Hi
Sorry if this isn’t the right place to post this. Basically I’m looking for recommendations for a game I can play against my 2 brothers. We live in different cities and hardly get to see each other but are we all into games.
We are all in our late 40s and haven’t gamed against each other since way back when I had a few networked PCs in a squat where we played unreal tournament. I am well out of the gaming loop, i just finished bioshock a couple of months back, now I’m playing doom & death loop. I’m crap at both!
We were thinking we’d like to play a shooter just against each other, kinda like unreal tournament, or something we can do cooperatively. We are definitely not ready to go up against the kids online. Maybe doesn’t have to be a shooter if it’s fun to play together. Most of us have kids and none of us has loads of screen time.
One brother is on an Xbox One is on a PC One is on a steam deck with WiFi hotspot.
I’m grateful for any suggestions
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Another vote for deep Rock galactic.
Civ 5 was great for this. Me and another old fart in our 40s played it against each other.
I’m a huge fan of Borderlands so would recommend that and I’m also a huge fan of Halo, the Master Cheif Collection is an absolute bargain considering what you get. Your brother with the Xbox will need to get Game Pass of some sort to join in for any games that are not free to play. Halo Infinite is free to play and has a PvE game mode, if that tickles your fancy.
Every year I enjoy the hell out of Left 4 Dead 2 around Halloween. If you guys have never played it, oh you’re in for a fun time. Super cheap and runs on a potato at this point if your Xbox brother can find a computer.
The Quake games (1 and 2) got updated with co-op support and cross play.
Enshrouded, Chained Together, Payday 3, Risk of Rain 2, Helldivers 2
Here’s a full list of crossplay Xbox and PC games. I figure if it’s on the pc, there’s a good chance it could be played on the steam deck as well.
Notable mentions in there that I’ve played and enjoyed are Destiny 2, Overwatch 2, Remnant 2, Left4Dead 2, (I’m seeing a pattern here), and Deep Rock Galactic.
Thanks mate, appreciated. Yeah I also seen a recurrent pattern in peoples’ suggestions, just what I was hoping for when I posted the question!
Helldivers 2 is an awesome game for this as it’s very cooperative and is also a shooter. Though you do need either a pc or a ps5 for it so I’m not sure if you can play it.
Some games that make for some fun coop and don’t require a ton of screen time. All of these are at least gold rated on ProtonDB so should be fine on the SteamDeck, though I’m not sure about crossplay with consoles on any:
- Sanctum - An interesting combo of first person shooter and tower defense (Sanctum 2 was also real good)
- Borderlands 1 - Looter shooter with some solid humor (Borderlands 2 was also real good, but goes downhill in later games)
- MechWarrior 5 - Who doesn’t want to be a giant mech riddled with guns?
- Left 4 Dead 2 - Fight together to escape zombies, or in multiplayer servers work together as the zombies to take out other humans
Now, less of a focus on shooters:
- Golf It and Golf With Your Friends - Put Put golf taken to extreme levels
- Magica 2 - Murder enemies together in a top-down wizard game
- BattleBlock Theater - Jump over obstacles and solve puzzles together
Great I’ll check em out, thanks mate. I’m going to send this comment to my brothers. Yeah I’m thinking we can do co-op gaming.i don’t think we really want to play against other people, we’re pretty much looking for a private playground until we get good enough to play with the clever kids!
Palworld is another kind of game playable multiplayer on xbox/pc.
Apparently I was the only one to read the title that way, but I thought your brothers died (late) in their 40s.
Lol nah you weren’t the only one!
Gangbeasts!
