In contrast to most party games, such as Overcooked. Plate Up isn’t about completing a series of puzzle-like stages. Instead, it tasks you and your friends with running a procedural run-based restaurant where failure means starting over, hopefully with a more successful business plan.
Curious Expedition 2 is unique enough that it’s difficult to characterize in simple terms. It’s a mixture of rogue-lite, turn-based dice battler, RPG, board game, storytelling generator, and survival game.
Ship of Fools is a co-op-focused rogue-lite about fighting monsters from your ship using a variety of cannons and combo-oriented power-ups. You can play the game solo, and if you do, you’re given an extra automated cannon to help you out. But Ship of Fools really shines in co-op, especially couch co-op.
This Means Warp takes two entirely different games and violently mashes them together until they kiss. Take the rogue-lite ship battling of FTL and the frantic relationship-destroying chaos of Overcooked, and you have a rough idea of This Means Warp.