LAN (local area network) games
LAN (local area network) games
Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. examples:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
The older Tribes titles if you're into classic arena shooters. Tribes 2 had some maps and modes that were more Battlefield-esque too. The old Age of series were excellent LAN games as well (empires/mythology). These are PC titles and I'm not sure of your target platform.
- SuperTuxKart (open source super mario cart alternative)
- Luanti (open source minecraft alternative)
Stardew Valley!
Original Diablo or Diablo 2 (not sure about the latter though, haven't played it yet, lol)
Diablo and Diablo 2 (not Resurrected)
I think Diablo 2 even came with an extra disc specifically so you could give it to your friend to play via LAN. Then these fuckers removed the option in Resurrected even though they promised they wouldn't.
StarCraft and the old Warcraft games work via LAN as well.
Quake, Doom, Unreal (Tournament), Half Life
StarCraft you could use the same disk to “spawn install” to play with your friends. I think they could only play as Terran though.
Four player co op PvE tactical shooter.
Have all players install this mod which completely revamps the game to add a ton of more modern features
Oh, I'll add on to this one that Rainbow Six 1 and 3 have been some of the best co-op games I've ever played, and both have LAN. The second game isn't readily available for sale anymore. Even that first game involved editing a lot of level config files in order to circumvent bugs, but it was a great time.
Co-Optimus is a great resource for this.
Here's their database with a filter showing all PC games that support LAN play:
This list is the way to go. My last Lan party was about 17 years back but there is one golden rule, which is still more important than anything else: pick a game no one has played or one that everybody is familiar with! The biggest fun killers are unbalanced teams and matches. Despite that, we liked the first flat out game which now should be wreckfest and strangely enough a soccer mod for CS:S back then.
Skill issue.
Thank you so much!
I self host satisfactory. It's going swimmingly.
Most multiplayer PC games before 2010ish.
Can you name them from your memory please?
Planetary Annihilation, Warcraft 3 (at least pre-reforged if you can get a hold of an old copy), Unreal Tournament, Killing Floor, Battle for Middle Earth (1 & 2), OpenTTD, Simutrans, Settlers: Heritage of Kings, some of the older Wolfenstien games, Battle for Wesnoth, Warzone 2100, Teeworlds, Widelands
Anything with a server software you can host can be played on LAN (okay probably not some things because they're being weird but in general this is true).
That means counter strike, Minecraft, supertuxkart, xonotic, enshrouded, pal world, etc
Farcry 1 and 2 have Lan support.
Most unrelated thread of the month!
So I'm playing games like age of empires. But also open source alternatives like 0ad using lan. Works great!
I'm talking the old school age of empires and age of mythology games btw.
Next, there are also good need for speed games like need for speed 3 hot pursuit from 1998. Which works very well via lan.
Maybe red alert also works, or open source alternatives like OpenRA. And then we have games like Planetary annihilation, which also have lan feature.
Factorio doesn't give a fuck and will let you play with up to 254 other people on the same server. Most survival crafting games have LAN, as a matter of fact. Somehow this is the only genre that will hold developers accountable on a regular basis and make them hurt for not having LAN and player-controlled servers. Not all of them will, but most will offer LAN.
All of Larian's recent RPG efforts have LAN and direct IP connections: Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2, and Baldur's Gate 3.
Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and the entire Borderlands series (outside of the GOTY edition of Borderlands 1) support LAN, surprisingly, if you want to get your loot game on.
Is Recharge RC the same as the upcoming Unreal engine racing game Recharge? If they don't have the same lineage, they've at least got similar inspirations.
Warside is an upcoming turn-based strategy game inspired by (or ripping off wholesale?) Advance Wars, and it's got LAN in its features list.
Streets of Rogue is an all-timer in the co-op roguelike department, and it too supports LAN.
A game that I download and install on a regular basis in the freeware realm is Armagetron. It's the light cycles from Tron but in an open source LAN game. It doesn't exactly have a ton of depth, but it's good fun for about an hour every couple of years.
Thank you! this is the RechargeRC I was pointing at.
Age of Empires 2 is awesome.
Also try 0ad for the people who like age of empires games. It's free and open source.
Doom 2
Lethal Company is another example.
And R.E.P.O.