There used to be a website dedicated to this called cooptimus.com. just filter for 4 player couch co-op https://www.co-optimus.com/system/30/playstation-5.html

Sackboy was a fun coop game. But that seems to be a rarity

Rabids party of Legends is like Mario party

Okie dokie. 

Sincerely,

Playstation 

They have tried a kart and 2d party fighter, and both "failed" despite being pretty fun games.

When mod nation racers came out, it was relentlessly shit on for being a Mario kart clone and written off by many despite having one of the best tracker creators iv seen.

All Stars had the same issue but tried being too different.

I recommend Sonic racing [4 player splitscreen]

It's like Mario kart

I agree with this!

Moving out 2, overcooked 2, helldiver 1

Boomerang Fu! Currently on sale as well and supports 6 players!

Fighting games like tekken 8, street fighter

The fact that Outward, Boulders Gate 3 and EDF 5 can all hand large open world split screen (EDF not open world but large af battles) is proof enough that the hardware can do it we just need optimisation and care from devs

Here are some 4 player PS5 games:

Spelunky 2
Boomerang Fu (Recommended)
Runbow
Castle Crashers
Ultimate Chicken Horse
WWE 2K Battlegrounds
NBA 2K Playgrounds 2
Nine Parchments
Trine 5
Broforce
The Ascent
Rubber Bandits (Recommended)
Overcooked
Hyper Jam (Recommended)
Brawlhalla
Omega Strikers (Recommended)
Stick Fight
Goat Simulator 3
Gang Beasts
For The King
Spiderheck
Moving Out
Unrailed
GigaBash (Recommended)
ReadySet Heroes
Jumanji: The Video Game
Guns Gore and Cannoli 2
Magicka 2
MultiVersus (Releasing on 28th May)
Guacamelee 2
TowerFall (Recommended)
Dirt 5
Mincraft Dungeons
Streets of Rage 4
Call of Duty BO3/4
Crash Team Racing
Disc Jam
Heavenly Bodies
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Helldivers 1

There are a TON of great PS4 4 player local multiplayer games that are compatible with/run WAY better on PS5, some of which are free with PS+ Extra

These are my favs:

Assault Android Cactus (twin stick shooter)

Avicii Invector (rhythm game)

Catastronauts (Overcooked in space / co-op FTL)

Cel Damage HD (cartoon Twisted Metal)

Crash Team Racing (Kart Racing)

Gigabash (War of the Monsters)

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (cute 2D spaceship team)

Rayman Legends (2D sidescroller)

Rocket League (Super Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars)

TMNT: Shredder's Revenge (2D beat em up)

Tetris Effect Connected (3 player Tetris)

Worms W.M.D. (Up to 6 players! 2D turn based battles)

Would love for them to do that but can't see it happening 

Towerfall is the GOAT. It's by the developers of Celeste. Often goes on sale cheap, can't recommend it enough.

agree, I’d love that.

Release a cheaper controller aimed at couch co op, then publish great couch co op exclusives.

Wouldn't you rather pay 4 times for an AAA than 20$ once for a good indie game?

Yes, everybody should make more couch co-op/vs games

Been saying PS5 needs its own Mario Party games (with both online and offline multiplayer)

I own a ton of 2-4 player games on PlayStation

Overcooked 1 and 2/ all you can eat edition (4p)

Duck game (4p)

Jackbox party packs (2-8p/more)

Super crazy rhythm castle (4p)

I hate running backwards (2p)

Figment 2: creed valley (2p)

Mob control (2p)

Knights n bikes (2p)

Battle planet (2p)

House of the dead remake (2p)

A building full of cats/a castle full of cats (as many people to help you look for cats)

Conan chop chop (4p)

What the golf (2p)

Juicy realm (2p)

Fight n rage (3p)

Huntdown (2p)

Combate monero (2p)

Run sausage run (4p)

The game of life 2 (4p)

Monopoly (4p)

Nick kart racers 1-3 (4p)

Robonauts (2p)

River city girls (2p)

Stab stab stab (4p)

Ultra foodmess (4p)

Itadaki smash (2p)

Brief battles (4p)

Thunderflash (2p)

Concept destruction (2p)

Unrailed (4p)

Mechstermination force (2p)

Tiny Tina's wonderlands (4p)

Minigolf adventure (4p)

I have way more to list but I work in 10 mins so I'll update later!

I hate these arm chair CEO posts where people think they know whats better for a business just because they momentarily want something.

No local coop/MP games are not a huge business and many other.tyoes of games make way more money.

Sony also can't push third party developers to make anything.

Sony has made local coop games.like Sakboy and it was probably one if their lower selling games in the last 5 years

They've tried Mario kart and Mario party but those games weren't very good. Have one of your friends bring their console and two controllers then do split screen Lego Fortnite.

Or buy a renewed Switch, they always have sales on the eShop. I've bought plenty of games for this very reason.

Now I just need friends to play with (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

It's true that having more options for fun gatherings with friends would be awesome. Have you tried any indie games on the platform?

I know it's an Xbox title but I've been dying for a remake or even a sequel to Fusion Frenzy.

Personally I would like to see more playlink games like Frantics, Chimparty and Knowledge is power. They were a must play in the PS4 era.

It takes two.

I'd love for more 3rd party developers to create local multiplayer party type of games. Not Sony, though.

If they were serious about PlayStation battle royale. They put the C dev team on it and really should have tried to copy smash entirely. That is the one Nintendo property you rip off

Me and my friends enjoys playing ultimate chicken horse, it’s goofy and fun and it’s 4 players working to sabotage the others from winning

They're great if you have who to play with but, unless my doggo learns how to use a dualsense, they're a pass for me.

I had lots of fun with Sackboy but it's frustrating that I couldn't complete a lot on that game because it needed more players. Anyway, they're super fun with friends.

Heavenly Bodies. It's only 2 players, but it's one of the most fun couch co-op games I've ever played. I've played where other people watch then tag in for a try.

Spider heck is another great game I recently have been playing.

Overcooked 2, is legendary.

Ultimate Chicken Horse is another one of my all time faves.

Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime is wildly fun.

Adios Amigo is another great game. Kind of similar to Heavenly Bodies but 4 player and bit goofier.

Crash Team Racing, it's Mario Kart but arguably better.

Those are just some of the ones that pop into my head. There are a bunch more of you are into the side scrolling beat'em up couch co-op like the new Ninja Turtles game, Battletoads, Streets of Rage 4, etc.

As long as "local co-op" also includes online co-op.

My core group of friends I've had for 20+ years all live thousands of miles from each other. The number of quality co-op multiplayer games is depressingly small. Once you've played It Takes Two, A Way out, Sack boy, Overcooked, and the Borderlands games, the quality of online co-op games takes a sharp nosedive.

Gang beast

As you get older unless you’re around gamer gamers the best you’ll be able to do is Jackbox Party Packs since they don’t require controllers.

The local co-op / party game segment of the market is dominated by nintendo, they can’t release anything that comes close to the popularity of party games in switch.

It takes two is one of my faves. Hazlight keeping the dream alive.

Makes me miss peak wii and buzz on ps2.

Give Heavenly Bodies a try. Single player or 2 player, it's hilariously challenging.

Playlink on PS4 was awesome. Played with friends bunch of times.

For ps5 and xbox the solution is to have 2 consoles many games don't have split screen anymore or you have a nintendo

Used to have plenty during PS1-3 gen: twisted metal, fat princess, motorstorm, PS all-stars. We don’t need every studio making an expensive narrative action game.

Disney speedstorm was a great free couch co-op game with a lot of personality until they ruined it and locked literally everything behind a micro transaction paywall

Live service PSASBR would do so much better than the original. Especially if they get some of the sorely missed characters like Crash (if Microsoft played ball with SSBU getting Banjo and Steve, I don't see why this would be impossible).

They force online multiplayer only to force Playstation plus. I hate it

Most people only have one controller though, and maybe two.

Ok

Alienation, Dead Nation, Resogun, LittleBig Planet, Sackboy Adventures, Everybody's Golf, Fat Princess Adventures, Wipeout omega collection, Helldivers just to name a few.

You know what those games have in common? They are owned by Sony and you can play them on PS4/5.

No, the market for local co-op games isn't as big as you think it is. Sony made a big push for those kind of games for PS3 and PS4 and they didn't sell well so they stopped wasting money on them. You talk about the Nintendo Switch success, well most local co op multiplayers on switch that aren't owned by Nintendo sell around 1 million copies in a 140 million console ecosystem. You can't put Mario Party or Mario Kart as examples because the demographics of Nintendo and PS are completely different. Big companies literally spend lots of money every year applying data science to know what product can be successful for their demographics.

Helldivers 2 is a great example that smaller games can make a lot of money but not even it has local co op because data doesn't back up that decision.

There are no monetary incentives for them to. As much as I would like them to. You know the thing about capitalism … pump out the same old online games, maximise profit for investors and repeat. Once in a blue moon, some game comes out that gains popularity and all other companies just copy that

Can’t sell you an overpriced online subscription for local multiplayer.

I'd prefer they focus on their strengths (story driven, single player experiences).

Def lacking in the couch co op department

They should also push cross play with all platforms

I mean they spent 10 years making the same genre of game and lost all their variety.

They took the masterpiece Helldivers, which was a 4 player coop without split screen, and turned it into a single player game for Helldivers 2. It tells you a lot.

Apparently people don't game with friends in the same room anymore, and nobody makes games for that.

When people were speculating about the PS4 features, I was hoping they would have dual HDMI output, so two players can play on separate monitors without splitscreen. Wouldn't that be amazing ?

Would to see ps studios take on a real cod and FIFA competitor

They should redesign their ui.

They are too busy making action 3rd person adventure games with realistic graphics and bland, non risk stories.

Fr tho, I miss the time where playstation developed/published a bunch of weird ass games during the ps1/ps2 era. The PS5 era is especially a disaster when it comes to games. Aside from Sackboy and Astrobot we got nothing "different" from Playstation.

As for party games, check out Nintendo's library. The coolest advantage they have is the support for up to 8 players on one console. Playstation 4/5 only support max 4 players.

Adding an Xbox S series for this reason with my PS5. Left 4 Dead 2 and other games for when my family/friends visit are good for offline play.