim Dawn
  • Hammerwatch
  • Human Fall Flat
  • Insurgency
  • Labyrinthine
  • Lethal Company
  • Pacify
  • Project Zomboid
  • RV There Yet
  • Star Trek: Bridge Crew (VR)
  • Terraria
  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
  • Tribes of Midgard
  • Unrailed!

C Tier

Traits: It’s merely ok; mostly neutral feelings; play if you’re out of better games; good for a weekend of fun

  • Dungeon Defenders
  • Escape Simulator
  • FlyKnight
  • Helldivers 1
  • Lunch Lady
  • Magicka 1 & 2
  • Raft
  • Saints Row: The Third
  • Schedule I
  • Strange Brigade
  • The Escapists 2
  • Torchlight 2
  • We Need To Go Deeper
  • Windward

D Tier and below

Traits: Skippable; forgettable; flawed; buggy; we tried it and no one wants to play it again

  • 7 Days to Die (buggy)
  • Barony (too hard)
  • Castle Crashers (boring)
  • Hot Lava (boring)
  • Monaco (forgettable)
  • Moving Out (boring)
  • Orion: Prelude (forgettable)
  • Sanctum 2 (boring)

Rank Pending

These are games that I haven’t played yet or spent enough time on and are on my radar for the future

  • Barotrauma
  • Dead Island 2
  • Divinity Original Sin 2
  • Dying Light
  • Elden Ring
  • Escape the Backrooms
  • Grounded 2
  • No Man’s Sky
  • Phasmophobia
  • R.E.P.O.
  • Sea of Thieves
  • Serious Sam 1 & 2
  • Sons of the Forest
  • Streets of Rogue
  • V Rising
  • Void Crew

Honorable mentions

2-player and 3-player coop games

  • A Way Out (2p) (fun)
  • Aragami (2p) (fun)
  • Arc Raiders (3p) (heard good things)
  • Arizona Sunshine (2p, VR) (fun)
  • Destiny (3p) (heard good things)
  • It Takes Two (2p) (yawn)
  • Orcs Must Die 2 (2p) (pretty decent)
  • We Were Here (2p) (pretty decent)