On looking in to it some more I am fairly certain you can also play $15 Rock of Ages 2's campaign as splitscreen co-op. Did not remember offhand but looked around at steam discussions. 2 is also very good!
karthnemesis
joined 1 year ago
they only have 1 computer, most of these are online only unfortunately (though not bad suggestions for 2 cpus)
Ordered by amount of "potential" replayability, vaguely
I've played all these through and am confident it'd be ok for 13 yos
If they like silly chaos and cooking games, $20 PlateUp!
If they like absolute madness and precise button inputs to make pretty food, $20 Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Rock of ages series I think all have local multiplayer, but I think $30 > on sale for $3 till sept 1 rn Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break is the only one you can do the actual story mode together (which is very fun) instead of just versus. describing this one is hard uh. Both a tower defense as well as a reverse tower defense where you play as a boulder smashing things. historical art humour themed. very silly. highly recommend this series.
$15 Tricky towers is competitive tetris with balancing physics
$14 Neurovoider is a straightforward / small scope game, robot piece-swapping twin stick shooter, very arcadey
$20 Ember knights is in the same vein as neurovoider but with flamey dudes and more fantasy / magic theme
I usually don't have to do this at all, but this is my system for the rare hiccups, in order.
- ProtonDB
- Are they using an incompatible anticheat?
- Different proton (usually one a few versions behind esp if it's an old game, maybe GE, more than that isn't useful)
- Verify installed files through steam
- Make sure my mod load order isn't crap (if applicable)
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- Check if the game launcher actually points to the correctly named file + rename / change the exe if not (usually this gives an error box saying the file is not present)
- Uninstall + reinstall (esp if previously worked)
- Broad internet search for game + linux distro
- Launch options I've used for other games (PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 often is my first tried)
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- Protontricks, tell it to use a different version of windows
- Uninstall DLC, launch vanilla once, reinstall DLC (yes this has worked more than once for various weird issues, no i don't know why)
- Backup personal data files, + delete all installed files / workshop files + verify installed files again
- Wait for someone smarter than me to figure it out / a system update that addresses it / new proton and check in a few months
i know this is tongue-in-cheek and this is not at all a roast of you, it just made me think about how this niche needs filling
it sounds like a basic suggestion to just look up games for multiplayer, but it is actually way more time-consuming to find multiplayer games for specific use cases than you'd think it might be
kind of long reasoning if one cares lol
i spend HOURS finding games for my established player group because they don't tend to distinguish in tags if they're couch co-op, how many players you need (if there's a minimum or maximum), and what kind of game they are all at once.or even weird stuff like if multiplayer is "even" or not (like some "multiplayer games" are someone playing as the useless mascot essentially) or if multiplayer is versus-only and no campaign, or if multiplayer is broken in some way, or if the game is too buggy...
in terms of having kids it can be time consuming to find things that are age-suitable and don't have anything hidden in them
honestly from my perspective if i didn't have the time and wanted to find some decent indies i would just ask people