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GENRE · Co-op survival

What is a co-op survival game?

A co-op survival game is a survival game built to be played with friends. The group shares a world, splits the gathering and building, and survives together. Valheim, Don't Starve Together and Raft are co-op survival games.

Co-op survival is a Discord evening. Valheim, Grounded, Raft and Don't Starve Together: the group books a night in a shared world, and nobody queues for a match. Solo winters like The Long Dark stay on the survival page.

Best co-op survival games

Steam artwork — Terraria

Terraria

Terraria is a 2D sandbox that outgrew the '2D Minecraft' shorthand: bosses, classes, and a craft tree that keeps rewriting the world. Co-op is optional; the map is persistent.

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Steam artwork — The Forest

The Forest

The Forest is first-person survival on a cannibal island: build, raid caves, keep a story in the background. Co-op is the usual way in.

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Steam artwork — Valheim

Valheim

Valheim is a Viking survival sandbox: you gather, build, sail, and fight biome bosses on a world you keep. Co-op building is the spine.

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Steam artwork — Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together is the co-op hunger clock: seasons, bosses, and a camp that can starve while someone is still talking. A crock pot is the save, and winter is a date you both forgot.

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Steam artwork — Palworld

Palworld

Palworld mixes creature collection with guns and base craft.

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Steam artwork — Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

Knowledge of heating, moodles, and TV schedules is the skill.

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Steam artwork — 7 Days to Die

7 Days to Die

7 Days to Die is a voxel zombie sandbox whose week ends in a horde night. You mine, you wall, you hope the seventh dusk finds the concrete finished.

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Steam artwork — Raft

Raft

Raft is an ocean craft loop: expand the floater, dive, do not get sharked. The base is a square of wood that grows, and the island is a stop you chose with a sail.

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What can we build or starve in together?

Upcoming / Early Access

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