So long story short one of my friends has very limited time to play games and seems to lose interest in time sync games.

We've tried Valheim, WoW, Deep rock Galactic, Monster hunter world, subnautica and a bunch of quick friend slop games.

He seemed to enjoy the friend slop games but those only have so much playability. He really liked Baldur's Gate 3 but we've overplayed it at this point and doesn't seem to vibe with the survival crafting type games or arpgs. The only other thing is one more guy in my group has a decent amount of time but just doesn't like shooters.

So open to anything thats not super repetitive but has some sort of meaningful progression. I know its a tall ask but if anyone could help I'd be very appreciative.

Thank you!

I'm looking for some games with story-based campaigns that I can beat with 1-4 friends in 2 nights or less. I can think of a few that I've had fun with, such as Dead Rising 2: Case West or the Launch Campaigns of L4D1, but most others are typically longer than those. Since we all have busy lives, getting a consistent group together for more than 2 nights is difficult.

I'm not asking for games that push the limit or that can TECHNICALLY be beaten in that time frame if you rush like A Way Out. I'm asking for games that can RELIABLY be beaten in 5 hours or less, even when playing with people who don't typically play games.

As the title stated, am looking to make connections through gaming, reading, going on holidays, etc. Life is too short to spend on working, doom scrolling and bed rotting 😅

Am currently playing :

Gothic 1 Remake

Wuthering Waves

I have interests in playing any other coop survival crafting open world game but money is tight so cant spend much 😅 though I have plenty of other coop games in my steam.

A friend and I used to love survival games, but now we only have about 2 hours a day to play. Most games in this genre require 50 hours of chopping down trees and mining ore just to build a simple base. We just want to have some fun, explore the world, and make progress—without any ridiculous grind.

Thanks for checking it out! Saboteur is a local party game you play by passing ONE phone around — fitting for this sub: no accounts, no download, no data collection.

✅ Runs in any standard browser — desktop (draw with the mouse) OR phone (touch). It's a pass-the-phone local game, so it shines with a group, but you can click through the whole flow solo on desktop to see how it works.

How it works: everyone gets the same secret word and adds one stroke to a shared drawing… except one player (the impostor) who has no idea what the word is and has to bluff. Then you discuss and vote on who was faking it.

A few things that make it spicy:

- 🎭 The impostor can SABOTAGE someone's turn — mess up another player's drawing to throw the suspicion onto them.

- ⚙️ Lots to customize: rounds, turn style, number of impostors, sabotage rules, hints for the impostor, plus quick presets (Quick / Classic / Chaos).

- 🌍 6 languages, runs offline once loaded.

Honestly I picture it for those in-between moments — at the pub, during a boring lecture, or at work when you're bored and just want to kill some time together. It's still an early demo, so I'm updating it often based on feedback.

Would love feedback on: is the impostor too easy/hard to catch, and is anything confusing in the first 30 seconds? 🙏

Hello!

So, about 9 months ago i made this post, asking about good couch coop games for couples, and (to my very pleasant surprise) a LOT of you guys came with plenty of suggestions, and i'm happy to admit that there where some bangers through all of the recommendations, here are my feedback of some of them that i played:

• Cult of the Lamb:
  • No doubt, this is one of the GREATEST couch co-op games that me and my wife have played, it had everything: great artwork/graphics, good controls, combined 2 genres each of us liked the most (me: roguelites, her: management games / cozy games). It "clicked" exactly like Stardew Valley did, we would spend HOURS in the weekend playing, we are close to 100% completion and we keep finding new things to do, it really is a "one of a kind", we will have a hard time finding a game that even scratches the itch that this one did, hell of a recommendation!
• Baldur's Gate 3:
  • Surprisingly, this one didn't work out. We found the game to be very slow compared to the rhythm that we are familiar with. Playing this one we found out that turn-based RPGs are not our cup of tea, even though this one seemed like a whole bunch of content, we had trouble being newcomers to the genre and didn't catch the grip of the gameplay loop. Not a bad game, at all, just not our type of game.
• Dysmantle:
  • This is a case of "when too much, is too much": game has a LOT to do, a big open-world, a lot of quests, etc. But... the core gameplay loop is not quite engaging: you break, you loot, you craft, you kill things, repeat. Crafting better tools takes a while and is not that entertaining (atleast for us), and the split-screen mechanics doesn't seem very thought out, but that's the case when it comes to games who where primarily single-player focused. Again, not a bad game, but quite mediocre.
• Sedap:
  • Another certified BANGER. This is one of those games where we thought to ourselves "Why we never saw this anywhere before?". Similar to Cult of the Lamb this one combines two genres that we each other love: Combat and Cooking. It's fun and entertaining and gets REALLY HARD on the later levels. Both the combat mechanics and the cooking minigames were really satisfying to play, we had a great time with this one and it is a GREAT game solely because of it's innovative concept.

We are still looking up the comments in my older post and finding new games to play (there is still a lot of games in there, we certainly will be entertained for a good while)

We are yet to finish Cult of the Lamb, and when we do so, we plan to play Brothers: A Tale of Two Souls, after that, we may search the other post for another recommendation.

Thank you all to who commented on my other post, and any new recommendations are very welcome!

I am in a Discord server with primarily PS5 players - I only have a Nintendo Switch (both OG and 2). We’ve recently done a 100% play-through of Big Walk.

I’ve searched through a few threads, but a lot of them are a few years old now. So looking for some updated recommendations that support cross-platform online play between both consoles.

We have historically played:
- Minecraft
- Fall Guys
- Content Warning
- Among Us

We’ve also downloaded Overcooked! AYCE to play at some point soon.

Please let me know of any recommendations for existing and future games. Thank you!

Hi

I'm looking for some co-op game recommendations to play with a friend.

We're not looking for story-driven games or games with a co-op campaign, like It Takes Two, Space Marine 2 or Halo.

Thanks in advance !