Multiplayer Games on Xbox
All the multiplayer games on Xbox in the catalog, online and local, ranked by player reviews.
- games
- 181
- split screen
- 71
- crossplay
- 94
- free
- 23
Top 50 multiplayer games on Xbox
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Satisfactory
On an alien planet, you build a factory: mining ore, processing it in machines linked by conveyor belts and producing parts for a space elevator. Factories are built vertically, with multiple floors, trains and pipes.
2–4 onlineCrossplay
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
7 Days to Die
You loot buildings, mine and craft weapons in a fully destructible block world full of zombies, building a base with traps. Every seventh night a horde comes straight for wherever the players are.
2–8 onlineCrossplay
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
VALORANT
One team tries to plant a bomb called the Spike while the other tries to stop or defuse it. Each player picks an agent with unique abilities and buys weapons before each round.
2–10 onlineCrossplayFree
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
There are 131 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
- 2PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS2–4 online
- 3Apex Legends2–3 online
- 4Destiny 22–12 online
- 5War Thunder2–32 online
Best on one screen
- 1Terraria2–8 online
- 2Baldur's Gate 32–4 online
- 3Stardew Valley2–8 online
- 4ARK: Survival Evolved2–10 online
- 5Call of Duty2–12 online
Best with crossplay
- 1Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege2–10 online
- 2HELLDIVERS 22–4 online
- 3Rust2–100 online
- 4PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS2–4 online
- 5Apex Legends2–3 online
About these multiplayer games on xbox
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.
181 games are on this list, 64% of all the multiplayer games in the catalog. Of these, 94 have crossplay (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege ranks highest among them), and 23 are free to play. You can play 71 of them on one screen, and Terraria is the highest ranked of those. The most common online cap is 4 players, in 57 games, and 83 games fit 8 players or more.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best multiplayer games on Xbox?
Going by player reviews, the top five are Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, HELLDIVERS 2, Terraria, Rust and PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS.
How many players can play these games together?
The most common cap is 4 players online, in 57 of the 181 games. For bigger groups, 83 of them fit 8 or more, like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Terraria and Rust.
Do these games have crossplay?
94 of the 181 do, and the most common combination is PC + PS5 + Xbox Series, with 26 games.
Can we play any of them on one screen?
Yes, 71 have split screen or shared-screen play, like Terraria, Baldur's Gate 3 and Stardew Valley, and 82 of the 181 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.

















































