Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this. Basically I'm looking for recommendations for a game I can play against my 2 brothers. We live in different cities and hardly get to see each other but are we all into games.

We are all in our late 40s and haven't gamed against each other since way back when I had a few networked PCs in a squat where we played unreal tournament. I am well out of the gaming loop, i just finished bioshock a couple of months back, now I'm playing doom & death loop. I'm crap at both!

We were thinking we'd like to play a shooter just against each other, kinda like unreal tournament, or something we can do cooperatively. We are definitely not ready to go up against the kids online. Maybe doesn't have to be a shooter if it's fun to play together. Most of us have kids and none of us has loads of screen time.

One brother is on an Xbox One is on a PC One is on a steam deck with WiFi hotspot.

I'm grateful for any suggestions

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some games that make for some fun coop and don't require a ton of screen time. All of these are at least gold rated on ProtonDB so should be fine on the SteamDeck, though I'm not sure about crossplay with consoles on any:

Sanctum - An interesting combo of first person shooter and tower defense (Sanctum 2 was also real good)
Borderlands 1 - Looter shooter with some solid humor (Borderlands 2 was also real good, but goes downhill in later games)
MechWarrior 5 - Who doesn't want to be a giant mech riddled with guns?
Left 4 Dead 2 - Fight together to escape zombies, or in multiplayer servers work together as the zombies to take out other humans

Now, less of a focus on shooters:

Golf It and Golf With Your Friends - Put Put golf taken to extreme levels
Magica 2 - Murder enemies together in a top-down wizard game
BattleBlock Theater - Jump over obstacles and solve puzzles together

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Great I'll check em out, thanks mate. I'm going to send this comment to my brothers. Yeah I'm thinking we can do co-op gaming.i don't think we really want to play against other people, we're pretty much looking for a private playground until we get good enough to play with the clever kids!