2024 has been jam packed with so many incredible indie games!
The holiday season is the perfect time for some multiplayer madness, so we’ve put together our favourite multiplayer picks from 2024.
Prefer to watch the video version? Click here
Enshrouded
Enshrouded sees you step into the world of Embervale, a huge fantasy world full of stunning landscapes, interesting towns and villages to explore, and some epic creatures to go up against.
The world has been taken over by a mysterious shroud, which is toxic and full of deadly creatures, so you’ll need to grind resources and build the best armor and weapons to take on the monsters and push back the shroud.
This one is still early access, but has had regular updates since it’s January release, and is easily a game you can sink 80+ hours into.
Will you be able to survive the Shroud?
Go Go Town!
Become the mayor of a run down town in the co-op town building game Go Go Town!
With both solo and co-op modes available, you’ll be handed the key to a rundown city, and it’ll be up to you to turn it into a bustling town.
There’s a range of different shops to build, but you’ll need to make sure they’ve got things to sell, so optimising and automating your resource collection and crafting is essential to your towns success.
Build residential buildings to grow your towns population, and set your residents to work to keep the town running, and to keep the money flowing in.
This is a great co-op or solo pick, and it’s still in early access, with more updates to come.
Wild Woods
Defend your wagon from angry bunnies and bandit badgers in the co-op action game Wild Woods.
This cozy-ish game, sees you play as cats just trying to make your way through the woods, and you’ll need to collect resources and improve your wagon by day, and defend it from not so friendly woodland creatures by night.
Your beacon fire is your life force, so you’ll need to keep it burning as you play, and you’ll need to carefully pick your route, as each will have their own level of risk and different rewards.
This is a great cooperative pick for those looking for a game where you work together.
Core Keeper
You’ll find yourself stumbling out of a strange portal into an underground world in the sandbox exploration crafting game Core Keeper.
This one is perfect for players who like to play without too much instruction, leaving you to work out exactly how to survive, craft and build in this weird underground world.
You’ll need to venture out and explore the world to gather resources, and take down bosses to progress the main story, and to gain some epic loot that is very useful for your journey.
This is a great co-op pick, that has a lot of variety in how you can play, and dropped in 1.0 this year, so is a complete game.
Wild Indigo Ranch
If you’re looking for a cozy co-op game, this one might be right up your alley.
Wild Indigo Ranch sees you start your new life on the prairie as a cozy-cowboy.
You’ll explore the frontier, scavenging resources to craft tools and weapons, and most importantly to build up your very own ranch.
With co-op for up to 4 players, you can go it alone or bring in some extra cowboys and work together to take on the corporation trying to turn the prairie into a money making machine.
This is a great multiplayer pick, that got it’s 1.0 upgrade earlier this year.
Ready Steady Ship
If you like games like Moving Out, or Overcooked, this game is for you.
Ready Steady Ship sees you play as a mailroom worker in charge of getting boxes of deliveries from the factory floor into the delivery trucks.
You’ll need to build a series of conveyor belts to get the boxes to the right place, which sounds simple, but as you climb higher up the mailroom ladder things will get increasingly weirder.
Designed to be played together, this is couch c-op gaming at it’s most chaotic, and is a perfect casual multiplayer pick.
Ricochet Rodeo
Shine your boots, we’re headed to the pixel rendered west to see who the fastest shooter in town is.
Ricochet Rodeo is a fast paced, 2D shooter game, where you go up against 7 other cowboys to see who’s the best shot.
Incorporating some physics based combat, bullets will ricochet and bounce, and it’s one hit kills, so you’ll need to watch your back and make sure you don’t get taken out by one of your own.
This is a great fast paced action pick, perfect for those who want a bit of a chaotic multiplayer game.
Servonauts
Pump gas in the chaotic co-op game Servonauts.
This space themed party game sees you build a servo, aka a gas station, and you’ll need to drill for oil, and mix the right fuels for your customers.
Pumping the wrong fuel will have explosive consequences, so you’ll have to carefully connect your pumps in the right way to come out on top.
This is a great co-op choice, perfect for lovers of games like Overcooked and Moving Out.
Unrailed 2
Team up with your friends to keep your train on the tracks as it makes it’s way through a procedurally generated world in Unrailed 2.
The second edition of this chaotic co-op game sees you team up to collect resources so you can build tracks for the train to drive on, but did I mention the train would be moving the entire time?
As you successfully make it through each level, you’ll unlock new permanent upgrades and rewards like new train engines, wagons, and extensions, and this will be crucial to avoid some trainwrecks.
This is a great co-op pick with some chaotic game play, perfect for a night in with mates.
That is a wrap on some of our favourite multiplayer games from 2024.
Until next time, stay caffeinated.
