With its plethora of content – from DLC like Reign of Giants, Shipwrecked and Hamlet to new characters and free updates – Don’t Starve Together remains one of the premiere multiplayer survival experiences. Cue an escape mission involving atmospheric exploration, rookie. It offers three modes – Survival, which turns dead players into ghosts that drain the sanity of the living Wilderness, which puts each player in a random location and Endless, where players can respawn endlessly. Get ready to boldly go (on a budget) as you blast off in Affordable Space Adventures for Wii U Unfortunately, it’s a short-lived dream when, after renting a Small Craft edition spaceship on the cheap, you ditch unceremoniously on a planet you really, really shouldn’t be on.
Let’s take a look at 15 of the best survival games worth playing in co-op.Įxpanding upon Klei Entertainment’s excellent survival experience, Don’t Starve Together is more than just the base game with co-op mechanics. Even with all the terrible things that can happen, survival games are still immensely popular and have some of the most dedicated fan bases out there. There’s nothing better than foraging, creating a base together and building a thriving community…before it all comes apart from death, disease or zombies. Although we do wish, as we do in most such games, that the levels hadn’t been randomly generated – as the lack of hand-crafting is obvious and slightly dispiriting.Ah, the act of surviving together. You have to work together to make it through the. It was then, and still is, an odd exclusive for Nintendo. Affordable Space Adventures One of the most unique co-op experiences, ASD has three players take on the controls of a single spaceship. Thankfully Canadian developer Asteroid Base seem to know what they’re doing and apart from a few tricky boss battles the difficultly level is pitched just right. The Wii U is short on third-party exclusives its true - but early on, it secured the Bayonetta franchise as a Nintendo-exclusive title. It’s a great concept but also one that must’ve been difficult to design for, as the enemies can’t afford to be too powerful or the whole thing would be impossibly frustrating. You become obsessively invested in what’s going on, and in the traditional of all co-operative games desperate to prove your superiority while also being a genuine help to your supposed partner and ally. Whatever strategy you devise it’s both a) bound to go out the window as soon as you start getting swamped by bad guys and b) certain to cause argument no matter how strictly it’s stuck too. Our newest Small Craft (TM) line with its intuitive and simple Heads Down Display technology offers. Affordable Space Adventures is one of relatively few Wii U eShop exclusives, and is unsurprisingly a particularly unique arrival on the store. Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime (XO) – do you trust your partner? Uexplore brings you affordable space adventures without compromising comfort, fun and safety. (Which is also probably the best way to play single-player, if you must, as you direct a little computer-controlled space cat or dog to each control panel.) It’s tempting to divide the ship in two and try to keep to your side but the engine controls in the middle are also vital, so another obvious set-up is to have one person drive, and the other man the guns. There are a number of different ship configurations to unlock as you progress but the default one has one turret in each of the four compass directions, and much of the game is spent scurrying between each of them. I was most often the pilot, who in 2-player moves the ship and activates the. Or the single-player concerns of assigning ship roles in FTL. The game probably works best in co-op, where duties are split between players.
One of the only points of comparison we can think of is Wii U game Affordable Space Adventures, where you also had to divvy out individual parts of a spaceship’s controls to each player. The implication is that the ship is actually supposed to have a crew of six or more, but because there’s only two of you you have to get up from each control and run around the ship to the next one like a little mini-platform game. Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime is a 2D shooter where two players jointly control a spherical spaceship where all the internal systems, such as lasers, the engine, and shields have to be manned separately.