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AcquiringXbox Game Pass does not solely entail solo play-time. Fun experiences are just lying in store for duos with access to the console's greatest gaming service. A decent amount of titles available on Xbox Game Pass (and EA Play) allow for the pleasure of local co-op. And as any gamer worth their salt knows, playing a game with a buddy using good old-fashioned couch co-op is one of the best joys to be had.

Whether the action occurs on a single screen or double the participation necessitates split-screen, these games ensure entertainment between friends. From sci-fi shooters to goofy physics-based playgrounds, Xbox owners can't go wrong with these fun, local co-op titles.

What is it about the act of cooking that makes for great co-op games? PlateUp! follows in the footsteps of Overcooked as another fantastic local multiplayer game that tasks you and your friends with operating a restaurant and dealing with the chaos that ensues. But where Overcooked focuses on timed rushes assembling various dishes, PlateUp! has you building your entire restaurant from the ground up.

That means four goats headbutting gas tanks to make them explode. Four goats wall-climbing buildings to reach air vents that will propel them further into the sky. Four goats licking pedestrians and taking them along on adventures. Four goats baa-ing and dressing up to the heights of fashion. Just four goats having a good time. Goat Simulator 3 was practically made for local co-op fun.

What's better than chaotic goat madness? Chaotic goat madness with a friend in tow. Goat Simulator allows local couch co-op hilarity as players wreak havoc on a town and city as unhinged goats. Physics madness ensues as players garner arbitrary points for destroying property, leaping into the air, bleating, and other normal goat activities. The lack of structure in Goat Simulator is actually one of the game's strengths. Two players can easily lose an entire day exploring the environment, uncovering secrets, and unlocking new types of goats.

SpiderHeck is the neon-colored, spider brawler that Super Smash Bros. fans have been waiting for on Xbox Game Pass. But rather than picking different fighters with varying skill sets, you have laser weapons, both ranged and melee, scattered across the arena. When a round starts, you have to fling your spider to one of these weapons and get started brawling with your compatriots.

Votes are taken on which dialogue options to choose and quick-time events are performed jointly, so all players contribute to reaching the outcomes they desire. It can be a tense and hilarious experience at the same time. As Dusk Falls is the perfect example of a narrative-driven game that is fantastically suited for being played cooperatively.

Every cooperative title within the Xbox Game Pass library was made with the intention of allowing players to enjoy the game with a friend. But Escape Academy puts them all to shame when it comes to how much of a blast it is to solve puzzles with a buddy on your couch. It brings the joy inherent in going through an escape room right into your own home. No one (well, we assume no one) wants to play an escape room alone.

The delight of finding clues and using logic to find solutions in a group setting is just too much fun, and Escape Academy captures this magic in a video game format. Go through the various schools of the academy and their themed puzzles with a partner, solving convoluted, yet intuitive problems as a team. Escape Academy is also a highly digestible offering as it only lasts a few hours before you can see it through to completion.

The goofy nature of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (or TABS) is made twice as ridiculous with a friend in tow. Pitting the creatures on your battlefield against those arrayed by your bud on the opposite side is a hilarious experience. Watch as your googly-eyed monstrosities amble, lurch, and fall over themselves as they make sad attempts to fight their opponents. Gape in frustration as ranged units miss enemies that are right in front of them.

Is it the conventional co-op experience players fervently wish would have shipped with the campaign? Not precisely, no, but Halo Infinite does at least feature splitscreen functionality in the multiplayer suite.

The Gears series was one of the premier line of games touting the universal appeal of local co-op, so why not try your hand at the latest entry in the series. Gears 5 is the pinnacle of everything the Gears of War franchise has achieved. Its story contains multiple callbacks to the original while still forging ahead and carving out its own chunk of the mythos.

The last version of FIFA before it changed the name to EA FC is available and is one of the most popular Xbox Game Pass local multiplayer games. Xbox players are a solid part of the general audience of an estimated 1.3 million console players as of March 2024.

The previous cooperative game of Hazelight Studios is also designed for two players only. A Way Out is a down-to-earth story of a prison break with variative story and cooperative game mechanics. This game will definitely grant Xbox Game Pass subscribers a few challenging cooperative gaming sessions.

This game was one of the first successful experiences of Xbox trying to design a big cooperative game. Army of Two is a fast-paced split-screen shooter full of specific cooperative challenges from the Xbox 360 era. Remastered for the later versions of the Microsoft consoles, Army of Two adds some value for the local multiplayer gang of Xbox Game Pass.

Ragdoll physics is not new to the game development industry, but it still serves as an amazing core mechanic for some games. And it turned out to be even funnier with the friends! Here are some ragdoll physics games you can play via Xbox Game Pass cooperatively on a single device:

This chaotic, fast-paced game by Team17 is another example of the greatness of cooperative games. In Overcooked! 2, you play as a team in the kitchen of a restaurant, cooking various meals with a set of fun limitations and challenges, which becomes an amazing cooperative experience.

Do we need to introduce a huge Star Wars game from EA and the creators of the Battlefield? The sequel to Star Wars Battlefront is available through Xbox Game Pass with some game mods supporting the split screen and single-device multiplayer.

Xbox Game Pass offers hundreds of unique games, and many of these are perfect for local co-op play. While most video games have heavily pushed for online-only multiplayer, there are still plenty of excellent exceptions to choose from. Some are designed around local play, while others offer it as an option, but all the titles below allow players to play together from the same couch.

This list's focus specifically on a local co-op perspective means that some games might be better overall, but if the cooperative experience suffers, they may be listed lower than other games which emphasize that experience. This extends to games which may have great online multiplayer but poor local multiplayer. It also only allows for one game per franchise. That being said, any of these games will make a great choice the next time local co-op is on the menu when browsing Xbox Game Pass.

Goat Simulator has been on Xbox Game Pass for quite some time, and the cheekily-named Goat Simulator 3 is currently available as well. While the graphics are nothing noteworthy and the gameplay is full of strange quirks, Goat Simulator allows players to cause chaos with their friends. Unlike games with similar titles like the Farming Simulator series, Goat Simulator is a bit of a misnomer. It does not actually expect the player to live out the typical day of a goat, unless goats in real life actually do have adhesive tongues.

Goat Simulator is the kind of game that can be played casually with friends whenever there is a little free time, and it has some mechanics which utilize the co-op experience. Players are able touse their various abilities on each other as well as the environment, so players can kick each other across the map or work together to get to hard-to-reach parts of the map. As a sandbox title, creating the fun is expected, but there are plenty of NPCs, world objects, and absurd scenarios to interact with.

The Gears of War series has been going on since 2006, and each game has sought to make improvements over its predecessor. Gears of War 3 is one of the best examples of this, as it took the Horde mode introduced in Gears of War 2 and added more tactical elements like barricades, turrets, and Silverback mechs. While it was not the entry to introduce classes to the mode, specialization is still encouraged to best make use of the limited time between rounds.

If Horde mode gets old, there is also the choice to take the role of the monstrous Locust and launch assaults on a small squad in Beast. This is to say nothing of the campaign mode, which can also be played in split-screen. All of these modes incentivize working together and watching each other's backs. While it can be played in small bursts, it is best to plan ahead for Gears of War 3, as sessions can easily run multiple hours.

Halo revolutionized the first-person shooter genre, introducing staples like regenerating health and a focus on multiplayer gameplay. Halo: The Master Chief Collection includes the game that started it all, but it also includes Halo: Reach, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo 4. All of these titles allow for their campaign modes to be played in split-screen, so two people can go through most of the Halo franchise from the same room.

Halo's campaign experience most clearly encourages cooperative gameplay, especially on higher difficulties. Players have regenerating shields, but they take time to regenerate, so recovering often means that one Spartan can take the aggro off another one who is recovering from a Needler barrage. It also allows for a combination of long-range and short-range gunplay, with one player charging the frontline while the other takes out high-priority targets during the distraction.

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