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Hi

Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this. Basically I'm looking for recommendations for a game I can play against my 2 brothers. We live in different cities and hardly get to see each other but are we all into games.

We are all in our late 40s and haven't gamed against each other since way back when I had a few networked PCs in a squat where we played unreal tournament. I am well out of the gaming loop, i just finished bioshock a couple of months back, now I'm playing doom & death loop. I'm crap at both!

We were thinking we'd like to play a shooter just against each other, kinda like unreal tournament, or something we can do cooperatively. We are definitely not ready to go up against the kids online. Maybe doesn't have to be a shooter if it's fun to play together. Most of us have kids and none of us has loads of screen time.

One brother is on an Xbox One is on a PC One is on a steam deck with WiFi hotspot.

I'm grateful for any suggestions

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[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You will need games that have crossplay between PC and Xbox One so you can play together across different platforms. Multiple people have suggested Left 4 Dead 2, but that doesn't have crossplay. Most of the shooters I personally play don't have it, but there definitely are shooters with crossplay.

Here are my recommendations that have crossplay:

  • Borderlands 3 — Collect wacky guns, travel the universe, and shoot bad guys together. The previous games in the series don't have crossplay.

...Yeah, that's it for crossplay shooters I recommend. For crossplay games that aren't shooters:

  • Overcooked! All You Can Eat — Chaotic co-op cooking. Work together to prepare, cook, and serve food in increasingly absurd scenarios: in the middle of the highway, on an iceberg, in a hot air balloon that crashes into a different restaurant.
  • Ultimate Chicken Horse — Platformer where you build the levels together and then race to the finish. You only score if someone died, so you need to make the level extra dangerous.
  • Moving Out 2 — Goofy co-op game where your group plays as a ridiculously reckless moving company. Carry furniture from the house and shove or throw it into the truck. No one will notice if you break all the windows.

If everyone is on PC, things will open up a good bunch. Old-school networked games generally still work. You can go FFA deathmatch in your old favourites or in newer arena shooters, like Warsow or Disco Dodgeball.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Borderlands 1 GOTY Enhanced edition has cross play I believe, and so does Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, which imo is actually incredibly fun to play. Halo has cross play now, MCC and Infinite.

I believe Sea of Thieves has cross play, but I'm not entirely sure how much mileage they'll get out of it.