Guacamelee! Gold Edition Lucha libre meets the underworld

The best idea here is that combat and platforming share the same toolbox. The uppercuts, dashes and slams you use to flatten skeletons are the same moves that bounce you up a shaft or across a gap. Find the Rooster Uppercut and a whole class of ledges suddenly opens up. It keeps the loop tight: every new wrestling technique is both a new toy in a fight and a key to somewhere you could not reach before. Later, colored attacks have to match colored enemies and barriers, so a brawl becomes a matter of picking the right move at the right second. The controls stay responsive throughout, which matters when the game starts asking for all of it at once.

The setting is a magical take on Mexico, built from folklore and luchador culture, and the art leans all the way into it: bold shapes, saturated color, characters with real personality in their designs. The music changes with each location and shifts when you cross between worlds, and it is a genuine highlight. The writing is packed with parody and references to games, films and old internet jokes, tucked into signs, dialogue and background details, so exploring rewards the idle eye as much as the busy thumb. It is funny without trying too hard, and the tone stays cheerful even when the difficulty does not.

A second player can drop in or out at any time, and the entire campaign works in two-player local co-op, which is rare for a Metroidvania. Two luchadors slamming skeletons across a living room screen is exactly the kind of chaotic, laughing-at-everything session the mood calls for: no lobbies, no setup, just hand over a controller mid-fight and go. The shared moveset gives you plenty to coordinate, and the slapstick tone means a botched combo is funny rather than frustrating. If your evenings are about playing alongside someone rather than taking turns, this is an easy fit.