Cats Quest 2
Pretty cute game and if one person is significantly better at games, they can carry the team pretty well.
Golf With Your Friends literally brings my family together
Idk if this is your speed, but my kid and wife and I love playing the Lego games that are based on movies - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Avengers, etc.
Very couchable and can be challenging if you try to get 100% on each level.
Apologies if I misread the ask!
I see lots of excellent responses, but one of my favorite games is never mentioned, so I'll mention it here, it's Out of Space it's essentially overcooked but calmer.
There's a game by Devolver Digital called Heave Ho which is pretty fun. And has a free demo.
Borderlands and Full Metal Furies spring to mind.
Biped is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1071870/biped/
It's very similar to it takes two
This is my Couch Coop To Do List for me and my wife (sorry for bad formatting):
A Way Out Asterix & Obelix XXXL: The Ram From Hibernia Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All! BattleBlock Theater Biped Bravery and Greed Bread & Fred Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Castle Crashers Cat Quest II Chariot Conduct Together! Contra: Operation Galuga Cuphead Darksiders Genesis Death Squared Degrees of Separation Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Divinity: Original Sin II Dungeon Defenders Dungeon Golf Earth Defense Force 5 Ember Knights Escape Academy Escape Simulator Fly TOGETHER! For The King For The King II Forced From Space Fueled Up Gauntlet Golf With Your Friends Grave Danger Hammerwatch Heroes of Hammerwatch Huntdown Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes KeyWe Knights and Bikes Kukoos: Lost Pets LEGO 2K Drive LEGO City Undercover LEGO Horizon Adventures Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Lost Castle Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Magicka 2 Mekazoo Metal Slug Monaco 2 Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Moving Out Nine Parchments Nobody Saves the World Operation: Tango Outward PHOGS! Pizza Possum Pocky & Rocky Reshrined Pode Portal 2 Rayman Legends River Tails: Stronger Together Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos Rooms of Realities Rotwood Sackboy: A Big Adventure Shift Happens Sonic Superstars Spelunky Starbound Struggling Surmount Team Sonic Racing The Adventure Pals The Expanse: A Telltale Series The Plucky Squire The Swords of Ditto Tick Tock: A Tale for Two Tipston Salvage Tools Up! Towerborne Trine 2 Unrailed! Unravel Two Unruly Heroes Untitled Goose Game Voyage We Were Here Together Who's Your Daddy Wizard of Legend II ibb & obb
For future reference, double space at the end of a line to start a new line, double enter to skip a line.
Niddhog is so freaking good!
Old Apache Air Assault is neat in coop
There were two isometric Tomb Raider games a couple of years back (Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris which wasn't as good IMO). You could play in single player, but the co-op mode tweaked the puzzles slightly so you'd need to work together to complete them. And as luck would have it they're both on sale. The first is currently a whopping £1.27 on Steam.
If you fancy going even further back, there was a PS2 game called Kuri Kuri Mix by FromSoft. It may looks like it was made for toddlers, but it was surprisingly tough in places. You almost certainly can't buy that any more, but I'm sure and emulator and ROM site will do nicely.
Best couch-coop games
-= FLOSS games =-
Fish Fillets NG
Battle for Wesnoth
Minetest (websearch: Minetest Split Screen Howto)
-= 80s/90s arcade games =-
Bubble Bobble (lesser: Snow Bros or Tumblepop)
Heavy Barrel or Calibre .50 (lesser: Midnight Resistance or Ikari Warriors) [all need 8-way rotator joysticks]
Smash TV(is twin-stick, but awesome) or Narc
Rampage
Gunforce
Double Dragon
Bad Dudes v Dragon Ninja
Final Fight
Golden Axe
Sunset Riders or Vendetta
Silkworm
Cabal
Top Gunner
Side Arms
Alien Syndrome
Gauntlet
Damn, I forgot about Smash TV. Idk how much time my friend and I spent on that game as kids
Lots of time!
...And even more after renting Running Man on VHS :P
I don't see Out of Space on here. It's pretty fun and challenging.
Goat Simulator is silly fun, especially with kids.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is awesome since it lets you play up to 4 player co-op.
Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse is a good co-op twin stick shooter.
What the Golf? is lot of wacky fun. It's not really golf and has like 500 different levels, some wildly creative.
This is single player though?
No supports split screen coop, at least on PC.
Not to be confused with What the Car? That's single player only.
Phogs
Rock'n'roll racing is a fantastic coop racer. I think it's available in a remaster from blizzard somewhere.
Pampas and selene: the maze of demons seems fun
Don't Starve: Together
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Battleblock theater. Silly coop puzzle platformer
On xbox there’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game that’s fun for co-op
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