![]() That being said, I think it’s actually more than that, since when doing this list for 2021 I noticed Q3 and Q4 had way more releases than Q1 and Q2 – almost exactly 2/3 of the games on this list are from the 2nd Half of 2021. (I never did the full year because Sony restructured the store that year and made sorting games by release date impossible at the time). I measured the total number of local multiplayers released in the 1st Half of 2020, which ended up being 101, so about 202 for the whole year if we were to average the number out throughout the year. I’m going to list the games on the main list that support 5-8 local players on other platforms for people who own may own multiple platforms and want to play these games with more than four players.īeach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure - 8 Players That said, the PS4/PS5 still have a few games that support 5-8 local players, either through hotseat mode or through playlink (using smartphones as controllers). This means that some games that support 5-8 players on other platforms are cut off at 4 on the PS4/PS5. PC, Xbox One/Series X, and Switch allow up to at least 8 traditional controllers on the same console, whereas the PS4/PS5 are capped at 4. There are some other restrictions that may apply to playing certain games via Share Play, so I recommend reading the link I shared if you’re interested in more details. All users must also be PlayStation Plus subscribers. That said, this feature only allows up to 60-minute sessions, so you need to restart a session if you plan on playing longer than that. Of course, you can always use Share Play to play local multiplayer games online on PS4/PS5 (and Parsec or Steam Remote Play on PC), and what’s great is only the host needs to own a copy of the game for it to work. While this post emphasizes local multiplayer, I will still make mention if a game features online multiplayer as well. Note that not all turn-based games support hotseat mode. ![]() This means that you can still play a local multiplayer game even if you only own one controller, but the actual number of games that supports this is very small, with only a handful releasing each year. If a game is turn-based, it may allow hotseat mode, which allows players to take turns passing the same controller around. Local multiplayer games are either shared-screen or split-screen: Street Fighter is an example of a shared-screen game, while It Takes Two is an example of a split-screen game (mostly), although It Takes Two does occasionally transition to a shared-screen view during certain parts of the game. Some games feature both co-op and PvP (even It Takes Two has some PvP mini-games).ĭefining Shared-Screen, Split-Screen, and Hotseat Mode PvP stands for Player versus Player, and has players competing against each other, like in Street Fighter. Co-op stands for Cooperative, and has players working together to achieve a common goal, like in It Takes Two. Local multiplayer is an umbrella term referring to both co-op games and PvP games. In the context of this post, local multiplayer refers to games that support multiple players on one console: some other definitions include couch multiplayer or same-system multiplayer. This is a compilation of a series of four posts I made divided into quarters (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) throughout 2021 – this post combines and modifies parts of the write-ups of those previous posts, while adding 20+ new write-ups on games that weren’t featured on the original lists (plus a few on the omitted list).ĭefining Local Multiplayer, Co-op, and PvP I also listed games from the same series together that were released on the PS4/PS5 in the same year, like the Cotton games and Darius games – technically separate purchases for each of their entries, but it just made sense to combine them. Compilations of old games, like the Deathsmiles I + II pack, are also only characterized as “one game” in the context of this list. This also includes games that released on the PS4/PS5 before 2021 that were updated to add local multiplayer support for the first time, but the only games on the list that meet this criterion are Stardew Valley and The Binding of Isaac: Repentance (paid DLC), and A Hat in Time on the Omitted List (more on that later). This is a list of 101 local multiplayer games/updates released on the PlayStation 4/5 in 2021 – this includes ports from other platforms that released on the PS4/PS5 ecosystem for the first time in 2021, including games from well before the 2010s.
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