25 Best PS4 Multiplayer Games

Alienation was made by Housemarque, the Finnish studio, and published by Sony. It is a twin-stick shooter where you aim with a blue laser and collect loot. Unwanted items are converted into metal, and metal lets you re-roll a weapon's statistics until you get a gun worth keeping. Its development was hinted at in early 2014, then it slipped to 2016 and came out as part of a Sony promotion that released six games in seven weeks.

Reviewers liked the twin-stick shooting and the cooperative multiplayer, but they missed a local co-op mode, which Housemarque later added. The studio kept updating it with free and paid expansions. Players who recommend it tend to name it in the same breath as Resogun, which tells you exactly what kind of evening it offers.

Fallout 76 is Bethesda Game Studios' first multiplayer game and the first multiplayer entry in the Fallout series. It is set in Appalachia, West Virginia, in 2102, 25 years after a nuclear war. You leave Vault 76 to explore, build a base and fight mutated creatures, alone or with the other players on your server. Development began in 2013, and it was reportedly troubled, with a restrictive crunch schedule.

The launch was rough. Reviews were mixed, with criticism for technical issues and the initial absence of human non-playable characters, so the wasteland had nobody in it to talk to. The Wastelanders update added them in April 2020 to a better reception. The player count kept growing after that and peaked in 2024, when the Fallout television series came out on Amazon Prime.

Battlefield V moves the series to World War II, as a thematic continuation of Battlefield 1. It came out in November 2018. The campaign is a set of separate war stories, and the best known is The Last Tiger, which follows the crew of a German Tiger I tank during the Ruhr Pocket in the closing days of the war. One multiplayer mode was outsourced to Criterion Games and has the biggest map the series had made.

The announcement trailer drew significant backlash from some fans before release. Critics then praised its gameplay and new multiplayer modes but pointed at the shortage of content at launch. It sold 7.3 million units by the end of 2018, and Electronic Arts still called it a commercial disappointment. That is a sales figure most shooters would frame and hang on the wall.

Overcooked came out for the PS4 in August 2016. You and your friends run a kitchen together and serve orders against the clock. Correct orders earn coins, with bonuses for speed, and each level gives you up to three stars depending on how many coins you made. Orders served wrong earn nothing and waste time, which is where the shouting starts.

It won Best British Game and Best Family Game at the British Academy Games Awards. A sequel followed in August 2018, and a remaster called All You Can Eat bundles both games. Netflix has even announced a reality TV series based on it. Players keep recommending it for couch co-op.

For Honor is a melee game from Ubisoft Montreal where you play as Knights, Vikings, Samurai and later the Wu Lin and the Outlanders. Fights happen in a dueling mode: you hold your weapon to the left, right or top to block, and attack from whichever side your opponent is not guarding. Friendly fire is on, so a wild swing can hit your own team. The creative director called it a "shooter with swords".

Skirmish is a four-versus-four mode where your team scores points for kills, and every online match feeds a running Faction War between the factions. Critics gave it generally favorable reviews and singled out its difficult and original combat. It takes a while to learn to read an opponent's stance. Once it clicks, nothing else on this list feels quite like it.

Borderlands 3 is the fourth game in the main Borderlands series and came out for the PS4 on 13 September 2019. You pick one of four new Vault Hunters and travel across several planets to stop Troy and Tyreen Calypso, twin cult leaders after the alien Vaults. It is a first-person loot shooter with procedurally generated weapons, and up to four players can team up.

It added sliding and mantling, and an option lets each player see enemies that match their own level, so a friend far behind you can still join. It had the best launch the series had seen, with more than five million copies sold in five days. Reviews were generally favorable, though some critics found it short on new ideas. A PS5 upgrade was free for PS4 owners.

Diablo III reached the PS4 in August 2014 as the Ultimate Evil Edition, which included the Reaper of Souls expansion. Rise of the Necromancer followed in June 2017, and the Eternal Collection put everything together. It is an action RPG with fast real-time combat and an isometric view, and you fight hordes of demons to save the world of Sanctuary from Hell.

The PC launch in 2012 is remembered for its always-online DRM. The console version came later, and it found a happier audience. Players rate the PS4 version highly, including some who were let down by the PC version on day one. By August 2015 the game had sold over 30 million copies. It is a very good way to spend a weekend with a friend and a pile of loot.

Fall Guys throws a big crowd of contestants into round after round of obstacle courses until one of them takes the crown. It draws on game shows like Takeshi's Castle, It's a Knockout and Total Wipeout, and on playground games like tag and British Bulldog. Critics gave it generally positive reviews for its chaotic gameplay and look.

It went free for everyone on 21 June 2022, and a later season added cross-play, so you can play with friends on other machines. Season 4 added Fall Guys Creative. Players recommend it for playing with kids more than almost anything else here, from parents of teenagers down to one whose 3 year old daughter picks a new costume before every game.

It Takes Two is designed exclusively for two players, in local split-screen or online. You play Cody and May, a married couple who have been turned into dolls and have to work together to get back to their bodies. Every level brings new tools, and the game keeps changing its rules, with sections built around shooting, racing and flying.

Josef Fares directed it with a team of 60 people at Hazelight. It won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2021 and sold over 30 million units by April 2026, which makes it one of the best-selling video games ever. A film adaptation is planned for Amazon Prime Video. When two people want one game to share, it is the answer players give first, often in only three words.

A Way Out is a prison break designed exclusively for two players in split-screen, either on the same couch or online. One player is Leo and the other is Vincent, two inmates who form a reluctant partnership to break out. Both stories run on the screen at the same time, so one of you might be in a cutscene while the other is still playing.

It was the second game directed by Josef Fares, after Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, and Hazelight is a small team in Sweden. It received positive reviews and sold over 13 million units by April 2026. Players often recommend it in the same list as Overcooked. The ending is worth playing blind, and it is better if your partner has not been spoiled either.

The original Final Fantasy XIV was a commercial and critical failure. Square Enix brought in a new team that kept fixing the old version while secretly building a replacement, codenamed "Version 2.0", with a new engine and new servers. The relaunch got a largely positive reception, critics commended Yoshida for an unexpected recovery, and Square Enix said the game helped it return to profitability in 2014.

Many of its jobs are based on classic Final Fantasy jobs and are built for party combat. The economy is largely player-driven, with retainers selling your items on the Market Board while you are off doing something else. It is the Final Fantasy you play with other people, and its big boss fights are the reason to find a party.

The Elder Scrolls Online spent seven years in development and launched in 2014 with a mandatory monthly subscription. It came to the PS4 on June 9, 2015. It is set nearly 1,000 years before Skyrim, and you can play it in first or third person. The story pits you against the Daedric Prince Molag Bal while three alliances fight over the empty imperial throne.

It got mixed reviews at first. The Morrowind chapter went back to Vvardenfell, the setting of The Elder Scrolls III, and added a player versus player mode called Battlegrounds. Eight chapters came out in total, up to Gold Road in June 2024, and in 2025 the game moved to seasons. It is the closest thing on the PS4 to an Elder Scrolls game you play with friends.

Borderlands 2 came to the PS4 in March 2015 as part of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection. You play one of four new Vault Hunters against Handsome Jack, the CEO of the Hyperion Corporation, and up to four players can team up in co-op. It also has split-screen. Anthony Burch wrote the script, which is seven times longer than the first game's.

Critics praised its writing and online multiplayer, along with its variety of guns. It shipped more than 20 million units and became 2K's most successful release, and it is often cited as one of the greatest video games of all time. Handsome Jack is the reason most people remember it. He is funny for the whole game, and it takes the ending to show how much is underneath.

Helldivers is a top-down shooter set in a satirical future where humanity is ruled by a managed democracy from Super Earth. Up to four players drop onto alien planets together, and working as a team matters. The enemy has infinite reinforcements and you get no in-game rewards for simply killing them, so it often pays to avoid a fight. Your own air support and turrets are some of your best weapons.

It received positive reviews and had sold over 4 million units by May 2024. Its sequel, Helldivers 2, came out on 8 February 2024 as a third-person shooter. Players keep recommending the original, and its top-down view makes it a very different game from the sequel.

Destiny 2 is a first-person shooter with role-playing and MMO elements, and it got generally favorable reviews and won awards at The Game Awards 2017. Bungie supported it with 10 expansion packs, and from Year Three it went free-to-play, with the expansions and seasonal content still sold separately.

It also removed content. The original "Red War" campaign and the first two expansions were taken out of the game. The Final Shape ended the Light and Darkness saga in June 2024, and the June 2026 update, Monument of Triumph, was announced as the last content update, though the game stays online. Then in September 2026 Bungie revealed its plans to return to the series. The free version is a taster, and the good stuff is in the paid expansions.

The Division sends you into Manhattan after an outbreak, as a second wave of agents sent in after the first wave went AWOL. It mixes RPG gear and customization with cover-based tactical combat, and it was the first game on Massive's Snowdrop engine. The Dark Zone is where it gets tense: you go in for the best gear and face off against other players who may want it more than you do.

It received generally positive reviews. Ars Technica compared it to Destiny, and some critics said it did little to break from the loot shooter formula. One early exploit had players farming the Bullet King, a named enemy who stood closest to a spawn point, until patch 1.0.2 fixed it on 22 March 2016. Updates added new areas, including Underground, which is set in the tunnels and subways.

Rainbow Six Siege is a tactical shooter about close-quarters fights between teams of five. One team attacks, the other fortifies, and every operator has their own gadget. Walls, ceilings and floors can be broken, so a quiet room can become a new doorway in a second. Nobody respawns during a round, which makes every life count. The team consulted real counter-terrorism units, and the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege inspired the map Consulate.

Initial sales were weak. Ubisoft kept releasing free content, the player base grew, and several years later some critics called it one of the best multiplayer games around. Players who pick it up tend to fall hard for it.

Warframe comes from Digital Extremes, a Canadian studio, and grew out of their original plan for Dark Sector, which came out in 2008 looking very different. In 2012 they took those ideas and art and made a free-to-play game. You are one of the Tenno, newly awoken from cryo-sleep into a solar system at war, and your Warframe armor gives you the powers to fight back.

Growth was slow at first, with moderate reviews and low player counts, and then it took off. Platinum, the premium currency, can be traded with other players for items, and the rarest weapon mods have randomized stats. Players praise how fair it is for a free game: you can get almost everything without spending money.

Fortnite started with two modes in 2017, Save the World and Battle Royale, both in early access. Save the World is the cooperative one, with four players working together on missions while a storm closes in. Battle Royale is the one everyone knows: be the last player standing. Creative followed in December 2018.

It is listed among the greatest video games of all time, and it keeps adding games inside the game. Rocket Racing comes from Psyonix, the Rocket League studio, and Fortnite Festival is a rhythm game from Harmonix. There are LEGO modes too. Players who name it usually mean Battle Royale.

Battlefield 1 is the fifteenth Battlefield and is set in World War I. Its single-player War Stories visit the Western Front, the Italian Front, Gallipoli and Arabia, and the prologue does not let you reload: if you die, you take control of another soldier. In multiplayer, teams capture objectives across the map, with vehicles on land, sea and air.

Critics saw it as an improvement over Battlefield 4 and Hardline, and it sold over 15 million copies. One mode has teams racing to release carrier pigeons, and the first team to send three wins. On the map London Calling, one team gets a zeppelin. The chaos is the selling point, and the PS4 handles a lot of it at once.

Monster Hunter: World is the fifth main game in the series. Capcom released it worldwide at the same time on PS4 and Xbox One in January 2018, because the series had struggled outside Japan partly due to staggered release dates. You hunt big monsters in living ecosystems, alone or with up to three other players, and turn their parts into new gear.

Play solo or as a pair, and each hunter brings a Palico, a cat companion who fights alongside you. Critics praised how Capcom made it more accessible to new players and Western markets without losing the series' enjoyable difficulty. The Iceborne expansion arrived in September 2019 and reached 10 million sales by December 2022. One player summed up Iceborne as "so much content".

Destiny was Bungie's first new console franchise since the Halo series, and the first game in a 10-year deal with Activision. It came out on 9 September 2014. Bungie avoided calling it an MMO and described it as a "shared-world shooter" instead, with matchmaking that puts you together with other players for co-op or competitive play.

It sold over US$325 million at retail in its first five days, the biggest new franchise launch of all time. Critics liked the shooting and the competitive side, and they criticized the story and the grind. The Taken King expansion in September 2015 changed much of the core gameplay, and Rise of Iron followed in 2016. It won the BAFTA for Best Game. The game that people play today is the one those expansions built.

Overwatch is a team-based shooter from Blizzard that came out for the PS4, Windows and Xbox One in May 2016. It grew out of Titan, a cancelled MMO, and was inspired by Team Fortress 2 and the popularity of multiplayer online battle arena games. You pick a hero, and you can switch heroes during the match to fit what your team needs.

Its open beta drew nearly 10 million players, and it earned over US$1 billion in its first year. Blizzard added heroes and maps free of charge. It received universal acclaim and many game of the year awards. On 3 October 2022 its servers were shut down, and Overwatch 2 replaced it the next day, so today the game lives on as its sequel. For a lot of PS4 owners, it was the game that taught them to play as a team.

Battlefield 4 is the thirteenth Battlefield and came out on the PS4 in its first months. Its story follows Recker and his squad, Tombstone, through the fictional "War of 2020". The multiplayer is where it lives, with Levolution, Commander Mode and naval warfare all added to the series.

It got positive reviews for its multiplayer and graphics, while the campaign and numerous bugs and glitches drew criticism. Campaign assignments unlock weapons for multiplayer, so even the story feeds the online side. With a good sound system it really does feel like a war zone, which is the one thing a Battlefield has to do.

Rocket League is soccer with rocket-powered cars. It is a sequel to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, which Psyonix made for the PlayStation 3 in 2008, and it came out first on the PS4 and Windows in July 2015. Psyonix started on it around 2013 and refined the old game based on criticism and fan input. Later updates added hockey and basketball modes, and limited-time modes like Spike Rush.

A lot of PS4 owners got it free on PS Plus and never stopped. It earned many industry awards and had over 10 million sales and 40 million players by the beginning of 2018. Players recommend it more than any other PS4 multiplayer game, and it is the easiest game here to hand a controller to anyone.