Steam

2025 on Steam is turning into a pretty solid year for co-op games. Lots of big names, some smaller teams, and a few surprises making waves. Split Fiction is still doing well. Hazelight’s follow-up to It Takes Two didn’t just sell, it blew up. With a Friend’s Pass that lets two people play for the price of one and plenty of buzz streaming-wise, it’s pulling in big numbers, almost 200K players online at the same time. It’s a story-driven platformer with some relationship drama, and it’s clearly hitting a chord. Then there’s Monster Hunter Wilds. Capcom’s latest went big quickly, passing a million players in no time. On day one, it even outpaced Elden Ring’s numbers and made it into the top five for concurrent players overall. Capcom really delivered on this one. But the real surprise is R.E.P.O. It’s rough around the edges and kind of intense. Launched in early access, it hit over 230K players quickly and got “Overwhelmingly Positive” reviews faster than many big-budget titles. It’s chaotic and tough, but people keep coming back with friends. Indies are holding their own, too. Take PEAK, a clever co-op puzzle game that quietly made $17 million and sold over 3 million copies without much hype. And lots of PEAK players also own R.E.P.O., showing folks are picking up several co-op games to play with their friends. According to SteamDB, almost half of the top moneymakers on Steam are co-op games. And not just the big studios, some smaller or less obvious titles are climbing fast. At this point, playing solo on Steam feels kind of lonely. Co-op isn’t just popular, it’s what most people are going for these days.