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 26 of them. 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.
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.
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.
Games like Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime →

Local multiplayer dungeon crawler where players control monsters and traps against a hero. Fast-paced roguelike with evolving monsters and item collection.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Games like Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing →

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.
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.
Games like AVICII Invector →

A classic 2D side-scroller beat'em up with local co-op. It features simple controls for complex combos and multiple endings.
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.
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.
Games like Kopanito All-Stars Soccer →

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.
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.
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.
Games like N (NPLUSPLUS) →

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.
Games like Make Way →

Party game with five unique mini-games. Players use phones to answer prompts and compete in humorous challenges.
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.
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.
Games like The Jackbox Party Pack →

Arcade racer with chaotic, combative multiplayer. Collect vehicles and use power-ups on miniature obstacle courses.
Games like Toybox Turbos →

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.
Games like Divekick →

Party combat game with physics-based boomerang fighting. Fast-paced, accessible, and customizable multiplayer fun.
Games like Boomerang Fu →

Arcade racing survival game with no brakes. Players race, destroy, and adapt to obstacles in multiplayer.
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.
Games like The Jackbox Party Pack 2 →

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.
Games like Nidhogg 2 →
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