What's the most fun and least 'toxic' online game you've played?

I play a massively multiplayer Stardew Valley server, and the people are all just awesome, well except for the troll we get here and there, but they are taken care of fairly quickly.

Go (not steam AFAIK) :p chess players are toxic :D

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I prefer to join the teamspeak of certain servers when I'm playing (or being on teamspeak with my own mates) - it's a great way to avoid it, since most people on there just want to have some fun and talk about random stuff

Honestly? For least toxic in recent memory: Star Wars Battlefront 2. To be clear, the conversation around it is absolutely toxic. But in-game is generally just people who like Star Wars and don't take online competition too seriously (it's not a very hardcore game after all).

Happy Wars, as long as it was available on Steam. I wish it still was. Loved playing that little game. ♥

Helldivers, No Man's Sky, Creativerse.

I don't play many online games, but I found the communities in Warframe, Path of Exile and Secret World Legends to be pretty drama-free :)

BF 1942, but that was ten years ago.

bump, Verdun was good.

Didn't encounter much toxicity tbh, i played COD MW and MW2 for many hours and didn't get any abuse. Same with BF3, 4 multiplayer. Maybe i just didn't noticed? I play Rocket League now and i am not great at this game but i yet have to see players that use chat for abuse. All i saw is some moaning about noobs but that is it. I play R6 Siege also and that game is pretty toxic when you play ranked and not a pro, but i play in casual where people just enjoy game more and not trying very hard like lives of their relatives depends on result in a game. And now you can mute chat and micro from a toxic person in that game, so its pretty easy to silence rare toxic player.

honestly sounds dumb but I remember really liking the dark souls online aspect-the "community" is toxic with git gud etc but in terms of actual gameplay I really liked playing with reduced interactions with what people could say/write and it always felt nice when you would find a dueling place and everyone kept bowing to you before cleaving your face from your spine...real sporting of them.
sunbros were saviors as well.

Mass Effect 3 - I think the co-operative aspect goes a long way, since everyone should be working towards a common goal and everyone gets the same reward. I never encountered anyone that was negative, and often would naturally synergize with others (for example, if I was playing an adept and found another adapt, we would naturally pair up and start priming targets for the other to blow up, greatly increasing our effectiveness). The folks in the ME3 Co-op subreddit were very nice and helpful as well, with many people offering to play with new players and help show them around the game.

To be fair, I only spent a little time playing on the Gold difficulty, and none at all on the Platinum difficulty. But even when we lost I didn't encounter anyone being negative - at worst people would just leave the group and find another random group of players.

I think it depends on the game, but usually you'll just always have toxic people.

When you have them, mute them, ignore them, kick them or make fun of them. Nothing more satisfying than using ridiculous arguments to make them feel bad about themselves. If someone says "You're so shit at this game!" you just respond with "You're a higher level than me and you're still as bad" or "I don't really have time to play this game 8 hours a day since I have to work to be successful in life" or something like that. Basically it's fighting fire with fire, but it works usually. Points like that get in their head a lot because they tend to be very insecure about those things.

Also, if you can host a lobby, do it. You can then just kick them out or just cause them a lot of headache. When I play Payday 2 and someone's trashtalking a lot, I just blame them for something happening/not happening, which riles them up. And to end it all, I sometimes just kick them right before the heist, so they spent 15 minutes doing a heist that they won't get rewards from. Like in a heist where we had to basically do everything wrong for an achievement. We had to spend around an hour and 15 minutes on it with a lot of near deaths and so on. The person playing was a total dickhead. He mocked people and complained all the time. So we let him play until we started running for the escape. We deliberately flashed him and started going without him. He typed that we're dumbasses for flashing him "by accident" and by the time he finished typing we waited for him at the chopper while calling out to him with the characters (You can press F so your character yells the other's name and that they follow them). He was almost there when I immediately just kicked him.

And if you're worried about whether he didn't know why we kicked him, we already mentioned it to him before by saying that people would kick him if he was that annoying. To which he responded that he's better than a bot. Well, he served his purpose and in to the garbage he went after being used up like a Kleenex on a teenagers nightstand.

WAKFU

I've played Killing Floor for almost 100 hours and I've only had one or maybe two unpleasant team mates. I guess the fact that it's fully cooperative helps a lot.

DC universe online is pretty positive
made many friends in that game

Rocket League. Sure, there are toxic players sometimes, as in all games, but I've met some great people from there too :)

I very rarely play MP but I have always had a great experience with Rocket League.

None so far.

As I play sp only games I can't add to the discussion but I do wonder which communities are most welcoming as reports of toxicity are really off-putting

Killing Floor 1's community was nice and caring about teamwork. I can't say the same for KF2.

Just about every online game I ever played. Ignore the bad, focus on the good and suddenly bad isn't even a thing that exists.