With a computer in the club: the best cooperative games for four for the summer

In summer, it's time to grab your friends and walk for hours on end. And if the weather is not conducive to walking, you can invite all your friends to a cooperative adventure. Especially when the choice of cool co-op modes for companies is huge. Read about the best novelties of recent years, which we can all play together, in the Izvestia article.

REPO

Players: 1-6
Release year: 2025
Genre: Survival
What to play on: PC

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R.E.P.O., or Retrieve, Extract and Profit Operation, is a fun and slightly creepy cooperative survival simulator. Players try on the roles of robber robbers who take valuables from abandoned locations in a post-apocalyptic world where people have disappeared. You have to act quickly, but carefully, because every location is teeming with bizarre monsters.

R.E.P.O. is good at simple but addictive cognitive gameplay. User voices are broadcast natively here, via voice chat: the further away the partners are on the map, the worse they can be heard. All the objects have realistic physics, so dragging a valuable piano or a set of fragile glasses safely to the exit from the level often becomes a difficult but fascinating task.

Monster Hunter Wilds

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2025
Genre: action, adventure
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

Photo: Capcom

Multiplayer in the Monster Hunter series has historically had a reputation for being rather chaotic, but it has become noticeably more convenient in Wilds. This is largely due to the new squad connection system, which makes hunting together and keeping a group together easier and more enjoyable.

From the point of view of entering the series, Wilds can be called the friendliest part, so it won't be difficult to convince inexperienced friends to go hunting giant monsters.

Helldivers 2

Players: up to 4
Release year: 2024
Genre: Third-person shooter, science fiction
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 5

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Helldivers 2 blew up the internet in the first half of 2024. This is a cheerful third-person shooter in which you have to play as simple infantrymen saving the galaxy from bugs, bots and other alien evil spirits.

One of the highlights of the shooting game is that the global war in the game is led by a live game master from Arrowhead Studios. He follows the overall battle scene like a presenter in offline board games, and can send surprise reinforcements to enemies or change the difficulty level.

Palworld

Players: up to 32 on a dedicated server
Release year: 2024
Genre: adventure, action
What to play on: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

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If you cross the Pokemon series with Minecraft, you get Palworld. This online game can offer crafting, collecting resources, building your base and hunting amazing creatures.

The action is especially good with friends, because farming together and fighting off bosses is more fun and easier.

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Lethal Company

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2023
Genre: Horror, survival
What to play on: PC

Photo: Zeekerss

Another viral hit in the genre of cooperative horror with voice native chat. Players try on the role of workers infiltrating abandoned ships in search of scrap metal. Of course, the ships are cursed and inhabited by various monsters, from blind creatures that react to noise to mannequins that move when not being looked at.

Satisfactory

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2025
Genre: production simulator, sandbox
What to play on: PC

Photo: Coffee Stain Publishing

In this game, you need to build conveyors, automate mining, launch self—driving trucks and trains - in general, to establish efficient production. You can develop everything alone, but it will become even more interesting with friends. The main thing is not to quarrel when discussing where the main conveyor line will be located.

Don’t Starve Together

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2016
Genre: Survival
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Photo: Klei Entertainment

Don't Starve Together retains all the Gothic charm of the original, but adds a cooperative story. Here you will have to not only survive with your friends, but also blame each other for every failure. And there will be a lot of them, because the world of the game is as unfriendly as possible.

Every season is a new test of strength. Everything burns in summer, resources get wet in spring, and it's cold and hungry in winter. Even the simplest actions like building a campfire will require well-coordinated teamwork.

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Back 4 Blood

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2021
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Photo: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

This zombie shooter can be called a modern version of Left 4 Dead. Before each race, you need to collect a deck with perks to deal more damage, recharge faster and heal more effectively. The drive adds modifiable weapons that should be upgraded during joint missions.

Deep Rock Galactic

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2020
Genre: shooter, survival
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Photo: Coffee Stain Publishing

Each player becomes a bearded dwarf mercenary working for the soulless megacorporation Deep Rock Galactic. She sends soldiers into the bowels of the hostile planet Hoxxes IV in order to dig for resources, complete various missions and, preferably, not die. The game features four unique character classes, procedurally generated caves, and hordes of vile, hostile insects.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2018
Genre: action, slasher
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gives you the opportunity to become one of the four heroes standing up to protect the Empire from a terrifying threat. In the first part of the game, it was necessary to fight hordes of Skaven ratmen, and in the sequel they were joined by creepy cultists, demonic creatures and cursed warriors.

Highly recommended to all fans of meat slasher games and the Warhammer universe.

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Sea of Thieves

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2018
Genre: Adventure
What to play on: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Photo: Microsoft Game Studios

One of the most fun cooperative pirate sandboxes of our time. Here, the team controls the ship, searches for treasures, fights with other sea wolves, hunts kraken, sings accordion songs and drinks virtual rum.

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Overcooked! 2

Players: 1-4
Release year: 2018
Genre: arcade, cooking simulator
What to play on: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Photo: Ghost Town Games

A culinary challenge even for the strongest and oldest friendships. At first glance, the task is simple — you need to cook food together with your friends and serve dishes to customers on time. But when the kitchen consists of teleporters, platforms and lava, it is almost impossible not to collide and break plates in close quarters, and it is impossible to restrain emotions at all!