Gaming

My wife plays games with me. Mostly we play GTA V or various survival games. Ark, Green Hell, The Forest, etc.

No

She doesn’t play anything at all

My partner and I play games together! We also do a decent amount of one of us playing a story focused game and the other watches. We do most of our co-op on console but for PC I really enjoyed Guild Wars 2

My partner I used to play games when she was younger but never kept playing. She really loved adventure games but has trouble with anything that is fast paced or that involves combat.

She read an article about It Takes Two and wanted to try it. I bought it for her on my switch and we have been having a blast playing co op. I can’t recommend that game enough.

No, mostly cause I don't have a wife.

Ive tried. But when we started to play a first person horror game, after 15 minutes she rushed to the toilet to puke. She can’t use the controller properly.

Me and my husband game together, we really enjoyed It Takes Two, A Way Out and Overcooked had us laughing the entire time we was playing. We enjoy sitting down and playing single games together, when we met it was because I fangirled over seeing a game I loved that got us talking. We started playing The Last Of Us, Uncharted 4 and Horizon Zero Dawn together and he actually made .e realise I love JRPGs because we played a couple together, something I hadn't done before.

Yes. My wife likes to play SWTOR with me.

We're not married yet but my girlfriend that I've been living with for about 4 years now does play Mario Kart, gang beast, and unspotable with me

No. My wife doesn't see the fun of it. Not at all. Not even candy crush or similar.

I play Minecraft with my wife. She's very serious about it

Before I met my husband, I played only The Sims and WOW. He got me into gaming during the quarantine. We started with the Witcher 3. I honestly think gaming saved our sanity during those hard times.

And since then, we have played many games together - every Witcher, almost all AC games, Subnautica, all souls games, elden ring, BG3, RDR2 It takes two,... We usually take turns. He is way better gamer than I am, so if there is something hard, he let me try it a couple of times to have a good laugh and then he beats the boss or solve the riddle.

We love playing together, it is actually the best part of the day when he gets home from work, I prepare some snacks, hot chocolate or tea and we just sit in our living room and play ❤️

Yeah we play together, currently we play Diablo 4.

Before that we played some MMOs together like WoW, Rift.

We also played a lot of Minecraft over the years. I have a private server for family and friends thats full of our creations some from way back when we met. Can recommend.

My partner has never been a gamer, but I recently managed to convince her play Baldurs Gate 3 co-op with me. She got really into it and loves it now

Yea me and my wife we both tends to play games together but at times we both play on our own games based on different interest as well, its been like this since before we married, its fun and i also tried to multiplayer or coop games that suits her so its been good so far.

Don't play with my wife, but if I did here's some games I'd suggest:

It Takes Two (possibly the best 2 player game ever)

Valheim

Helldivers

Minecraft

I regularly play Call of Duty multiplayer with my wife. Also we have finished a few co-op games together but her favorite was It Takes Two. She has been gaming before we got married so I didn't have to teach her much. Currently trying to progress in The Ascent but it's not easy to find the time with a toddler.

Before we got married, my wife and I were a long-distance couple. We both enjoy games, and so we would prioritise games we could play together. We played a ton of Sea of Thieves and shooters like Apex and Overwatch. Now that we are married and living together with a shared office, we both still enjoy games, but we don't have that same priority for coop or multiplayer. We play a lot of separate games but next to each other, and that's fine too.

We still like to play coop games. I forget what it was called. There's a coop game, and if you buy it, you can get a friend pass to give to another since it's relying on there being two people. If someone remembers the name, please comment!

Nah, she has a life lol

My (29M) partner (29F) loves to watch me play games. We spend a lot of our time together playing. Even when we are not playing, we often talk about the game we are currently doing. At the beginning of our relationship, she literally wrote a small essay on the Bioshock serie so we could debate about it XD
For some games, I try to encourage her to play, but she really prefers to watch me. She said she's bad at games, even though I made her play Bloodborne and I thought she was doing very well! (she only played 4-5 hours, though)

My wife is not really a gamer but she occasionally watches me play and is an awesome sport if I need her. When I first got Children of Morta I wanted to level up my characters faster so I asked her to coop with me so I could level up two at a time. She is a champ, did pretty well too!

Actually we did build a beautiful 5 star island together on Animal Crossing during Covid. It was a really sweet and memorable experience. Did some coop and some individual turns on it. Was gf at the time, but lockdown really brought people together (or tore them apart!). I’m lucky for sure :)

Borderlands is not my usual type of game but 2 is amazing for co-op play, it is also hilarious and beautifully written. We have put more hours into that than any other game.

Some other great co-op games are - Divinity Original Sin, Portal 2, Diablo 3, It Takes 2 (especially good if you want something fun but easy) Overcooked

Some great lesser known, very unique games that you might not find otherwise - Nine Parchments, Trine series

I (44M) really tried to get my wife to be a gamer, failed. Then I tried to play adventure games together, failed. Then I tried playing split-screen racing games, failed again.

Finally, we agreed that she would not bother me while I play.

My fiance doesn't play games at all. We tried playing portal 2 together but it was an absolute shambles.

So instead its my hobby for when we do our own thing

You’ve got some good games there!

My partner and I play games a fair bit, and we love a good coop game! You mentioned you’re kind of newer to the hobby yourself, but if you managed Grounded you should be good (ability-wise) for a huge selection.

Here are some games I regard very highly, are heaps of fun, and that are very much co-op focused:

-Hellcard -Across the Obelisk -Spellmasons -Sun Haven -Minecraft (an oldie but gold! If you give it a try, I very strongly recommend playing through a mod launcher like curseforge)

Some more hardcore games that are a lot of fun but a bit more involved:

-Conan Exiles -V Rising -Ark

And one of my favourite games, Final Fantasy XIV (14). It’s an MMO, so there’s so, so, so much to do. Most of the content is optional, so you and your husband can focus on doing activities that are fun for you! You can customize your character in any way imaginable, tailor your own clothes or combine designs you like, build your own house, decorate it, form a band with friends and create and perform music together, go monster hunting, and so much more.

The award-winning story is legitimately some of the best writing and narrative of the last decade, and all the main characters of the ensemble cast are written, developed, and voice acted superbly. You will laugh and cry along with them.

The community is absolutely stellar, and widely regarded as incredibly friendly and helpful. There are 19 classes to choose from, ranging from bards, archers, black magicians, white mages, scholars and summoners (both which use multiple summoned creatures to aid them in battle), astrologians, paladins, ninjas, dancers, etc.

The combat is a more traditional style, where you can click or TAB-target through enemies. Each class has a myriad skills and abilities to use, and learning efficient and powerful combinations is a great feeling. The boss fights are amazing spectacles of a huge variety of fun (and often challenging) mechanics. Don’t worry, the game slowly introduces you to it all slowly throughout your journey, but once you’re high level and running through the more dangerous dungeons, your heart rate will definitely spike at times!

One of the best parts of it is that you don’t have to make new characters to try new things; you can learn every single class on ONE character, and swap as you see fit.

There is a subscription fee, but the entire base game and first expansion are totally free to play, and you can decide to subscribe after you’ve played through it if you’ve enjoyed yourselves and want more.

Me and my bf play games together when we arent on our single players (which is rare atm as im on bg3 and hes on cyberpunk).

In the past we’ve played: the forest, untitled goose game, it takes two, borderlands 2 and 3, tiny tina’s wonderlands, destroy all humans, heavenly bodies, cuphead and bg3 (didnt finish as its not great with split screen

Daily

I play online games but my husband looks down on such entertainments and thinks they are an insult to my intelligence despite knowing nothing about the games I play. I have a group of online friends with whom I play, we talk on discord and post pictures about pets, food, irl stuff. My husband does not think these people count as real friends even though I have met with some irl. Most of my friends are men half my age so the husband is suspicious of this, but my age really is irrelevant as is theirs. We are gaming not dating.

She bought me BOTW for Christmas and ended up playing 70% of it lol. Although we took turns playing it it was still a cooperative enjoyment.

Not me, but my buddy's wife loves Horizon series of games, and introduced my friend to Fallout

I think she was trying to get into the soullikes, and I wish her well on her sanity bending quest

I have another friend who plays a lot of PvE Horror Survival and Crafting games with his wife like 7 Days to Die and Minecraft

I played PayDay 2 with them, and she was usually the one figuring out the objective while we are fighting off a police raid

I used to love play coop games, but don't seem to find enough good ones. We played diablo, wish there would be more coop games to play together as a couple! Thanks for the list, will definitely have a look at them 😊

He will only play fighting games with me and loses interest when I start beating him lol

We play a lot together, 7 days to die, stardew valley but we mostly play terraria!

Nah, she plays Sims and even that's rare.

No. And I’m glad. I need things for myself. She wants to do EVERYTHING else together.

Most of the time, nope. We have slightly different preferences in games and most coop games don't click with in one or the other.

But we both enjoyed the heck out of Baldurs Gate 3, Anthem, Diablo 2,3,4 and even gotham knights was somewhat nice.

My wife “allowed” purchase of gaming laptop additional to my gaming pc , just not to game in same room while she is relaxing. So there is that ….but have 9 y old daughter. Maybe i can get here to play with me 😎

I will let you know when I get a spouse 🤞

My gf got me into gaming when we met in 2011, started by playing through diablo 2 together. Now she doesn't play as much anymore, she will occasionally watch me play on PS. If it's a game with puzzles (like resident evil) I let her do them since she loves it. Now In the weekends we sometimes play minecraft the whole family, the kids are 7 and 9.

My girlfriend and I both like games. I play more cozy games than she does, but we both like big cinematic games as well. We watch each other play games or talk on the phone while we play. I'm slowly convincing her to play some co-op games with me. We took turns with Stray. We just got minecraft (her on ps5 and me on switch) so we could play online with a friend on xbox. It's perfect because we can play online when we are together and apart!

YES!!!! My husband (M37) and I (F40) met BECAUSE of games. We have played so many games together, most popular is World of Warcraft (and a couple of other MMOs), Heroes of the Storm, and we've played Snowrunner together too. We are always trying new games!

There are a ton of games that are fun for co-op. We have had a ton of fun playing Risk of Rain 2, the ones I mentioned above, Deep Rock Galactic is always fun.

I would say browse Steam, maybe try a new genre is the FPS games are bit much (I totally understand as a fellow 40 year old, my reflexes aren't what they used to be and I get sniped by 12 year olds).

I have plenty of stories from ALL of these games. Just keep trying ones that look interesting to you, and you'll find one you like. Hell, you may even find one that you like playing alone!

If you have any questions, you can always message me. I love talking about games!

ETA: We have been having a BLAST playing Baldur's Gate 3 together. It also taught us a lot about how the other person thinks, so we can understand each other better. It's a great game!

My wife and I both play games, but have fairly different tastes. I'm more drawn to like... souls games, metroidvanias, jrpgs and stuff. She's more drawn to your crafting/farm-sim type games(stardew, animal crossing etc).

Occasionally we'll put on RDR2 or GTAV, get drunk, and act like total sociopaths until we die. And then just keep taking turns.

Usually though it's just us gaming on our own, together. She pretty exclusively plays her switch(unless its WOW on her laptop) so we always just get cozy on the couch together.

Yes actually we play a lot and have two Xboxes and two TVs in the living room. I think it started with the first Plants vs Zombies Garden warfare. We would swap the controller each match (I always had to play zombies). Then I think we moved on to Borderlands 2 split screen. Played a TON of that. Then she started playing her own games and I just had to support her by buying the games lol. Ratchet and clank games were big for her, then she amazed me and played through Witcher 3 two separate times in her free time. That’s when I decided we need to get married haha.

Now with the current home sharing of games on Xbox, we can play any game side-by-side even if it’s not coop. Current rotation of games is FO76, Assassins Creed and if we get bored we go back and start a new playthrough of Borderlands 2 or 3. The single player games are still fun to be playing together in the same room so we can kind of help each other out or talk about what happened in the story. As someone who has had pretty much every console since the NES, I am incredibly happy with the current situation.

i want a spouse to game with :(

Yes. It’s how we met. I game less than he does, but I also enjoy watching him game when I’m not in the mood to play, so it works out.