Games Ideal To Play With Your Significant Other Who's Less Experienced In Gaming

Old, but what immediately came to my mind is Portal 2.

Next is Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
► WTF Is... - Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime ?
TB & Genna Play Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Bit long, but totally worth the time. Couldn't stop laughing. XD)

I would also recomend Portal 2 and Heroes of Might & Magic series, Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator.
Maybe Don't Starve Together.

Stardew valley.

A calming and very forgiving farming game that lets you both take it easy if you want, or go all out if you prefer.
It's good for casual gamers like me, but veterans will probably like it too.
It's also perfect for the two of you since multiplayer recently came out.

Now that would be a very interesting curator page for me, not all my attempts were successful with my significant other :p She likes to play with me sometimes but I have to find something casual, not constantly bloody, and with a relatively stable point of view (Human Fall Flat made her nauseous for example)
Amongst the successful ones : Brothers, Marooners, Overcooked.
Without co-op : Botanicula, probably thanks to its universe :)

So I'll probably stick with your casual list for now. The "games that require time" list here is mostly made of games I already play or wish to play co-op with but my best friends,far less "reluctant to pick up a controller", to quote your curation intro ^^

Great idea. My lady's a gamer but I definitely would love to get these games for my niece

I'm surprised Viscera Cleanup Detail isn't on the list. It has split screen support and the controls are easy enough.

I guess Don't Starve is probably the best one out there. I used to play it with my roommate all the time. Then there's Trine 1 & 2 and Magicka. There's also this game called Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime. And Monaco, maybe?

Any Lego game, very entertaining. In particular Indiana Jones 2. The older ones have way more humor in it. Indiana Jones 1 is nice too but does not have split screen unfortunately.

Stardew Valley now that the game supports multiplayer in beta. The Stardew Valley sub Reddit has many posts from couples sharing their experience usually that involves a non-gaming significant other.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/

just about any Farming game, aka Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley etc etc

Surprisingly enough, "Her Story" worked very well for me and my "less-than-5%" other.

This is a little unorthodox, but when I play games with my girlfriend, I'm usually the 'pilot' and she's the 'navigator'. By that I mean I play the game and she has a guide open to make sure I don't miss anything, or she looks something up if we get stuck. I do easier bits and she does harder ones because she's way better at timing things than I am.

It's a way to turn single player games into a multi-player experience, esp. for games with many moving parts to keep track of.

You could always play in Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons. It is intended as a single player game where you control two people, but no reason you can't play together. :P

https://steamcommunity.com/app/225080/discussions/0/3288067088124065921/

First of all welcome on steamgifts :)
+1 follower, i really like couch games, but we often have problems finding the right game cause of different skill levels. So your lists and review help me a lot.
Ideas: Towerfall Ascension: Has 2 player coop, 4 player pvp is always fun
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair: It's a weird game, graphics are bad, menu looks like from a snes game, game is filled with bugs (in every way), but somehow this game is a lot of fun and you don't stop playing. Contra: Grindy and expensive
Puyo Puyo Tetris: Friend bought it recently, we had a fun 4 player-couch evening with it. If skills levels are too far apart, you can play as team vs ai

Suggestion: link to your giveaways here in the thread and this might help you with the formatiing of the urls

IMO any game can be good with a significant other who's not that experienced with gaming. The trick is where the person is coming from.

Telltale games are a great intro to adventure games - great if there's a hook from a cinematic universe (such as guardians of the galaxy, walking dead)
The Sims is great for people who like soap operas
For mechanically minded, Cities Skylines is a good start
Or a history buff might like Crusader Kings.
someone who's into horror movies, Outlast, Soma, etc.

Really, what matters most is knowing the person well enough to ease them into something that matches their interests. But even then, you'd be surprised by what some people will flock to.
As an example, my sister who never gamed before or since, loved HOMM3, Diablo, and Duke Nukem.

Divinity Original Sin 2

LOVERS in a Dangerous Spacetime!! Obviously this game was conceived for this very purpose and it's excellent. My boyfriend and I had a great time playing this one. I can't recommand it enough.
Also Battleblock Theater, it's a bunch of pure fun.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes should also be perfect for people who are not really into video games.

Very good idea for a curator :) Following.

Great idea for a curator! Telltale games were already mentioned in the comments, but I feel like all "experience" games would be great for your singleplayer list: Gone Home, A Normal Lost Phone/Another Lost Phone, Marie's Room, Simulacra, Doki Doki Literature Club, House Party, Last Day of June, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, Contradiction, The Bunker, Late Shift, The Witness, Orwell.

I have no recommendations but I wanted to say that I'm now following the curator, thank you! 😁
Edit: oh, right! I've played Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with my girlfriend too and it was fun. :)

is Ibb and Obb in that list? (I didn't actually take the time to go through all of it.) I know I played it with my ex when we were together and it was the only co-op experience she enjoyed with me.

Followed! I'm always trying to convince my SO to play stuff with me but I often have trouble choosing good things. This curator could help me a lot.

I don't know how much other less-experienced gamers will like it, but she actually really loved Rimworld. I even picked out some mods from the Steam Workshop with her that she had a blast with (which I think was her first time ever playing a modded game).

Followed! You definitely need to add Life Is Strange to the list! That was the first game I introduced my SO to (the only game she'd played before that was a little Wii Sports and Mario Cart). The setting of Life Is Strange, and its choices with consequences got her hooked. The only problem now is that the other games we've played since can't live up to it! We played Dragon Age Origins for a while, she playing the dialogue and I playing the battles and character customization (too complicated for her taste), but she was disappointed because none of the choices seemed to matter like they did in Life Is Strange.

Another good one we played together is Never Alone, a co-op puzzle platformer with an Inuit aesthetic.

EDIT: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons should also be on the list.

Deathspank is perfect for this.

Also I think a new Toejam & Earl waa scheduled for 2018

Nice list of games! Wishlisted a couple of those, will look over it more carefully later.
I could recommend Castle Crashers BBT was already recommended and they both are incredibly fun, Rayman Legends and one of my all-time favourite game The Cave, or any of the Double Fine games for shared experience some of them might also be shared-screened.

edit: Oh! And definitely Spelunky and Crypt of the NecroDancer for hardcore gamers couples.

In the shared single-player category, I would recommend Beyond Good & Evil, Fez, and Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 & 2. Maybe the Mass Effect series if you have the time.
In the multiplayer category, Trine 2, the Cave, Rayman Origins & Legends, and Sonic & All-Stars Racing.
Great topic – good luck with your curator page.