--OFFICIAL HOW TO PLAY ONLINE GUIDE--

[The Gentlebros]

As you all might already know, Steam recently rolled out their Remote Play Together feature which lets you play local co-op games online!

Here's how you do it:
1. Enter the Steam Beta. You do this by clicking on Steam>Settings.
2. Start Cat Quest II.
3. While in the game, open the Steam Overlay(Shift-Tab).
4. Find the friend you want to play with and click the tiny arrow next to their name.
5. Select 'Remote Play Together'!

Hope everyone has fun with this! :D

[Birb]

Thanks for the guide! Will be plenty of handful when the new content comes.

[Grambo]

This does NOT work unless you play with a controller. So less fun... given it doesn't work.

[The Gentlebros]

Originally posted by Grambo:

This does NOT work unless you play with a controller. So less fun... given it doesn't work.

The only setup we do not support(and most games don't either), is two keyboards.

You can still play it co-op with one keyboard and one gamepad.

[Grambo]

Actually, plenty of games support two keyboards. And given that a controller is a giant pain in the ass for many, this becomes a pretty notable flaw. It renders the co op feature useless for me, which is a pretty huge bummer.

I'm a laptop gamer. As such, my accessories are restricted. Requiring a controller simply eliminates all players like me. It was a huge disappointment given that I purchased the game *specifically* because my wife and I were so excited about being able to play this co op.

[The Gentlebros]

Originally posted by Grambo:

Actually, plenty of games support two keyboards. And given that a controller is a giant pain in the ass for many, this becomes a pretty notable flaw. It renders the co op feature useless for me, which is a pretty huge bummer.

I'm a laptop gamer. As such, my accessories are restricted. Requiring a controller simply eliminates all players like me. It was a huge disappointment given that I purchased the game *specifically* because my wife and I were so excited about being able to play this co op.

We mean for local co-op games. Maybe its just the games we own, but we've tried using Remote Play on Overcooked and Cuphead, and these games do not allow two keyboards as well.

We're really sorry you were disappointed that two keyboards are not an option, and we really wish we could try to make it work, but earlier in development we've already tried doing this, and it proved technically difficult using the engine we're using.
This was also why we opted to release a demo as well, so people can use the demo to iron out any issues or preconceptions of the game before actually buying it. The last thing we want is for people to buy a product expecting it to do one thing, but ending up disappointing it for people. :(

EDIT:
I did some research for you on local co-op games, and what some people do is they download a 3rd party program to make their computer recognize the 2nd keyboard as a 'gamepad'. This should work for our game as well, as it works for a lot of other local co-op games that only support one keyboard. Sorry to have you do this workaround...and if this is not something you wish to do....then we understand if you would want to refund the game, and we're completely supportive of that decision. I mean, you bought this game wanting to play it with your wife, and the game does not fulfill that objective. :(

[J's]

Just some feedback from trying the game in remote play :

• If the other player started the game, without a controler, my controler was unusable and we were both player two. We were unable to activate gamepad as the other player did not have one.
  
• If I started the game, with a controler, I was player one and the other player was player two. Player two could use the keyboard while I used a gamepad.

[Dodolie]

The controls work great with remote play (double controller). One big bug tho: We cant save the game. It always says that i should check my pc. Two hour progress down the drain sadly. Solutions?

Edit: Appearantly, my anti virus blocked the creation of a save file without noticing me. Will leave the comment here, it might help others.

[The Gentlebros]

Originally posted by Dodolie:

The controls work great with remote play (double controller). One big bug tho: We cant save the game. It always says that i should check my pc. Two hour progress down the drain sadly. Solutions?

Edit: Appearantly, my anti virus blocked the creation of a save file without noticing me. Will leave the comment here, it might help others.

Thanks!
We've also updated the 'BUG REPORT/FAQ' threads to support this. :)

[Ansem]

any hope for normal coop rather than remote play?

[Steve]

I was about to purchase this game until I saw that playing co-op over remote play won't work with both players on keyboard. Has there been an update to this? Reading about it with other games, seems like the common solution is to give players the ability to select keys for controls - ie. player 1 WASD, player 2 IJKL. Has this been implemented with this game or is it still strictly 1 keyboard + 1 controller?

[The Gentlebros]

Originally posted by Steve:

I was about to purchase this game until I saw that playing co-op over remote play won't work with both players on keyboard. Has there been an update to this? Reading about it with other games, seems like the common solution is to give players the ability to select keys for controls - ie. player 1 WASD, player 2 IJKL. Has this been implemented with this game or is it still strictly 1 keyboard + 1 controller?

Some players have had success using a Keyboard Splitter so two keyboards work on the same computer!
This might work in the meantime while we figure out a more permanent solution. :)

[Dabor]

Just adding my voice to "advice in this thread absolutely helped" - was rather disheartened by seeing the controller prompt on opening it for co-op, and had that sorted in 15 minutes. Took a bit of messing with Keyboard Splitter, but it was working perfectly before long.

[godisgood_20]

You have to have a Controller?

You said nothing about needing a Controller. Refund now please. So stupid.

[vadersson]

Wow, bummer. My son really like Cat Quest 1 and when we saw this said multi-player co-op we bought it during the Steam play together sale. But now I find out it requires controllers, which we don't have. Very sad as we looked forward to it. (Thought he was going to make me play the dog...)

[Skrull]

hi! there will be the option to play coop online each player with his game?
the remote play don´t work with us, it always saw to the other player a message saying that the first player is bussy and have to wait