Tech Desk
Aug 11, 2024
The best split-screen PS4 and PS5 games give you the chance to play some top-level games along your nearest and dearest. While plenty of great PS4 and PS5 games provide multiplayer components, games that offer split-screen functionality are becoming increasingly rare.
There are a lot of good reasons for this, involving the fact that split-screen multiplayer modes are more intensive on hardware, and the demand has compressed as many people prefer online gaming to couch co-op anyway.
Meanwhile, split-screen games offer a unique cooperative or competitive experience, as you can go anywhere and do anything you need, but bring your preferred partner along for the ride.
Best split screen PS4 and PS5 games you can purchase today
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
If you've never heard about Borderlands, it's a game series of wickedly funny looter shooters, with some of the best co-op play on PlayStation consoles.
In these games, you play as a vault-hunter, importantly an intergalactic treasure hunter, roaming the harsh planet of Pandorea on the hunt for all the loot you can gather your hands on.
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Borderlands: The Handsome Collection on PS4 gets both Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, and both let two, three or four players share a local split screen.
It Takes Two
It Takes Two is an action-adventure game that is all about partnership. You play as Cody and May, a married couple on the edge of divorce, who got trapped in their daughter’s hand-made dolls and must work together to search for a way back to their human bodies.
Tekken 8
Tekken 8 may not exactly bring the whole family together in one place through cooperative partnership. It's majorly more fun fighting against somebody on the same couch than facing computer-controlled artificial intelligence (AI) or fighting online where a weak connection can unexpectedly ruin about.
Divinity: Original Sin II
Many Role-playing games (RPGs) are developed for solo play, but the Divinity: Original Sin series confirmed that digital role-playing can be even more satisfying when you've got a buddy right by your side.
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Divinity: Original Sin II is one of the best PS4 RPGS overall, and it's also one of the most enjoyable split-screen experiences on the console.
Don't Starve Together
Don't Starve is one of the games that guide you through its elements right up front. The premise of this relatively straightforward game is simple: Survive.
You're thrown into a harsh world, in a place teaming with beasts, adverse weather conditions and hostile terrain, and you are required to set about finding shelter and food, and eventually, weapons that will let you confront the monsters surrounding you.
