Sabotage Studio's Sea of Stars quickly won the hearts of RPG players everywhere when it launched in August of last year. It's an incredibly beautiful game that hearkens back to the golden age of 16-bit role-playing games. How do you make such a well-liked RPG even better? By adding 3-player local co-op, it turns out! Sabotage has teased the new mode with a few details and an extremely short video that give players a hint of what to expect.

Hasbro's venerable My Little Pony franchise has been bringing joy to kids and the young at heart for quite a while now. Following the 2022 release of My Little Pony: A Maritime Bay Adventure, Outright Games and Drakhar Studio is back with another co-op pony game: My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery. This one is heading to consoles and PC in May, and it will feature 2-player local co-op.

Contra: Operation Galuga, the highly anticipated run-and-gun shooter, has just arrived on consoles and PC today. To celebrate the occasion, the Konami shop now offers a variety of Operation Galuga-themed products, including shirts, hats, posters, and more. Given that Operation Galuga is the best Contra in years (and supports up to 4-player local co-op!), we can see why series fans would want some matching merch.

Sometimes you just want to get away. Where better than an alien planet? In Time to Morp from Team Halfbeard and Yogscast Games, up to four online players can team up to colonize an alien planet. On that planet, they will raise cutesy aliens called morps, harvest resources, and build machines. Time to Morp has just arrived on Steam Early Access, so it's officially morpin' time.

You could be forgiven for having forgotten this, but Warner Bros. and Player First Games released a Super Smash Bros.-style fighting game called MultiVersus back in 2022. The game was in open beta status back then. Surprisingly, Warner Bros. shut down the beta entirely in June 2023, and things have been silent since then. That changes this year, thank goodness, because MultiVersus will be back and fully launched in May. It will even include a new PvE mode, which hopefully means more co-op support.

In 2021, Robi Studios released a fairly well-liked 3D action adventure game called Blue Fire. Robi is now hard at work on their next game, Solar Raiders. This one maintains some appealing visual artistry but changes up the genre to roguelike shooter. It will also feature 4-player online co-op, something we're all about. The game isn't due until next year, but the developer has already released a demo on Steam.

Last year, 4J Studios, the makers of Minecraft: Console Edition, released a car-themed twist on Overcooked called Manic Mechanics. The gameplay was great, but being a Switch exclusive, the game could have looked and run a little better. That's no longer a problem, thankfully, because Manic Mechanics has finally arrived on all the other big platforms. It supports 4-player local and online co-op, and it promises lots of party-style fun.

Last year, Outright Games announced that it would be creating a game based on TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, the hit animated movie. However, the publisher known for its licensed games revealed absolutely no other details at the time: not the title, the player count, or anything. This year, perhaps inspired by Game Mill's recent TMNT game announcement, Outright has finally revealed that their game will be called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed, and it will support 2-player local co-op.

Contra: Operation Galuga is the next game in Konami's long-running run-and-gun shooter series, and it's due out in less than a week. The game's soundtrack just launched a few days ago, and now there's even more reason to get excited for Operation Galuga's tuneage. Konami and WayForward have announced that gamers who own cer...

After emerging from early access and launching on consoles in the fall, Bang-On Balls: Chronicles from Exit Plan Games was not done. It still had more balls to bang on. As promised a few weeks back, the game has now received Xbox Series S|X and PlayStation 5 upgrades, allowing for even higher resolutions of balls to bang. In seriousness, the game is pretty bangin', especially in 4-player online co-op.

Arcades might have dwindled in the United States, but they still exist. Companies like Raw Thrills even make new arcade games such as 2017's TMNT arcade game. Seven years later, Game Mill is releasing that game onto consoles and PC as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants. It will support 4-player local co-op, and it's due in late April.

After a surprisingly quiet January, our release calendar was once again filled with quite a bit of co-op fodder this month. Our team's favourite was by far the democracy-simulator, Helldivers 2. Despite the initial server-issues, we just keep coming back to it time and time again. Also of note, quite a few titles like Sons Of The Forest, Smalland: Survive the Wilds, and Timemelters finally left their Early Access state behind, which is always nice to see. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Skull and Bones, on the other hand... well, although they also finally hit store shelves, it doesn't seem like the wait was really worth it. Always sad to see - especially for co-op titles.