Meadgard couch co-op is not available in the current build. The Steam feature list for both the game and the demo names Single-player and Online Co-op only, there is no shared-screen option, and the demo page describes co-op as "solo or online with up to 3 friends". The closest thing available is Steam Remote Play, which runs the game over the network on two machines side by side.
Meadgard couch co-op: not in the current build
- The feature lists are explicit. Single-player and Online Co-op, and nothing else.
- Local split-screen did exist, in the first demo. Players of that build played split-screen on one machine. It had a bug where pressing any button with a controller automatically made all the rest of the characters join, so your controller played three characters at once; the bug was reported fixed afterwards.
- It was removed. Players of the October 2026 demo report the mode is gone — there was in the old demo, but it looks like they removed it.
- It has been asked for again. Players asked about couch co-op once more in the "Will there be couch coop?" thread between June and November 2026, and no developer answer came out of it.
Steam Remote Play is the substitute
The workaround is Steam's own feature rather than a game mode:
- The host runs the game on one PC and up to three friends join over the network, each with their own input device.
- Devices are assigned in the overlay. The host presses shift+tab to open the Steam Remote Play Overlay and assigns the devices.
- One keyboard only. With Remote Play only one player can use the keyboard and the others need gamepads.
That gives you a same-room session across two machines rather than one, but it is online co-op running over Steam rather than a native couch mode. The invite side of it is in the co-op and multiplayer guide.