Co-op games like Kernel Hearts

If Kernel Hearts left you wanting something colorful and replayable, you have options. These co-op games could fill that gap nicely. Many of them are fun to share with friends.

Gatekeeper
Chase stolen time across five planets with up to three co-op friends, picking from nine Gatekeepers with different skills. You clear fast top-down fights, stack 100+ artifacts into Triads, summon a Siren, and push toward Chaos. Built for loud, speedy runs together.
Colorful, Replayable, Fast-paced
82% of 2,741 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$14.99
Endless Alice
Endless Alice is a colorful third-person action roguelite with anime style, built for solo runs or online co-op with up to 4 players. Pick one of six characters with their own abilities and battle style, then fight through strange virtual locations packed with monsters and huge bosses.
Colorful, Replayable, Cute
91% of 2,455 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$8.99
Astral Ascent
Pick a hero and drag a co-op friend into the Garden, an astral prison held by 12 Zodiac bosses. You dash across hand-made worlds, stack spells into loud builds, and take bosses down together in fast 2D platform combat that keeps asking for one more run.
Colorful, Replayable, Fast-paced
94% of 5,518 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 87$24.99
Serpent's Gaze
A punishing third-person action game for 1-4 co-op friends in an ancient desert. You pick weapons, learn heavy tactical combat, stack blessings and relics into strange builds, and throw yourselves at tough enemies and relentless bosses until they fall.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
87% of 806 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 67$15.99
Secrets of Grindea
An old-school action RPG built for up to four players to clear together. You travel fantastical lands, fight mobs and more than 30 bosses, and chase truth, friendship and rare treasure. Bring co-op friends for the full story, or call one in when a boss gets rude.
Colorful, Replayable, Cute
89% of 7,013 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$14.99
GODBREAKERS
GODBREAKERS is a 1-4 player online co-op action roguelite about fast combat, stolen god powers, and big multi-phase bosses. You and your co-op friends pick Archetypes, chain dashes and abilities, and push through six shifting sci-fi biomes together.
Colorful, Replayable, Fast-paced
69% of 832 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Shape of Dreams
Shape of Dreams is a fast-paced top-down action roguelite built for co-op friends: up to four Travelers dodge projectile-filled battles across lava fields, blizzard mountains, and starry cosmos, mixing skills and upgrades until strange, powerful combinations click.
Colorful, Replayable, Fast-paced
89% of 16,679 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,441$24.99
Rabbit and Steel
Rabbit and Steel shrinks MMO raiding into a fast co-op roguelike for 1 to 4 rabbits. Pick a class, hop into a lobby in seconds, and dodge bullet-hell bosses together on the way to the Moonlit Pinnacle, arguing over loot the whole way.
Colorful, Replayable, Cute
96% of 10,279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 204$14.99
Ember Knights
Ember Knights is a fast-paced action roguelite for 1-4 knights chasing the mad sorcerer Praxis through four corrupted worlds. You hack through hordes, stack weapons, skills and relics into wild builds, and feed progress back into the Ember Tree. Built for co-op friends who like short runs, big combos and dying gloriously together.
Colorful, Replayable, Cute
93% of 6,108 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$19.99
Sephiria
A brave bunny climbs a demon-filled tower to save Bunnyville, and co-op friends can climb it together. Up to 4 players fight hordes online, trade artifacts, and revive fallen companions across 6 chapters of top-down action.
Colorful, Replayable, Cute
94% of 12,867 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,773$17.99
One Step From Eden
A deckbuilding bullet-hell where you and a co-op friend share one small grid, sling spells in real time, and dodge a sky full of enemy fire. With 9 characters, 200+ spells, and runs that never repeat, it is built for co-op friends who want fast rounds and loud revives.
Colorful, Replayable, Fast-paced
94% of 6,052 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$19.99
Absolum
A hand-drawn roguelite beat 'em up where you and a friend punch through the Sun King’s regime as mismatched rebel heroes. Pick a fighter, chain combos and spells together, and take a different path through Talamh every run.
Colorful, Replayable, Fast-paced
91% of 9,669 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 505$14.99

Cheaper than Kernel Hearts

Gatekeeper

Chase stolen time across five planets with up to three co-op friends, picking from nine Gatekeepers with different skills.

$14.99

Endless Alice

Endless Alice is a colorful third-person action roguelite with anime style, built for solo runs or online co-op with up to 4 players.

$8.99

Serpent's Gaze

A punishing third-person action game for 1-4 co-op friends in an ancient desert.

$15.99

Secrets of Grindea

An old-school action RPG built for up to four players to clear together.

$14.99

Rabbit and Steel

Rabbit and Steel shrinks MMO raiding into a fast co-op roguelike for 1 to 4 rabbits.

$14.99

Sephiria

A brave bunny climbs a demon-filled tower to save Bunnyville, and co-op friends can climb it together.

$17.99

Absolum

A hand-drawn roguelite beat 'em up where you and a friend punch through the Sun King’s regime as mismatched rebel heroes.

$14.99

AFTERBLAST

AFTERBLAST is a challenging FPS roguelite. Play SOLO or in CO-OP (1-4 players). Get stronger each run.

$14.99

Forsworn

Forsworn is a turn-based tactics roguelite where you and up to three co-op friends each lead a hero against warring gods.

$12.79

Rampage Knights

A co-op beat 'em up mixed with randomized dungeon crawling for you and one co-op friend.

$12.99

Mobmania

Mobmania is a four (4) player co-op real-time bullet-hell action rogue-like where you kill enemies, buy items after leveling up, and survive long…

$4.99

Young Souls

Young Souls is a gorgeous 2D brawler meets story-rich action RPG.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Kernel Hearts

Forsworn

Forsworn is a turn-based tactics roguelite where you and up to three co-op friends each lead a hero against warring gods.

$12.79

Serpent's Gaze

A punishing third-person action game for 1-4 co-op friends in an ancient desert.

$15.99

Tears of Metal

Reclaim a Scottish island with up to three co-op friends, leading your battalion through hordes to stop invaders mining the Mother Dragon Stone.

$24.99

Chained Beasts

A co-op gladiator roguelike where the chain is both your biggest problem and your best weapon.

$19.99

Archons

Archons is a Roguelite/Survivor game where you control two characters, the Archons- simultaneously!

$9.99

I'm No Demonlord

A two-player bullet-hell roguelike where a demon king possesses your adventurer and you sort out what to do with him.

$8.99

MycoRelic

MycoRelic is a co-op third-person action RPG where you and your co-op friends play as sentient fungus driving scrapped robot bodies across tribal…

$16.99

Endless Alice

Endless Alice is a colorful third-person action roguelite with anime style, built for solo runs or online co-op with up to 4 players.

$8.99

Mobmania

Mobmania is a four (4) player co-op real-time bullet-hell action rogue-like where you kill enemies, buy items after leveling up, and survive long…

$4.99

Sephiria

A brave bunny climbs a demon-filled tower to save Bunnyville, and co-op friends can climb it together.

$17.99

Wendigo Blue

Action-packed 2D beat-em-up with intense boss battles and a large variety of customizable equipment and skills. Up to 4 players with local co-op.

$9.99

Gatekeeper

Chase stolen time across five planets with up to three co-op friends, picking from nine Gatekeepers with different skills.

$14.99

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