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1041 Co-op & Multiplayer games reviewed and scored, best first.

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Borderlands 4

A looter-shooter with genuinely well-regarded gunplay, undercut by severe, persistent PC performance problems and a real, extensively documented public-relations crisis in which Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford spent days publicly dismissing player complaints — telling PC gamers to "code your own engine" and that "premium games are made for premium gamers" — turning a technical problem into what press outlets have called "the great Pitchford Twitter crashout of 2025."

6 / 10

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Burglin' Gnomes

A chaotic co-op break-in sim about raiding a suburban house as a tiny gnome, built by a solo developer from a months-long, hugely popular free demo into a full launch that sold over 500,000 copies in three weeks, even as reviewers describe the finished game as thinner than the demo that sold it.

6 / 10

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Cat Chess

A genuinely charming, beginner-friendly reskin of standard chess starring adorable animated cats, widely praised for teaching newcomers the game and for shipping complete without microtransactions at launch, undercut by a structurally broken online mode with no time controls that lets opponents stall indefinitely in losing positions, inconsistent AI difficulty, a thin ten-mission campaign, and a cluttered, mobile-game-styled interface.

6 / 10

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Code Vein

\"Anime Dark Souls\" with one of the genre's best character creators — and a co-op mode reviewers say quietly withholds story progression from the non-host player, a specific complaint distinct from the usual difficulty grumbling.

6 / 10

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Colt Canyon

A pixel-art wild-west roguelite shooter by Retrific, Very Positive across its Steam reviews for its charming Western presentation and character variety — undercut by an extremely consistent, unusual complaint about a jittery camera and shaking menus that reviewers report causes genuine motion sickness and cannot be disabled, alongside a well-corroborated complaint about repetitive, ammo-starved combat.

6 / 10

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Company of Heroes 3

A WWII RTS that launched to a genuinely damning "sold as finished, played like early access" verdict from its own franchise veterans, still defended passionately by players with literally thousands of hours logged — and still, three years on, carrying one specific, unaddressed complaint both camps agree on.

6 / 10

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Curse of the Sea Rats

A Kickstarter-funded "ratoidvania" whose hand-drawn animation draws near-unanimous praise from the same reviewers who call its combat sluggish and unfair. Two years of free post-launch updates, including a new survival mode, show a developer that kept listening — the controls just never fully caught up to the art.

6 / 10

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Dead Island 2

A genuinely fun, gory open-world zombie brawler whose Steam release — arriving a year after the game's original 2023 launch specifically to escape Epic Games Store exclusivity — forces Epic Online Services onto players anyway, producing some of the angriest, most-detailed technical reviews in this library's coverage.

6 / 10

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Doll Impostor

A prolifically updated co-op horror detective game about identifying a killer doll before dawn, whose huge, still-growing content library and genuine fan devotion are tempered by persistent multiplayer crash bugs, allegations of AI-generated art creeping into recent updates, and a specific, sourced controversy over the publisher's own branding that multiple reviewers describe as disrespectful toward Indigenous people.

6 / 10

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Duet Night Abyss

A free-to-play action RPG that launched with a genuinely rare promise — no gacha for characters or weapons — and won real goodwill for it, before its own launcher distributed actual credential-stealing malware to players twice in the space of a month.

6 / 10

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Dumb Ways to Build

A chaotic, physics-based co-op construction game from the Dumb Ways to Die studio that draws near-unanimous laughter and praise from players who can actually connect, undercut by a severe, fully corroborated multiplayer server failure that this review found leaving an entire Chinese-language review pool unable to connect at all, alongside honest complaints about a short, three-level campaign.

6 / 10

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Empire of the Ants

A visually stunning UE5 adaptation of Bernard Werber's classic novel that nearly every reviewer agrees looks incredible and just as consistently says isn't the ant colony simulation its premise promised — reviewed here alongside a genuinely substantial free content update that answers some, if not all, of that disappointment.

6 / 10

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Endless Frontier

A 2018 Korean idle RPG that's still pulling a 4.3-star average from 153,000 Google Play reviews eight years on, built around a twelve-unit auto-battle roster and a genuinely layered guild-and-arena social game — undercut by a permanent roster cap, a bolted-on NFT feature, and a client that hasn't been updated since the studio's attention moved to its own sequel.

6 / 10

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Europa Universalis V

Paradox's long-awaited return to its flagship grand strategy series is the deepest, most interconnected game the studio has ever built, praised by critics on release even as a huge and increasingly vocal share of its own player base argues the AI, UI and pacing needed far more time before launch.

6 / 10

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Everwind

Everwind is a voxel survival-crafting adventure built around a flyable airship base, and this review's sample confirms an appealing exploration-and-loot loop and a fast, tracked post-launch patch cadence, set against real, developer-acknowledged performance and Steam Deck stability problems and an underpowered itemization system.

6 / 10

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Eye X Eye

A two-day-old two-player co-op puzzle platformer built entirely around a single mechanic — shooting a laser from your own eye to push or pull your partner through obstacles neither of you could clear alone — priced at NZ$2.39 with zero user reviews and zero recorded concurrent players at the time of checking.

6 / 10

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Fae Farm

A cozy magical farming sim that survived its own near-death experience — two rounds of studio layoffs, an announced shutdown of its online features, and a last-minute rescue by a new publisher just days before the servers were due to go dark.

6 / 10

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Fall Guys

The 2020 party-royale phenomenon remains Very Positive lifetime, but its Steam page tells a genuinely unusual and still-unresolved story — pulled from sale after Epic Games' acquisition, converted to free-to-play, and still drawing sustained, specific anger from paying original owners four years later.

6 / 10

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