Top 35 Cooperative Games for Kids

Forbidden Island: Join a team of fearless adventurers on a do-or-die mission to capture four sacred treasures from the ruins of this perilous paradise. Race to collect the treasures and make a triumphant escape before you are swallowed into the watery abyss! 

Sloth in a Hurry: Quick! Can you act Who, What, & How? Take turns drawing a Who and What card, then spin for the How! This quick-action improv game gets kids up, active, and laughing and is a non-competitive, confidence building game.

Outfoxed: In Outfoxed, you move around the board to gather clues, then use the special evidence scanner to rule out suspects. You have to work together quickly because the guilty fox is high-tailing it towards the exit! Will you halt the hungry hooligan before it flies the coop or will you be outfoxed?

Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters: It’s everybody vs. the ghosts. Work together to win! Can your team escape from the house with all 8 Treasure Jewels before 6 of the rooms become haunted? 

Castle Panic: The co-op element makes Castle Panic a great family game and the perfect kick-off for your weekly game night. You must work together to defend your Castle, in the center of the board, from Monsters that attack out of the forest, at the edges of the board.

Cauldron Quest: Players work together to find hidden ingredients to create a spell-breaking potion; but work quickly - you have to find them all before the Wizard blocks off all the paths; if you succeed, everyone wins!

Dragon Dash: Dragon Dash is a noggin playground cooperative early learning game for kids. This means that all players are teammates and have the same goal. Either everyone wins, or everyone is defeated! 

Pandemic: Players must work together playing to their characters' strengths and planning their strategy of eradication before the diseases overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks.

Forbidden Desert: You'll need to coordinate with your teammates and use every available resource if you hope to survive the scorching heat and relentless sandstorm. Find the flying machine and escape before you all become permanent artifacts of the Forbidden Desert!

Disney Eye Found It!: Rich with whimsical artwork and beloved Disney characters, this game is a guaranteed family favorite. A good-for-you game that encourages positive attitudes, teamwork, healthy competition, and get-up-and-go active play.

Break the Safe: This game must be played collaboratively, or nobody wins and the longest game takes only thirty minutes. Race against the clock on the safe to collect the keys necessary to break the safe. The keys are hidden, and sometimes booby-trapped.

Hoot Owl Hoot: Players work together to help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up; if they are successful everyone wins. Children learn simple strategy and social development skills with no reading required.

Richard Scarry’s Busytown: Race around Busytown to search for hidden objects in this fun-filled collaborative. Drive through city streets, and activity-filled farm, a busy airport, and a bustling harbor full of boats. There’s so much to discover along the way!

Obstacles: Obstacles is a journey along a path of hazards and barriers which are overcome by the collective cleverness of the players. Armed with the unlikely tools they are dealt, imagination and some silliness, players cooperate creatively to innovate solutions that let them get home together. 

Wildcraft: Though it is a cooperative game, there is plenty of strategy and drama as players travel up the mountain to the Huckleberry Patch and back to Grandma’s before nightfall. The only way to get back safely is to help each other out. However, it’s ok if you don’t make it. Grandma will come and get you.

Cahoots: A colorful, cooperative card game in which players play cards to one of four piles matching either color or number. Players are racing against the clock to win so they need to be in cahoots!

Code Names: Codenames is a social word game with a simple premise and challenging gameplay. Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first.