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Top of my head.
Trine Series (2 specifically), Terraria, Minecraft or Luanti, Risk of Rain, TF2 MvM, Don’t Starve together, DeepRock Galactic, Torchlight 2, Sea of Thieves (Custom seas), Zero-K, SarCraft 2 co op, Shadow Warrior 2, Crime Boss Rockay City, Payday 2, Gauntlet Slayer Edition, E.Y.E Devine cybermancy, Battle Block Theater, Magicka, Monaco, Cult of the Lamb, Vermintide.
You are asking for Borderlands 2, friend. You're in for a grand adventure.
So you want to hear a story, eh?
Don't Starve Together
Try gambling with your friends
Deep Rock Galactic fulfills nearly all your requirements, depending on A) how it runs on your machine, seems Linux works for many and B) if alien bugs count as zombie for you, as they are also mindless hordes that swarm you. I have a lot of fun with DRG, I can recommend it.
Trine Series contain fun coop puzzler for up to 3 people. Don't know how all of them play on Linux, but 1 & 2 work on the Steam Deck, so should work in general. And 2 is in my opinion the best one. They have a story, but its not really about it, the puzzle and levels are 95% of the focus.
Lara Croft and Tempel of Osiris is up to 4 coop puzzle action adventure. It was fun and the difficulty 9f the puzzles gets adjusted for the player number if I remember correctly. Seems for some it runs on Wine, but as always, mileage may vary.
Deep Rock runs great on Linux. Or rather proton. But i caution anyone that wants to solo the game. It's not easily done.
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I think there's actually a lot of games that fit all of those?
What genres do you play? Shooters, survival games, RPGs, sandboxish...? Might narrow down some ideas.
I'm open to pretty much anything genre-wise, although I editted the post to narrow down the criteria a bit more.
Had a lot of fun with Astroneer and Planet Crafter. Both run well on Linux and the steamdeck, so should also have descent hardware requirements. Only the story is a little thin.
Steam search is being a little less helpful than I'd like, but
Are all games I've at least heard of before that all have a friend's pass, so only one of you would even need to buy the game
so I went back to playing star trek online and champions online from cryptic. they are from aroudn 2010 so pretty easy on hardware. you can play together although you may have to do tutorial along although I think with champions if you play at the same time I think you are in the same instance and can play together. I know champions is eventually skippable for an alt but not sure if you can skip from the get go.
Absolum
Kingdom Two Crowns
Mindustry is free, low spec, runs on linux, has a campaign - its a factory + tower defense game
Asterisk on free. Steam version, last I checked, is normally $9.99USD full price. Cheap enough if you wanna support the devs, but having a free version to see if you and your friends are gonna like it also really helps.
Elden Ring?
Core Keeper might fit the bill. Very similar to Terraria, but closer to isometric instead of a side scroller. Randomly generated world divided into staggered biomes with handmade "scenes" spawned in to add interesting things to find.
Starbound! I fucking love Starbound.
Baldurs Gate3 Absolum Streets of rage 4
All the action roguelikes seem to fit
Pathfinder and D&D run on a telephone and a handful of dice. And the zombies are optional.
Real talk, though, I'd have to second the recommendation for Starbound. It has tons and tons of mods, and it runs just fine on Linux.
Halo.
Unless you count the flood as zombies? 🤔
Maybe Mechabellum could be something
it is an autobattler like direct strike from starcraft, easy to pick up, hard to master though
also.. V Rising could be something for you (isometric action hack and slash with building an crafting)
and if you dont mind "overwhelming" systems in the game, warframe could be fun too
There’s a game I’ve seen a lot of YouTubers starting to play over the last week or two that looks a lot of fun - Mecca Chameleon
Online multiplayer. One person is hunter, others are hiders. The twist is that you can paint your character. So you find a hiding spot, and then paint yourself to blend in to your surroundings
I don’t know if it’s what you’re after, but it looks like a lot of fun
Unfortunately, its really hardware-intensive. It uses ray-tracing, so it struggles to run even on my 5th-gen Ryzen, RTX3050 system. If you have a large enough group and can run it, its pretty fun, though.