Local Coop? How It Works?

[Bryan Fury]

As the titles says... what you exactly mean with Local co-op?

Are we able to play with friends trought "steam friend invites" (so it is basically online but you need to have people on your friendlist to play with them) or we can only by the same ethernet lan (so inside the same house)?

[Rhysandie]

Local co-op usually means you play on the same PC. Alternatively, you can play online with your friends using Steam's Remote Play.

[Darkness]

Local co-op is "couch co-op", multiple people on the same PC, often requiring joysticks for that, and requiring only one copy of the game.

Local co-op used to be LAN co-op, but a really long time ago. Steam even created the "LAN Co-op" category recently to avoid the confusion: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC&category1=998&category3=48&os=win

So by now, we should always assume Local co-op means 2 or more people on the same PC, playing with either shared or split screen in cooperation.

You can always play local co-op games online though, using either Steam Remote Play Together or Parsec, though it probably would require joysticks on most games.