For whatever reason, painfully few games know how to do co-op right. I played remnant 2 with a buddy last year, and it was perfect. Duplicate loot so both of us got every drop. Fully shared campaign progression from start to finish. Easy drop in and drop out. The game has issues but we’re happily overlooked them because the co-op was done right.

Why do so many devs struggle with this shit? We have a sizable list of games that we considered playing only to skip them entirely when we found out that they had wonky co-op. It’s honestly a dealbreaker for me.

Worlds is an egregious one, for sure. You can’t pull in a new player for co-op. Either you join up with preexisting players or fans of the franchise because the onboarding is horrendous.