Best Co-Op Roguelikes To Play With Your Friends

The best co-op roguelikes will let you and your friends dive into battles again and again and again and again and again and... what was I talking about? Right, good repetition. Much like teaching a toddler, the key to a good roguelike is little incremental changes that help everyone generally enjoy things more, and when it comes to the best co-op roguelikes, that can come in many different flavours.

While at Rewinder we’re generally committed to all manner of takes and some great indie coverage, sometimes you just can’t beat a good list. After all, it means we can chat about a mix of our favourite games in one place, and it also means you can find a new game that’s a bit like some other games without much hassle.

Best Co-Op Roguelikes

We’ve tried to make sure there are plenty of great options on this list that come from different genres and styles, so you’ll be able to find something for just about any of your friends. Seriously, while roguelikes define a bit about each of these, how you play all of them varies massively. Let’s get stuck into this big old best co-op roguelike cake.

Streets of Rogue

Streets of Rogue is a roguelike immersive sim where you have to work your way into power by telling jokes, or hacking, or punching things, or creating a zombie outbreak, or just shooting everything. It’s all incredibly silly, the co-op is really hard to master because everyone often has their own goals, and you can even create your very own classes.

Gunfire Reborn

Gunfire Reborn is an FPS roguelike with some of the best reloading animations you’ll ever see. Seriously, there’s a little dragon that just sort of pets itself to reload, there’s a shotgun you chuck fish biscuits into, and a little fire lizard you just slap the butt of. Everything else is also good, but we just wanted to mention the reload animations. Each character has a few different builds to check out, and there are loads of characters now as well.

Heroes of Hammerwatch 2

Heroes of Hammerwatch 2 builds on the first game in some interesting ways. While the first game has substantially more stuff to do, with the DLCs helping a lot in that respect, a lot of the general flow has been improved greatly in the new game. There are some really cool shortcut mechanics, and you can also have more or less as many players as you want in a lobby too.

Stolen Realm

Stolen Realm is a turn-based CRPG, so you’re using your resources to battle it out with foes and trying to build up team attacks and whatnot. It’s really good, and one of the more unknown options when it comes to this particular field. The class system is a blast to tinker with, and you can find some awesome loot as you go.

Across the Obelisk

Across the Obelisk takes the classic roguelike deckbuilder and then slaps co-op on it. You basically all get to control a character or two, all of which have different classes and card pools, and then card your way through things. It’s a delight to unlock all the characters and figure out your preferred playstyles, and we love it.

MOTHERGUNSHIP

MOTHERGUNSHIP lets you put guns together Lego-style and then shoot things with them. It’s got big Doom vibes when it comes to how you move around, and we mean old-school Doom too. What's here is absurdly over-the-top, and while it takes a while to unlock some of the more absurd weapon parts, the sheer adrenaline it offers is unmatched.

Windblown

Windblown is from Motion Twin, who you’ll likely know as the lovely lot behind Dead Cells. I’m assuming you’ve already stopped reading, and you’re playing it now, but just in case, this is an action roguelike with some seriously cool synergies and plenty of excellent secrets to find as well. It’s just a lot of fun.

Lost Castle 2

Lost Castle 2 is, and this’ll shock you, a sequel to Lost Castle. Both of these games are great, and are basically beat ‘em up roguelikes where your moveset is defined by the weapon you’re using. Thing 2D Monster Hunter and you’re basically in the right neighbourhood. There are plenty of incredible builds to muck about with, the bosses are awesome, and the Early Access has been ticking along nicely since it launched last year.