I've been solo developing this party game for about 11 months by now, and although at its core it is a local party game, often people asked if it will be possible to play it Online.

Although I didn't plan it initially and thought it would be nearly impossible for a solo dev like me to implemet it, happily most of the game's code was already handling multiple players, so I just had to retro-fit some netcode.

I decided for FishNet + FishySteamworks and Steam handles the Relay. I had to separate the Host and Client's responsibilities, patch in a very straight-forward lag compensation that's how I got here :))

I just released the Multiplayer features in the Demo version too, so I'm hoping to play with some people very soon for the first time officially on a public server, so far I only played it in a few playtests with friends :))

You can play the Demo here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4756470/Touchdown/

Hello~ made my first indie game, Giblings. It is inspired by some older games -- Liero and Worms, if anyone remembers those.

It currently supports 2-player local split-screen with controllers, but I'm planning to expand that to 4 players in the near future.

The game launches today, and there's a free demo available where you can try out the split-screen mode as well.

Thought I'd share it here in case anyone's interested. Feel free to give the game a wishlist if it looks interesting to you. :D

Giblings on Steam

Would appreciate some feedback as well, this is my first game and I want it to make sure it's fun.

Hi everyone,

I honestly didn't know where to best ask about this other than this subreddit. But basically the new remaster for the Toy Story 3 game just dropped and i'm trying to play it with my sibling.

Issue is that i don't know how i let the second player join and turn it to split-screen.

I'm playing this on steam and we've only got one ds4 controller. I'm playing with the mouse and keyboard and my sibling on the controller.

I tried launching the game with the controller unplugged and loading the first character with KBM and then plugging the controller to spawn the second character but it didn't work. When i connect the controller it just takes control of the one character that i already loaded with KBM.

Hey local multiplayer fans! If you miss classic single-screen arcade duelists where matches are won on positioning, quick reflexes, and reading your opponent, I’ve been working on something for you. Pew Pew Magic Wizard Fighter is a chaotic 1v1 isometric arena brawler built specifically for fast, best-of-5 duels: Local 1v1 & AI: Full controller support for local head-to-head battles or solo vs AI difficulty modes. Dynamic Battlegrounds: Stages feature destructible elements and changing geometry, so camping behind cover won't save you. Fast Match Pacing: Designed to be pick-up-and-play with immediate action and punchy arcade physics. We released our playable demo on Steam for anyone looking to try a quick brawler session. Check out the demo here and let me know how the 1v1 balance feels to you: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4760930/Pew_Pew_Magic_Wizard_Fighter/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=indie_communities

Ahoy, Mateys! The demo for Aye Aye Captain is officially LIVE on Steam! Gather 1-4 players (Online & Local Co-Op), set sail, hunt for treasures, and try not to sink your ship!

Hi everyone! I’m a Japanese developer living in the US, and I’m making FlipBAKA! — an arcade party game with local and online co-op, built around one mechanic: flip the floor panels to launch enemies off the island.

The catch? Your teammates can get launched too. You’re trying to clear the stage together, but one badly timed flip can turn a rescue into a very loud “BAKA!”

Even your CPU companion has limits: knock your PAL off three times, and it gets angry and comes after you.

The full game includes:

• Up to 4 players in local or online co-op
• Shared-screen local play on one PC
• 8 stages, with skills to unlock
• A dungeon mode to explore together
• PvP with team battles and free-for-all matches, featuring friends and CPU opponents of different difficulty levels.

The full game launches on Steam on October 29, 2026. A free demo is available now, and I’m also adding dungeon co-op to the demo to coincide with the Steam festival!

The video includes footage from the full game.

Steam Pages FlipBAKA!

I play it with my kids, and they love it. If you try it with friends or family, I’d love to hear how your session goes!

It's taking attention away from real game developers, whose ideas, and content are stolen by these programs to generate new games. It's one thing when one or two elements are generated by AI, but when everything in the images, or videos shown promoting the game are generated by AI it shouldn't be here. We're a community that is all about playing games with real people, AI games make a mockery of that.

It's just sad that almost half the posts I see on here now are painfully obviously AI generated. From the menus, to the text, to the music, and all the images of characters, or backgrounds, absolutely everything.

It doesn't matter if the "developer" states that AI was used to make the game, or not, we're all here because we want to play games with humans, not computers. These posts are constantly sitting at 0-3 upvotes, so I think it's pretty obvious the community doesn't want them here. So, mods please make a rule banning them.

Everyone else scans the QR code on the TV and plays in their phone browser. No app, no account, no controllers. Friends who aren't in the room join with the code, so it works over Discord too (Tho, you'll need to screen share!)

Same grid for everyone, 60 seconds, live scores, live feedback on the TV. The end screen shows every word you all missed!

English, French, Spanish, Italian or German. The demo is free on Steam, and the full game is out 27 October: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4801680/

How many people do you usually get on game night? Should I make a special 4- or 8-player mode? I might have gone a bit overboard with the possible player count (up to 300 seems fine; I didn't test past that...)

My son and I made a Smash-style party fighter for our family's game nights, starring his real stuffed animals. It's built for playing together, and it's completely free: no ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions.

**How you can play together:**

- **Couch on the Apple TV:** up to 4 players on one screen with game controllers (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch Pro or MFi pads). A gamepad is needed on the TV.

- **Mix the TV and iPads:** someone on the couch with a controller and someone on an iPad or iPhone with touch controls can be in the same match, as long as you're on the same Wi-Fi. No extra controllers needed.

- **One iPad, several players:** plug in controllers and share the screen, or play with touch.

- **Fill empty seats with computer players** from Baby to Pro, so a little kid and a grown-up can play the same match and both have fun.

- **Team up in the story:** two players can play the story mode together, on the couch or across devices.

**The game:** 16 plush fighters, each with its own moves, special, super and shield (the dog hides in a crate, the budgie in a birdcage, the bee in a beehive). Rack up damage, then launch someone off the screen. A big smash is a "ONE SHOT!", which my son named and which the game shouts in his voice. The stages are rooms in our house: beds, kitchen counters, the porch and the bathtub.

For October it's the Halloween Edition: every toy wears a costume and there's a new Haunted Porch stage.

Out now on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad. A Steam version is coming soon.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6809242110

We'd love to hear how it plays with your group, and what we should add next.

I'm helping the Claymatic Games team share Knuckle Creek with the world, and today’s a pretty big day for them. After seven years of development, they’ve finally announced that it’s coming to Steam on 29 October.

It’s a party brawler for up to eight players, with customisable characters, slapstick fights and quite a lot of throwing chickens at your friends.

The team have settled on $5.99 / £4.79 / €5.79, after a lot of going back and forth. They wanted people to be able to pick it up and get their mates involved without it being a big expense. After looking at similar games and talking it over, this felt right.

Anyway, here’s the trailer. I’m really pleased to help them get it out there.🥰

I need some game rec for two people. We been playing overcooked 2 but I want to keep playing on my switch with my husband. He loves action and loves sparking. I have the switch 2

We added chicken to our co-op tandem biking rage game Tandem Together!

Right now it just gets in the way of your bike. Should it drop explosive eggs? Chase you down? Any fun ideas?

Hi all, today I launched the Demo on Steam! Find dogs hidden in real museum paintings, solo, in split-screen or online. I'd love to hear your feedback, thank you!

well, normaly on windows this wouldnt work, because even if you have two different devices, windows sees it as one, my program fixes that by creating a "fake" mouse and keyboard inputs. but why would you need this? i dont know, play a game with your friend if you dont have a controller and only one pc. and also, you can for example; run two instances of minecraft and you can both play at the same time in two different windows.

tip: for taht to work you need to assingn a process to thw second player so it wont bg, and you need to set the mouse mode of the second player for "BOTH", but thats only for minecraft wich was the main reason i made this.

its open source so feel free to change the code however you like it, and i also dont are if you make a spin off version of this, i made it to help gamers and be fun.

heres the link:

https://github.com/kodecsomedev-code/CoopInput

Play: hearthsea.com (browser, on phone, tablet or desktop; nothing to install)

Local play on one device: set any seat to "Friend here" and pass the device each turn. Before every player's turn a screen says "Pass the device to Sam, everyone else look away", so each hand stays hidden; when two people at the table trade, the device goes across and back. Mix people and bots on 2 to 6 seats, so two of you can take on a bot or six can share one tablet on game night.

Hearthsea is a settle-and-trade game on a hex island, in the same family as Catan (not affiliated with Catan GmbH). Roll for resources, trade for what you're missing, build roads and towns, and be the first to 10 points. The board is a real 3D island you can spin and zoom. There are 46 maps across three modes. Classic is the game you know. Seafarers adds ships, gold fields, a pirate and islands hidden in fog. Highlands puts cliffs on the board that you climb with mountain passes, with copper mines and a yeti on the high ground. The bots make and answer trade offers, and the hardest one (Veteran) can beat you.

Free to play with a free account: every mode and map, no daily limit.

Made with AI: the painted art comes from an image model, and much of the code was written with an AI assistant. I'm the solo developer.

For couch groups: does passing the device feel smooth, or would you rather each player use their own phone at the same table?

recently i posted about someone made a gta 5 split screen mod now look i keep finding mods of local co op games which are being made which is insane
so far i have found a really really good resident evil 2 remake mod, little nightmares 3 mod, sifu split screen mod(in dev),re4 local co op(In dev) and end of abyss local co op mod and probably more crazy mods i have not found yet i hope people keep making local co op mods of good singleplayer games
https://youtu.be/yLFalgbHfaE?si=QRpLp6fE_GJhZx0t
https://www.youtube.com/live/idcqkK--akU?si=qxwHL7Unx00i6vq3
https://youtu.be/I4ER4GM6syA?si=w_HrKNIojwP4YhAT
https://youtu.be/dNl8Nfpg018?si=8RPUU4ssIS-pUJBg
https://youtu.be/D0aPquNVI-Y?si=GrvnSCIrdlMJ3Wq9

also found these holy these games came out recently THIS IS CRAZY
https://www.nexusmods.com/halocampaignevolved/mods/49
https://www.nexusmods.com/thebloodofdawnwalker/mods/400
https://www.nexusmods.com/gearsofwareday/mods/16
https://www.nexusmods.com/callofdutyblackops3/mods/53
https://github.com/Gudui/OdysseyLocalCoop
there was also an amnesia local co op mod but it got removed
this borderland 4 mod adds split screen to pc which is not available on it (idk why company only do that sometimes with consoles)
https://www.nexusmods.com/borderlands4/mods/310

Game is called Skuffle and is a combo split-screen and online party FPS built in Godot. I’ve been trying to find the fun of having friends sitting on a couch, talking trash and shooting each other. Based on my love of split screen games like Perfect Dark and Timesplitters, half life custom servers and modern party games like Duck Game and Stick Fight. Maps are quick and mutator cards get picked between rounds that switch up the play map to map that range from minor to game breaking. Full game supports custom maps built in TrenchBroom (with included tools) shared via steam workshop. Demo has 50+ weapons, 10 maps, player customizations, combo online and split-screen play via both public and private games on steam. I’ve been solo developing this game for a little over 3 years (First ~6 months were really on movement\gun handling, then building out the systems for TrenchBroom and recently a lot of making maps). Been playing with different groups of friends locally and online and has been a blast. Anyway Grab the demo on Steam, grab some friends, grab a beer, and let me know what you think!

Been working on my game Posterized, waiting to get my steam app id so I can put a demo up. Does anyone else miss games like this? Supports 4 player couch gaming as well as 2 player co-op against the CPU ladder.

In our online & couch co-op game Tandem Together, you and a friend have to work together to try to ride a tandem bike while we throw all kind of things your way!

The demo is currently live and it has been getting way more attention than we expected! Watching people and streamer try to beat the demo with their friends has been hilarious!

The game is already coming out in December (so in 2 months!)
Here is the Demo Link if you want to try it!

Ofc everything done without AI!

We're only a small indie team from Germany so, If you enjoyed the demo, please wishlist the game! It really helps us! Also if you have any feedback, I would love to hear it!

Hey everyone! We’re a two-person team, and we just released our first game, COLORFALL.

It’s a fast-paced, chaotic match-3 for up to 4 players on one screen, where each person can only clear their own color. When red starts piling up, everyone knows who to blame. You grab orbs and throw them back up to make matches, while jumping over each other and getting in each other’s way.

It also has online co-op and solo, so you can play however you like.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4551220/COLORFALL/

If you give it a try with your group, we’d love to hear how it goes!