Best split-screen Steam games
Updated
Couch co-op is the small slice of cooperative gaming where one screen, one PC, and two-plus controllers carries the whole night. This list covers every Steam game tagged with the official Shared/Split Screen category — 50 titles with at least 100 player reviews at Mostly Positive or better. Ranked by review consensus first, audience size second, so a beloved 300-review couch game beats a midrange four-player release nobody particularly enjoyed. Unlike the Steam co-op tag filter, which blends online co-op and split-screen together and sorts by sales rank, this hub is split-screen only — every pick works on one machine, one screen, no second PC required. Whether you're paired up or hosting four people on one sofa, these are the picks worth the evening. Updated daily from imho.run's catalogue refresh.
Top picks
01Stardew Valley
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
2016IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
02Portal 2
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
03The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
2014Action14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
04Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
2017StrategyAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
05Cuphead
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
2017ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
06Cult of the Lamb
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
2022ActionStrategy24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →- Try the recommender →
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07It Takes Two
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
2021ActionAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
08Castle Crashers®
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
2012ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
09Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.
2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
10Enter the Gungeon
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
2016ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
11Tabletop Simulator
Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!
2015StrategyIndie19.99 USDSimilar games →
12Human Fall Flat
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
2016IndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
13Brotato
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
2023ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
14A Hat in Time
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
2017IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
15Rivals of Aether
RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.
2017Indie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
16ROUNDS
Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.
2021ActionIndie5.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
17BattleBlock Theater®
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
2014ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
18Split Fiction
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
2025ActionAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
19Broforce
Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.
2015ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
20Wobbly Life
Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!
2025ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
21DOOM + DOOM II
Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
2007Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
22Bopl Battle
A couch/online game where you battle your friends with unique and wild abilities. There are many choices such as a shrink ray, creating black holes, stopping time and attaching a rocket engine to the stage to send it flying. Choose a combination that synergizes well to win the round!
2023Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
23LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
2009Adventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
24Ultimate Chicken Horse
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
2016ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
25Just Shapes & Beats
"Just Shapes & Beats" is a chaotic co-op musical bullet-hell based on three simple things: avoid Shapes, move to the kick-ass Beats, and die, repeatedly.
2018ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
26PlateUp!
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
2022ActionStrategy19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
27Duck Game
Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.
2015ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
28LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight
Rise as the Dark Knight and experience the essential Batman story in a bold, action-packed adventure with hard-hitting combat, an open-world Gotham City, and the signature LEGO charm that fans know and love.
2026ActionAdventure69.99 USDSimilar games →
29Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
2014ActionIndie39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
30Untitled Goose Game
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
2020ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
31Quake
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
2007Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
32Nuclear Throne
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
2015ActionIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
33MADNESS: Project Nexus
MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person Run n' Gun / Beat'Em Up filled with arcade-style action and button-mashing brutality. Gun your way through droves of bad guys in the Story Campaign, or build your perfect killing machine in the neverending onslaught of Arena Mode.
2021ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
34Monster Prom
You have 3 weeks to get a date for Monster Prom! Go through absurd and funny situations, raise your stats and seduce one of your classmates. Beautiful art, bold, unapologetic dialogue and hard choices make up this Multiplayer (1-4 players) Dating Sim. Be your worst self.
2018IndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
35Streets of Rogue
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
2019ActionIndie3.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
36Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Find yourself trapped alone in a room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the manual to defuse it, but they can't see the bomb, so you're going to have to talk it out – fast!
2015Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
37Rhythm Doctor
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
2025ActionStrategy19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
38The Expendabros
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
2014ActionIndieFreeDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
39Rabbit and Steel
RABBIT & STEEL is a co-op action roguelike that recreates the essence of high-level MMO raiding in a randomized, simplified, bunny-sized package. Choose your class, gather your rabbit-eared companions and battle your way to the Moonlit Pinnacle!
2024ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
405D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
2020Indie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
41UFO 50
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
2024ActionStrategy24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
42Cassette Beasts
Collect awesome monsters to use during turn-based battles in this open-world RPG, now with online multiplayer mode. Combine any two monster forms using Cassette Beasts’ Fusion System to create unique and powerful new ones!
2023IndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
43EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
2016Action19.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
44Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.
2022ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
45EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
Stand and fight for humanity. This arcade shooter takes place in the year 2022, as the Earth Defense Force fends off an all-out attack by unknown life forms. Become an EDF soldier, battle against endless hordes of immense enemies, and restore peace to the earth.
2019Action59.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
46Goat Simulator 3
Pilgor's baaack! Gather your herd and venture forth into Goat Simulator 3; an all-new (at least on Steam), totally realistic, sandbox farmyard experience. Invite up to three friends in local or online co-op, create carnage as a team, or compete in mini-games and then not be friends anymore.
2024AdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
47DOOM II
Hell has invaded Earth, and to save it, you must battle mightier demons with even more powerful weapons. This beloved sequel to the groundbreaking DOOM (1993) introduced players to the brutal Super Shotgun, the infamous Icon of Sin boss, and more intense FPS action.
2007ActionDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
48Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
2015ActionIndie0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
49BlazBlue Centralfiction
Combining a 2D fighting game with a visual novel, the BlazBlue series continues on with massive fan support! The latest installation, BlazBlue: Centralfiction, serves as the ending to the Azure Saga, revealing the hidden truth of the world!
2017Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSimilar games →
50GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
Astonishing 3D cell animations and overwhelming content volume, the next-generation fighting game "GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2" is now out on Steam! Total cast of 25 unique characters, and tons of game modes, get ready to ROCK!
2016Action29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
Frequently asked
- What counts as a split-screen game on this list?
- Any Steam title carrying the official Shared/Split Screen category — games you can play with another person on one screen and one PC. That includes both vertical/horizontal split-screen and shared-screen co-op where everyone plays on the same view.
- Can I play these on one PC with two controllers?
- Yes — that's the point of the list. Every pick supports local same-screen play, so plug in a second controller (most support Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch Pro pads) and you're set. No second PC, no second copy of the game, no online account required for the local players.
- Do these split-screen games also work online, or only on the couch?
- It varies. Many also offer online co-op, and titles without native online can often be played remotely via Steam's Remote Play Together, which streams the local split-screen session to a friend over the internet. The local-couch format always works; check each game's store page for its online options. imho.run ranks the couch-co-op subset specifically.
- How often is the split-screen list updated?
- Once per day. New split-screen releases enter the list the day after they cross the 100-review Mostly Positive threshold, and titles that fall below it drop off the same way — imho.run's scraper refreshes the catalogue daily over the public Steam Store API.
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