The Best Cooperative survival Games for Mac OS

Update : Omega Crafter added at rank #26.
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Valheim (2022)

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early access Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Mac OS Linux

Valheim is an epic, Viking-tinged survival-creation game with blocky graphics and a modern twist. You are dropped in a wild forest with runes to guide you on your mission to conjure and defeat supernatural beasts. Players must craft weapons and armor, puzzle out how to summon the beasts, and build structures for shelter along the way.

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What we like:
  • Simple default building system
  • Instant rebuilding/repairing
  • Randomly generated 3D universe
  • Easy-to-read color highlights for structural integrity
  • Level up abilities by repeating actions
  • Robust physics engine underlies all actions
What could be improved:
  • Wonky battling system
  • Limited traversal over rivers and oceans at this point

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • base-building

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Necesse (2019)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Necesse is an open-world, top-down sandbox game with a huge amount of potential. Explore procedurally generated islands, build towns, recruit settlers and complete quests - either on your own or with friends. There are forest, snow, swamp and desert biomes to discover as well as mobs and boss battles to fight. The crafting recipes are intuitive and the base building is fun and easy to learn.

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What we like:
  • Procedurally generated world of islands
  • Mobs to fight
  • Boss battles
  • Intuitive crafting recipes
  • Base building system
  • Online multiplayer
What could be improved:
  • Not much verticality in the build system yet
  • Minimal cosmetic changes for builds
  • Some bullet hell elements during boss fights

  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • colony
  • building
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • survival-craft
  • replay-value
  • 2d
  • multiplayer
  • farming
  • online

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Flat Heroes (2018)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Flat Heroes encourages you to stylishly navigate and survive over 300 handcrafted levels, destroy the most epic bosses around and truly be the two-dimensional hero (or heroes!) you’ve always dreamed you could be.


  • platform
  • cooperative
  • minimalist
  • local
  • multiplayer
  • boss
  • campaign
  • precision
  • 2d
  • party
  • survival
  • difficult
  • 4-player
  • pvp
  • couch

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Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration (2016)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox 360 Xbox One Playstation 4

Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration includes the critically acclaimed Rise of the Tomb Raider, nominated for over 75 "Best Of" awards, in which Lara Croft becomes more than a survivor as she embarks on her first Tomb Raiding expedition to the most treacherous and remote regions of Siberia.

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  • zombies
  • survival
  • action-adventure
  • stealth
  • exploration
  • cooperative
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • combat
  • narrative
  • card
  • platform
  • crafting
  • shooter
  • third-person

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Barotrauma (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!


  • submarine
  • survival-horror
  • underwater
  • cooperative
  • war-crime
  • survival
  • 2d
  • management
  • moddable
  • simulation
  • sci-fi
  • horror

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Monster Outbreak (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch

It's a Monster Outbreak! The King's dimensional orb malfunctioned, bringing hordes of dimensional monsters into the Kingdom. As Yulia, the last survivor of the Royal Guard, defend your staging ground against the monsters, upgrade your arsenal, and survive long enough to find the orb and destroy it.

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  • base-building
  • hack-and-slash
  • tower-defense
  • cooperative
  • split-screen
  • crafting
  • local
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • building
  • controller-support
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • arcade

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Creativerse (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

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  • sandbox
  • crafting
  • voxel
  • survival
  • open-world
  • building
  • cooperative
  • exploration
  • multiplayer
  • family-friendly
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • block

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WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition (2019)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.

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  • simulation
  • life
  • cooperative
  • hunting
  • survival
  • education
  • nature
  • pve
  • rpg
  • immersive
  • open-world
  • single-player

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Oppidum (2025)

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Android Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch j Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Face the challenges of Oppidum, a survival adventure for 1-4 players with a unique story waiting to be unraveled. Build a camp, collect everything a fantastic land can offer, and use it to push forward through the island. A world hanging by a thread needs your help – will you answer the call?

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • survival-crafting
  • resource-management
  • farming
  • character
  • customization
  • simulation
  • adventure
  • action-adventure
  • stylized
  • narrative
  • exploration

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The Captain is Dead (2021)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Mac OS

It’s the last 10 minutes of your favorite sci-fi TV show… except that this time things have gone seriously wrong and The Captain Is Dead! This turn-based, survival/strategy puts you in the Captain's chair as you try to save your crew from being blown to bits by aliens...

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  • local
  • space
  • board-game
  • cooperative
  • isometric
  • tactical
  • atmospheric
  • sci-fi
  • survival
  • retro
  • turn-based
  • tabletop
  • strategy
  • multiplayer
  • aliens

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