While online multiplayer has become king in gaming over the past few console generations, it’s still nice to sit down with family and friends and enjoy games together the old-fashioned way. 2021 brought some wonderful couch co-op and local, competitive multiplayer experiences. We’ve crunched the data from our sister site Metacritic to round up the highest-rate cooperative and competitive local multiplayer games of 2021.

Fly Together

Travel the unfriendly skies, make life hell for airport staff, and rope a few friends in for the ride, because Fly Together is a grand time when you dive into the game’s chaotic mix of trying to keep atmospheric traffic flowing smoothly. Essentially an air traffic controller simulator, Fly Together offers precise teamwork built around the high stakes of ensuring that an airborne tube of travelers don’t meet an untimely end.

The idea might sound wild, but it plays amazingly well when you start coordinating your efforts properly to create a well-oiled machine of air travel running smoothly, adapting quickly to handle surprise airliners, rogue fighter jets, and the occasional natural disaster Come from malaysia online casino . Fun in solo play, Fly Together’s appeal is magnified once you join a team of stressed-out air traffic controllers. Fly Together is a Nintendo Switch exclusive.

Metascore: 81