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Local Multiplayer hidden gems on Steam
Every game here is tagged Local Multiplayer on Steam, sits between 1,000 and 5,000 reviews, is rated at least 80% positive, and carries a catch drawn from its own negative reviews. All 30 of them, most reviewed first. How these pages are made.
2D tag-team fighting game featuring 2v2 battles with assist characters. It offers fast-paced, kinetic combat with smooth mechanics and gorgeous graphics.
What players likedPlayers praise its simplified combo system and accessibility, making it a fun, casual 2v2 anime fighter akin to mashing action figures.
The catchCharacter movesets are stripped down from the source fighters, so combat feels shallow.
Games like BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle →
This is a digital party game collection featuring multiple mini-games where players use their own devices to answer prompts and vote. It offers a casual, humorous experience for groups playing locally or remotely.
What players likedPlayers praise it as the perfect party game for events, with every game being an absolute banger.
The catchServer connections drop or fail entirely, kicking phones out and stalling games.
Games like The Jackbox Party Pack 3 →
Co-op action space shooter with frantic teamwork manning ship stations. Explore randomized levels, upgrade ships, and rescue space-bunnies.
The catchAssigning controllers to players is a repeated struggle that can end a session.
Games like Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime →
Crawl95% positive from 3,943 reviews20172% finish itDeck Verified
Local multiplayer dungeon crawler where players control monsters and traps against a hero. Fast-paced roguelike with evolving monsters and item collection.
What players likedCrawl is a wild ride best enjoyed with friends, offering unpredictable matches and memorable experiences.
The catchThere is no online multiplayer, and playing alone against the bots gets dull fast.
Games like Crawl →
This is a turn-based insult battle game where players construct insults from word components. It features competitive multiplayer modes and a humorous, confrontational feel.
The catchThe novelty wears off within half an hour once the phrases start repeating.
Games like Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator →
A 4-player local party game with intense archery combat. Players compete in versus matches or cooperate in a quest mode.
What players likedPlayers praise its classic, cool gameplay, excelling in both co-op and PVP experiences.
The catchControllers often go undetected or map to wrong buttons, and bindings cannot be changed.
Games like TowerFall Ascension →
This is a digital board game of deduction. Players move around a mansion, gather clues, and make accusations to solve a murder mystery.
What players likedPlayers praise this addicting and well-executed digital adaptation for being exactly like the classic board game, enjoyable solo or with friends.
The catchOnly one board and a few characters are included, the rest sits behind paid DLC.
Games like Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition →
This is a kart racing game featuring SEGA characters. Players use unique vehicles and power-ups in fast-paced races.
What players likedPlayers praise this classic arcade kart racer as a fun Mario Kart-like experience with a great roster and soundtrack.
The catchThe PC port crashes and stutters constantly on modern systems.
Games like Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing →
Timberman VS91% positive from 3,379 reviews2018Deck Playable
Timberman VS is a fast-paced arcade game with a core loop of rapidly chopping trees. It offers competitive multiplayer and single-player challenges with a casual, skill-testing feel.
The catchExtra restart steps and limited keys slow the pace
Games like Timberman VS →
Rhythm-action game where players fly through space, hitting beats to 25 AVICII songs. It offers solo or multiplayer competitive gameplay with a focus on musical flow.
What players likedPlayers praise it as a fantastic rhythm game, offering a challenging mental and physical workout set to amazing music, wishing there were more games like it.
The catchJudgment line moves with scroll speed, throwing off timing
Games like AVICII Invector →
Fight'N Rage91% positive from 3,189 reviews20179% finish itDeck Verified
A classic 2D side-scroller beat'em up with local co-op. It features simple controls for complex combos and multiple endings.
What players likedPlayers praise its intuitive controls, fluid hitboxes, consistent art, and engaging progression, feeling like a polished, hidden gem.
The catchDifficulty comes from enemy spam that crowds the screen until your character vanishes.
Games like Fight'N Rage →
Party game collection featuring trivia, hypothetical scenarios, rap battles, invention design, and alien combat. Players use web-enabled devices for local or remote multiplayer fun.
What players likedPlayers praise the pack as the "best Jackbox" with "fun and unique ideas" in games like Mad Verse City, Patently Stupid, and Split the Room.
The catchMost of the five games fall flat, leaving only one or two worth playing.
Games like The Jackbox Party Pack 5 →
Arcade soccer game with skill-based mechanics and super-moves. Fast-paced, challenging gameplay where player skill determines victory.
The catchControls are clunky, with passing and player switching often doing the wrong thing.
Games like Kopanito All-Stars Soccer →
Heave Ho91% positive from 2,572 reviews20192% finish itDeck Verified
Heave Ho is a chaotic multiplayer party game where players swing using their hands to reach platforms, leading to hilarious failures. It's a physics-based co-op and versus challenge focused on teamwork and precarious movement.
What players likedPlayers praise its fun, accessible physics-based co-op that's easy to learn but challenging to master.
The catchThere is no online co-op, and the Steam Remote Play workaround often fails.
Games like Heave Ho →
This is a fast-paced, competitive projectile fighting game where players hit an accelerating ball. Its core loop involves mastering unique character abilities and timing to defeat opponents.
The catchThe online is dead, so matches rarely fill unless you bring friends.
Games like Lethal League →
A momentum-based platformer in which a ninja carries its own speed past homicidal robots to grab gold and reach the exit, across 4,690 hand-made levels with an editor and leaderboards.
What players likedPlayers praise N++ as a perfected precision platformer, often compared to Celeste, with vast content and satisfying flow.
The catchLong standing bugs go unfixed, with broken displays, failed launches and lost saves.
Games like N (NPLUSPLUS) →
Make Way91% positive from 2,143 reviews20230% finish itDeck Verified
Top-down multiplayer party racer where players build chaotic tracks together, then race on them with weapons. It features a core loop of collaborative building and competitive racing with evolving courses.
What players likedPlayers praise "Make Way" as a chaotic and fun multiplayer racing game, reminiscent of Micro Machines, with innovative track building.
The catchOnline play barely connects, with friends unable to join and constant desync and drops.
Games like Make Way →
Party game with five unique mini-games. Players use phones to answer prompts and compete in humorous challenges.
What players likedPlayers praise it as a great starting pack for friend groups, with "Joke Boat" being a standout game.
The catchJoke Boat's setups make it hard to be funny
Games like The Jackbox Party Pack 6 →
This is a digital party game collection featuring multiple trivia and creative mini-games. Players use web-enabled devices to participate in humorous, competitive rounds.
What players likedPlayers find it a good, funny party game for friends, though not the best Jackbox, with Monster Seeking Monster being a highlight.
The catchMost of the minigames in this pack are forgettable compared to the other packs.
Games like The Jackbox Party Pack 4 →
This is a digital party game collection for 1-100 players using phones as controllers. It features trivia, bluffing, drawing, and word games with a casual, humorous feel.
The catchNearly every game here has a better version in the later packs.
Games like The Jackbox Party Pack →
Toybox Turbos85% positive from 1,857 reviews201445% finish itDeck Verified
Arcade racer with chaotic, combative multiplayer. Collect vehicles and use power-ups on miniature obstacle courses.
What players likedPlayers praise this fun, creative 3D top-down racer as being like Micro Machines, especially for its multiplayer.
The catchAll the camera modes swing around and hide the track ahead of you.
Games like Toybox Turbos →
Divekick84% positive from 1,830 reviews20131% finish itDeck Verified
Divekick is a minimalist, two-button fighting game where players win rounds with a single hit. Its core loop focuses on precise spacing, timing, and outsmarting opponents.
The catchTwo-button design is shallow and repeats within minutes
Games like Divekick →
Boomerang Fu97% positive from 1,815 reviews2020Deck Verified
Party combat game with physics-based boomerang fighting. Fast-paced, accessible, and customizable multiplayer fun.
What players likedPlayers praise this chaotic couch-multiplayer as an amazing, fun party game that's easy for anyone to pick up and enjoy with friends and family.
The catchThere is no online multiplayer, so everyone has to be on the same couch to play.
Games like Boomerang Fu →
BlazeRush88% positive from 1,724 reviews20145% finish itDeck Verified
Arcade racing survival game with no brakes. Players race, destroy, and adapt to obstacles in multiplayer.
What players likedPlayers praise this isometric racer's fun gameplay, unique shove-to-kill mechanic, and amazing car designs.
The catchHeavy rubber banding teleports cars back into the pack, so races come down to luck.
Games like BlazeRush →
Party game collection featuring bluffing, sound effects, drawing, writing, and bomb defusal. Players use phones as controllers for humorous, competitive digital party nights.
The catchThe two decent games here were replaced by better versions in later party packs.
Games like The Jackbox Party Pack 2 →
Nidhogg 281% positive from 1,306 reviews201710% finish itDeck Playable
Nidhogg 2 is a 2D arena combat game focused on fast-paced, melee-heavy duels. Players fight to reach the other side of the screen, using various weapons and parrying mechanics in a grotesque, competitive style.
What players likedNidhogg 2 is a fast-paced, responsive 1v1 combat game with a tug-of-war objective, praised for its fun, accessible gameplay and colorful art.
The catchThe cluttered new art style and character designs look far worse than the original.
Games like Nidhogg 2 →
New Star™ GP92% positive from 1,271 reviews20244% finish itDeck Verified
Arcade racing management game with retro visuals. Manage team and race through decades, making strategic decisions on and off track.
What players likedPlayers praise its fun, smooth arcade racing and engaging career mode, preferring it over complex F1 simulations.
The catchThe adaptive AI scales up whenever you do well, so improving stops mattering in career.
Games like New Star™ GP →
Cooperative puzzle platformer. Players control two characters with elemental abilities to navigate levels and collect items.
The catchCharacters crawl unless the monitor is set to 60Hz, which breaks the timed levels.
Games like Fireboy & Watergirl: Elements →
Megabyte Punch90% positive from 1,126 reviews201312% finish itDeck Verified
This is a 2D fighting/beat 'em up game where players build custom fighters by collecting parts, then battle in a computer world. It features local co-op and versus modes with a focus on character customization and combat.
What players likedPlayers praise its "Mega Man"-like combat and "near infinite combinations of abilities" for creative builds.
The catchCombat and platforming controls feel clunky, floaty and imprecise throughout.
Games like Megabyte Punch →
Mighty Goose87% positive from 1,054 reviews2021Deck Verified
This is a fast-paced, side-scrolling run-and-gun shooter with a focus on skillful combat and customization. Players control a bounty hunter battling a galactic monarch through vibrant pixel art worlds.
What players likedPlayers praise its incredibly smooth, action-packed gameplay and well-integrated effects, making for a satisfyingly chaotic experience.
The catchConstant screen effects bury enemy bullets, making fights hard to read.
Games like Mighty Goose →
