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Tribute Games has released Back in the Band, a $3.99 DLC adding Stephen Stills, Kim Pine and Knives Chau as playable fighters with three new assists. It ships alongside Coin-Op Chaos, a free update introducing a score-chasing Arcade Mode with four-player local and online co-op and cross-platform play.
HoYoverse used Gamescom Opening Night Live to world-premiere Nodusfall, a dark-fantasy co-op action RPG built in Unreal Engine 5 with none of the studio's usual anime styling. Players are Weavers hunting corrupted mythic beasts, climbing on them and roping them down in squad fights that look closer to Monster Hunter and Elden Ring: Nightreign than to Genshin Impact. No date, no platforms, and reportedly free-to-play without a character gacha.
D3 Publisher announced Earth Defense Force 6.2: Invaders from Another World for PS5 in 2027 - an enhanced Earth Defense Force 6 with roughly twice the on-screen enemies, a new giant-mushroom species, DLC-tier tough enemies moved into the main story, more than half the missions restructured, and the series' first weapon customisation system. Playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026.
Mojang's Official Gameplay Trailer finally shows Minecraft Dungeons II in motion: a party of four stepping through a rift into a new dimension called the Sift. Armour splits into four independent slots, the Twisted Warden is waiting, and the whole thing lands on Game Pass on September 29.
Unknown Worlds' Early Access update 1.2 is all about co-op: cross-platform proximity voice chat that degrades into radio static with distance, teammate revives that preserve your loadout, player trading, tracking tags, emotes and two new avatars.
Nicalis announced The Binding of Isaac: Repentance+ Online for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 on November 19, bringing four-player online co-op to console for the first time, bundled with Rebirth and every expansion. A physical edition is Switch 2 only.
Fast Travel Games debuted gameplay for the officially licensed VR co-op heist game at the August 13 VR Games Showcase, running through loadout building, casing the target and going loud. A closed Meta Quest 3 playtest runs August 20-24 ahead of a Q4 2026 launch on SteamVR and Quest.
RubberBandGames' physics sandbox arrives on phones August 20 as a premium $8.99 release, with 20-plus jobs, 90-plus vehicles, 500-plus customisation items and cross-platform mobile multiplayer. Curve Games is publishing.
Torn Banner's eight-player co-op zombie shooter hits 1.0 on August 11 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S at $29.99, with crossplay. The release adds a wave-based Survival mode, a single-player option, four new maps and a rebuilt difficulty system after nearly two years and 16 early access updates.
Obsidian's Into the Abyss update opens Brookhollow Park's pond at 18:00 UTC on August 11, adding five regions, diving suits, a harpoon and the amphibious Toe-biter Buggy. Grounded 2 also hits PS5 early access the same day at $29.99, with crossplay and cross-progression intact.
Castellan's Creed, the Helldivers 2 x Warhammer 40,000 Legendary Warbond, launches August 12 with a Meltagun stratagem, a bolt pistol, and two armors carrying a 30% support-weapon reload passive. Premium Warbond tokens will not cover it.
Devolver Digital and Behaviour Interactive have dated the co-op roguelite shooter for August 31 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Up to five alternate-dimension Sams, procedurally shuffled hand-crafted arenas, stacking boons and cross-platform play.
ProbablyMonsters has dated its gothic action RPG for September 1 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC at $19.99, with a $29.99 Deluxe Edition. You play a Nephilim reclaiming the fallen city of Gildenarch through replayable, modifier-driven missions, solo or in two-player co-op that scales enemies to party size.
House House, the studio behind Untitled Goose Game, launches its cooperative online 'walker-talker' Big Walk today on PS5, Switch 2, and PC - and it's free on PS Plus from day one.
Splatoon Raiders, the single-player-focused Switch 2 spin-off, launches July 23. Nintendo's June 30 Direct detailed Deep Cut, the Spirhalite Islands, 100+ weapon variations and co-op for four.
RV There Yet?, the physics-based co-op comedy that grew from a game jam into a 4.5-million-selling Steam smash, parks on Xbox Series X|S and PC via the Microsoft Store on June 30 - day one on Game Pass with Play Anywhere support.
Arrowhead's Machinery of Oppression 6.3.0 update for Helldivers 2 is live on PS5, Xbox and PC, packing hundreds of balance changes across weapons, enemies and stratagems alongside a new biome, a Control Center terminal, fresh Galactic Campaigns and a reworked training program.
Devolver Digital and doinksoft launched roguelite shmup-platformer Dark Scrolls on June 22 for PC and Nintendo Switch, with nine playable heroes, solo and co-op runs, and a limited-time deal that hands buyers Gunbrella and Gato Roboto for free.
The frantic co-op railway builder has left Early Access. Unrailed 2: Back on Track launched into 1.0 on June 11 across PC, Switch, Switch 2 and PS5, expanding the cult original with a 3D world, new biomes, deeper progression and cross-platform play for .99.
System Era Softworks and Devolver Digital launch STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions into Early Access on June 11, 2026 - a crossplay co-op sandbox of expeditions to the planet Tephra, on Game Pass day one across PC, Xbox, PS5 and Switch 2 for $29.99.
Unrailed 2: Back on Track exits Early Access on June 11, 2026, launching its 1.0 version on PS5, Switch 2, Switch and PC for $19.99 with six biomes, bosses, Terrain Conductor custom maps and an 8-player Versus mode.
Revealed at Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition 2026, Trine 6: Together in Time reunites Amadeus, Zoya and Pontius with two new heroes for 1-4 player co-op, launching September 17 on Steam, Epic, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and Switch 2.
Mojang revealed Minecraft Dungeons II at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 - a sequel to the blocky co-op dungeon-crawler action-RPG, with up to four-player co-op and a September 29 launch.
Jagex used Summer Game Fest to confirm that survival-crafting breakout RuneScape: Dragonwilds leaves Early Access with a full 1.0 launch on September 15, 2026, simultaneously across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC — the first RuneScape game on PlayStation in 25 years.
Nintendo has released a seven-minute overview trailer for its Switch 2 remake of Star Fox ahead of the June 25 launch, detailing the branching campaign with Pilot-and-Gunner co-op via GameShare, Joy-Con 2 mouse-controlled targeting, Challenge Mode, a 4-vs-4 Battle Mode with special power-ups, and ten soundtrack additions to the Nintendo Music app.
Indoor Astronaut and Kepler Ghost confirm Unrailed 2: Back on Track exits Steam Early Access for a full 1.0 launch on June 11, 2026 across PC, PS5, Switch and Switch 2, packing six biomes, boss fights, the Terrain Conductor custom map tool, an 8-player Versus Mode and leaderboards.
Solarpunk, the serene floating-island survival sandbox from two-person studio Cyberwave, has been confirmed as a day-one Xbox Game Pass title when it launches June 8, 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, Switch 2 and PC - building, farming, drone automation and airship exploration across islands in the sky.
OtherSide Entertainment's long-gestating immersive-sim heist game arrives on Steam for $4.99 today, six months after the studio dropped its planned PvPvE direction for solo and two-player co-op infiltration runs through alternate-1910s Kilcairn. The launch package: 16 contracts, two replayable maps, six gear pieces, dynamic stealth in the Thief/Deus Ex tradition, and a deliberately small entry price that the studio plans to grow with future content drops rather than a single $70 box.
Subnautica 2 hit Early Access on May 14 and immediately set a 467,582 concurrent Steam peak with over a million copies sold in the first hour, burying nine months of pre-launch drama on the way to one of 2026's biggest game launches.
Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Supamonks have shipped the cross-play patch that's been the most-requested feature since Absolum launched in October 2025, finally letting all four console and PC versions of the rogue-lite beat 'em up share lobbies for two-player online co-op.
Unknown Worlds confirms a single global unlock at 15:00 UTC on May 14, 2026 for Steam, Epic, Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass. The .99 Early Access build introduces drop-in co-op for up to four divers on a new planet.
A 14-person indie studio just shipped a sustainability-flavored road-trip RPG to Game Pass Ultimate. Build your own house on wheels, source power from sun, wind, or water, and bring three friends along — Subnautica 2's three-day head start was no accident.
Sony and Guerrilla just unveiled Closed Test #2 for Horizon Hunters Gathering, running May 22-25 on PS5 and PC (Steam) with sign-ups via the PlayStation Beta Program. The test adds two new playable Hunters (Ensa, an Oseram smuggler; Shadow, a Carja covert operative with a tame Stalker machine), a new region called Breakers' Bounty, an Ashwater Valley narrative episode, two new difficulty tiers (Hard and Merciless), and NPC-assisted solo play — quietly killing the cancellation rumors that have been circling the project for months.
Cold Iron Studios and Daybreak just announced Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 with an IGN-exclusive reveal trailer on May 7, confirming Summer 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC with full crossplay. The sequel jumps from three-player to four-player co-op, adds a customizable Specialist class that mixes major and minor abilities from every other class, and ships with dedicated Horde maps at launch.
Unknown Worlds underwater survival sequel enters Early Access on May 14 with four-player co-op built from the ground up, cross-platform play, day-one Game Pass access, and no microtransactions at 29.99 dollars.
Kill It With Fire 2 hits Nintendo Switch on May 7 for $14.99 with full four-player online co-op and the new Humans vs. Spiders PvP mode. The chaotic spider extermination sim from tinyBuild brings its full arsenal of absurd weapons to portable play.
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launches into Early Access on May 20 with five new classes, procedurally generated caves, and terrifying new alien species — a full roguelite reinvention of the co-op mining franchise.
Subnautica 2 enters Early Access on May 14 with four-player co-op, a brand-new alien ocean world, and a $29.99 price tag — after surviving one of gaming's messiest developer-publisher disputes.
Eight-person French indie studio Evil Raptor has sold 250,000 copies of co-op cowboy shooter Far Far West in just 48 hours, climbing to No. 1 on Steam's top sellers and racking up an Overwhelmingly Positive review score. We break down the gameplay, the server hiccups, and the chances this hot streak holds.
Kinetic Games confirms Phasmophobia's Player Character Update for May 5, 2026, adding 12 customizable investigators with no microtransactions, removing the death room, and ushering in an Alan Wake crossover starting May 12.
Evil Raptor's 1-4 player co-op cowboy shooter launches on Steam with over 580,000 wishlists and a 98% positive demo rating.
The first-ever TMNT VR game launches April 30 with first-person combat, four-player cross-platform co-op, and a story penned by IDW comics writer Tom Waltz.
The sequel to the 4-million-player puzzle hit goes open-world with an explorable campus, deeper mysteries, and full co-op support, coming to Game Pass day one.
Klei Entertainment has announced Don't Starve Elsewhere, the first new mainline Don't Starve game since 2016. Revealed at the Triple-i Initiative 2026 showcase, it adds magic, a jump button, and a multi-layered vertical world to the studio's signature dark survival formula.
Bitmap Bureau and Mattel team up for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction, a 2D arcade brawler launching April 28 with three playable heroes, 12 stages across Eternia, and two-player local co-op.