Steam’s new Winter Sale has just gone live and there are plenty of titles that have gone on sale for as low as 80% off. But if you’re looking for titles to get into some multiplayer action with friends overChristmasand into 2024, then you’ll want to check out the titles on this list to help make up your mind first. Eachdealis a steal at its current price, and you’re able to be guaranteed to find something to pick up and play right now.
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition
Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak
Project Zomboid
Stardew Valley
The Outlast Trials
Escape The Backrooms
Party Animals
Risk of Rain Returns
Risk of Rain 2
Street Fighter 6
Deep Rock Galactic
Tabletop Simulator
Baldur’s Gate 3
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15. Void Crew
WHERE TO PLAY
Best for players who want a 4-player sci-fi co-op. If you liked FTL and Deep Rock Galactic, then you’ll find a home on Void Crew’s ship.
If a developer threwFTLandSea of Thievesinto a blenderthe result would be Void Crew. Compared to FTL, Void Crew adds a four-player coop and is played through a third-person view. Like FTL, each run of Void Crew is instance-based and after each run, you’ll unlock different kinds of ships and outfits to use in future runs.
All of this adds up to the perfect foundation for a series of hilarious events with friends. Whether you’re collecting salvage from a derelict space station or fighting against space pirates, Void Crew is a wonderful game to just hang out and enjoy a short, sci-fi odyssey with friends.
14. Monster Hunter World/Iceborne Rise/Sunbreak
Monster Hunter World Iceborne: Master Edition has both the base game and the expansion in one convenient bundle. You’ll love this game if you love fighting large monsters, exploring vibrant biomes, and enjoying a methodical action experience with up to four of your friends.
Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak is a bundle with both the expansion and the base game in one place. Rise and Sunbreak are the latest Monster Hunter games and they’re much more fast-paced and flashy than its predecessors.You’ll want to play this game if you want to get straight to the action without any distractions.
Thetwo best Monster Hunter gamesand their expansions are currently on sale!
Monster Hunter WorldandIcebornehave been discounted to the lowest it’s ever been. With Capcom featuring “Return to World” content where they provide advice and tips to new World players, now is the perfect time to jump into one of the most genre-defining action games.
Monster Hunter Riseand its expansion Sunbreak are the latest additions to the Monster Hunter franchise, and they feature faster-paced gameplay with less of a focus on ecology and tracking, and more of a focus on high-octane, flashy combat against giant monsters.
13. Project Zomboid
Project Zomboid is easily one of the best zombie survival games to play. If you love getting fully immersed with friends in a game, and have always wondered how long you and your friends would survive in the zombie apocalypse, then you’ll love playing this game.
One of the most addictive survival zombie games you and your friends can play.Project Zomboidlooks like a game from an age gone by, but the layers of complexity and immersion are what keep this game addictive. Staying alive for as long as possible, and getting lost in the flow of keeping your camp going while also organizing jobs with friends is an easy way to lose hundreds of hours into this survival simulator.
With 33% off its original price tag, Project Zomboid is at an amazing price point for any survival game fan.
12. Stardew Valley
This game is perfect if you just want to relax with some friends or build a farm with your significant other. Stardew Valley encourages its players to enjoy it at their own pace and to build their farm however they’d like.
Stardew Valleyis one of the kings of the farming simulator genre. Few games have captured the same level ofcozy, relaxed gameplayand intriguing character stories.
At its core, the premise of Stardew Valley is rather simple: you play as a new farmer in a small town. The only job you have is to earn a living and expand your farm. This lets the player do whatever suits their mood. You could raise crops and animals, fish, or adventure into a local dungeon filled with monsters. On top of this, Stardew Valley has plenty of mysteries to explore to keep you entertained.
With four players, everyone can choose to live out their best life and split all the income however they please. Making a farm with four people’s worth of effort and input can be a trying experience at times, but looking back and admiring your group’s efforts is an amazing experience.
11. Outlast Trials
The Outlast Trials supports up to 4 players and is great if you want a horror game where you and your friends have to solve a series of puzzles like manic labrats while monsters and psychotic murderers lurk in the surrounding shadows.Outlast Trials is 25% off, leaving it at $22.49.
Long-time fans of horror will be familiar with the Outlast games. They’ve made a name for themselves through their often intense and disturbing games. This time inOutlast Trials, it’s the typical Outlast experience (solving puzzles, jump scares when you least expect it, creepy night vision effects) butwith your friends! It makes the experience a little less scary, but the here-and-there jump-scares will keep you on your toes, along with psychotic inmates, limited resources, and your friends being jerks about hogging items to themselves.
10. Escape The Backrooms
Compared to Outlast Trials, Escape The Backrooms places more emphasis on solving puzzles and avoiding supernatural monsters that will trick and chase you whenever they get the chance.This creates a more heart-pounding experience than Outlast Trials, which is more about avoiding the psychotic inmates.
Similar to the Outlast Trials, Escape The Backrooms is another multiplayer horror game where the existence of your friends only slightly diminishes the horror in the game itself. In this game, you’ll be solving different puzzles in liminal spaces. However, within these begrudgingly dull mazes lives at least one murderous entity that will try to rip you and your friends apart limb from limb. Solving these puzzles and dodging the monsters is where this game truly shines as a multiplayer experience.
This game supports up to 4 players, and it also has proximity voice chat, which helps both immersion and adds some extra fun in some sections.
9. Party Animals
Party Animals is a hilarious 4 player party game to play with friends. If you’re looking for a cute, but adorably violent game to bully your loved ones in, then Party Animals will be a wonderful game for your group.
If you’re looking for a casual and friendly game to play with friends or family, check out Party Animals (provided you don’t mind cartoon violence). Party Animals has players compete in several different minigames while dressed like animals and sometimes beating each other senselessly. Usually, the minigames are about surviving longer than your loved ones. However, knocking them off ledges or brutalizing them with nearby weapons is also highly encouraged.
It’s still receiving updates that give it new maps, new characters, and new outfits. Plus, its $14 price point on Steam’s winter sale is just right for this light-hearted party game.
8. Remnant 2
Remnant 2 has up to 3 players journeying across different realms to try and save the multiverse. Players get to blast their way through hordes of enemies to collect loot and level up so they can take on harder levels.
Remnant IIis a looter shooter similar toThe Divisionin some regards, except instead of surviving in a post-apocalyptic city, you’re hopping between dimensions to destroy bosses and save the multiverse.
This game’s greatest strengths can be seen in itslevel design and procedural generation. Levels can vary from the gothic Losomn to the futuristic, sci-fi world of N’Erud. Enemies and quests in each level are unique and have a ton of flavor to them. Sections of the map will also be procedurally generated, so maps will all look similar and have a similar layout, but they won’t be the exact same each time you visit them.
7. Risk of Rain Returns, Risk of Rain 2 (And DLC)
Risk of Rain Returns brings the old 2D Risk of Rain into the present with remade graphics and a few new features. When it’s all taken together, Risk of Rain Returns becomes one of the most addictive roguelites to play with friends.
Risk of Rain 2 remains one of the best multiplayer roguelites to jam with friends. Each player can divvy up the map and grab items while also slowly snowballing their build into an unstoppable monster-slaying machine. Some characters also heavily reward good aim, which is also a great way to take advantage of the 3D graphics compared to Risk of Rain Returns.
Both Risk of Rains are outstanding examples of how to do a multiplayer roguelike well. They’ve instilled the best parts of the roguelite genre down to insane, in-run upgrades that help your character snowball into a nigh-unkillable god, and out-of-run unlocks that add plenty of replayability and variety to each run.
Between the two games, Risk of Rain Returns is a 2D platformer that’smore than just a simple remake of the original Risk of Rain. It feels like the multiplayer Dead Cells with varied but unique characters to play as. In comparison,Risk of Rain 2is a 3D third-person shooter that follows a similar structure to Risk of Rain Returns, but the leap into 3D adds a welcome element for players who want to aim their weapons a little more.
6. Street Fighter 6
Capcom’s hit fighting game is now on sale through Steam’s Winter sale!For new players and veterans, there are plenty of tutorials and easier control schemes to help fans find their footing.
Fighting game fans looking for a good opportunity to jump into the latest Street Fighter now have the perfect opportunity available to them. Steam’s Winter Sale has marked off the regular, deluxe, and ultimate versions ofStreet Fighter 6by 34%, 25%, and 20% respectively. This makes the deluxe version now cost only $3 more than the base game’s original price, but you’ll get the Year-one character pass, all pre-order bonuses like outfits and colors, and 4,200 Drive Tickets. This is an amazing deal just for the value.
5. Valheim
Valheim has you and up to 9 other players make a home in the misty realm between the mortal plane and Valhalla.Combat is snappy, base building is fun, and the large bosses truly feel like battles worthy of song.
InValheimplayers enter the titular world of Valheim with nothing and are tasked with proving themselves worthy of Valhalla by slaying the evils that reside in this realm. They’re allowed to use anything on the plane to help them in their quest.
What follows is a fantastic combination of base-building, farming, and Nordic adventures. Since Valheim can support up to 10 people, you and your friends can create large raiding parties to venture further into Valheim’s realm and face whatever evil lurks in the dark as a team.
With the new Ashlands update coming out sometime in the future, this sale is the perfect time to get into the game at a good price.
4. Roboquest
Roboquest is a fast-paced roguelite that cruises on the foundation of being a mobility shooter. The gunplay feels destructive and wonderfully responsive, and the abilities of each robot become larger and larger this of endorphins as your run goes on.
If you need a new high-speed mobility shooter, then Roboquest should be at the top of your list of games to play.
In this game, you play as one of 6 different robots to blast through a roguelite run with. The gunplay and mobility are addictive, each run’s builds are varied and can change based on what guns you want to use, and the aesthetics feel like a moving comic book.
In two player coop, having two robots traveling at ridiculous speeds through a level is both an entertaining and hilarious sight to behold.
3. Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic is a first-person shooter that knows how to have fun. Swarms of bugs and other enemies will swarm you and your friends as they mine, and with each complete mission, you’ll get to unlock better guns, upgrade your character, and buy more cosmetics.
Looking for a good shooter that also knows how to party?Deep Rock Galactichas you and your friends controlling space dwarves with a penchant for space beer in this first person shooter game. Your jobs? Mine priceless minerals for a soulless corporation. However, the local wildlife on this mineral-rich planet won’t take your intrusions very kindly.
It’s in these hectic moments that Deep Rock’s beauty truly shines through. One moment you and your friends could be peacefully mining when a “swarm approaching” warning blares over your comms.
What follows in the next few minutes is a chaotic frenzy of bullets, exploding bugs, and armored monsters. Once everything is dead, everyone just goes right back to happily mining away.
2. Tabletop Simulator
Tabletop Simulator is a swiss army knife of games. It can support several different kinds of simple games like cards or chess, but if you visit Steam’s Workshop page for this game, you may also play almost any kind of board game you can imagine with this powerful simulator.
This one is perfect for fans of board games, card games, and everything that could possibly be played on a tabletop. Tabletop Simulator can support up to 10 players, and in Steam’s Workshop page, you can download almost every kind of board game to play in it, includingSettlers of Catan,Magic: The Gathering’s Commander, andWarhammer 40,000.
If you’re looking to connect with loved ones over the holidays through online board games, Tabletop Simulator is perfect for the job, and with the Steam Winter Sale happening, it’s now even more affordable.
1. Baldur’s Gate 3
Baldur’s Gate 3 is Larian’s award-winning CRPG that’s heavily inspired by Dungeons and Dragons. As a multiplayer title, you and your friends can each create your own characters and take turns making pivotal choices for your team or crush any foes who dare oppose you.
You might be asking yourself, “why are you addingBaldur’s Gate 3if it’s only a 10% discount?” Even if it’s only $5 off, Larian has still made an incredible, award-winning masterpiece. If you can get your hands on the game below its base $60 price, you’re getting a good deal. This small deal is even more worth it if you are a fan of DnD and CRPGs, but weren’t sure about the $60 price.
For a multiplayer game,Baldur’s Gate 3 supports up to 4 players, and while only one player at a time can make dialogue decisions, other players can still vote for dialogue and interact with other NPCs themselves. This can lead to plenty of hilarity when you’re on a Discord call with the other players you’re adventuring with.
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