Best Couch Co-Op Games on PS5

Minecraft leads every couch co-op game on PS5 by a wide margin: 1,989,494 ratings on its PS Store product page as of 23 September 2026, more than any other title in this set. Sony's own listing describes local co-op as sitting on the same couch in split screen, open to one to four players. The PS5 edition carries a PPSA product code, confirming it's a native release rather than a PS4 game running through backward compatibility. At $19.99, it's also one of the cheaper native PS5 titles here, a combination of low price, familiar building-and-surviving gameplay and genuine four-player split screen that likely explains why its rating count runs 14 times past the game in third place.

Rocket League sits second at 1,573,514 PS Store ratings, and it belongs in this set for one specific reason: it's the only free game here, and free-to-play access alone explains a large share of that rating count. It does support local co-op, two to four players on one console in split screen, but that co-op mode teams players up against AI-controlled bots, not against each other in the game's real competitive matches. Rocket League's actual main mode is online competitive play, car soccer against other players, so calling it a straightforward couch co-op game the way the rest of this list is would be misleading. It runs on PS5 through backward compatibility; Sony never shipped a native PS5 version, and the CUSA product code on its store page confirms the PS4 original is still what's installing.

It Takes Two is where the field actually starts, in rating-count terms: 143,370, a 13.9-times drop from Rocket League in second place. Sony's product page doesn't hedge about what the game is for, describing it as created purely for co-op. There's no single-player mode at all, and its two-player split screen carries the entire story, a divorcing couple shrunk down and forced to work together to fix their marriage. It's a native PS5 title at $39.99, one of only two games in this ranking with a two-player cap rather than four, a deliberate choice that lets every puzzle and set piece be built around exactly one other person.

Baldur's Gate 3 carries 111,006 ratings, the highest of any game on this list that isn't built around co-op as its core pitch. This is primarily a single-player Dungeons & Dragons RPG that happens to also support split-screen co-op for up to two players on one PlayStation 5, in Sony's own words. It's a native PS5 title, and at $48.99 it's currently discounted from its $69.99 list price, so the figure quoted here is a price at the time of writing rather than a fixed one. Two-player local co-op means one console can run a full campaign together, sharing a screen split top to bottom, without either player needing their own PS5.

A Way Out sits at 101,569 ratings, and its PS Store listing is the most direct of any game here: this product is co-op only. There's no solo campaign to fall back on. Two players, a cap with no four-player option, play escaped convicts Leo and Vincent through the entire story, and the game is built so that both screens need each other at almost every moment, from a split-screen chase to a stealth section where one player's job is to distract a guard for the other. It's a PS4 title, carrying a CUSA product code, running on PS5 through backward compatibility rather than a native port, at $29.99.

Cuphead has 57,314 ratings for a hand-drawn run-and-gun built around punishing boss fights. Sony's listing offers it as single player or local co-op, two players at most, so unlike the co-op-only titles higher up this list, a solo player can clear the entire game alone if nobody's around to team up. The co-op option is there for players who want to split boss patterns between two people rather than a mode the whole game depends on. It's a PS4 release, backward compatible on PS5, priced at $19.99, and its 4.50 score is the third-highest of any game in this top 11.

Split Fiction carries 44,077 ratings and the highest score of any game in this top 11, 4.83, just short of Vampire Survivors' series-best 4.84. Sony calls it a boundary-pushing co-op adventure, and like It Takes Two before it (both come from the same studio, Hazelight), it's capped at two players with no solo mode. The entire game, jumping between wildly different genre-themed worlds, is designed to be played split-screen with one other person. It's a native PS5 title at $49.99, and its near-perfect score against a relatively modest rating count suggests a game that satisfies almost everyone who plays it without yet reaching Minecraft or Rocket League's audience size.

Stardew Valley sits at 34,521 ratings with a 4.75 score, the second-highest in this top 11. Its co-op isn't built into the base experience the way It Takes Two's is; a player has to actively turn it on through the in-game Start Local Co-op option, but once enabled it supports up to four players split-screen, farming, mining and building a shared town together. It's a PS4 title, running on PS5 through backward compatibility, and at $14.99 it's the second-cheapest game on this list after Vampire Survivors, a price that has stayed close to unchanged since its original 2016 PC release.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has 24,487 ratings and a 4.42 score, covering all nine mainline Star Wars films in one release. Its two-player drop-in, drop-out couch co-op runs throughout the entire campaign, letting a second player join or leave mid-mission without breaking the game's flow, a structure LEGO's co-op games have used across multiple franchises for years. It's a native PS5 title at $59.99, the second most expensive game in this top 11 behind only Borderlands 4, and its licensed nine-film scope is the widest single-game scope of anything on this list.

Borderlands 4 closes out the priced games in this top 11 at 20,927 ratings, the most expensive title on the list at $69.99 and, at 3.86, its lowest score. Sony's listing offers co-op for friends in two-player splitscreen, letting two players loot and shoot through the same open world on one console, though online co-op supports larger groups than the local, same-couch mode this post is tracking. It's a native PS5 release, and the gap between its price and its score, the highest sticker on the list attached to one of its lower ratings, is a pattern that shows up again once price enters the picture.

Vampire Survivors closes this ranking at 15,105 ratings, the fewest of the eleven games with a full write-up, but its 4.84 score is the highest of any PS5 couch co-op game in this entire 14-game dataset, PS4 titles included. Sony's listing confirms it's playable in one-to-four-player couch co-op, a bullet-hell survival game where up to four players fight off endless waves together on a shared screen. At $4.99 it's also the cheapest game on this list by a wide margin, with the next-cheapest, Stardew Valley, priced at three times as much, and that combination, the lowest price paired with the highest score, is the pattern the next section works through in full.