Best Online Co-Op Games On PS Plus

Sony’s PlayStation Plus Extra subscription gives players access to games that cover most needs. The service has lengthy RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077 and Skyrim, shorter action games like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and competitive multiplayer titles like For Honor. There should be something for just about anyone, and that includes co-op.

Local co-op and split-screen games encourage friends to come together for a night in front of the TV, and the best examples of these releases on PS Plus are mentioned in this article. However, online co-op is also popular, and Sony’s subscription service does not neglect this feature. What are the best online co-op PS Plus games to play with friends?

Updated October 22, 2025 by Mark Sammut: PS Plus Extra’s new games are now available, and it has a couple of big online co-op games. We have gone ahead and added V Rising and Wizard with a Gun to the list.

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Abiotic Factor

One Of The Best Co-Op PS Plus Games

PS Plus Extra has received a couple of great Day One games in 2025, including August’s fantastic Sword of the Sea. However, if we are talking exclusively about titles that support online co-op, Abiotic Factor is in a league of its own. After a spell in early access, Deep Field Games’ masterclass made its full debut on PC and consoles, and it is about as close to a perfect cooperative experience as PS Plus subscribers are likely to get. Set in an underground facility that is way weirder and bigger than it initially seems, Abiotic Factor is about surviving and thriving with your mates, exploring the ever-expanding universe while also creating a home that you call your own.

Played from a first-person perspective, you will spend your time preparing for expeditions/missions, investigating cool areas filled with alien monsters, satisfying basic needs like hunger and exhaustion, and just chilling with your mates. Abiotic Factor especially nails the latter, as the game does a stellar job of blending action with downtime where you can just exist as part of your group.

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Ghost Of Tsushima: Legends

Mythological-Leaning Co-Op Spin-Off Game

Ghost of Tsushima is a fantastic action-adventure game with a robust single-player campaign. A few months following the base title’s debut, Sucker Punch dropped Legends, a co-op side experience deep enough to justify a standalone release. Along with common modes like Survival, Legends also comes with a Story that guides two players through roughly 6 hours of content.

Legends has four classes: Samurai, Ronin, Assassin, and Hunter. Each one fits an archetype and has a specific role they should be fulfilling in combat scenarios. While some options like the Samurai are viable for solo or two-player runs, classes like the Ronin are designed with support in mind. Legends might just be the best PS Plus online co-op game.

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Wizard With A Gun

Unleash Magical Chaos With A Friend (Or Friends)

Originally allowing only two players, Wizard With A Gun eventually added 4-player co-op, helping to more than double the mayhem you can unleash with a wand that has a knack for firing bullets. This game’s concept is quite simple, as you are challenged to complete 5-minute loops while surviving within a sandbox. You will be constantly collecting resources to try and craft new spells, all the while unlocking new areas and gradually expanding your reach. The gunplay is straightforward but satisfying thanks to the wide range of cool bullets, and the gameplay is also smooth.

Wiziard With A Gun is more than playable solo, but you will really want to enjoy this with a friend (or multiple). Co-op makes exploring the sandbox far more enjoyable, as it can get a bit monotonous when you are traveling alone. The screen rarely gets too chaotic to keep track of everything, so the more, the merrier.

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Earth Defense Force 6

The Ultimate B-Movie Gaming Franchise

EDF has never wavered in its desire to provide shlock-style action, and Earth Defense Force 6 is one of the best entries in the franchise. Now, to set expectations for newcomers, these games are silly camp, along with being low-budget compared to most established series. However, EDF‘s brilliance lies in its simplicity, as you just spend all your time shooting at insects and aliens.

Solo runs are fine and possible, but co-op is 100% the way to experience these campaigns, which are long and repetitive. With four classes and a plethora of powerful weapons and mecha, EDF 6 is an absolute blast with friends, as you can just enjoy each other’s company while destroying armies and cities.

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Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Fantastic Combat & Solid Presentation

A popular first-person action game, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is celebrating its five-year anniversary in 2023. Despite its growing age, Fatshark’s release is still reasonably active, and it is arguably the best action-oriented Warhammer game of the last decade. Vermintide 2 pits the Heroes of Ubersreik against wave after wave of rat-themed enemies, showering them with loot if they manage to survive.

While the vanilla version only has 13 missions (+4 from free updates), the stages are meant to be repeated endlessly as players upgrade their class and weapons. Vermintide 2‘s five playable characters are wildly different from each other, ensuring most people find someone who suits their preferences.

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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House Of Ashes

A Consistently Fun Horror Co-Op Series

Supermassive’s The Dark Pictures is an anthology series that will eventually include 8 games; at the moment, four main entries have been released along with a VR spin-off. While not quite as robust as Supermassive’s other horror projects like The Quarry and Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures‘ chapters are consistently great picks for co-op, especially local. In online co-op, House of Ashes opts for a shared experience where players get to steer the ship for a while before handing over control to their friends.

Although overshadowed by the couch iteration, House of Ashes‘ online co-op is a valid option in its own right. Limited to two participants, the game automatically picks who will be actively playing the campaign and decides when to switch control. This system might not be to everyone’s fancy, but it does provide a unique co-op experience since one player’s actions directly impact the full group.

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Returnal

Cool Co-Op Option In An All-Around Brilliant Game

Housemarque knows a thing or two about co-op. Dead Nation, Resogun, and Alienation all make good use of the feature, and they support both local and online connections. The developer’s most recent project, Returnal, did not launch with multiplayer, but an online two-player co-op option was added as part of the Ascension update. Thanks to this addition, players can now join forces to take on the game’s roguelike challenges, and there is the option to use a public or private server.

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Returnal is challenging, and co-op does not necessarily make the experience easier. However, it does introduce a revive option into the gameplay loop, granting players a second chance. Otherwise, co-op provides essentially the same core experience as solo runs, albeit with two Selenes rather than just one. As the base package is fantastic, the same can be said about Returnal‘s co-op.

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V Rising

Summon Your Vamp Friends And Create A Clan

V Rising‘s co-op is a bit different and is closer to something you might find in an MMORPG. Basically, anyone can create a server-specific clan that holds up to 10 members, who can then play together as they want. Public servers are easy enough to find, but you can also host one if you want to make sure that nobody unwanted will join in with your friends.

Although containing plenty of online elements, including PvP, V Rising allows players to decide how they want to interact with them, and you can just treat the campaign as a PvE action RPG that can be enjoyed solo or in co-op. For the game itself, V Rising blends survival, building, and hack and slash to create a pretty complete experience that is hard to beat. As a vampire, you get to run your own castle (and that goes for every member of your clan).

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

7 Characters, 16 Stages, And Endless Entertainment

They might not come around as often as they once did, but it is always an exciting day when a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game launches. And, in a nice change of pace from most of the franchise’s post-2000s efforts, Shredder’s Revenge is also great. Looking to recapture the Turtles’ beat ’em up glory days, Tribute Games basically created a game ripped right out of the ’90s, albeit with enough modern touches for it to come across as a loving homage rather than just an antiquated throwback. Up to six players can join forces to take on the Foot Clan, and they are free to pick from the Turtles, Master Splinter, April, and Casey Jones. Even at face value, that is a more than solid selection for this type of game, and that is before taking into account each character’s unique traits. All the playable figures bring something fresh to the table, so even solo players can enjoy replaying the campaign by switching between the characters.

Gameplay-wise, Shredder’s Revenge sticks fairly close to the standard beat ’em up formula. The characters have a limited but satisfying moveset, and the levels pack a considerable punch. The boss fights are quite difficult and require mastery of the combat system’s mechanics to overcome. The stages are overflowing with references to TMNT‘s past, and the nods cover many of the franchise’s sides rather than just its gaming history.

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Mordhau

Survive The Medieval Hordes With A Few Friends (Or Strangers)

Joining PS Plus just a month after Chivalry 2, Mordhau is another medieval multiplayer game that sells itself on large-scale warfare. Modes like Invasion and Frontline place players into two teams and let them engage in coordinated battles, so they are technically candidates for online co-op experience since victory is very much a team effort. However, these Mordhau modes and Chivalry 2 fall under the general banner of “multiplayer,” and they might not be able to scratch a co-op itch if a group of players specifically want a mode that demands they work together.

Fortunately, Mordhau also has Horde, which is just a straight-up co-op mode that pits six players against AI enemies. Mordhau mostly excels in PvP action, but Horde presents a nice PvE change of pace for those who want something a touch different. In terms of how this mode works, Horde pretty much delivers the routine that its title suggests. Players must fight off increasingly harder waves of enemies, all the while trying to upgrade their equipment to increase their chances of survival. It works well enough for what it is.