Destiny (It's F2P but you'll likely want to buy at least some of the Xpacs. The new player experience is very bad so you'll want to find friends to play with or spend a lot of time on youtube and /r/Destinythegame)
Insurgency (Play as a Kurdish soldier fighting Isis!, but no story mode)
You can play Mechwarrior 5's campaign in coop with up to four mechwarriors. It's pretty cool. You have to manage your little mercenary company, bid on contracts, maintain, repair, and upgrade your mechs, and make a living in the sandbox between story missions.
Warframe is an extremely deep, fairly grindy RPG/Shooter with coop all the way through. It's got a great story that just had a huge, important update. There is a lot of grind but you can Pay2Progress if you want to, or just embrace the grind. The game features ridiculously deep customization - Your warframe levels up, your guns level up, the mods you stick in your warframe and gun level up, your dog levels up, your spaceship levels up. If you like the idea of being a hyperkinetic space ninja and grinding out upgrades to hyper-specialize your build, then run around annihilating space Nazi clones and megacorporate goons, Warframe is a good bet.
Generation Zero is a weird entry because it does sorta have a story but the story is mostly 'Go to this place, turn on the power supply, read the text and listen to the radio message, go to the next place". It is very challenging, you really need to embrace the "Guerilla warfare" of it and only fight when you need to or when you have a huge advantage. But it is fun, and it is coop.
Journey to the Savage Planet is a hybrid FPS/Metroidvania game. You explore, fight monsters, find upgrades that let you get past obstacles, and then explore more. It's very colorful and goofy, and it has coop.
Zombie Army Trilogy and Nazi Zombie Army are coop games where Hitler has done a necromancy and your group of 1-4 heroes (And you can play as Soviets) have to sniper and shoot and ambush their way through Nazi Zombie Germany to save the world from Nazi Zombies. Did I mention you're shooting Nazi Zombies?
Space Hulk: Deathwing is a SPESSS MAHRRRNNNES game where you shoot aliens FOR THE EMPRAH in giant baroque space ship cathedrals. It's a 1-4 player coop based on the old Warhammer 40k board game Space Hulk. Your team of four space marines in terminator power armor have to fight through hordes of Tyranids to complete various objectives. It was panned on release but they released an update that fixed a lot of the problems. Good if you're a WH40k nerd and want to slaughter Nids with your buddies
Dying Light is the worlds definitive Zombie Apocalypse Parkour game, with an expansive story, weapon crafting, lots of scary zombies, and a pretty extensive story that you can play in Coop. Notable because your character has incredible mobility in the urban environment due to various parkour skills.
PayDay 2 sort of has a story, I think. It's a game about killing loads of cops and also robbing banks
Earth Defense Force is 3rd person, but does feature an extensive campaign. It's a homage to monster and aliens from B-movie science fiction, kaiju, and mecha movies. Your Earth Defense Force soldiers fight GIANT INSECTS and other threats using mech suits, dodge rolling, tanks, machine guns, and jetpacks with suspiciously short skirts and plasma pigtails. It's goofy fun and has coop.
EYE Divine Cybermancy is a very old, very weird coop FPS game based on the Halflife 2 engine and heavily inspired by WH40k. On the plus side is has extremely deep character customization, good gunplay, and a cool baroque cyberpunk aesthetic. On the downside the game is very, very weird. The engine and graphics are very dated at this point. The character customization is poorly documented and explained, and it's badly translated from French, which either increases the mystique or makes it annoying depending on your taste. Get it if you like Half Life 2 era FPS games, 40k, and obscure RPG games. Get it if the idea of being a cyberpunk ninja assassin or a power armor clad psychic warmage appeals to you. Do not get it if you do not have a high tolerance for weird, finnicky old games.
Shadow Warrior II is a looter shooter with a lot of character customization and a story that you can play in Coop.
Portal II isn't really an FPS because you don't shoot anyone, but it is a very cool coop puzzle experience.
Destiny (It's F2P but you'll likely want to buy at least some of the Xpacs. The new player experience is very bad so you'll want to find friends to play with or spend a lot of time on youtube and /r/Destinythegame)
Insurgency (Play as a Kurdish soldier fighting Isis!, but no story mode)
You can play Mechwarrior 5's campaign in coop with up to four mechwarriors. It's pretty cool. You have to manage your little mercenary company, bid on contracts, maintain, repair, and upgrade your mechs, and make a living in the sandbox between story missions.
Warframe is an extremely deep, fairly grindy RPG/Shooter with coop all the way through. It's got a great story that just had a huge, important update. There is a lot of grind but you can Pay2Progress if you want to, or just embrace the grind. The game features ridiculously deep customization - Your warframe levels up, your guns level up, the mods you stick in your warframe and gun level up, your dog levels up, your spaceship levels up. If you like the idea of being a hyperkinetic space ninja and grinding out upgrades to hyper-specialize your build, then run around annihilating space Nazi clones and megacorporate goons, Warframe is a good bet.
Generation Zero is a weird entry because it does sorta have a story but the story is mostly 'Go to this place, turn on the power supply, read the text and listen to the radio message, go to the next place". It is very challenging, you really need to embrace the "Guerilla warfare" of it and only fight when you need to or when you have a huge advantage. But it is fun, and it is coop.
Journey to the Savage Planet is a hybrid FPS/Metroidvania game. You explore, fight monsters, find upgrades that let you get past obstacles, and then explore more. It's very colorful and goofy, and it has coop.
Zombie Army Trilogy and Nazi Zombie Army are coop games where Hitler has done a necromancy and your group of 1-4 heroes (And you can play as Soviets) have to sniper and shoot and ambush their way through Nazi Zombie Germany to save the world from Nazi Zombies. Did I mention you're shooting Nazi Zombies?
Space Hulk: Deathwing is a SPESSS MAHRRRNNNES game where you shoot aliens FOR THE EMPRAH in giant baroque space ship cathedrals. It's a 1-4 player coop based on the old Warhammer 40k board game Space Hulk. Your team of four space marines in terminator power armor have to fight through hordes of Tyranids to complete various objectives. It was panned on release but they released an update that fixed a lot of the problems. Good if you're a WH40k nerd and want to slaughter Nids with your buddies
Dying Light is the worlds definitive Zombie Apocalypse Parkour game, with an expansive story, weapon crafting, lots of scary zombies, and a pretty extensive story that you can play in Coop. Notable because your character has incredible mobility in the urban environment due to various parkour skills.
PayDay 2 sort of has a story, I think. It's a game about killing loads of cops and also robbing banks
Earth Defense Force is 3rd person, but does feature an extensive campaign. It's a homage to monster and aliens from B-movie science fiction, kaiju, and mecha movies. Your Earth Defense Force soldiers fight GIANT INSECTS and other threats using mech suits, dodge rolling, tanks, machine guns, and jetpacks with suspiciously short skirts and plasma pigtails. It's goofy fun and has coop.
EYE Divine Cybermancy is a very old, very weird coop FPS game based on the Halflife 2 engine and heavily inspired by WH40k. On the plus side is has extremely deep character customization, good gunplay, and a cool baroque cyberpunk aesthetic. On the downside the game is very, very weird. The engine and graphics are very dated at this point. The character customization is poorly documented and explained, and it's badly translated from French, which either increases the mystique or makes it annoying depending on your taste. Get it if you like Half Life 2 era FPS games, 40k, and obscure RPG games. Get it if the idea of being a cyberpunk ninja assassin or a power armor clad psychic warmage appeals to you. Do not get it if you do not have a high tolerance for weird, finnicky old games.
Shadow Warrior II is a looter shooter with a lot of character customization and a story that you can play in Coop.
Portal II isn't really an FPS because you don't shoot anyone, but it is a very cool coop puzzle experience.
Also EYE has up to 32 player co-op which is just fucking stupid - I mean incredible
Holy shit thank you just what I needed for my squad
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