2025 is shaping up to be an even bigger year for co-op gaming than 2024, with a ton of co-op titles releasing from action-packed Borderlands 4 and Elden Ring: Nightreign to cozy games like Water Me & You and Stage Fright.
If you and your friends or partner lean more towards cozy games, 2025 will be a great year! If you're looking for a new cozy co-op game to play, here are 12 of the best upcoming co-op games in 2025!
Highlights
Ghost Town Games, the developers of OVERCOOKED! are creating a new purely co-op escape room game called Stage Fright.
Hazelight Studios, the developer of award-winning It Takes Two, is releasing their next game titled Split Fiction.
Some of the best spooky-but-cozy games are getting sequels in 2025: Little Nightmares III and Subnautica 2!
Here are 12 cozy co-op games releasing in 2025:
Hawthorn
Hawthorn is an upcoming fantasy sandbox RPG set in a world of anthropomorphic animals. Whether you play as a field mouse, an owl, a raven, or an otter, you will need some friends to help build your village and explore the wide world around you.
Bethesda, BioWare, and Naughty Dog are all teaming up to create this fantastical co-op RPG that will hopefully be releasing sometime in 2025! In Hawthorn you can farm, craft, cook, explore, and celebrate all four seasons in a beautiful fantasy forest world.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Hello Kitty Island Adventure is releasing on both PC and Nintendo Switch on January 30th, 2025. This highly anticipated cozy game like Animal Crossing will be perfect for cozy gamers of all ages that love Hello Kitty and Friends.
Build your dream vacation island and meet over 40 different characters from the Hello Kitty and Friends franchise. And just like in Animal Crossing, Hello Kitty Island Adventure will also be multiplayer! Invite a friend to your island to adventure together.
Wuthering Waves
Wuthering Waves is an open-world RPG that's finally coming to console in January 2025. If you love Infinity Nikki but you're open to a similar game that does include some combat, you'll love Wuthering Waves. This beautiful open-world game features stunning characters and environments and countless quests to complete.
Wuthering Waves is a free-to-play RPG that you can play in co-op! Meet new characters, complete quests for villagers, and collect plants and craft. The game releases on PS5 on January 1st, 10 PM EST.
Little Nightmares III
Little Nightmares is the quintessential spooky-but-cozy game that every streamer recommends playing around Halloween. Supermassive Games is releasing the next game in the franchise, Little Nightmares III, sometime in 2025!
Little Nightmares III will be different because it will only be playable as co-op. Follow the journey of Low and Alone through another perilous adventure either in co-op with a friend or using in-game AI as the player 2.
Play hide and seek with a monster baby in the Sandy Necropolis and avoid swarms for Candy Weevils in the unsettling Candy Factory in this atmospheric co-op game!
Stage Fright
Stage Fright is the next game coming from the creators of the OVERCOOKED! franchise, set to release sometime in 2025. This game will only be playable in either split screen or online co-op.
Stage Fright will be full of chaotic Overcooked-style moments in this upcoming escape room game. Play side by side and solve puzzles together, putting your communication to the test! Furthermore, the main characters of the game will take you through a heartfelt coming-of-age story.
Split Fiction
Split Fiction is the next game coming from the developers of award-winning It Takes Two! Play as Mio and Zoe (one is a fantasy writer and one is a sci-fi writer) and explore the worlds they create together. Split Fiction is releasing on March 6th, 2025.
Split Fiction is another game that can only be played in co-op. Thankfully, Hazelight Studios is offering gamers a Friend's Pass - as long as one person owns the game, their online friend will be able to play with them! Play as these two unlikely friends soaring on dragons in a fantasy world on minute and exploring a futuristic city the next.
Aloft
Aloft is a co-op sandbox survival game set on islands floating in the clouds. This co-op cozy game lets you harvest crops, keep adorable animals, and build your homestead in the sky. Aloft releases in Early Access on January 15th, 2025.
In Aloft, turn any of your islands into a skyship and explore the open skies. Aloft is a cozy, feel-good survival game about restoring the ecosystem on these floating islands. When you're not busy farming or decorating your home, search for information on the fungal corruption that threatens to ruin this world's ecosystem.
Cinnabunny
Cinnabunny is an adorable upcoming cozy game where you play as a bunny running a bakery. Even better - you can play with a friend in couch co-op. This cozy game like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing releases on February 19th, 2025!
In Cinnabunny, open a bakery and learn to cook a ton of different bread, cookie, and pie recipes to sell in your shop. Find ingredients by farming wheat, foraging for eggs, and mining the nearby caves for salt.
In this cozy game like Animal Crossing, you can also give gifts to the neighborhood bunnies to increase your friendship, decorate your home, and even spend time birdwatching!
Subnautica 2
Subnautica is another creepy/cozy game that's getting a sequel in 2025. This massively popular underwater survival crafting game will now be co-op with up to 4 other players! Journey alone or with your friends to an alien planet. Build your base and explore everything from beautiful coral reefs to terrifying trenches in this upcoming game in 2025!
Subnautica 2 will allow you and your friends to build and decorate a base, explore diverse underwater biomes, take samples, improve your body for survival, and discover the secrets of this alien ocean.
Cozy Island
Cozy Island is an upcoming cozy game perfect for players that love the Sims 4 and Ooblets. This relaxing cozy game on Steam will allow you and a friend to freely explore an island, collect toys, meet cute animals, and build a secret base.
On Cozy Island, you and a friend can ride bikes and enjoy fun mini-games, feed hungry capabaras, and discover secret treasure all around the island. Cozy Island will be perfect for cozy gamers that are looking for a feel-good, stress-relieving cozy game!
Water Me & You
In Water Me & You, play as a water droplet and a seed that set out a big mission - restoring a civilization of creatures on the brink of extinction. Water Me & You is another game that can only be played in either local or online co-op that will be releasing in 2025!
This co-op game releasing in 2025 is part puzzle adventure and part base-builder. Go on adventures where you'll have to work together to navigate environmental obstacles. After gathering resources, return to your village and customize it how you want to.
Purrrifiers: Cleaning Chaos
Purrrifiers: Cleaning Chaos is a hilarious upcoming co-op game. If you're a cozy gamer that loves simulation games like PowerWash Simulator and House Flipper, you'll love this chaotic twist on a cleaning game releasing sometime in 2025.
With up to four friends in a party, start your day as cleaners and solve puzzles to unlock new vehicles and cleaning equipment. You'll meet some furry felines along the way that will either help you or try to sabotage your cleaning session.
This game will have all kinds of cleaning tools from pressure washers and vacuum cleaners to garbage trucks and street sweepers.
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