Games Like The Next Penelope (2026)

Shared: Couch Co-op, 4-Player Local

Soccer with rocket-powered cars sounds gimmicky until your first aerial goal, and then you lose four hours without noticing. Free-to-play with a Metacritic 86, this one earns every minute of your time.

Shared: tier:aaa

If you can survive the humbling that comes with your first hundred deaths on a single level, Geometry Dash will hand you one of the most satisfying feedback loops in the rhythm-platformer genre.

Shared: Couch Co-op

Gorgeous on the outside, brutally unforgiving underneath, Cuphead is the boss-rush couch co-op that will bond you with a friend or destroy that friendship entirely, probably both in the same session.

Shared: Couch Co-op

Find one friend, because that is literally the only requirement to have one of the best co-op nights of the year. Hazelight's mechanical variety machine is relentless, inventive, and built to share.

Shared: Couch Co-op

Wobbly physics puzzles that feel broken by design until you realize the chaos IS the puzzle. Solo it's a patience test; with friends, it's the funniest co-op session of the year.