James R. Scott

James R. Scott’s local (offline) cooperative games database can be found here

Cooperative gaming is multiplayer gaming where the players work together to achieve some goals. It’s better than single player gaming because it’s always more fun to play with real people, but it’s also better than competitive multiplayer gaming (where the players play against each other) because everyone comes out happy at the end as no-one is a looser (or everyone is a looser).

Offiline cooperative gaming is better still, because the gamers are all in the same place, which makes it even more of a fun, highly interactive social activity.

Because of this, and because I hadn’t found another good, comprehensive source of information cataloging these games, I have spent a great deal of time looking for cooperative games for my friends and family to play together. Games do not very often advertise the modes in which they can be played in detail (often they just say whether they are multiplayer and how many players can play, with the exception of the Xbox360 which does give some detail on the physical boxes for the games at least) so to collect this info I have had to resort to online forums, wikipedia and other miscellaneous websites.

I hope this is helpful, although note that the information I have gathered is pretty unreliable unfortunately given that there is no central resource for this. Please do help me by sending me an email (address on my CV which can be found elsewhere on this site) or by posting a comment below.