I am having many friends over and we wish to play games on PC, there will be just one PC available but 8 controllers connected to it. Looking for recommendations!
I created this set up specifically to play killer queen black, but if there are other arcade style games that are fun and can accommodate the player count I would love to know about them!
Jackbox games of course. There’s also Genital Jousting.
Pico Park is fun. https://www.co-optimus.com/game/7748/pc/pico-park.html
Define fun…
- Towerfall 8-player
- Raining Blobs
- Some versions of Bomberman go up to 8 players
Came in here to recommend Towerfall. Played it with 6 people once - it’s a blast and scales well enough with high player counts.
Screencheat has up to 8 player support and is exactly its name.
Pretty sure Clusterpuck '99 on Steam supports up to 8
Duck Game has 8 player support on PC and is a great party game.
Duck Game
Quack
Duck game is one of our favorites! Didn’t realize you could have 8 players though, awesome!
https://skribbl.io/ if you are willing to give up the controller for a phone screen
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Wow that’s a cool resource that I just learned about…
I’ll add to my own list for others reading this from the future, fling to the finish and unspottable also work for this. Bonus for fling to the finish that two players can share one controller if controller count is low
WTF did I just watch?! 😆
I think Brawlhalla supports 8 players
Peak with the host running the more players mod can do at least 8 players in a session. It’s pretty great fun
bro force
As a fallback, you could also have some hotseat games. Was recently thinking of HedgeWars again, which is basically open-source Worms Armageddon.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/467810/Splody/
It is a Bomberman rip-off, but very fun. The Steam page claims they can support any number of players, but recommends limiting it to 4-20.
Golf with Friends, maybe?
also Screencheat
I believe TMNT shredder’s revenge goes up to 6, beat’em up style game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1361510/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_Shredders_Revenge/
For 8 specifically I can only think of pico park 1 and 2
