What are some excellent games that remain excellent for a group of three?

So many multiplayer game lists include games that are only playable for 2 players (eg, It takes 2, portal 2). Best I could figure out in steam store search was to look for multiplayer games that aren’t co-op, but this seems to remove many games that support 3 players.

  • Trev625@lemm.ee
    6·
    11 months ago

    I’m in a poly throuple and we play these games:

    -League of Legends

    -Super Mecha Champions (It’s like Apex but with bots and the real players aren’t as good so we don’t get absolutely crushed every time we play which is nice)

    -Stardew Valley

    -Eternal Return (League + Battle Royale)

    -Divinity 2

    -Overcooked

    -Borderlands

    -FF14

    -Tabletop Simulator (Board Games)

    • Vardøgor@mander.xyz
      3·
      11 months ago

      does that mean a relationship between three people? that’s interesting. mind me asking if that was something everyone already knew they were open to? or was it kind of like, two were together then they decided they were open to a third?

      • Trev625@lemm.ee
        6·
        11 months ago

        Yeah! For us it was me (male) and my girlfriend who have been together 5ish years at the time and we met a girl who we really meshed with and became good friends with. Our friends joked around that we should just all date each other since we hung out so much. One day we got drunk and admitted we’d be open to it so we asked each other out and have been a throuple since!

        Most of our friend group is very accepting. Our families, however, are not lol.

        • Vardøgor@mander.xyz
          4·
          11 months ago

          cool! good on you. i love hearing about how different everyone’s forms of happiness can be, sorry your families don’t seem to. hopefully they’ll warm up to it eventually

  • SuiXi3D@kbin.social
    3·
    11 months ago

    I mean, love it or hate it, Destiny 2 is literally made to be played by (mostly) 3-person teams. I’ve had a boatload of fun with it over the years.

    • Artisian@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Somebody dropped a fair bit of cash and got Balders Gate 3 running for everyone. It’s been big enough to fill a lot of time, but probably wont solve the problem when we’re not all on vacation.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    2·
    11 months ago

    Unreal Tournament 2004, with few players it turns its normal frantic and fast paced gameplay into a suspensfull slower experience which is awesome.

    I think you can get it on the internet archive as it stopped being sold on gog and steam this spring.

    OpenRA - Do you remember the old classic series Command & Conquer ?

    OpenRA takes the old original game, updates the controls to modern RTS controls, add new ai to play against, add support for modern resolutions and adds a good internet multiplayer system, all of this for free!

    OpenRA can be downloaded att https://openra.net

  • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Nobody mentioned the finals. Free to play fps competitive shooter with teams of 3. It’s been crazy addictive for my friends and I. If you like fast paced hectic fps games it’s loads of fun.

  • guyrocket@kbin.social
    2·
    11 months ago

    A couple older games:

    Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. A very complex RTS with a pretty steep learning curve and advanced strategy. Awesome game but not casual.

    Alien vs predator games are specifically 3 player (marine, alien , predator). Not sure if there is a modern version. Interesting because each of the 3 play differently.

  • Dhrystone@infosec.pub
    1·
    11 months ago

    Nine Parchments and Magicka 2.

    Edit: also, the Trine games. And on PlayStation we enjoyed Diablo III and Alienation, both of those are three player as well.

  • Lionel C-R@lemmy.coupou.fr
    1·
    11 months ago

    Some beat them up: tmnt, streets of rage 4

    Also since you did not mention playing remotely or not (although there are ways around that: parsec, steam remote play together…) almost any couch coop game: overcooked, moving out, unrailed…

    Edit: all of those I cited have a online multiplayer mode I think, for overcooked the AYCE edition contains all of the first edition content but brings online MP amongst other things

    • NakedGardenGnome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      11 months ago

      I had to scroll way too long until I actually encountered Hunt! Teams or three or less, and a fantastic auditory shooter. Too bad it is so hard!