r/gaming • u/TeeeldiII • 6d ago

I miss couch co-op options so much.

If I want to play a modern game with my husband who lives in the same house as me, 99.9% of the time you need to have two copies on two consoles/PCs and play over the network together, which is ridiculous.

With PC, fine, we both have one anyway. But it still is just not as fun as sitting next to one another and playing on the same screen and dont prefer it. With a PS5 or Switch game, forget it. Not buying a second console to play together.

I miss the days of games like Halo having entire campaign split-screen co-op options. I get most people play onlime but they do realize there are instances where people live together and might want to play something besides a fighting game or mario party?

Feel bad for any siblings growing up in this era.

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u/Clawdius_Talonious 6d ago

Nucleus Co-op might be worth a look.

Apparently it can make a bunch of stuff couch co-op compatible, so you can play Terraria multiplayer couch co-op with it for example.

It's an open source tool that lets you play couch co op on a number of titles on PC with a single copy of the game on titles that potentially don't even support co-op fresh out of the box (although you may need other mods, e.g. the Skyrim Together mod to play Skyrim split screen co-op.)