25 Best Online Co Op Xbox One Games

Gears of War 4

Gears of War 4 provides a lengthy two-player co-op campaign filled with elements of horror, action, and a little bit of comedy at multiple difficulty settings. The latest chapter in the decade-long franchise features plenty of callbacks to past titles, while introducing a new cast of characters and story threads for the eventual sequel.

Sunset Overdrive

Sunset Overdrive's Chaos Squad mode allows up to eight players to team up and tackle small objectives and mini-games through a vote system. The session ends with a giant base defense fighting hordes of enemies. With wacky weapons and the ability to grind everywhere, this is a game that revels in fast-paced action and constant explosions.

A Way Out

A Way Out, the story of two men working together to escape a prison, literally requires two people to play. That means you have to find a partner, since two characters are controlled at all times and there is no AI companion. Graciously, you don't need two copies of the game to play with someone else online, as long as they download a Friend Pass trial version on their digital storefront.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a hefty package containing the four mainline Halo titles, plus Halo 3; ODST as downloadable content, on a single Xbox One disc. The franchise revolutionized shooters on consoles, and going back to these several four-player co-op campaigns is easier with improved graphics and multiple control options.

Minecraft

Minecraft is the ultimate sandbox on Xbox One. There's building, hunting, quests, farming, and more that can be more fun with the coordination of multiple people. The Xbox One version also has cross-platform play with the Windows 10 and mobile versions of Minecraft, so friends and family don't even have to own a console to play alongside each other.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Rainbow Six Siege may have had a rocky launch, but has found its footing as a deep and satisfying first-person shooter. If the Competitive mode is too hardcore for your tastes, the game's Terrorist Hunt mode allows five players to clear out AI enemies in the same maps. The team can pick one of several options to attack, and requires teamwork to cover all sides.

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection contains two games, Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, that include all of the campaign add-ons and DLC. It offers hundreds of hours of looting crazy guns, defeating crazy bosses, and tackling absurd objectives with up to four players.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Ghost Recon Wildlands lets you and three other friends explore Bolivia and take out outposts and other enemies in various ways. Everyone can put on silencers and go the stealth route, or attack with helicopters and grenade launchers.

Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto Online, Grand Theft Auto V's multiplayer component, has ballooned into a giant sandbox of different activities after years of content updates. When the mode first came out in 2013, you and a few friends could take on short co-op missions taking out drug dealers. Now, you and a few friends can work together in the "Doomsday Heist" involving military-grade weapons, hovercars, and weaponized jetpacks. There is a lot to do, cooperative-wise.

Monster Hunter: World

Monster Hunter: World allows players to team up, hunt, and viciously murder giant beasts for glory and materials. Every monster can require a different strategy to take down, so a team can plan ahead and assign roles based on weapons and equipment for a somewhat smoother fight. It is still hard though.

Tom Clancy's The Division

The Division places your team of four in a desolate New York recently wrecked by a virus spread after Black Friday. The loot shooter provides plenty of skills and unique abilities to carve out your play style, such as being the team's healer or a literal turret.

Diablo III: Eternal Collection

Diablo III continues the franchise's roots of dungeon crawling and collecting loot from the PC to consoles. The game works surprisingly well without a keyboard and mouse, while adding a dodge roll for more fluid action.

Warframe

Warframe is all about progression. There are XP levels on warfarmes (player characters), weapons, and other tools to become stronger. Some missions require different warframes for specific tasks, like sneaking past alarms or freezing enemies before destroying an objective. Plus it is free-to-play, so it shouldn't be hard to convince friends to jump in.

The Elder Scrolls Online

The Elder Scrolls Online may not have the same combat as Skyrim, but has been well supported since its launch with Morrowind and the upcoming Summerset chapter. The MMO launched with a monthly subscription, but has transitioned into a flat price with optional microtransactions and subscription.

Watch Dogs 2

Watch Dogs 2 initially launched with two-player support, but Ubisoft added a four-player party mode to the game last July. Players can participate in Bounties, DedSec Virus, Invasions, Loot Trucks, Man Vs Machine Robot Fights, Races, and Showd0wn events. Or you and a few friends can free roam around the city and tackle red zones together.

Far Cry 5

Far Cry 5 drops you and another player in cult-infested Montana, ripe with outposts and forests with dangerous animals to be taken care of. Besides shooting, hunting, and flying around, the Arcade mode provides endless user-generated missions that can be played in co-op once the main campaign is over.

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is simply more Dead Rising 2 with the return of Frank West, the photojournalist that has covered wars, from the first title in the series. The game offers tons of weapons and combinations of weapons to destroy the utter zombie masses. It also helps to have a friend by your side when fighting one of the game's many psychopaths.

Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together is a wilderness survival game where two players have one objective: don't starve. The game features many creatures, dangers, and surprises. Work together to harvest resources and survive the harsh terrain.

Destiny 2

Destiny 2 is a loot shooter with fantastic gameplay and co-op challenges that test your will and patience against enemies and friends. Nothing can beat the feeling of finishing a raid with the complete cooperation of five other people after multiple hours of puzzles and fights. The end game might drop off in variety sooner than you would like, but you can still put in dozens of hours with friends.

Sea of Thieves

Sea of Thieves gives you and your friends a pirate ship and go be pirates on the high seas. That means maintaining your ship, raiding islands for buried treasure, and getting into fights with other pirate teams. The game may be lacking in content, but it's also a ton of fun when played with others.

Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 5 places you and a friend in virus-infested Africa and shared resources to make it out alive. While the game departs slightly from the series' survival horror roots, it is a fantastic action game meant to be played with someone else having your back.

Dying Light

Dying Light is one part zombie game and one part parkour. Add three other players to the mix plus a bunch of weapons and you've got a wrecking crew. It is incredibly fun to traverse the city and tackle missions, especially since developer Techland has continually dropped new content since the game's launch in 2015.

Terraria

Terraria has been known as the "2D Minecraft" due to its tasks of gathering resources and building, but there is so much more. There are bosses, NPC characters that can live with you, high-end loot, and plenty of secrets that are more fun to discover with friends.

Path of Exile

Path of Exile is essentially a free-to-play Diablo game with dungeon-crawling and loot popping out of enemies. The game offers an intensely deep skill tree, and optional microtransactions that do not deter from the experience.

Castle Crashers Remastered

Castle Crashers is a 2D beat 'em up game where up to four players fight a great variety of weird beasts and obstacles to save princesses from an evil wizard. It is a great game to play with a dedicated team or new players, since characters retain their levels and gear.