Multiplayer Games

Top 50 multiplayer games

1. 1

   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

2. 2

   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

3. 3

   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

4. 4

   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

5. 5

   HELLDIVERS 2

   You play soldiers who drop onto planets to complete missions against giant bugs, robots and aliens, calling in airstrikes and weapons from orbit. Friendly fire is always on.

   2–4 onlineCrossplay

6. 6

   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

7. 7

   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

8. 8

   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

9. 9

   PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS

   Up to a hundred players parachute onto an island, search buildings for weapons and gear, and fight as the safe zone shrinks until one team is left. Bullets drop over distance.

   2–4 onlineCrossplayFree

10. 10

    Apex Legends

    Squads drop onto a shrinking map, scavenge weapons and fight until one is left. Each character has unique abilities, and eliminated teammates can come back if someone carries their banner to a respawn beacon.

    2–3 onlineCrossplayFree

11. 11

    Baldur's Gate 3

    Under Dungeons & Dragons rules, you create characters and play through a campaign to remove a parasite implanted in your brains. Combat is turn-based, and many actions are decided by a dice roll.

    2–4 online · 2 on one screenCrossplay

12. 12

    ELDEN RING

    The goal is to collect the Great Runes by beating bosses across a dark fantasy open world. Guests are summoned into the host's world and return to their own once the area boss is beaten.

    2–3 online

13. 13

    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

14. 14

    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

15. 15

    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

16. 16

    Phasmophobia

    Paranormal investigators enter haunted locations with thermometers, cameras and other gear to collect evidence and identify the type of ghost. The ghost hears your microphone, responds to your voice and can hunt you.

    2–4 onlineCrossplay

17. 17

    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

18. 18

    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

19. 19

    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

20. 20

    Warframe

    You control warriors called warframes, each with its own abilities, in short missions against enemy factions across the solar system. The parts you earn are used to build new warframes and weapons.

    2–4 onlineCrossplayFree

21. 21

    Lethal Company

    A company sends you to abandoned moons to collect scrap and meet a quota before the deadline. The facilities have monsters, and voice only carries at close range or over walkie-talkies.

    2–4 online

22. 22

    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

23. 23

    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

24. 24

    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

25. 25

    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

26. 26

    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

27. 27

    Bloons TD 6

    The goal is to pop waves of balloons before they reach the end of a track, placing monkeys and other towers along it. Each tower has three upgrade paths, and cash is split between players.

    2–4 online · 4 on one screen

28. 28

    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

29. 29

    Schedule I

    Starting from nothing in a small city, you build a drug business by producing, selling to customers, buying properties and hiring staff while avoiding the police. Mixing ingredients creates strains with different effects and prices.

    2–4 online

30. 30

    ARC Raiders

    From an underground colony, you go up to scavenge the surface among hostile machines called ARC and other players. If you die before reaching an extraction point, you lose almost everything you were carrying.

    2–3 onlineCrossplay

31. 31

    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

32. 32

    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

33. 33

    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

34. 34

    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

35. 35

    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

36. 36

    PAYDAY 2

    Masked robbers hit banks, jewelry stores and vaults, haul out bags of loot and hold off waves of police until they escape. Many heists can also be completed in stealth without tripping the alarm.

    2–4 online

37. 37

    Portal 2

    Two robots, each with a gun that opens two linked portals, solve test chambers that need all four portals combined. The co-op campaign is separate from the single-player story.

    2–2 online · 2 on one screen

38. 38

    Deep Rock Galactic

    Dwarf miners drop into procedurally generated caves to extract minerals while swarms of alien bugs attack. All terrain can be dug through, and each class has its own tool for getting around the cave.

    2–4 onlineCrossplay

39. 39

    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

40. 40

    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

41. 41

    The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

    You descend through randomly generated basements, shooting tears at monsters room by room until the floor's boss. Items you pick up stack and change how your shots behave.

    2–4 online · 4 on one screen

42. 42

    Risk of Rain 2

    Each stage is cleared by shooting monsters, opening chests with the gold they drop and activating a teleporter that summons the boss. Items stack without limit, and difficulty rises with elapsed time.

    2–4 online

43. 43

    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

44. 44

    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

45. 45

    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

46. 46

    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

47. 47

    Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition

    Together you crew a pirate ship, raising sails, steering, firing cannons and patching the hull while hunting treasure to sell at outposts. Other crews share the sea and can sink you to steal your loot.

    2–4 onlineCrossplay

48. 48

    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

49. 49

    PEAK

    Scouts stranded on an island after a plane crash climb a mountain through several biomes to reach the summit. Hunger, injuries and weight shrink your stamina bar, and the map changes every day.

    2–4 online

50. 50

    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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