I’m trying to find a game to play with a friend. Here are the criteria:
- Online co-op (ideally a campaign, but arcade games and other friendslop works)
- Runs on old hardware - specifically a 8th gen i5 and a 1050
- Runs on Linux
- No/few zombies - I.E. no Half Life, no Left 4 Dead. Minecraft is Abstract enough to be fine, as is Vampire Survivors. Gmod is fine because the zombies are easy to avoid.
- Not too hard to learn - I.E. not Dota 2, not a Paradox game, not even most RTSs
- Faster paced/more interactive - something like Slay the Spire or Stardew Valley is probably okay, but not Civ or a CRPG
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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?
- Overcooked 1 & 2
- Unrailed 1 & probably 2
- Slay the Spire 2
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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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.
Don’t Starve Together
Steam search is being a little less helpful than I’d like, but
- It Takes Two / Split Fiction
- Operation Tango
- Timemelters
- Lords of the Fallen
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
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.
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.
Try gambling with your friends
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.
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.
Absolum
Kingdom Two Crowns
Baldurs Gate3 Absolum Streets of rage 4
All the action roguelikes seem to fit
Starbound! I fucking love Starbound.
