Hi everyone, I have a group of friends (we are 5 in total) and we’re looking for some new games.
We got tired of LOL, OW, Csgo, Rocket league (we played private match), skribble
Any type of game goes, we are pretty open on that.
We are going to try minecraft and tabletop simulator this weekend. Do you have some other suggestions?
If you want a Mario Party like, Pummel Party is very fun imo
Pummel party is so much fun and if you go in the workshop there are tons of minigames and maps
- Barotrauma. Game can be challenging and serious, but also ridiculously hilarious and off the walls, often in the same playthrough.
- Valheim.
- Project Zomboid. You might want to consider upping some of the difficulty with more players, though. More zombies, for example.
- Minecraft.
- Planetside 2. Squad/platoon up and just roll around together. The learning curve, however, can be surprisingly high.
- Battlebit Remastered.
Risk of Rain 2 is a blast with a group
Ones I’ve played, in no particular order
- Rust
- Civilization
- Valheim
- Project Cars
- Battlebit
- Stolen Realm
- Hell Let Loose
If you like survival games… Ark, 7 days to die, Conan Exiles, Valheim*… You can self-host all of them so you don’t need to deal with griefers.
Valheim’s doesn’t work so well if you don’t all play together. Resources from exploration are finite and it really sucks if all the places you go, your buddies went to and looted already. Works best if most people play together and everyone plays around the same amount of time.
If you want to avoid the hassle that it takes to set up a Microsoft account you may try Minetest instead of Minecraft.
It’s an free and Open Source reimplementation that needs no Java, and the game mode “Mineclone” is very close to the original.Regardings RTS I can recommend Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
I you want to try out a business simulation you may look at OpenTTD which is free (and free of ads) over Steam.
And don’t forget Among Us.
Another Sup Com fan.
Sup Com had a steep learning curve and a significant time commitment but it’s a LOT of fun.
Stardew Valley can be modded to support 8-player sessions but the upcoming 1.6 update will include it natively.
It’s only 4 players but Baldur’s Gate 3 is so much fun to play coop.
Agreed, and with this mod, you can actually have up to 8 players. I’ve been using it for a group of 5. Issues are infrequent and minor (e.g., one person not having a chest at camp, one player’s stats/inventory getting cut off on the overview page, etc.).
You want to ONLY play with your group or are you also wanting to play with others? Or both/either?
Either one is fine
tetr.io could be good
(dont enable manual targeting or you’ll ruin friendships)
Quake Live
I think elder scrolls online has 4 player dungeons but questing can mainly be done in a large group
World of Warcraft. If your focus is primarily in PvP, then you specifically want to look at Battlegrounds and Arenas in WoW.
I’d suggest valheim but I’m not sure how is the performance nowadays, our rented servers struggled a lot with only 3-4 people and I think 10 is the max. Sailing was especially very laggy and glitchy because if it unfortunately.
The issue with Valheim is it’s not really a dedicated server. It’s more of a shared saved game repository.
Whoever gets to a region first is the host, and everyone nearby connects to them. If that person has a slow machine, or high latency to the other players it can be really painful. When I was playing with friends, we banned one person from entering dungeons first because they had the worst computer in the group and it was really bad for the rest of us. Same thing with our main base, if they wound up the host, they’d disconnect and log back in so someone else would become host.
MMORPGs like World of Warcraft or Guild Wars 2 are a great way to play together. With 5 players you can exactly fill a party in both games.
RTS games like Starcraft 2 (which is free now) or Age of Empires could also be fun, but 5 players is a bit awkward because it’s too many for a single team and uneven so you can’t play like a 3v3. But at least in SC2 there’s a 2v2 and a 3v3 ladder so you could always split into two teams or play a free for all. There are also a bunch of cool custom games in the arcade like Ice Baneling Escape or Zealot Hockey you could try.
Very different, but Trackmania is also fun with friends. Not the right choice if you enjoy ramming your friends off the road, but there are probably other games for that too. To set up and play in a club/server you’d need club access which costs like $20 a year, but you can try the game for free first to see if you like it. You can compete for records on a map, play an RPG together (a map style where the focus is on finding the right way instead of just racing) or build tracks for each other.
You could try an ARPG, unfortunately most of them (Diablo, Grim Dawn, Last Epoch) seem to limit parties to 4 players, but Path of Exile allows up to six. And if you’re not serious about the end game you’ll never need to spend any money (if you are it’s like $40 for stash tabs one time and you’re set forever).
