The best multiplayer and co-op games of 2024 on PS5, PS4, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC

Multiplayer games have been living a new golden age, for a few good years now, supported by the free-to-play model. Great titles like Fortnite, Rocket League, Apex Legends, League of Legends, GTA Online, Fall Guys, Sea of Thieves, Overwatch 2, and many others continue to stay on top of the wave despite the years that have passed since their original release. However, this year new contenders have emerged willing to earn their share of the pie, either through business models full price or freemium, with separate game modes or purely multiplayer proposals3.

What have been the best multiplayer and/or cooperative video games of 2024?

There are many titles with multiplayer options that have reached the market this year 2024 belonging to the most varied genres: first-person shooters, sports, hero shooters, driving, minigames, fighting, and many more. But on this occasion, we want to pay attention to five games that have stood out above the rest in terms of sharing our games with our friends or against players from all over the world, whether in competitive or cooperative mode.

The list of the five best multiplayer and/or cooperative video games of 2024 looks like this, ordered alphabetically :

Let’s now move on to a brief review of each one, along with the reasons why they have received good ratings:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 represents the return of the popular FPS saga of Activision to one of its most successful eras, the one in which multiplayer modes were filled with thousands and thousands of users in search of the highest levels of prestige through countless hours of play. Leaving aside your notable campaign, the title offers numerous and varied bomb-proof multiplayer modes, which the most experienced players like so much. And it is that the competitive classic modes are there with their typical variants, as well as the always loved and demanded Zombies mode, in which we can enjoy side by side with our friends or any player who stops by our room against the terrifying hordes of bloodthirsty undead.

Destiny 2: The Final Shape

The multiplayer first person shooter Bungie continues to do its best with each new expansion. The Final Form, which closes the current narrative arc of the last ten years, is a celebration of what Destiny means to both the genre and its community. A new campaign We have to play with our friends or other players who want to join the cause with a new raid, a new subclass called Prismatic and new and fearsome enemies, the Horrors, plus more activities, new weapons and much more mean that we have hours and hours of new adventures ahead of us; and if they are in company, much better.

Helldivers 2

The emergence of Helldivers 2 as one of the best multiplayer video games This year has been a surprise; and the pleasant ones. And despite a somewhat controversial launch, Helldivers 2 He quickly gained the favor of the community thanks to the fun of his proposal. A real candy for lovers of good action-packed co-ops in which good synchronization between players is vital to carry out the many missions that lie ahead, a full-fledged PVE experience, elevated to the highest expression. Not in vain, we will travel through all kinds of planets where we will have to face the threat of aliens, robots and many more. And it won’t be easy at all, that’s for sure.

Marvel Rivals

Marvel Rivals arrived almost by surprise in a year in which the multiplayer game map already seemed more than closed. And luckily for the fans of the hero shooters and of the marvel superheroes, this new proposal to Overwatch It works like a charm. And controlling the most beloved characters in the game House of Ideas, unlock new heroes and villains and taking full advantage of their many powers is most entertaining. All of this with great potential for improvement and expansion in the coming months, making this proposal a must for lovers of competitive team competition.

Super Mario Party Jamboree

We close our selection of the best multiplayer and/or cooperative video games of 2024 with a safe bet on throwing our own parties in the living room of our home; or wherever, thanks to the benefits of Nintendo Switch as a hybrid console. And the saga Mario Party has left us memorable deliveries over the last 25 years, although the last delivery for Switch seems like the definitive one: the more fun and complete, which is not little. More new mini-games, new boards, more characters, new rules and game modes... And all this through local play or, the great novelty of the saga, the online mode. Now there is no excuse to roll the dice and make time for a quick game of your favorite minigame or an entire adventure on any of the available boards in the Super Mario universe. Let’s play!

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