The Best Co-op Games of 2020
First Runner-up: Ghost of Tsushima Legends
Staff Writer Andrew McMahon: I’ll admit, my expectations for Ghost of Tsushima Legends were considerably low when it was first announced in Summer 2020.
While the single-player experience boasts amazing gameplay and a beautiful ambiance, those successful elements aren’t necessarily guaranteed to translate well into a co-op environment.
Thankfully, Sucker Punch knew exactly what they were doing in Ghost of Tsushima Legends, as they managed to carry over the fun from single-player while also crafting compelling co-op gameplay for this DLC.
Each of the mode’s four classes plays well off each other, containing their own special advantages and abilities that are slight variations of Jin’s own skills in the single-player story mode. Thanks to the similarities in gameplay, Ghost of Tsushima Legends is easy to jump into if you’re familiar with them from the base game.
Some of the most fun I’ve had gaming this year is hopping into a 30-minute session of survival and picking off Mongolians from up high as a Hunter or Samurai.
Here is hoping that other titles can learn from what Sucker Punch was able to accomplish so that we can get other games with co-op experiences we might never otherwise have expected.
