Most played brutal co-op games

The most played lobbies right now lean into brutal teamwork, and these co-op picks show why. HELLDIVERS™ 2 drops you on hostile worlds where airstrikes and friendly fire keep every extraction tense, while Left 4 Dead 2 moves you and three friends through zombie-filled towns and swamps with melee and guns. Expect graphic fights, shared objectives and rounds where you revive, loot and push toward the exit together.

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1. Call of Duty®

   

   The Call of Duty® experience supports Modern Warfare® 4, Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.

   55%55% of 432,782 Steam reviews are positive160.3KPlayers online now: 160,345

2. Path of Exile

   

   Path of Exile is a free online action RPG set in the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast, where you and your co-op friends hack through nightmares, hoard loot, and build wildly different exiles from seven classes, gems, and a giant passive tree.

   89%89% of 250,670 Steam reviews are positive106.9KPlayers online now: 106,947Free

3. Rust

   

   Rust drops you naked on an island with a rock and a torch, where wildlife, hunger, cold, and other survivors all want you gone. With co-op friends it turns into shared paranoia and shared triumph: build a base, split the farming and guard duty, then decide together whether to trade or raid.

   86%86% of 1,181,095 Steam reviews are positive110.9KPlayers online now: 110,945$39.99

4. Warframe

   

   Awaken as a bio-metal space ninja and battle alongside co-op friends across a sprawling interplanetary system. Form a squad, combine Warframe abilities, and tear through hordes together for bonus rewards, with 60+ frames and hundreds of weapons to collect and customize.

   87%87% of 688,964 Steam reviews are positive53.2KPlayers online now: 53,182Free

5. Dead by Daylight

   

   Four survivors against one killer in a foggy realm where death is no exit. Team up with co-op friends to sneak, fix up the way out, and pull each other off hooks, or take the killer role and hunt them down. No two rounds play the same, so every lobby turns social fast.

   77%77% of 696,267 Steam reviews are positive47KPlayers online now: 46,960$19.99

6. ARC Raiders

   

   Crafting, quests, and close calls make it a strong shared night of scavenging and surviving.

   82%82% of 309,890 Steam reviews are positive55.3KPlayers online now: 55,325$39.99

7. Left 4 Dead 2

   

   Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative horror shooter set in the zombie apocalypse, taking you and three co-op friends from Savannah to New Orleans through cities, swamps and cemeteries. Four survivors, hordes of infected, melee weapons from axe to frying pan, and five campaigns that change every run. Straightforward to join, chaotic to survive, built for laughing together while everything goes wrong.

   97%97% of 826,131 Steam reviews are positive27.8KPlayers online now: 27,834$9.99

8. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

   

   A randomly generated action shooter where you and a friend clear basement rooms together in 2-player local co-op. You grab bizarre treasures, mutate into strange new forms, and fight droves of creatures and bosses. Chaotic, darkly funny, and different every run, it is made for co-op friends sharing one screen.

   96%96% of 426,166 Steam reviews are positive32.7KPlayers online now: 32,712$14.99

9. HELLDIVERS™ 2

   

   Enlist with up to three co-op friends as Helldivers spreading managed democracy across hostile planets. Call airstrikes, share ammo, dodge friendly fire, and extract together. Loud, messy, and built for squads who laugh at disaster.

   74%74% of 855,704 Steam reviews are positive27.8KPlayers online now: 27,754$39.99

10. Red Dead Redemption 2

    

    Arthur Morgan's outlaw story is single-player, but Red Dead Online lets co-op friends ride together. Form a posse and cross the 1899 frontier to rob, steal, and fight lawmen, rival gangs, and wild animals, or run a moonshine operation side by side.

    92%92% of 861,593 Steam reviews are positive25.6KPlayers online now: 25,592$59.99

11. DayZ

    

    DayZ drops you and your co-op friends into a harsh post-apocalyptic sandbox with no quests, only survival. You loot towns, dodge infected, share food and ammo, fix up a truck, and decide together whether strangers get a friendly wave or a wide berth.

    78%78% of 390,996 Steam reviews are positive43.4KPlayers online now: 43,409$49.99

12. Destiny 2

    

    Destiny 2 is a free first-person shooter set across the solar system, where you defend the Last City as a Guardian. It suits co-op friends because story missions, Strikes and raids are built for small fireteams, with rare loot at the end and plenty of reasons to run them again together.

    78%78% of 664,831 Steam reviews are positive23.3KPlayers online now: 23,347Free

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