4-Player Local Multiplayer games? (pc)

smithy1981

So as the title suggests I'm looking for recommendations for 4-player games on pc. I have 4 xbox pads and we'll try anything from FPS's to quiz games.

I was kind of disappointed when i realised there was no local multiplayer for LFD2 or borderlands 2.

We've been playing fifa, worms, towerfall-ascension, and speedrunners (great little game that is perfect for local mulitplayer) http://store.steampowered.com/app/207140/

Is there any decent tennis games around? and where the hell are the tiger woods games, they were always good with a few cans and friends on a fri night

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

witnessmenow

I have a game I'm working on at the moment that should work fine with 4 xbox controllers if you wanted to give it a go? It is not fully finished yet but there are a good few mini games that are playable

It is a up to 8 player multiplayer mini-game collection where you control cars in different game modes

There is some more info and screen shots here

I could send you a demo later if you'd like?

Pure Loonamus

Not entirely sure if they are all available to play locally but:

Defcon, Age of Empires II, Unreal Tournament 2k4/Quakes, Command & Conquer possibly?

Zero-Cool

There is a game out tomorrow called Trials Fusion, motorbike racing, that will have 4 player couch multiplayer.

Duggy747

smithy1981 wrote: »

I was kind of disappointed when i realised there was no local multiplayer for LFD2 or borderlands 2.

With some easy tinkering you can (or at least could unless they've changed it) play splitscreen in L4D2 on the PC with Xbox controllers. Button mapping might have to fiddled with a bit but I got it working years ago and it ran perfectly..

Mr Bloat

PC games with couch co-op and support exactly 4 players

Fnz

Hammerwatch is a fun, if shallow, hack 'n' slash adventure game/dungeon crawler. Reminds me of Gauntlet.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/hammerwatch_storefront

Also, if going by Mr. Bloat's above list, bear in mind that the first Shadowgrounds game does not play well with controllers. Even the sequel, Survivor, requires some 'fiddling around with' to get working properly, I believe.

Lu Tze

What no mention of sonic all stars racing transformed yet!

Good mario kart style racer, was hooked for a few weeks and that was just the single player!

Morag

Killing floor has a LAN option.

jumbobreakfast

Nidhogg is good fun. It's one on one but has a winner stays on and tournament mode. Spectating can be just as fun as playing: http://www.nidhogggame.com/

Also supposed to be fun:
http://www.starwhal.com/

smithy1981

witnessmenow wrote: »

I have a game I'm working on at the moment that should work fine with 4 xbox controllers if you wanted to give it a go? It is not fully finished yet but there are a good few mini games that are playable

It is a up to 8 player multiplayer mini-game collection where you control cars in different game modes

There is some more info and screen shots here

I could send you a demo later if you'd like?

Excellent, i'd love to give it a go. If you can send me a link i'll try it friday night and give you some feedback if you'd like. Much appreciated

Pure Loonamus wrote: »

Not entirely sure if they are all available to play locally but:

Defcon, Age of Empires II, Unreal Tournament 2k4/Quakes, Command & Conquer possibly?

I think command and conquer has a co-op mode but most of those game aren't good with a controller...

sheehy83 wrote: »

There is a game out tomorrow called Trials Fusion, motorbike racing, that will have 4 player couch multiplayer.

Just looked it up, it looks cool but its not out on pc till the 24th, I'll probably get it then tho, thx.

Duggy747 wrote: »

With some easy tinkering you can (or at least could unless they've changed it) play splitscreen in L4D2 on the PC with Xbox controllers. Button mapping might have to fiddled with a bit but I got it working years ago and it ran perfectly..

I'll look into that, cheers.

jumbobreakfast wrote: »

Nidhogg is good fun. It's one on one but has a winner stays on and tournament mode. Spectating can be just as fun as playing: http://www.nidhogggame.com/

Also supposed to be fun:
http://www.starwhal.com/

I'll check them out now, cheers. Looks like friday nights are sorted for a while:)

Thx everyone!!

smithy1981

Lu Tze wrote: »

What no mention of sonic all stars racing transformed yet!

Good mario kart style racer, was hooked for a few weeks and that was just the single player!

I actually have it on my steam list but forgot i had it. I got it with a humble bundle i think and only played a few mins of it, cheers for the reminder!

witnessmenow

jumbobreakfast wrote: »

Nidhogg is good fun. It's one on one but has a winner stays on and tournament mode. Spectating can be just as fun as playing: http://www.nidhogggame.com/

Also supposed to be fun:
http://www.starwhal.com/

+1 for Nidhogg, I only played a couple of games but it was great fun

witnessmenow

smithy1981 wrote: »

Excellent, i'd love to give it a go. If you can send me a link i'll try it friday night and give you some feedback if you'd like. Much appreciated

That would be great!

I'll send you a link tomorrow evening as I am currently working on trying to improve the menus, but regardless if I get that done or not I'll have a demo to give you!

SeantheMan

Unreal Tournament 2004 + 3 are a great laugh, you can set up the teams vrs Bots on multiple difficulty levels and gametypes.

Mohaa / COD / Left4Dead / Castle Crashers / Defcon / CIV 4

Oh......SWAT 4 is a good one too,

Then there are classics like Worms , Mario Kart etc and anything else you can think of from Emulators. Old arcade games that had 4 players.

witnessmenow

Here is a link to a demo of the game

I did not get to finish the menus so its an older build.

Plug in controllers before launching the game. Let me know if you have any issues with it!

smithy1981

witnessmenow wrote: »

Here is a link to a demo of the game

I did not get to finish the menus so its an older build.

Plug in controllers before launching the game. Let me know if you have any issues with it!

I'm only downloading it now, ended up away most of the weekend so didnt get much of a chance. Hopefully i'll have time this friday night, and thx again

Player 2

It's very much so in pre-Alpha state at the moment, but if you've got 4 controllers hooked up to the PC you could try Gang Beasts:

http://www.indiedb.com/games/gangbeasts

I got a bit of craic out of it for the princely sum of zero Euro