A co-op survival game where you’re likely to see friends Looney Tunes howl off a cliff. While Peak is roughly designed, the overall mechanics reward thoughtful cooperation in incredibly silly areas.

A Paper-Mario inspired narrative game about helping others move on. Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo beautifully pairs its visually vibrant afterlife with genuinely heartbreaking stories about closure.

A third-person runner where you run away from your past. Aside from a roughly designed late-game, Haste’s solid momentum based movement and cutely existential writing make it worth the marathon.

Guitar Hero mixed with Necrodancer's combat. Despite the cast of unique enemies and sometimes hectic songs, Rift of the Necrodancer remains accessible both through its options and intuitive charting.

An (ab)normal survival horror RPG. The way Look Outside treads lines between absolute oblivion and strands of hope in its gorgeously grotesque world brings its oddball situations and weirdos to life.

A jank-embracing dungeon (creepy) crawler. Flyknight lovingly pays tribute to early 2000s MMORPGs and action RPGs through its hectic but whimsical areas that are a joy to explore cooperatively.

Magic guerrilla turn-based tactics. Tactical Breach Wizards streamlines an often daunting genre by focusing on cause-and-effect rather than raw numbers, allowing its synergistic characters to shine.

A tangled boss-rush souls-like. Perennial Order uses its simple mechanics to throw a plethora of unique bosses at you. The well-planned cooperative elements also mesh well with this shotgun approach.

A Blitzing and bashful successor to the Warioland Games. ANTONBLAST keeps both the movement and collectables aspects of its inspirations while innovating with its level verticality and zany visuals.

A psychological horror about responsibility and control. Dialogue filled with manipulation, denialism and appeasing, embodies the agonizing suffocation of the ship along with its visual storytelling.