The Best New Co-Op Games of 2025 (So Far)

2025 is shaping up to be another great year for gaming, with plenty of excellent titles to dive into, whether you prefer playing solo or teaming up with friends. Co-op games, in particular, have seen a welcome resurgence recently with developers putting more focus on shared experiences.

Whether you’re taking on a threat across fictional genres or colonizing a planet and scavenging resources together, there’s a healthy variety of co-op games to meet your social gaming needs. Here are my picks for the best co-op games from 2025 so far.

Split Fiction

• Release Date: March 6, 2025
• Platforms: PC, Xbox Series S|X, PS5, and Nintendo Switch 2 (Confirmed)
• Local co-op: Yes
• Online co-op: Yes

Josef Fares and the team at Hazelight Studios are back with another pure co-op title, putting players in the shoes of two writers, Mio and Zoe. You’ll constantly jump between fantasy and sci-fi worlds shaped by the duo’s writing as you battle bosses, solve massive puzzles, and navigate varied platforming sections together.

If you enjoyed It Takes Two, Split Fiction takes the formula even further, offering nonstop variety throughout its runtime. Unlike other games on this list, Split Fiction is a co-op-only experience, and it includes a Friend’s Pass that lets you invite a friend on any platform to play for free.

Revenge of the Savage Planet

• Release Date: May 8, 2025
• Platforms: PC, Xbox Series S|X, and PS5
• Local co-op: Yes
• Online co-op: Yes

Journey of the Savage Planet was a comedic action-adventure game that was equal parts exploration and action. It was a solo experience that had a lot of neat concepts, but Revenge of the Savage Planet builds on it with survival elements, base-building, and most of all, continuing the trend of highly rewarding exploration with secrets to find and life forms to scan.

To top it all off, the game is fully playable in co-op, and it’s almost encouraged, because even in solo play, you have some form of AI companion. If you’re looking for something light, constantly surprising, and fun to mess around in with your friend, Revenge of the Savage Planet delivers.

Monster Hunter Wilds

• Release Date: February 28, 2025
• Platforms: PC, Xbox Series S|X, and PS5
• Local co-op: No
• Online co-op: Yes

Let’s get this one out of the way. Monster Hunter Wilds is possibly the biggest AAA launch of the year, and for good reason. This massive, current-generation iteration of the beloved franchise takes the series to a brand new location with plenty of monsters to fight, resources to hunt, and characters to meet.

As always, Monster Hunter is even better with friends, and Monster Hunter Wilds has support for crossplay across all platforms. Whether you’re coordinating traps, healing your squad, or dealing the final blow, the cooperative gameplay makes every hunt feel unique. There’s nothing quite like tracking a monster, preparing for its hunt together, and turning its carcass into fashionable items and weapons.

Schedule 1

• Release Date: March 25, 2025
• Platforms: PC (Early Access)
• Local co-op: No
• Online co-op: Yes

Schedule 1 caught everyone by surprise with its polished early access release and an effortlessly engaging gameplay loop that stays fresh even after hours of play. Building your drug empire solo is satisfying, but the real fun lies in co-op.

It’s genuinely impressive how seamless it is to work together and share the rewards of production and distribution as a team. You’d expect something to go wrong, but it just doesn’t, and once you’ve played with others, it’s hard to go back to solo. If you’re not put off by the premise of making drugs and slowly turning an entire city into your client base, Schedule 1 stands out as one of the best co-op games available, continuing to grow with a steady stream of content updates.

R.E.P.O.

• Release Date: February 26, 2025
• Platforms: PC (Early Access)
• Local co-op: No
• Online co-op: Yes

Last on the list is R.E.P.O., another fantastic indie breakout hit that puts a heavy emphasis on cooperative play. As a group, you’ll use proximity chat to communicate and search spooky locations for valuable items that need to be carefully extracted. The physics-based interactions add pressure to work together without breaking anything.

Proximity chat also means enemies can hear you, leading to tense and often hilarious moments. It’s an incredibly fun experience that the developers have continued to support with consistent updates and new features. I can’t recommend playing this alone, so call up a friend and force them to buy this.

There are tons of co-op games on the way this including titles like FBC: Firebreak, Elden Ring: Nightreign, Subnautica 2, Borderlands 4, and more. I’m excited to see what other smaller releases pop up throughout 2025 like R.E.P.O. and Schedule 1.