The best couch co-op games to play with friends

The goal of "Heave Ho" is simple: Don't die. But you and your teammates are a wobbly chain of legless trapeze artists flailing through the air, so that's easier said than done. In this wonky physics party game, each player controls a colorful blob with two arms, using the analog stick to swing them and the left and right bumper to open and close the corresponding hand. The intentionally convoluted mechanics make the process of just getting from point A to point B a tricky exercise in communication and coordination. Navigating the game's platforming levels becomes a chaotic scramble of gesticulating limbs that may test the limits of some friendships.