Multiplayer gaming is in an interesting place these days. With the incredible popularity of online gaming, you can instantly party up with players from Spain, Russia, and Brazil for a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter quest, or find a Japanese opponent for a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon battle in a trice. We wouldn’t have dreamed this would be possible just a few yea🌊rs ago. Not on this scale.
This is all well and good, and being connected to a vast network of gamers around the world has entirely changed the industry. Sometimes, though, it seems ♉as though people never game with/against each other in person anymore. So many of us grew up with that sort of experience, and it's a shame that it seems to be being neglected these days.
All of this connectivity comes at a cost, then: more and more, developers and publishers are seemingly forgetting about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:good ol’ fashioned couch co-op and split-screen play. Don't worry, though, nostalgic Switch owners. The family-friendly funsters at Nintendo seem to be one of the last bastions of that sort of thing, which is why we’re taking a look at some of Nintendo Switch’s best local multiplayer and couch co-op options. From Cuphead to Super Mario Bros., from Snipperclips to Pokkén Tournament DX, there's something for e𓆏very age group (and combination of gamers and non-gamers) to enjoy together.
Updated January 26th, 2020 by Chris Littlechild: With so many more new and unique games available on the Nintendo Switch, it just makes sense to add more titles. After all, you can't have too many couch co-op gaming parties, right?
15 ARMS
Nintendo Switch may be enjoying a lot of success right now 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and have a bright future ahead of it, but it wasn’t always that way. When the system launched in March 2017, it didn’t have any essential titles that had us throwing our money at the cashier like Fry’s Futurama in that silly meme. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was the biggest draw, but it had already been released on the Wii U, so the four people❀ around the world who owned one of those were set.
One of the early Switch titles that deserves more love today is ARMS. This quirky fighting game sees players take each other on using odd extendable arms. Each has different weights and/or elemental properties, and combined with the unique abilities of each character, it’s a surprisingly deep fighter. The attention to detail lavished on every inch of the presentation is a plus too. It’ꦦs a riot in local multiplayer!
14 Ne♑w Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
The Switch has far eclipsed anything the poor old Wii U could ever hope to have accomplished. Even so, the hybrid handheld hasn’t been afraid to port ove🧸r some of the quality games that the failed console🌄 did have.
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe arrived in January 2019. While it doesn’t ✱do anything particularly ground-breaking with the New Super Mario Bros. series, it’s an excellent and expansive 2D Mario adventure. Players of all experience levels will have a lot of fun journeying through its varied worlds, which really come to life in multiplayer.
13 Mario Tennis A✨c༺es
The latest instalment in the beloved Mario Tennis franchise took things to a different level. New mechanics like racket HP (and the poten🃏tial to break them), zone shots, trick shots and the time-tinkering zone speed allow for a lot of different defensive and offensive strategies to be employed.
Players can compete against each other, naturally, but Aces has also added some interesting events more recently⭕. In these, players can join together to take on a challenge (defeating Boos to earn coins, for instance) and win prizes, which consist of different costumes for characters.
12 🤪 🍸 Snipperclips: Cut It Out, Together!
Ah, yes. Now this 🐼is the sort 🍨of family-friendly fun you’d expect to see on a Nintendo console. No heated competition, no rage, no co-operation in an adorable little colorful world.
In this Switch launch title, players must work together to solve a range of puzzles. This is done by manipulating the shapes of the two main characters, Snip and Clip. The concept of standing together and ‘snipping’ parts from their bodies to create different shapes is very unique, and will be a lot of fun for families and younger players who don’t want a game to take too seriously. It also has minigames and a party mode, and was expanded with new modes and levels with the release of Snipperclips Plus (standalone or as DLC) in November of 2017.
11 Cuphead
Generally speaking, couch co-op and multiplayer titles are built around the concept of jut having a little silly fun. No high stakes, no K/Ds to worry about, just accessible silliness. If you’re playing with fellow experienced gamers and want to dial things up a notch, Cuphead could be just the title for you.
This infamously difficult run and gun title was quite a coup for Nintendo Switch when it a♏rrived in April 2019. It’s a fantastically-animated indie adventure which revo𝓀lves around the idea of a boss gauntlet. The enemies will crush you again and again, but you’ll keep coming back for more, especially with a friend at your side (if only because you can revive each other).
10 Captain Toad: Trea🤪sure Tracker 🃏
Another Wii U port, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is one of the more unique spin-offs of the Mario series. It’s a puzzle/action game starring the eponymous little hero, who must avoid enemies and other pitfalls as he navigates a series of ch♊allenging stages to collect the star at the end.
If you’re familiar with the game, you’ll know that it was primarily a single-player experience. However, a February 2019 update added a co-operative mode, in which the second player takes the role of Toadette. If you know a Mario fan who wants to try something that’s a little different but still in their wheelhouse, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker comes highly recommended.
9 Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled 🔜
There was a time, not so very long ago, when the very idea of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Bandicoot (or any other PlayStation-associated characters) appearing on a rival console would be unthinkable. Still, we live in a wild time, where Mario and Sonic happily create minigame compilations together and Solid Snake and Cloud Strife feature in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Smash Bros.
As such, it’s really not surprising that both the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled are available on the Switch now. The latter is a great remaster of 1999 PS1 classic 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Team Racing, a worthy Mario Kart alternative with slightly more technical mechanics which🌜 is a blast to play with friend🌳s.
8 Pokkén Tourna🐓ment DX 𝐆
The Switch edition of Pokkén Tournament 🐠is crammed with a lot of extra content from the arcade edition, including all-new fighters like Empoleon and Scizor.
It’s a surprisingly technical fighter. That’s not to say that it’s overly complex, though, as anybody can hop onto the cou𒅌ch with you and enjoy the flashy Pokém💟on action. You can take it as seriously as you wish.
7 💞 Overcooked/Overcooked 2
Now, Overcooked and its sequel aren’t exclusive to Nintendo Switch, of course. 🐭This 🌱madcap arcade cooking title is available on various platforms. It fits with Switch’s vibe of silly co-op fun perfectly, however.
As you surely know, the Overcooked games task the players with preparing a variety of dishes as quickly and efficiently as possib♋le, under various ridiculous conditions (on the deck of a ship that’s rolling wildly in a storm, for instance). Its cute cartoon visuals, simple yet addictive gameplay and sheer hilarity make it a great choice fo๊r any local-multiplayer-minded Switch owner.
6 𒆙 Castle Crashers Remast𝔍ered
The success of the Switch has meant that Nintendo gamers have been able to enjoy all kinds of hit titles for the first time. Ports of some of the biggest titles, such as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Overwatch, have made it to the system, alongside some smaller but no less important games. Another example is The Behemoth’s popular Castle Crashers, which was released for the system in September 2019 in the form of Castle Crashers Remastered.
Fans of classic beat em ups will want to make sure this one’s in their Switch library. A Medieval-themed scrolling brawler with a light sprinkling of RPG elements and lashings of The Behemoth’s trade🔯mark silliness, it’s a riot with a full party of four.