Puzzles and strategy as a team
In these games the fastest reflexes don't win – the team that communicates best does. Puzzles that need two minds, strategy with split roles and riddles where everyone holds only half the information. This page lists strategy, tactics and puzzle games with co-op according to Steam and IGDB.
Take your time and let each other finish – the best moments happen when it clicks for both of you at once.
Our picks
Portal 2
A separate co-op campaign with the robots Atlas and P-Body. Place portals that only make sense together.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
One player sees the bomb, the others have the manual. Only precise communication defuses it.
Operation: Tango
A spy adventure: the field agent and the hacker see completely different things and have to explain everything to each other.
Popular games: Brainy
Sorted by rating and popularity. Player count and co-op types are listed on every game page.
Portal 2
Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
Sequel to the acclaimed Portal (2007), Portal 2 pits the protagonist of the original game, Chell, and her new robot frie...
Baldur's Gate III
Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS)
An ancient evil has returned to Baldur's Gate, intent on devouring it from the inside out. The fate of Faerun lies in yo...
It Takes Two
Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
It Takes Two is a cooperative action-adventure game designed exclusively for two players, playable in local split-screen...
Divinity: Original Sin II
Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Adventure
Divinity: Original Sin II is a single- and multiplayer top-down, party-based role-playing game with pen & paper RPG-like...
Split Fiction
Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
Split Fiction is a 2025 cooperative multiplayer game. It follows two writers, Mio Hudson and Zoe Foster, as they become...
Factorio
Simulator · Strategy · Indie
You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enem...
Among Us
Strategy · Indie
Play with 4-15 player online or via local WiFi as you attempt to prepare your spaceship for departure, but beware as one...
Helldivers 2
Shooter · Tactical
Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter in which squads of up to four players are deployed from orbit onto ho...
Divinity: Original Sin
Puzzle · Role-playing (RPG) · Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Gather your party and get ready for a new, back-to-the-roots RPG adventure! Discuss your decisions with companions; figh...
Hitman 2
Shooter · Tactical · Adventure
Travel the globe and track your targets across exotic sandbox locations in Hitman 2. From sun-drenched streets to dark a...
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
Shooter · Tactical
Experience an unparalleled level of action as you navigate the world of Sam Fisher. Go online or split screen in four co...
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Shooter · Tactical · Adventure
Splinter Cell Blacklist builds on the stealth roots of the franchise, while exploring new directions to embrace the real...
Cult of the Lamb
Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy
Cult of the Lamb casts players in the role of a possessed lamb saved from annihilation by an ominous stranger, and must...
The Forest
Puzzle · Simulator · Adventure
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a...
Trine
Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
Trine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous pu...
Payday 2
Shooter · Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
Payday 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original crew:...
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
Shooter · Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
The Division 2 is an action-shooter RPG set in an open-world. Play in co-op and PvP modes that offer more variety in mis...
Overcooked! 2
Simulator · Strategy · Tactical
Overcooked 2 is a cooperative cooking simulation game for up to four players. Teams work together to prepare and serve f...
Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition
Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Adventure
There can only be one God. The Divine is dead. The Void approaches. And the powers lying dormant within you are soon to...
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Shooter · Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Strategy
From the heart of the Third Reich to the most remote islands in the South Pacific, Sergeant Jack "Butcher" O'Hara and hi...
Trine 2
Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
Three Heroes survive in countless dangers in a fairy-tale world, with physics-based jigsaw puzzles, beautiful scenery, a...
Untitled Goose Game
Puzzle · Simulator · Adventure
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose. Untitled Goose Game is a slapstick-stealth-sandbox,...
Satisfactory
Simulator · Strategy · Adventure
Satisfactory is a first-person factory simulation game set on an alien planet. Players take the role of a Pioneer, an em...
BattleBlock Theater
Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
In BattleBlock Theater, players control a prisoner as they are forced to play through games devised by Hatty Hattington....
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