5 Player Games to Play with Friends

Top 50 5 player games

1. 1

   Dead by Daylight

   The killer chases survivors and hangs them on hooks while they repair generators to power the exit gates and escape. Several killers come from horror films like Alien and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

   2–5 onlineCrossplay

2. 2

   Ready or Not

   A SWAT team enters buildings with armed suspects and civilians inside, clearing each room, making arrests and rescuing hostages. Rules of engagement penalize shooting anyone who isn't a threat.

   2–5 onlineCrossplay

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   Path of Exile

   You kill hordes of monsters for gear through a ten-act campaign and then through increasingly difficult endgame maps. Skills are gems socketed into your gear, and the passive tree has over a thousand nodes.

   2–6 onlineFree

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   R.E.P.O.

   As robots, you enter abandoned locations to haul valuables to an extraction point and meet a quota while monsters roam. Objects are physics-based and lose value with every bump.

   2–6 online

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   MLB The Show 25

   Baseball is played with the real teams and players of Major League Baseball, controlling every pitch, swing and fielding play. In Diamond Dynasty you build a team from cards of current players and legends.

   2–6 online · 2 on one screenCrossplay

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   Path of Exile 2

   Killing monsters and bosses earns gear through a campaign and an endgame of maps. Combat includes a dodge roll, and skills are gems that you modify with support gems.

   2–6 online · 2 on one screenCrossplay

7. 7

   Don't Starve Together

   Survival in the wilderness means gathering food and materials, crafting tools and setting up a base before winter. You manage hunger, health and sanity, and each character has their own perks and drawbacks.

   2–6 online

8. 8

   Where Winds Meet

   In 10th-century China, you play swordsmen who explore an open world and fight with martial arts and weapons like swords, spears and fans. The online mode adds dungeons, bosses and duels.

   2–5 onlineCrossplayFree

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   Battlefield 1

   World War I soldiers fight over capture points on large maps with tanks, biplanes and horses. The losing team is given an airship, an armored train or a dreadnought.

   2–5 online

10. 10

    Abiotic Factor

    Scientists are trapped in an underground lab overrun by creatures from other dimensions and soldiers. You build your base and weapons from office furniture and equipment, and each of you picks a scientific specialty.

    2–6 onlineCrossplay

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    RuneScape

    In the medieval world of Gielinor, you create a character and level dozens of skills such as mining, fishing, magic or combat, alongside quests. There are no classes, so one character can learn everything.

    2–5 onlineFree

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    DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2

    As a Time Patroller, you create your own character and fight in 3D arenas to fix altered moments of Dragon Ball history. You level up and learn moves from the series' characters.

    2–6 online · 2 on one screen

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    Guild Wars 2

    Tyria is a fantasy world where you create a character and explore maps with events open to anyone nearby. Your level scales to each zone, so you can play together at different levels.

    2–5 onlineFree

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    Backrooms: Escape Together

    You descend through randomly generated Backrooms levels, each with its own puzzles, items and entities, looking for the exit to the next one. The layout regenerates on every attempt.

    2–6 online

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    NBA 2K26

    Basketball games use the real teams and players of the NBA and WNBA. In MyCAREER each of you creates a player to use alongside friends in streetball games or Pro-Am.

    2–5 online · 4 on one screenCrossplay

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    Escape from Tarkov

    You enter zones of a sealed-off Russian city to find loot, fight other players and AI enemies, and reach an extraction point. If you die you lose the gear you carried.

    2–5 online

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    Riders Republic

    You roam an open world built from US national parks by bike, skis, snowboard, wingsuit and rocket wingsuit, entering races and trick contests. Mass races put dozens of players on the course at once.

    2–6 onlineCrossplay

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    Worms W.M.D

    Each of you commands a team of worms that take turns firing bazookas, grenades and exploding sheep at the others on destructible terrain. This entry adds tanks, helicopters, buildings to hide in and weapon crafting.

    2–6 online · 6 on one screen

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    The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

    Five characters, US military personnel and an Iraqi soldier, are trapped in an underground Sumerian temple during the Iraq War and hunted by creatures. Your choices and reflexes decide who survives.

    2–2 online · 5 on one screen

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    Counter-Strike 2

    One team tries to plant a bomb and the other has to stop them or defuse it, in rounds where the dead don't respawn. Money earned each round buys the weapons for the next one.

    2–10 onlineFree

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    Dota 2

    Each player controls one hero who levels up and buys items during the match, and the team pushes down three lanes to destroy the enemy base. Every hero is unlocked from the start.

    2–10 onlineFree

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    Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

    Attackers storm a building to defuse a bomb or rescue a hostage while defenders fortify it with barricades and traps. Each operator has a unique gadget, and many walls and floors can be breached.

    2–10 onlineCrossplayFree

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    Team Fortress 2

    Two teams fight to capture control points, push a bomb cart or steal the other side's briefcase. There are nine classes with different weapons and jobs, and you can switch class mid-match.

    2–24 onlineFree

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    Terraria

    In a world made of blocks, you dig for ore, craft weapons and armor and build houses for NPCs. Progress comes from beating bosses, and one switches the world to Hardmode with new enemies.

    2–8 online · 4 on one screen

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    Garry's Mod

    It's a physics sandbox with no goals where you spawn objects and vehicles and weld them together to build things. Most people play community-made modes such as Prop Hunt and Trouble in Terrorist Town.

    2–64 online

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    Rust

    With only a rock on an island, you gather resources to build a base and craft weapons, and other groups can raid it and take everything. Servers wipe on a schedule and everyone starts over.

    2–100 onlineCrossplay

27. 27

    Stardew Valley

    You inherit a run-down farm and get it going by planting crops, raising animals, fishing and mining. Everyone shares the same farm, and you choose whether money is pooled or separate.

    2–8 online · 4 on one screen

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    Destiny 2

    As Guardians with elemental powers, you shoot through alien factions in missions, dungeons and raids to earn better weapons and armor. Raids require the team to solve coordinated mechanics on top of the shooting.

    2–12 onlineCrossplayFree

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    Among Us

    Crewmates complete tasks around a spaceship while impostors hidden among them kill and sabotage without getting caught. When a body is reported, everyone debates and votes on who to eject.

    4–15 onlineCrossplay

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    War Thunder

    Battles over capture zones are fought in tanks, planes, helicopters and warships from the 1930s to today. Damage is modeled per part, so one shot can knock out the engine or a crew member.

    2–32 onlineCrossplayFree

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    Red Dead Redemption 2

    In Red Dead Online each of you creates an Old West outlaw and rides the map doing missions, hunting and fighting gangs. Roles like bounty hunter and trader each have their own progression.

    2–7 online

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    Marvel Rivals

    Teams of Marvel heroes and villains fight to capture points or escort a payload. Certain character pairings unlock team-up abilities, and parts of the map can be destroyed.

    2–12 onlineCrossplayFree

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    Valheim

    In a randomly generated purgatory, you play Vikings who build houses and ships, craft gear and defeat each biome's boss. Each boss you beat unlocks the materials needed for the next biome.

    2–10 onlineCrossplay

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    ARK: Survival Evolved

    You wake up on an island full of dinosaurs, gather resources, build bases and level up. Nearly every creature can be tamed to ride, fight alongside you or gather resources.

    2–10 online · 2 on one screenCrossplay

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    Call of Duty

    It bundles the recent Call of Duty games: team matches, round-based Zombies and Warzone, with squads on a large map that closes in. There, players who die can return by winning a Gulag duel.

    2–12 online · 2 on one screenCrossplay

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    Left 4 Dead 2

    Survivors fight through zombie-filled campaigns from safe room to safe room until the final rescue. The game adjusts enemy and item spawns to how the group is doing.

    2–8 online

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    Unturned

    Surviving the zombie outbreak means looting towns and military bases for food and weapons, crafting tools and building a base. You can face only zombies on your own server or join PvP servers.

    2–24 onlineFree

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    No Man's Sky

    You fly ships through a procedurally generated galaxy, landing on planets to mine resources, catalog wildlife and build bases. You can fly from space down to any planet's surface with no loading screens.

    2–32 onlineCrossplay

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    Palworld

    Creatures called Pals roam an open world, and you catch them to fight, ride and work at your base. Pals chop, mine, cook and craft on their own depending on each species' skills.

    2–32 onlineCrossplay

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    Brawlhalla

    Each of you picks a fighter and wins by knocking rivals off the screen, and they fly farther the more damage they've taken. Weapons drop onto the stage, and each character uses two weapon types.

    2–8 online · 4 on one screenCrossplayFree

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    DayZ

    Everyone spawns with almost nothing in a fictional post-Soviet country full of infected and searches for food, water, clothing and weapons. Other players can help or kill you, and death is permanent for that character.

    2–60 online

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    The Forest

    After a plane crash on a peninsula of cannibals and mutants, you chop trees, build a fortified shelter and explore caves to find a kidnapped boy. The cannibals attack more as days pass.

    2–8 online

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    Overwatch

    Two teams of heroes with unique abilities fight over objectives like escorting a payload, capturing points or pushing a robot. Heroes are split into tank, damage and support, and you can switch during the match.

    2–12 onlineCrossplayFree

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    Halo: The Master Chief Collection

    It bundles six Halo games, from Reach to Halo 4, with their campaigns against the Covenant and the Flood plus multiplayer. It also includes wave-based Firefight and Forge, an editor for building maps and modes.

    2–16 online · 4 on one screenCrossplay

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    Project Zomboid

    In a zombie apocalypse in Kentucky, you survive by looting houses, fortifying a safehouse and farming while managing hunger, injuries and mood. Zombies are drawn to noise, and a bite is fatal.

    2–32 online · 4 on one screen

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    THE FINALS

    Teams compete in a virtual game show to grab cash from vaults and carry it to a cashout station they then have to defend. Almost every building can be destroyed.

    2–12 onlineCrossplayFree

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    Battlefield 6

    Two large teams of soldiers fight to capture points on maps with tanks, helicopters and jets. Each of you picks one of four classes, from Assault to Recon, and many buildings can be brought down.

    2–64 onlineCrossplay

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    Euro Truck Simulator 2

    You drive trucks across a scaled-down Europe delivering cargo between cities while dealing with traffic, fuel and rest hours. Earnings buy trucks and garages and hire drivers for your own hauling company.

    2–8 online

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    Halo Infinite

    Shielded Spartan supersoldiers fight in two teams in modes like Slayer and Capture the Flag. Weapons and gear like the grappling hook spawn on the map, and Forge lets you build maps.

    2–24 online · 4 on one screenCrossplayFree

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    Raft

    On a small raft in the ocean, you hook floating debris to expand it, cook food and purify water. A shark keeps attacking the raft, and the story advances by sailing to islands.

    2–8 online

There are 120 more in the catalog, and the poll counts them too when it filters by what your group can play.