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20 car simulators worth playing - DTF games

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Car simulators are not all races in which "the player drives a car", as Wikipedia claims. These games are primarily about racing tracks, time trials and more or less realistic driving physics.

There are thoroughbred simulators that try to realistically convey the behavior of cars, reproduce in all details the real tracks and stages of motorsport disciplines - from rally to F-1. It is desirable to play them with a steering wheel.

But there are also semi-simulators (or simarcades): they also gravitate towards realistic behavior of cars and real competitions, but to a greater extent they forgive the player's mistakes, sometimes allow imaginary routes and try to entertain. They can also be played with a gamepad.

Outdated classic

The genre is not so simple. Age affects racing more than other genres. Driving on pixelated, soapy or gnarled tracks is not very interesting, especially when other games reproduce the slopes of the Nurburgring turns with millimeter accuracy using laser scanning. The physics of cars has also stepped forward over the years: Colin McRae Rally 2.0 and DiRT Rally are now different, like an arcade and a simulator.

Based on the classics that shaped the genre, we made a separate visual tour. And this collection included the main modern car simulators. If you want to understand the genre, it is advisable to try each of them.

Grand Prix Legends

Grand Prix Legends is a tribute to the classic "Formula 1", the time when these were not "royal races", but competitions for the most courageous extreme sportsmen. The game is based on the 1967 season, when F-1 partially removed the restrictions on the power of the engines, and the power competition among the teams flared up again. The fireballs of that time were called “death machines”, they were just beginning to put safety frames on them, and downforce was at an embryonic level. Good luck if during the season one of the pilots did not crash to death.

Legends reflected the violent nature of the cars that the racers of the time struggled with. Sloppy work with gas and brakes did not say goodbye, and the line of loss of grip with asphalt was so blurred that it was sometimes difficult to understand why you lost control. In modern simulators, cars easily skid, because the developers do not always understand their physics. In Grand Prix Legends, the cars go off the track because of their incredible power.

The game is still supported by modders, with the help of its tools they reproduce the iconic Formula races of those years and even shoot short films.

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (2000)

Porsche Unleashed is a contemplative race. Here, the romance of a trip in an old Porsche 356 along the coast to meet the sunset is sometimes more important than the first place at the finish line.

At the same time, it is an encyclopedia of Porsche vehicles. It contains all the iconic models from the classic Porsche 356 and 550, the golden era of the Porsche 944 and 959, to the Porsche Boxster and 911 Turbo from the nineties.

EA Canada, under contract with the automaker, developed a game for the fiftieth anniversary of the Ferdinand Porsche cars. And although Porsche Unleashed did not gain commercial success, for the good work of the next 16 years, it was Electronic Arts that provided the exclusive license for German brand cars. And the creators of other races were often content with modified versions from other companies like RUF.

Richard Burns Rally

Colin McRae Rally showed how career and multiplayer work in rally simulations, but always remained friendly to the players. Richard Burns Rally, on the other hand, showed why rallying is the toughest discipline in motorsport.

The game started with driving lessons: how to keep the speed, work with the brakes, understand when the wheels are blocked, enter the turn with a slip, like famous racers. It was not easy, but the lessons helped to understand the cars and how they behave with different settings. Only with the passage of all the lessons was access to a career and time trials against the "ghost" of Richard Burns himself.

Richard Burns Rally did not spare anyone: the tests were passed with great difficulty and rarely on the first try, the tracks seemed too narrow and dangerous, the cars were difficult to drive. This scared a lot of people. For the complexity of the game, motorsport fans fell in love with it and still support it with mods. For example, in one of the amateur additions in 2016, they tightened up the graphics and replaced the cars with current models from the World Rally Championship of that year.

In Colin McRae: DiRT, rallying has given way to festival racing buggies, SUVs and trucks. Until the release of DIRT Rally, no other game other than RBR had to fight so hard to stay on the track and set the best time.

TOCA Race Driver 3

In the Race Driver series, the British from Codemasters have always tried to cover motorsport as widely as possible. During your career as a TOCA 3 racer, you will be able to participate in Formula 1000, Formula 3, DTM, rally, rallycross, IndyCar series, compete on monster trucks, buggies, Formula 60s cars and lawn mowers.

On the other hand, this is an excursion to motorsport: in short story clips, an elderly mentor gives advice, talks about different cars and championships, the player is shown the behind-the-scenes life of a racer in a trailer.

The result was a kind of documentary about a newcomer who started with road car championships and made his way to Formula 1 champions. Compared to the TOCA 3 filing, the career of the recent Project CARS, which is served up in endless emails and tweets, looks artificial.

Project Gotham Racing 4

Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, Metropolis Street Racing, PGR 4 is all about driving in style. Not an endless drift, like in OutRun, but a beautiful cornering in a skid, along an ideal trajectory and a clean ride without collisions. For all this, the player was awarded Kudos points, and in some competitions it was enough to drive not faster, but cooler than everyone else. Cars were bought on Kudos - skill was rewarded with access to the best cars and championships.

Almost all races were held on city tracks. And while the Nurburgring and the Michelin test track were in the game, the trips along the Las Vegas casinos and the massive castle of the Excalibur Hotel, along the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, past the Winter Palace, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, through the arches of the General Staff.

It is also a rare race where motorcycles compete with cars on equal terms. And when you overtake the Aston Martin DBR9 in a Ducati 999R, it doesn’t matter so much that their power was deliberately equalized.

Need for Speed: Shift

Sometimes the realism of racing can be conveyed not by the physics of cars, but by a good camera from the cabin. In Need for Speed: Shift, the behavior of a car can hardly be called real: they easily go into a skid, but here one could understand the overload that the pilots experience. The view from the helmet conveyed how the environment blurs at speed, how the rider is driven in different directions on turns, when braking and accelerating, how he throws forward in collisions and how it darkens in the eyes.

In serious simulators, you can feel the overload on yourself, but for this you need to get a virtual reality helmet and a special chair. Immediately they were reflected visually, and there was no need to sacrifice your vestibular apparatus.

At the same time, the developers of Shift have reinvented the Kudos system from PGR. The game awarded points for clean or aggressive driving. It was a race where it doesn’t matter how you overtake – carefully or rough – anyway, with an increase in the level, you will be rewarded with a cash prize, new decals, or even a car.

Formula One Championship Edition

The concept of modern Formula 1 racing was finally formed in 2007. In the Formula One Championship Edition, the driver's career developed progressively: from testing cars for the weakest teams, to the role of co-pilot, a place in Ferrari and the title of champion.

Formula One Championship Edition was also able to surprise with pleasant little things: pit stops here were faster if the QTE was done well, and the commentators were not limited to forecasts before the start of the competition and discussing the results, but also worked during the races. The unpredictable AI stood out in particular, which could both start making mistakes and, as a result, give up under the pressure of the player, or provoke mistakes on its own.

Race Driver: GRID

GRID showed motorsport in a popular way. So that during the career of a racer it was possible to ride muscle cars, sports cars with an open wheelbase, drift on Japanese sports cars and participate in the 24-hour Le Mans race - here it lasts a good 24 minutes. The only pity is that the American and Asian championships have supplanted many European ring series like the DTM and V6 Championship or the Australian V8 Supercars.

At the same time, the excursion into the culture of racing took on a serious tone, focusing on competition, dealing with sponsors, team management, and the kindly elderly mentors from TOCA were replaced by a faceless manager.

However, Codemasters succeeded in perfect simcad. GRID entertained and challenged. She demonstrated that in simulators, opponents can not only drive along a trajectory, but cut and push, and the cars themselves can crumple a little worse than in Burnout Revenge.

Although physics has stepped forward compared to TOCA, it still forgave a lot. In addition, the game allowed itself to correct errors by rewinding time back, it was she who popularized the mechanics of "flashbacks".

iRacing

iRacing is not so much a game as a service of multiplayer competitions and championships. In unofficial custom competitions and in official championships, fairplay dominates. Competitors are punished for collisions, and access to individual events takes a long time to win by careful driving in others. Strictly, but on the other hand, the rules streamline the behavior of pilots on the track: instead of brute force, overtaking appears tactics.

iRacing has a lot of things: in some races, the peloton is 60 cars, in team endurance events, partners change each other during the race, the game has its own channel with live broadcasts. Three times a year, world championships are held here for cash prizes in three classes - NASCAR, open-wheelbase cars, sports cars - with a prize fund of ten thousand dollars each.

However, coming to iRacing for cash prizes is like going to karting for a future Formula 1 victory. Because for the majority it is a closed racing club. An annual subscription costs as much as a console game, but people in the club know how to drive and willingly help newcomers, share their experience and car settings.

Despite the fact that iRacing will be 10 years old in a year, the game does not stop developing. In the last year alone, developers have added dirt tracks, Le Mans, Porsche cars, and VR support. Next up is rallycross, and iRacing.com (formerly Papyrus) isn't going to stop there.

DiRT 2

Relegating the rally theme from its predecessor Colin McRae Rally to the background, Codemasters has revealed the equally interesting theme of off-road festival racing. Instead of snowy Swedish and forest Finnish special stages - dirt and sand tracks in the USA, Morocco and Malaysia. Among the cars, buggies, pickups and SUVs rule the show, and the true rally Subaru Impreza and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo feel uncomfortable in the same class as the BMB Z4 and Nissan 350Z road cars. The game is entirely about dirt, dust and aggressive driving.

All this time the game gives the impression of an X-games extreme festival. Punk rock plays from the speakers, Ken Block, Dave Mirra and Travis Pastrana are among the rivals, and the race on the track laid through the Battersea power station invariably ends with fireworks.

I don't feel like complaining about too short special stages, simplified physics and rewinding time in such scenarios.

rFactor 2

Like the first part, rFactor 2 is a modding platform. Although there are Silverstone and other popular tracks, modders added to them the Japanese Fuji Speedway, the American Mid-Ohio, known for the half-day Sebring marathons, the versions of Spa-Francorchamps and Monte Carlo, where the F-1 competitions were held 1966-67 years. There is a team that recreates Le Mans prototypes and other endurance racing cars specifically for the game. There are hundreds of third-party add-ons, ranging from ice cream truck racing to Formula Renault kits, and they keep coming out.

This simulator captures the behavior of cars so realistically that racers train in it and some motorsport teams use it to test settings before competitions. In addition, this is the first simulator where the thermal conductivity of tires has been worked out. Rubber here can quickly overheat, if it is not taken care of, it loses grip on the track surface. It sticks to the asphalt - in the corners knurled places are formed, which are more and more difficult to pass with each circle. You'll be lucky if the rain washes the road from the “raid” of rubber, although the wet track has its own complexity.

The game continues to develop through the efforts of developers and modders. Image Space Incorporated are promising to add DirectX 11 and VR soon, with new cars and tracks coming out at least until the next installment.

Gran Turismo 5-6

The first installment of Gran Turismo taught everyone how to make a career in racing, but then the series gradually became a racing simulator about the true love of cars and motorsport in general.

In Gran Turismo 5, sometimes it's just nice to change the oil in cars, wash them and take pictures against the backdrop of cherry blossoms and old Czech architecture. Although this game is more about driving around the Nürburgring in a Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a Top Gear test track in a hippie favorite Volkswagen T1 van, testing go-karts and NASCAR cars.

Gran Turismo 6 was even more immersed in the culture of cars than the previous part. There were both competitions on the lunar rover and the races of the Goodwood Festival, in it you could go through the main stages of Ayrton Senna's career. Especially for this game, automakers created prototypes of cars of the future.

Here you can even feel the difference between different BMW M3 models on the gamepad, but still it is worth buying a steering wheel. With it, you can learn braking, cornering and other basics of driving, passing the tasks of the local driving school.

F1 2013

Playing F1 2013 is not so much for a career or advanced car physics, but for additional modes. Yes, everything is fine with physics and career: the first plausibly reflects how the cars began to brake better in the 13th season, and the second, in the tradition of Codemasters, offers a path from a young driver to a champion.

Challenges and classic mode change everything. F1 Classic adds circuits from the F1 championships of the 80s and 90s: Imola, Brands Hatch, Jerez, and Estoril. But a special pleasure for a sophisticated racing fan is to sit behind the wheel of one of the cars of those times, among which is Niki Lauda's Ferrari 312T2. After all, these are damn aggressive and recalcitrant cars - in comparison with modern ones, they have less downforce, but more power of the engines.

Proving Grounds Trials is more of an extra fun. However, trying to break through the entire peloton, like Ayrton Senna, or survive in the rain on dry tires, sometimes carries more than a career.

RaceRoom Racing Experience

With RaceRoom you can start your acquaintance with car simulators. It is distributed according to the F2P model - you can download it for free, drive on available tracks in available cars, and then, if you wish, buy additional cars and tracks you like.

RaceRoom focuses on official racing series. Such as the German DTM Touring Car Championship and the World Touring Car Championship WTCC. Both include stages at Moscow Raceway. And no matter how you feel about domestic cars, in RaceRoom you can drive Lada Granta or Lada Vesta along the Moscow Region highway - the strangest and most pleasant experience for a motorsport fan.

Assetto Corsa

The case when the shortcomings of the race are completely redeemed by the realistic behavior of the cars.

Kunos Simulazioni, a small studio of about 30 people, does not have the resources to create a large-scale and polished simulator. In some places, Assetto Corsa looks like an early access game: menus and competitions are launched in different windows, a career is a set of the same type of races and challenges, and opponents academically drive along an ideal trajectory.

On the other hand, the development office is located next to the Italian Valelunga circuit, where they test cars in cooperation with racing teams. As a result, the characters of all cars are accurately conveyed in the game: from the grace of the Ferrari 458 Italia, to the calm ride of the Abarth 500 and the aggression of the turbocharged Lotus, which was driven by Ayrton Senna. From careless driving here, not only the chassis is damaged and it becomes more difficult to turn: you can naturally burn the brakes and clutch.

At the same time, this is the race in which the most accurate replica of the Nürburgring, recreated using laser scanning, was the first to appear. In addition, she brought Porsche back into the simulators.

Assetto Corsa will continue to be developed until at least 2018 by developers and modders.

DriveClub

DriveClub is a modern contemplative simulator. Here you can get into an expensive supercar and drive along the serpentine in the snow-capped Norwegian mountains or go through a storm along the road through the Canadian forests. Set off to conquer multiplayer in exotics such as Spania GTA Spano or VUHL 05. Take a few shots in photo mode with a Mercedes-Benz AMG GTS against the backdrop of the Chilean volcano Tarapaca. If you try hard, then a picture of a car in motion cannot be distinguished from an advertising poster.

Now it doesn't matter that DriveClub didn't become like that right away, that it was released with a curve, unfinished. More importantly, how expressive and holistic race it has become after two years. A race that captivates with picturesque tracks, luxurious cars, and challenges when you turn on "realistic physics".

Forza Motorsport 6

The Forza Motorsport series traditionally does not do well with car physics, but with each release it is getting better at entertaining the player.

The sixth part starts with a race through Rio de Janeiro in a brand new Ford GT, the road runs along the bay and through the slums, and ends with fireworks. And that's the whole game. With each level she gains, she offers to spin the wheel of fortune to win some money, and if she's lucky, a car.

Here you can compete with the Stig from Top Gear and race pre-war sports cars. Before the race, they talk about the features of the track or give a curious fact about it, and James May, Richard Hammond and Tanner Faust read the introduction to the competition in one or another class of cars.

Another thing is that in Forza Motorsport 6, with the electronic assistants disabled, the cars tend to skid in corners, and the moment of rear axle drift is impossible to feel, and the hydroplaning feature in the rain only exacerbates the situation. For realistic physics, it's better to go to Assetto Corsa, iRaсing or rFactor 2. For fun, go to Forza Motorsport 6.

DiRT Rally

Since Richard Burns Rally, no rally simulator has been as hardcore and unforgiving as ever. Well, then DiRT Rally came out and changed everything.

It brought the DiRT series back to its roots, back when it was called the Colin McRae Rally after the great Scottish racer, and was all about special stages and the fight for the best time.

CMR and RBR were challenging at times, but never fought for survival. In DiRT Rally, this is as difficult as anywhere else. The tracks in the game are frighteningly narrow: in the Welsh forests, tree branches literally scratch the body of the car.

Cars differ not only in character: they behave differently on the ground, gravel and asphalt, in sleet and rain. Indecently, only rear-wheel drive monsters from the 70s like the Lancia Stratos often wag from side to side - the rest take turns in Finnish, in a controlled skid (finnish flick).

DiRT Rally features breathtaking Pikes Pick mountain climbing and fun rallycross, among other things. But other than that, it's the most authentic rally ever, capturing the essence of motorsport's most brutal discipline.

Sometimes it seems that only real rally drivers can handle this game.

F1 2016

Following the realism course taken in DiRT Rall, the developers from Codemasters seriously changed the Formula 1 simulator a year later.

This is not a revolution, but the result of evolution. The series barely made it to the next generation of consoles, reaching it only in 2015, but that release could only boast of spanning two seasons at once. In F1 2016, the classic career returned, the safety car, and the multiplayer grew to 22 participants.

But what surprised me more was the revised machine physics. The cars in the game seemed to come to life under the impression of their real brothers, who added to the power of the engines before the 2016 season. They take off, react to any bumps (even to a light coating of sand on the asphalt in Bahrain), convincingly skid in the rain. In addition, the effect of speed on downforce is now finally noticeable.

Rivals also came to life. They became angrier, learned to take the right position in the fight against the player and block overtaking.

Codemasters has been setting the standard in formula simulators since 2010. But for the first time in this sub-genre, they succeeded in a race, strong not in modes, but in gameplay. It's more interesting to see what they do next.

What to play with a friend in 2022. Best co-op games

Contents

1. 1. Ready or Not. Become a special forces team
2. 2. It Takes Two. A tower-destroying co-op game
3. 3. A Way Out. Best Jailbreak
4. 4. Far Cry 6. Mad Revolution
5. 5. Dying Light 2 Stay Human. Stay human
6. 6. Farming Simulator 22. When you and your friend are tractor drivers
7. 7. Valheim. The survivor who blew up the Steam charts
8. 8. Project Zomboid. Zombie apocalypse, which will not survive
9. 9. Police Stories. Cops have dangerous jobs
10. 10. Travelers Rest. Cheerful life of an innkeeper
11. 11. Heavenly Bodies. Space adventure
12. 12. Outriders. A gift for fans of driving shooting and meat
13. 13. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The cutest co-op
14. 14. Gears 5. Brutal gears of war
15. 15. Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem. Siberian Adventures of Tough Sam
16. 16. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. The craziest version of Borderlands
17. 17. Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince. Who are you today: mage, archer or warrior?
18. 18. Overcooked 2. Sticky cooking
19. 19. Resident Evil 6. Bad horror but good co-op shooter
20. 20. Left 4 Dead 2. Zombie shooter classic

Looking for a cooperative game that you are not ashamed to fly into in 2022? In this compilation, we've collected the top gaming hits where you can shoot, jump, solve puzzles, and even plow fields - all with a friend. Fly in and choose projects for joint passage!

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Ready or Not . Become a special forces team

Platforms : PC
Multiplayer : Online co-op for 4 players

Ready or Not was released at the end of 2021 and immediately flew to the top of the Steam charts. Probably, gamers simply yearned for tactical shooters, in which thinking is much more important than shooting straight.

The game tells about a detachment of special forces, ready to deal with the most dangerous terrorists. They have to go on missions and free the hostages, defuse bombs and clean up terrorist bases. Moreover, each sortie is dangerous, and it will not be easy to survive it.

To cope with the mission, the fighters must act extremely carefully: control the space, monitor the rear and take the terrorists by surprise. Tactical skill is the only thing that will save a life.

If warehouses with many entrances and exits are visible on the map, you should hang a shield on your back, which will save you from shots from the rear. Noticed a lot of doors? Take the camera - it will let you know if there is an ambush in the next room. Yes, and the room blocker is also useful - it will make some paths impassable. If at least something is not foreseen, the evil terrorists will inevitably kill the squad.

Besides, Ready or Not always throws surprises. The detachment can open the door and explode - it turns out that it was mined. Or stumble upon a criminal who makes it clear with all his appearance that he is giving up, and then abruptly pulls out a gun and starts shooting. Or go to a locked door, start fiddling with a master key there and catch an olive from a terrorist standing on the other side - he probably heard a suspicious noise.

It's not worth going through the creation of VOID Interactive in a team with bots, and outside players can be more of a hindrance than a help. But if you fly into the game with a friend, it will give you a lot of vivid emotions. If you want to know more about Ready or Not, check out our review.

All screenshots from Ready or Not can be viewed here.

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It Takes Two.

A tower-destroying co-op game

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Multiplayer : 2-player online co-op, 2-player local co-op

It Takes Two was named the biggest hit of the year at The Game Awards 2021 for a reason. If you are looking for something to play with a friend, the game can be a real revelation.

At release, we praised every aspect of the project. A touching story that could well replace a trip to a family psychologist for a couple of lovers. A chic visual design that constantly sends the characters to new enchanting places. Gameplay, every now and then throwing something new.

In one level, It Takes Two can become a shooter, platformer, puzzle, racing and even a classic fighting game. When Josef Fares claimed that he would give a thousand dollars to a gamer who gets bored during the passage, he was not bluffing - the brainchild of Hazelight entertains like no other game.

All screenshots from It Takes Two can be viewed here.

A Way Out. Best Jailbreak

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Multiplayer : Online co-op for 2 players, local co-op for 2 players

A Way Out is another Yousef Fares project in the selection. If the visual or story of It Takes Two didn't grab you, or if you've already gone through it and are craving more, feel free to fly into the game about criminals.

A Way Out tells the story of two prisoners who intend to escape from prison and deal with the offender. Alas, on the way they will have to face many problems: they will fall under heavy fire more than once, take part in chases, fight with villains and much more.

At the same time, there are also enough peaceful episodes. Leo and Vincent can swing with a partner on a children's swing, compete in pull-ups, arrange a concert with a balalaika and piano, and so on.

Plus the story turned out to be exciting. It lacks the stars from the sky, but still impresses with drama and a touching finale. A Way Out is an absolute must-have for fans of cooperative games.

All screenshots from A Way Out can be viewed here.

Far Cry 6. Crazy Revolution

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Multiplayer : 2 player online co-op

In Far Cry 6, gamers will play as revolutionaries who are tired of the tyranny of El Presidente. To give the villain a breath, the heroes will burn plantations, capture outposts, drive around the island in tanks and fly helicopters - in general, do everything that fans love the series for.

The sixth part works according to a familiar formula, but there are enough innovations in it. The main character learned to speak again, and indeed the character from Dani Rojas turned out to be curious. From now on, the Supremo backpack hangs behind the back of the brave partisan, capable of flooding the area with fire, delivering a powerful electric discharge or firing a dozen missiles. Plus, a lot of special weapons appeared, like a cannon that simultaneously shoots and loses to the Macaren.

Traditionally, you can have fun on the island with a friend. If the gameplay alone can get boring, then with a good company the fun will continue until the very end. You can read the full review of Far Cry 6 here.

All Far Cry 6 screenshots can be viewed here.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human. Stay human

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Multiplayer : 4 Player Online Co-op

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is another new feature that you can play with a friend. The co-op mode opens immediately after the prologue and is available until the end credits.

The plot of the second part tells about a brave hero who arrives in the last major city in search of his sister. Alas, the zombie apocalypse has taught people nothing: they continue to squabble with each other, build cunning plans and resolve issues with violence. The gamer will have to choose a side, build relationships with many characters and ultimately decide the fate of humanity.

The main feature of the title is parkour. The hero deftly jumps, climbs the roofs, runs along the walls and performs other spectacular tricks. All this will help both while moving around the world and in battle. Skills are especially useful at night, when the most dangerous creatures crawl out onto the streets.

You can find fault with Dying Light 2 for the roughness in the plot, bugs and an abundance of running around, but it's still fun to play through. A great review of Techland's creation lies here.

All screenshots from Dying Light 2 can be viewed here.

Farming Simulator 22. When you and a friend are tractor drivers

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Multiplayer : 16 player online co-op

Farming Simulator 22 I won’t be able to recommend it to everyone - the genre is too specific for the game. However, it is also impossible to deprive her of attention: after all, at the peak, 105 thousand gamers were cut into the farming simulator, and 88% of the reviews on Steam are positive.

The idea of ​​the project is simple: players find themselves in a huge location and have to buy fields and equipment, grow crops, harvest crops, establish production and trade - this is just a small part of the responsibilities. It sounds strange, but it is worth imbued with the process, as it will drag on with your head.

Beginners may be put off by a high barrier to entry. To grow at least something, you have to be puzzled. The field must be limed, cleared by removing stones that spoil the technique, plowed and cultivated - only after that you can start sowing and planting.

After the seeds are already in the ground, you should not relax either. Fields need to be weeded, getting rid of weeds, fertilized, mulched and rolled. The problem is that the game does not really teach all this, but our guides will help you figure out the mechanics.

The main advantage of Farming Simulator 22 is the cooperative mode. Flying onto a map full of fields, sharing responsibilities and ensuring the prosperity of the farm is a sticky process. More about the game can be found in the review.

All screenshots from Farming Simulator 22 can be viewed here.

Valheim. Survivor that blew up the Steam charts

Platforms : PC
Multiplayer : Online co-op for 10 players

Few people heard about Valheim before the release, but the co-op survival from the modest studio Iron Gate AB fell in love with gamers and became one of the biggest hits of 2021. At its peak, more than 500,000 gamers survived in the Scandinavian world full of dangers.

Valheim's success is well deserved. The world is drawn beautifully, fighting mythical creatures is fun, turning a house into a fortress is exciting - especially if you do it with a friend. But the game also has a plot: brave Vikings need not only to survive, but also to challenge powerful bosses, each of which has its own strengths and vulnerabilities.

Also the project should be praised for its physics. If you go to cut a tree, make sure that it does not fall directly on the hero. Are you building a house? Take care of the supports, otherwise the structure will break. Placed a hearth in the house, but forgot about the chimney? Soon the character will have nothing to breathe.

You can fight in Valheim with up to ten people, so gather your friends and get ready to do the will of Odin. You can learn more about the hit from our review.

All screenshots from Valheim can be viewed here.

Project Zomboid. Unsurpassable Zombie Apocalypse

Platforms : PC
Multiplayer : 64 Player Online Co-op, 4 Player Local Co-op

Project Zomboid was released back in 2013, but gained great popularity only last year. All because of a large-scale patch that introduced a lot of new mechanics and made the co-op as comfortable as possible.

The game tells about a mysterious virus that led to a zombie apocalypse. The protagonist turns out to be a rare survivor in a huge city - now he needs to take care of food, water, medicines and at least some of the joys of life. And, of course, do not let yourself be bitten, because there is no cure for infection.

Keep in mind that Project Zomboid is a hardcore game with a lot of mechanics. To open a tin can, you need a special knife. Products will quickly disappear if they are not stored in the refrigerator. If you are planning to relax, do not forget to make curtains and cover the windows, otherwise the zombies will notice the poor fellow and devour him. There are many such little things, and each is important to consider.

At the same time, the level of complexity grows with time. The player finds the apocalypse at the very beginning, when the houses still have electricity, and water flows from the tap. Over time, the benefits of civilization will disappear, forcing the hero to create generators and look for a drink. However, no matter how many gamers survive, the end will always be the same. The developers immediately warn that Project Zomboid tells the "story of your death."

Surviving in the world of zombies with friends is the most thrill. At the same time, on some servers, gamers turn the game into The Walking Dead. The map is divided by groups, the most serious danger is people, and you can only survive with someone united. More information about Project Zomboid can be found in a separate article.

All screenshots from Project Zomboid can be viewed here.

Police Stories. Cops have a dangerous job

Platforms : PC, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer : 2 player online co-op, 2 player local co-op

do other good things. The concept is very similar to Ready or Not, only the camera is isometric here, and the gameplay is more dynamic. However, successfully completing the task is still not easy.

The main characters are law enforcement officers, which means that they have no right to shoot thoughtlessly in all directions. It is better to act thoughtfully and analyze the situation.

It's not worth it to quickly fly into the hall where a couple of bandits can stand - first it's better to throw a flash drive there. If there are hostages in the room, plan your actions so that the unfortunate ones do not get hurt. And not every criminal needs to be shot - some may surrender. The main thing is to always stay alert, otherwise the heroes die quickly.

Despite the retro graphics, Police Stories turned out to be a good game that impresses with the leveling and tactical mechanics. Flying into it with a friend will definitely be fun.

All screenshots from Police Stories can be viewed here.

Travelers Rest.

The Happy Life of an Innkeeper

Platforms : PC
Multiplayer : 2 Player Local Co-op

Travelers Rest is a game about an innkeeper from a fantasy world. He runs a dilapidated establishment and must turn it into a magical place where a crowd of happy customers always hangs out.

To become an influential innkeeper, you will have to equip the area, grow ingredients in the fields and study magic. And all in order to build a fantasy tavern of dreams.

Travelers Rest relies on micromanagement - a wise manager should be aware of all the little things. Monitor cleanliness, control customers and prevent them from making a fuss over politics, hire bartenders and cleaners. If you like this, do not pass by the cooperative hit.

Travelers Rest is definitely worth recommending to gamers with old computers. Even if you and your friend have ancient laptops with 500 MB of RAM and at least some kind of vidyuhi with shader support, the game will start.

All screenshots from Travelers Rest can be viewed here.

Heavenly Bodies. Space adventure

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
Multiplayer : 2 player online co-op, 2 player local co-op

Heavenly Bodies is a project about astronauts in a difficult situation. They need to get the space station working, and only the laws of physics and advice from the mission control center can help.

The main feature of Heavenly Bodies in the physical model. For example, each key on the keyboard is responsible for one limb, so you have to control the left and right hands, the left and right legs, and also the palms separately. The system is confused, and you should not forget about weightlessness either - without the force of gravity, the world works according to special rules.

As a result, gamers will constantly have to think in which direction the object will fly, and with which hand to catch it. But you can’t cope with most tasks without a partner, so you need to rely not only on yourself, but also on a friend. All this regularly creates funny situations that will be remembered for a long time.

That being said, Heavenly Bodies should not be treated as a hardcore game. You quickly get used to the mechanics, and the complexity of control can always be reduced.

All screenshots from Heavenly Bodies can be viewed here.

Outriders. A gift for fans of action shooting and meat

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Multiplayer : Online co-op for 3 players

Outriders was developed by People Can Studio Fly, which gave gamers Painkiller and Bulletstorm. The last project of the Polish developers also turned out to be successful - only problems with the servers on the release upset them. Otherwise, we are talking about a dynamic shooter where you need to shoot crowds of opponents, use abilities and do not forget about shelters.

Outriders are full of virtues. Flirting with the timeline and sensible staging, the story of earthlings who are looking for a new planet is intriguing. Exploring the mysteries of an unexplored world is fun. Shooting from any barrels is implemented well. There are several classes with unique abilities to choose from. There are plenty of build options, and the perks complement each other.

The visuals in the game are also decent: we are talking about both the technical component and the varied design of locations with snowy peaks and scorched fields. In general, there is no reason to deprive Outriders of attention - except that the difficulty with the wrong build can sometimes seem too high.

You can play the People Can Fly creation in co-op with up to three people. Perhaps it is in this format that the game manifests itself from the best side.

All screenshots from Outriders can be viewed here.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The cutest co-op

Platforms : Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer : Online co-op for 8 players

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one of the main exclusives of Nintendo, which has been helping gamers to relax and connect for two years now. If you and a friend have a hybrid console, pay attention to the project.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons sends players to cute islands where they can grow turnips, build terrain, and do other cute things. At the same time, if you want to take a walk, you can always visit other gamers - they will definitely be happy to trade or just chat.

Perhaps there are many projects with more dynamic gameplay and picturesque locations, but Animal Crossing does much more. It offers a world where you can comfortably hide from any worries.

New Horizons has become almost the main time-killer of recent years: it can also captivate your friendly company. In general, the project has so many strengths that it is possible to fit them all only in a full review.

All screenshots from Animal Crossing: New Horizons can be viewed here.

Gears 5. Brutal Gears of War

Platforms : PC, Xbox One, Xbox Seires X/S
Multiplayer : 3-player local co-op, 3-player online co-op

Among co-op projects, you rarely see such high-budget titles as Gears 5. This is an expensive, colorful and exciting game that continues the glorious traditions of the series and brings relevant innovations to it .

As in the previous parts, the main advantage of Gears 5 is fun shooting. Hiding behind covers, chopping enemies apart and throwing grenades at them is just as fun as ever. This time there is even more meat and variety - all thanks to locations with a semi-open world, where you can drive around in vehicles.

By the way, the cooperative mechanics has also changed: from now on, there is an option to play the action with three players. True, someone will have to become a drone.

If you're looking for an epic blockbuster with a friend, there's no better game than Gears 5. No wonder gamers rated it so highly.

All screenshots from Gears 5 can be viewed here.

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem. Siberian Adventures of Serious Sam

Platforms : PC
Multiplayer : 4-player online co-op

Cool Sam is an outstanding man who has saved the Earth more than once. In Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, he will have to clear frosty Siberia of aliens. Impressive expanses with snow-covered trees, small churches with beautiful iconostases, ruined shacks with red carpets on the walls - and all this is overflowing with crowds of aliens. Cool!

Siberian Mayhem was created by Russian developers who used to deal only with mods. Despite modest experience, they managed to create a suitable project and in some ways even surpass the numbered parts.

If we compare the spin-off with the last part of Serious Sam, our craftsmen worked out the design of locations better, perfectly balanced dynamic episodes with exploration, skillfully presented humor and made the best boss fight in the series. Croteam has a lot to learn from beginners.

You can play Siberian Mayhem with a friend. This will especially help in the battle with paired bosses - it is convenient to separate powerful monsters and fight each with his own. If Sam's Siberian adventures are of interest to you, fly into the review.

All screenshots from Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem can be viewed here.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. The craziest version of Borderlands

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Multiplayer : Online co-op for 4 players

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - a mixture of the familiar concept of Borderlands and role-playing board game. The trick is that the master is the insane Tiny Tina. She sends the characters to a fantasy world and offers many crazy tasks.

Wonderlands has retained and even increased everything that fans love about the series. A huge variety of enemies, amazing guns, chic humor, an abundance of memorable characters - all this is in place. At the same time, the locations became even more pretentious, and the magical setting allowed the developers not to limit themselves in anything.

Considering that the new game has a huge world, quests are handed out at every corner, and the variety of guns, classes and abilities does not let you get bored, Wonderlands will easily captivate you for 50 hours. You can learn more about the game from our review.

All screenshots from Tiny Tina's Wonderlands can be viewed here.

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince. Who are you today: mage, archer or warrior?

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer : 4-player online co-op, 4-player local co-op

The Trine series has been entertaining gamers for 13 years now. All this time, the developers have been pumping mechanics and coming up with new puzzles. Exactly at Trine 4 they polished the formula to perfection and earned a 91 percent positive rating on Steam.

The main advantage of the platformer is in talented puzzles that can only be solved using the strengths of the characters. Fire, air, light, magnets, electricity - only skillfully managing the elements can pave the way forward.

Diversify the gameplay of battles with enemies, some of which turned out to be huge. In battles with mighty monsters, one cannot survive without mutual assistance: for example, a wizard can set fire to an archer's arrow and help make a deadly shot.

Due to these mechanics, Trine 4 will easily charm a company of up to four people with its lightness and originality. If you like the game, you can pay attention to the past parts.

All screenshots from Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince can be viewed here.

Overcooked 2. Sticky Cooking

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer : 4-player online co-op, 4-player local co-op

Overcooked 2 transforms gamers into chefs who must rush to prepare frilly customer orders to save the world. It would seem that cutting cabbage, frying meat and washing dishes are not the most fun activities, but Team17 even made them exciting.

It all starts with the simplest tasks that even a single person can handle. However, with each new level, the dishes become more unusual, and cooking begins to require well-coordinated work. One cook should fry the meat, the second should cut the tomatoes, the third should wash the dishes, and so on. As soon as someone makes a mistake, chaos will begin.

Locations also present surprises. You will have to cook either between two constantly moving trucks, or on a slippery ice floe, or on board a ship swaying on the waves.

You don't even have to try to go through Overcooked 2 alone - the game was created with an eye on co-op. But in the company of a friend, the passage will be fun.

All screenshots from Overcooked 2 can be viewed here.

Resident Evil 6. Bad horror but good co-op shooter

Platforms : PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer : 2-player online co-op, 2-player local co-op post-shooters are still in the fifth part, but it reached its maximum drive in Resident Evil 6. Of course, sometimes the game is overly crazy, but it's still fun to play it.

Feature of the sixth part in the variety of gameplay. When playing as Leon, you can feel the suspense, just like in the original parts. Chris Redfield never ceases to famously mow down zombies in droves. A descendant of Wesker prefers not to shoot at all, but to swing his fists. All this looks strange, but well entertains.

If you want to turn your head off and shoot a good big-budget game, check out Resident Evil 6. The game is not as bad as many people think.

All screenshots from Resident Evil 6 can be viewed here.

Left 4 Dead 2 Zombie Shooter Classic

Platforms : PC, Xbox 360
Multiplayer : 4 player online co-op, 8 player online multiplayer

Despite the recent release of Back 4 Blood, which was inspired by the cult series, Left 4 Dead 2 remains a must-have zombie survival game. Although it is not so beautiful, but the gameplay in it is great.

The mechanics of Left 4 Dead 2 are not outdated at all. Eight players are divided into two teams: one four must make their way through the crowds of zombies and get to the shelter, and the second takes control of especially dangerous zombies and hunts the unfortunate. Whichever side you play for, only cohesive teamwork will lead to success.

At the same time, the authors tried to diversify the gameplay to the maximum, throwing up interesting tasks or letting the Tanks down on the survivors. As a result, the gameplay did not tire - it is not surprising that some gamers spent hundreds of hours in the shooter and continue to return to it.

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