Got some friends coming over for the weekend, gonna eat some junk food, swear loudly, and play games before going to bed at a reasonable hour and waking up to a healthy, balanced breakfast.

But we need some help with the "games" part. Earlier tonight, I grabbed a handful of Humble Paradox Bundles, so we'll probably do some Showdown Effect, Magicka, and/or Dungeonland. Everyone has a copy of The Ship, Plain Sight, and Awesomenauts. I'll be hooking up Jamestown and Castle Crashers to the big TV at some point. What else have you folks got?

Bonus points if the game is cheap, F2P, or on sale somewhere right now.

(Allan, please add rant about Saints Row 3 only allowing two players at once)


  • The Showdown Effect
  • Magicka
  • Dungeonland
  • The Ship
  • Plain Sight
  • Awesomenauts
  • Jamestown
  • Castle Crashers
  • Wanderlust Rebirth
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Monaco
  • Spelunky
  • Burnout Paradise
  • Garry's Mod (TTT, other)
  • Unreal Tournament
  • Artemis Bridge Simulator
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have fun

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Spelunky and towerfall are both pretty awesome couch party games.

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Spelunky on Steam... do we all need to own a copy or can we just play on the same PC at once?

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Just one copy. It actually doesn't have online multiplayer anyway.

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Postal 2
Post apocalypthic mayhem.
quake2 :p
Lords of the rings war in the north ppl say is a good MP.
Vampire slayer.(HL mode)
Counter strike
L4d2
L4d.
Pro evolution soccer or fifa...
virtua tennis 4
But the best games ever are from ps1 :p. Team buddies, bomberland land :D.

Super smash brothers maybe...

Good luck with this im going to bed :p

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Minecraft and Terraria are awesome

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monaco

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This! Had a recent LAN party as well, had so much fun playing this considering none of us are very stealthy

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Oh heck! At least two of us have this, that's a really good idea! I might buy a few more copies...

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L4D can be pretty fun, but I'm not sure how it'd work with more than one person on the same computer, etc. Killing floor is also a fun survival / killing game.

Yeah, that's really all I can suggest.

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Yeah, local multiplayer can mean different things. I meant multiplayer that doesn't necessarily require an online connection. Steam and Co-Optimus use the terms in different ways.

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LAN is how The Ship is meant to be played.

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Swearing, huh?

  • Trine
  • Trine 2
  • Jamestown
  • Castle Crashers

I had a lot of fun with some friends and those games :3

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cortex command.

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i've had a lot of fun playing Alien Swarm (it's Free)

very short campaign also, so i think it would make it nice for this kinda thing

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imo, awesomenauts; castle crashers and both L4D & L4D2.

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Killing Floor.

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+1

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Worms!
Or the more obscure but equally as fun Liero!

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Friendship is definitely not Magicka. :P
You could also add any Trackmania to this list, some are F2P.
If you also have the Origin Bundle, try out Burnout, incredibly fun with friends.

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Oh snap! I bought like four of these. Excellent.

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Eh, I should say that we played it in private Freeroam that time, so I think there is a possibility that it doesn't have a LAN-mode, Google says similar, sorry. :(

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I don't understand, if we all own a copy... do we need to set up a private server or something?

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Nah, sadly this game just doesn't have an LAN function on the PC version...
You can't play it offline multi player, sorry for getting you excited. :/
The freeroam is online multi player, I just remembered it now.~

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Looks like I can just host an online server then. Oh well. Thanks anyway :D

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Quake 3 area. You can just download the demo and Lan the shit out of it.

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Unreal Tournament.

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A true LAN staple. I think 100% of the people coming over this weekend were present when I got my ass roflstomped by Herbert the music professor several years ago. That dude was a wizard with a rocket launcher.

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this, only, the whole weekend.
i want to be 15 again :(

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nope. Quake III

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Terraria!

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Garry's mod can be really fun if you like that kind of thing. Its on sale for $2.50 but trouble in terrorist town is the best mode and it really only works well if you have counter strike source. you can get the textures for CS:S online from http://80.235.60.29/cscheater/downloads.html . But idk, TTT is pretty much only fun with a lot of people

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That would explain why my previous attempts at TTT have best been characterized as ERROR hitting the ERROR.

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Torchlight 2 is always a fun thing to play with friends, however it gets a little repetitive (like any title similar in that style) if you play for extended periods of time e.g. 4 hours straight and i reckon it'd be boring

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I think we all have this, so it shouldn't be too hard to get together.

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If it's an actual LAN party, with games connecting through LAN and not internet you can have more games to play.

I mean that you can connect one Steam account as online and 3 instances of the same account as Offline and you will all have the same games, but the only way you could play them will be through LAN. Now I've checked your games list and I didn't find anything I would enjoy to play through LAN, but maybe your friends have something on their steam accounts.

I personally recommend Flatout 2. It's perfect for LAN, perfect!

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You have a great list overall. I don't know much about Wanderlust, but the rest are great party games.

Anything in the Worms series. Best party games I've played on a machine, I think.
Soldat for a game that's better (in most ways) than Showdown Effect, but very similar. It's free unless you want costumes and custom fire colors.
Terraria if you're willing to play just one game for half a day.
Blacklight: Retribution if you don't mind playing with strangers as well.

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I can't believe I forgot Worms.

I mean, I intended to keep my friends, but... oh well.

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Dota 2/WC3 Dota (if you don't have internet), AoE 2, Flatout, CS 1.6

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We've got a couple casuals, I think Dota is probably out of the question. But Flatout and Age of Empires might work :)

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Obligatory "fkn casuals"

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Once upon a time I was a fkn causual too. Then i played WC3 Dota on a LAN and now I have 1000+ hours in Doto 2 ;/

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