What are some excellent games that remain excellent for a group of three?

So many multiplayer game lists include games that are only playable for 2 players (eg, It takes 2, portal 2). Best I could figure out in steam store search was to look for multiplayer games that aren’t co-op, but this seems to remove many games that support 3 players.

  • Motorheadbanger@lemmy.world
    171·
    11 months ago

    Can vouch for Deep Rock Galactic, Ember Knights, Ultimate Chicken Horse, and Factorio

    Edit: Pulsar: Lost Colony is also good, but you’ll need to have two bots as well

  • timo_timboo@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 months ago

    Ever heard of the Trine series? 5 games by now (can only speak about the first 4 though), and they are really fun together. Basically 2d puzzle games with 3 different characters that all have their own abilities, which leads to many different ways to solve puzzles. Highly recommended.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    8·
    11 months ago

    Unreal Tournament 2004, with few players it turns its normal frantic and fast paced gameplay into a suspensfull slower experience which is awesome.

    I think you can get it on the internet archive as it stopped being sold on gog and steam this spring.

    OpenRA - Do you remember the old classic series Command & Conquer ?

    OpenRA takes the old original game, updates the controls to modern RTS controls, add new ai to play against, add support for modern resolutions and adds a good internet multiplayer system, all of this for free!

    OpenRA can be downloaded att https://openra.net

  • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    Nobody mentioned the finals. Free to play fps competitive shooter with teams of 3. It’s been crazy addictive for my friends and I. If you like fast paced hectic fps games it’s loads of fun.

  • titaalik@lemmy.world
    71·
    11 months ago

    Elden Ring with the seamless COOP mod has been very fun for my two friends and me. The experience isn’t 100% perfect (some bugs) but exploring the Lands Between with buddies and fighting the bosses together has easily been in my top 3 COOP experiences up until now.

  • Trev625@lemm.ee
    6·
    11 months ago

    I’m in a poly throuple and we play these games:

    -League of Legends

    -Super Mecha Champions (It’s like Apex but with bots and the real players aren’t as good so we don’t get absolutely crushed every time we play which is nice)

    -Stardew Valley

    -Eternal Return (League + Battle Royale)

    -Divinity 2

    -Overcooked

    -Borderlands

    -FF14

    -Tabletop Simulator (Board Games)

    • Vardøgor@mander.xyz
      3·
      11 months ago

      does that mean a relationship between three people? that’s interesting. mind me asking if that was something everyone already knew they were open to? or was it kind of like, two were together then they decided they were open to a third?

      • Trev625@lemm.ee
        6·
        11 months ago

        Yeah! For us it was me (male) and my girlfriend who have been together 5ish years at the time and we met a girl who we really meshed with and became good friends with. Our friends joked around that we should just all date each other since we hung out so much. One day we got drunk and admitted we’d be open to it so we asked each other out and have been a throuple since!

        Most of our friend group is very accepting. Our families, however, are not lol.

        • Vardøgor@mander.xyz
          4·
          11 months ago

          cool! good on you. i love hearing about how different everyone’s forms of happiness can be, sorry your families don’t seem to. hopefully they’ll warm up to it eventually