Multiplayer Games on PS4
All the multiplayer games on PS4 in the catalog, online and local, ranked by player reviews.
- games
- 124
- split screen
- 56
- crossplay
- 46
- free
- 13
Top 50 multiplayer games on PS4
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vampire Survivors
Characters attack on their own and you only move them to dodge thousands of monsters for 30 minutes. Each level-up lets you pick weapons and upgrades, and certain combinations evolve them.
2–4 online · 4 on one screen
Paladins
Teams of fantasy champions fight to capture a point and then push a payload to the enemy base. Before the match you build a card loadout that modifies your champion's abilities.
2–10 onlineCrossplayFree
Borderlands 2
On the planet Pandora, Vault Hunters shoot bandits, robots and creatures to stop Handsome Jack. Guns are randomly generated with different stats and effects.
2–4 online
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
It has competitive multiplayer with wall-running soldiers, a co-op campaign and Zombies mode. In Zombies you survive rounds of undead, spending points to open doors and buy weapons.
2–18 online · 4 on one screen
Monster Hunter: World
You track and hunt huge monsters and use their parts to craft weapons and armor for tougher hunts. There are fourteen weapon types, and your character's strength comes entirely from gear.
2–4 online
Fortnite
You drop from a flying bus onto an island, find weapons and fight until one team is left, building walls and ramps for cover. It also includes LEGO Fortnite, Fortnite Festival and player-made islands.
2–16 online · 2 on one screenCrossplayFree
Minecraft (Bedrock Edition)
In a randomly generated world of blocks, you mine resources, craft tools, build anything you want and fend off monsters at night. Bedrock is the edition for consoles, phones and Windows, with a map store.
2–10 online · 4 on one screenCrossplay
Diablo III: Eternal Collection
You pick a class, such as Barbarian or Necromancer, and clear dungeons killing demons by the hundreds to find better gear. Adventure Mode has you running randomly generated rifts on ever-higher difficulties.
2–4 online · 4 on one screen
Rocket League
Soccer is played with cars that jump, boost and fly to knock a giant ball into the other team's goal. The arena is enclosed and cars can drive up the walls and ceiling.
2–8 online · 4 on one screenCrossplayFree
Fall Guys
Dozens of players control little characters that run, jump and grab through rounds of obstacle races, survival and team games. Each round eliminates part of the field until someone wins the final.
2–4 onlineCrossplayFree
Gran Turismo 7
More than 500 real cars race on real and fictional circuits, with tire wear, fuel use and changing weather. Cars are bought with credits earned from races and tuned part by part.
2–16 online · 2 on one screenCrossplay
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
Crash Bandicoot and other characters race karts, hitting each other with items like missiles and TNT crates. Each power slide gives up to three boosts if you time the button presses.
2–8 online · 4 on one screen
Bloodborne
Yharnam is a gothic city overrun by beasts, where hunters push through hard areas to beat their bosses. Health you just lost comes back if you strike back quickly, and weapons change form mid-fight.
2–3 online
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Its multiplayer pits two teams of Uncharted characters against each other on maps where you climb and swing on a grappling hook. Money earned during the match buys AI sidekicks and mystical powers.
2–10 online
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
Each player leads a civilization from ancient times to the space age in turns, founding cities and researching technology. You win through science, culture, religion or conquest, and cities spread across several tiles as districts.
2–12 online · 12 on one screen
DARK SOULS III
Lothric is a dark fantasy kingdom of interconnected areas that you cross to defeat the Lords of Cinder. Guests join by being summoned, and other players can invade the host's world to kill them.
2–3 online
Dying Light
In the city of Harran, you get around by parkour over rooftops and walls and fight zombies with melee weapons you craft and upgrade. At night, much faster infected come out and chase players down.
2–4 online
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
You command troops and fight in person, on foot or horseback, in medieval battles and sieges. The conquest campaign is single-player, and multiplayer offers battles with or without AI troops.
2–12 online
Titanfall 2
Pilots wall-run and double jump in matches that also include AI-controlled soldiers. Filling a meter lets you call down a Titan, a giant mech you can pilot.
2–12 online
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
The fantasy campaign has turn-based combat and dialogue choices, and you play it with characters you create who wield forbidden magic. Elements combine on the battlefield, such as electrifying water or igniting oil.
2–4 online · 2 on one screen
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
Stellaris
Each player designs a species and runs its space empire in pausable real time, exploring systems, colonizing planets, researching and building fleets. The galaxy is randomly generated, and late-game crises threaten everyone.
2–32 online
theHunter: Call of the Wild
Across open nature reserves, you hunt deer, bears, birds and other animals by following tracks and calls. Animals detect noise, your silhouette and scent carried on the wind, and each kill is scored.
2–8 onlineFree
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
You drop onto a map that changes every run and gather weapons and levels as a ring of rain closes in. Each day ends with a boss, and the third with a Nightlord.
2–3 online
The Elder Scrolls Online
In Tamriel, centuries before Skyrim, you create a character and take on story quests, dungeons, trials and a three-alliance war. Zones scale to your level, so they can be played in any order.
2–12 online
Far Cry 5
As deputies in Hope County, Montana, you dismantle an armed cult by liberating outposts, rescuing hostages and destroying cult property in any order. Only the host keeps story progress.
2–2 online
There are 74 more in the catalog, and the poll counts them too when it filters by what your group can play. All games A–Z
Free to play
- 1Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege2–10 online
- 2Apex Legends2–3 online
- 3Destiny 22–12 online
- 4War Thunder2–32 online
- 5Warframe2–4 online
Best on one screen
- 1Terraria2–8 online
- 2Stardew Valley2–8 online
- 3ARK: Survival Evolved2–10 online
- 4Call of Duty2–12 online
- 5Bloons TD 62–4 online
Best with crossplay
- 1Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege2–10 online
- 2Apex Legends2–3 online
- 3Destiny 22–12 online
- 4Among Us4–15 online
- 5War Thunder2–32 online
About these multiplayer games on ps4
Online multiplayer games and couch games share one ranking here, and each card says how many can play and whether it has crossplay. The filters above split the list by platform or genre, and the A to Z index has every game.
124 games are on this list, 44% of all the multiplayer games in the catalog. Of these, 46 have crossplay (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege ranks highest among them), and 13 are free to play. You can play 56 of them on one screen, and Terraria is the highest ranked of those. The most common online cap is 4 players, in 37 games, and 59 games fit 8 players or more.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best multiplayer games on PS4?
Going by player reviews, the top five are Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Terraria, Apex Legends, ELDEN RING and Stardew Valley.
How many players can play these games together?
The most common cap is 4 players online, in 37 of the 124 games. For bigger groups, 59 of them fit 8 or more, like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Terraria and Stardew Valley.
Do these games have crossplay?
46 of the 124 do, and the most common combination is PC + PS5 + PS4 + Xbox Series + Xbox One, with 13 games.
Can we play any of them on one screen?
Yes, 56 have split screen or shared-screen play, like Terraria, Stardew Valley and ARK: Survival Evolved, and 62 of the 124 work with a single copy for the whole group.
How do we choose what to play as a group?
Send the group a free CoopGames poll. Each person takes about 30 seconds to answer, anonymously, and the app drops every game that someone can't play on their platform or that doesn't fit your group size. You vote on what's left, and the app looks for a time when you can all play.
Let your group vote on what to play
Send the group a poll link. Each person answers in 30 seconds, and you vote only among the games all of you can play.

















































