What Makes a Great Co-op RPG
A great co-op RPG keeps what makes the genre worth playing solo, meaningful character progression, build depth and a world worth exploring, and then makes those things better with a partner instead of just bolting multiplayer on. The strongest picks let each player own a character and a role, scale their threats to the size of the party, and turn loot, crafting and boss fights into shared goals. This list is hand-curated for the PlayStation co-op RPGs that deliver that, and spans the sub-genres co-op fans gravitate toward: party-based CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2, loot ARPGs like Diablo III and Path of Exile, monster-hunting like Monster Hunter: World, soulslikes like Nioh 2 and Remnant II, looter-shooters like Borderlands 3 and Warframe, the MMO scale of The Elder Scrolls Online, vampire survival in V Rising, roguelite runs in Ravenswatch, and lightweight couch play in Cat Quest III and Sunderfolk. Games that are co-op in name only, or whose only company is an AI companion, are deliberately left off.
Curated by Ugur Saritepe. Rankings weigh aggregated player ratings and review sentiment collected from Steam and the PlayStation Store, with catalogue data from IGDB. How we rankPlayStation StoreSteamIGDB

















