cranebeaker/coop-anything · cranebeaker

"Turn my childhood single-player games co-op": a new account hit 1,900 stars in three weeks by shipping 5 finished builds first

What it is A handbook for agents like Claude Code and Codex, plus an MCP server. Name a single-player game and the agent either fixes an existing co-op mod or reverse-engineers one from scratch, tests it with bots, and packages a co-op version your friends can join through Steam.

Why it took off It rode the wave of "agents reverse-engineer anything" that REA started, and picked the most emotional gaming itch: playing your childhood single-player games with friends. The author shipped finished builds like Deus Ex and Ocarina first, then posted across Reddit's gaming and AI communities. A Russian gaming outlet ran a full story the next day, and the peak was 10-18 stars in a single day, 237 of them.

BHow you could ride it Don't make another co-op handbook. Copy the playbook instead: borrow REA's "X-anything" naming, ship 4–5 real finished builds first, use two paths plus a generic test tool, and link back to community work. Apply it to another emotionally charged, previously high-barrier game-modding need (classic-game modernization patches, fan translations, console game recompilation), and post in Reddit's gaming and AI communities.

Grade B: the playbook is clear and copyable, and no vertical handbook of this kind has scaled yet. But co-op, the best hook, is already taken, and success depends on actually shipping several hard builds. The agent-modding heat window is also narrowing; the project's own daily star count fell from two hundred to thirty in three weeks.

Data (updated daily) · Repo created 2026-10-16 · 1,940 stars · 7 days +229: GitHub · stars
Data 2026-10-16 → 2026-11-08 (24 days, 22 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one

A brand-new GitHub account, opened the morning of Oct 16, made a repo called coop-anything less than three hours later. You hand it to a coding agent like Claude Code or Codex, name any single-player game, and the agent looks for an existing co-op mod, fixes one, or reverse-engineers the game from scratch. It tests the result with an in-game bot, then packages a one-click install for your friends that connects through Steam relay. 21 days in, 1,910 stars, 261 forks. The interesting part isn't "AI can mod games" (someone already did that two weeks ago). It's the angle it picked and the order it ships things in.

A Reddit post

Around October 17, Reddit account Salty_Molasses5801 posted the same title in r/pcmasterrace, r/CoOpGaming, r/decomps, r/accelerate and r/Agent_AI:

The "coop-anything" repo, a 'reverse engineer anything' like repo that lets you make ANY existing game co-op. I have already succeeded in deus ex, zelda: ocarina of time, stalker games, dungeon keeper, and fallout NV is WIP but close.

The first sentence reads: "I've been busy adding fully working online multiplayer to the classic games of our childhood." The details that follow are concrete: Deus Ex now has working online multiplayer, Dungeon Keeper and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl are done, Zelda: Majora's Mask is "close to 100% sync," and Fallout: New Vegas has "all Goodsprings quests tested and working, with the rest done and still in testing." The closing line: "Compared with the game mash-ups we've been seeing on X, this is a more useful and more exciting use case." A few days later he posted a progress report on r/accelerate about Majora's Mask online multiplayer, with boss fights fully synced.

There's no direct evidence the poster is the author, but the first-person voice, the games listed, and several single-game repos the author created the same day (deus-ex-coop, ocarina-coop, fnv-coop, dungeon-keeper-coop, stalker-soc-coop-fixes) line up one to one (inference, high confidence). The account has no bio, no X, and about twenty followers. The work was finished elsewhere first; the new account was only for the one release.

What it actually does

The repo is a handbook for agents (an AGENTS.md plus a set of skills) and an MCP server. The README's quick start is two lines, to be said to your agent verbatim:

`` Read https://github.com/cranebeaker/coop-anything and follow AGENTS.md. I want to play <game> in co-op with my friends. ``

The agent takes one of two paths:

Finish what exists: most classic games people want co-op for already have a half-finished co-op mod nobody maintains. The agent finds the latest version, reads issues, forum threads and Discord bug reports, fixes it, and repackages it. The author told the Russian outlet iXBT that this path "usually takes an agent a few days."
Build from scratch: reverse the game and engine, make a second player appear, sync enemies, world and story, and handle level transitions and saves. For this part the README directly recommends pairing with REA (Reverse Engineer Anything, an agent reversing tool with 430k stars): "Co-op Anything knows what to build; REA gets you inside the game."

Both paths end the same way: test on the real game client with bots, package, and open a PR back to this repo. The repo also includes game-agnostic sync test tools (a relay that simulates packet loss and latency, a recorder that finds the first desync, multiplayer fuzzing, and so on), each printing ALL OK from one command. There's also Couchlink, a local split-screen launcher, and coopanything.app, a directory site for co-op mods.

Why this one, and why now

The wave is already here. October is when "let agents reverse-engineer and mod games" was at its hottest: REA hit 430k stars, and was still climbing 27k that week; AI-decompiled PC ports kept coming one after another; rehan-remade/universal-modder ("let Claude mod any game") launched in Sep 30, two weeks ahead of it, and now sits at 9,443 stars. The coop-anything title literally says "a REA-style repo", riding attention that's already been trained.

It narrowed "any modification" down to "co-op." universal-modder does general mods (art, audio, gameplay), and its spread was mostly within AI circles. Co-op is different: "play my childhood single-player game with my friends" is the most emotional need in gaming, and it used to take a team years to tackle one game (Skyrim Together and sm64coopdx came that way). A narrower hook landed it in two circles at once: r/accelerate and r/Agent_AI cared that agents could do this, while r/pcmasterrace and r/CoOpGaming cared that they could finally play with friends.

Ship the finished product first, explain the method later. Every media headline names the game. iXBT's headline for 10-19 reads "AI agents turn single-player games into multiplayer: they're building co-op for Fallout: New Vegas and Deus Ex", and the first line of the article throws some cold water: "The code quality of these mods may be questionable, but they all work." Working is enough to make a story.

Where the stars came from

GitHub daily stars (tracked by Trendshift by day; 11-06 snapshot):

Timeline	What happened	New stars that day
10-17	Multiple Reddit subreddits posted in a row, MindPattern followed up	+65
10-18	VGTimes posted in Russian, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Chinese; playground.ru and 2ch's Telegram channel reposted it	+237 (peak)
10-19	iXBT Games, pcnews.ru, Turkey's OyunPress; YouTube reposts	+179
10-20 to 10-22	Yahoo Taiwan, 3DM (credited to playground)	Over a hundred, then fell back to fifty or sixty
10-23, 10-25	Second-wave coverage and "hot AI repos this week" roundups, community build posts (specific ones unverified)	+206, +224
November	game.donga (South Korea, 10-27), with essentially no new coverage after that	26–37 per day

A few things worth noting:

Russian gaming media moved fastest: they appeared in full the next day, and the Chinese, Korean and Turkish coverage picked it up from them. No English top-tier gaming outlets (PC Gamer, Kotaku and similar) turned up in my search.
Hacker News didn't help: one person posted "Turn any single player PC game into coop instantly", which got 10-21 points and 1 comments, with 1 replies. No big X accounts reshared it that I could find.
Instagram repost accounts were still using it to drive traffic at the end of October, with the pitch "comment COOP and I'll DM you the link and prompt." That suggests the topic has traffic appeal to mainstream content accounts.
Community builds feed back: the README's "From the community" line already lists 16 games other people built with this handbook: Mega Man X, Pilotwings 64, Gothic Dynasty 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's campaign co-op 2, Poppy Playtime, and more. Each build repo links back, so every new game adds to the handbook's credibility. About 13.7% of stars came from forks, with 123 open issues, showing that many people really pulled it down and had agents do the work.

It's cooling now: 330 stars in the last 7 days, versus 812 in the 7 days before (GitHub data, 11-06).

Who's competing

Project	What the others do	Scale	How it differs
universal-modder	Let Claude mod any game	9,443 stars, launched 9-30	General mods, not focused on co-op, with no sync tests or relay
REA	Agent reverse-engineering tool	430K stars	Upstream tool; coop-anything recommends pairing with it
Nucleus Co-op, Universal Split Screen	Run multiple instances on one PC for split-screen	2,142 stars / 659 stars (no longer updated)	Local split-screen only; each game needs its own script
Skyrim Together, sm64coopdx and others	Co-op mods for individual games	each 1.2k–1.6k stars	One team, years per game; this one tries to turn the method into a handbook that works for any game
Steam Remote Play Together, Parsec	Streaming	Built into Steam	Only the host's machine runs the game; it isn't true multiplayer

No second general-purpose co-op handbook has scaled. Several AI-built single-game co-op repos appeared in October, at tens to a couple hundred stars, and most were folded into its directory, making them downstream.

If it were you

The bottom line: co-op is already taken, and another coop-anything won't get stars. The worthwhile move is to apply the same playbook to a different, emotionally charged, previously high-barrier game-modding need, while the REA agent-reversing wave is still rolling. Grade B.

Who it suits: people who can actually finish the work: those with mod, reverse-engineering, emulator or game-porting experience who can ship 3–5 visible builds with agents first. Ideally you're already part of a game community (a Reddit subreddit, or a Russian or Chinese mod scene).

Who it doesn't suit: anyone who plans to write an AGENTS.md and post it. This project got passed around because Deus Ex really went co-op. A handbook without finished builds will just be one of those dozens of repos with a few dozen stars. It's also a bad fit for anyone copying the co-op angle: it has first-mover advantage, a directory site, and a dozen community builds linking back, so latecomers will struggle to catch up.

How to do it:

Pick topics by its criteria: what players most want, what used to take a team years, and what can be screenshotted and recorded when it's done. Candidates include high-framerate, widescreen or modernization patches for old games; fan translations and other-language localizations; adding controller or phone-streaming support to old games; and recompiling console classics into native PC versions. Which one is least crowded is something to check yourself on GitHub and r/aigamedev (unverified).
Copy the structure: two paths (fix an existing build / build from scratch), game-agnostic test tools, one-command verification, and contributor agents that open PRs with fixes and tests.
Borrow the name directly: "X-anything," and spell out on the first screen of the README how it pairs with REA.
A lighter alternative: skip the handbook and build a co-op version of a popular game the handbook doesn't cover yet, then get onto its "From the community" list. The star ceiling is lower (similar projects mostly stay under two hundred), but it's almost risk-free.

How to get attention: ship "the method plus 4–5 finished builds" under a new account in one go; post the same title across a few gaming and AI subreddits at once, with the game names and "I already built it" in the headline; a few days later, add a results post with video. Russian gaming outlets will come to you on their own, so spell out the game names in the README to make it easy for them to write headlines. Don't count on HN or X.

When to move: launch before the end of 2026. The heat is built on REA's weekly growth and the AI port wave, and coop-anything's own daily stars dropped from over two hundred to thirty in three weeks. The next window of this kind won't last any longer.

Signs that would mean you read it wrong:

REA's weekly growth falls to a few thousand or less, and the agent game-modding repos that launched alongside it stall under a few hundred stars: the wave has passed;
coop-anything or universal-modder folds in the direction you chose, turning it into a new skill;
A week after your launch, the Reddit posts get no media pickup and stay under a hundred stars, which means the builds weren't strong enough. The channel isn't the problem.

GitHub repo ↗

Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report

Competitors

Name	Where	Launched	Scale	How it differs from this one
rehan-remade/universal-modder	Open source	2026-09-30	9,443 star / 1,054 fork	A general-purpose Claude game-modding handbook (art, audio generation, mods), not focused on co-op; coop-anything is co-op only, with a sync test toolchain and Steam relay
morluto/rea (Reverse Engineer Anything)	Open source	2026-04-14	433,868 stars, ~27k/week	The underlying reverse-engineering MCP. coop-anything calls itself "REA-style" and recommends pairing with it, so it's upstream and downstream.
Nucleus Co-op	Open source	2022-02	2,142 star	Runs multiple local instances for split-screen. Needs a script per game, no online sync.
Universal Split Screen	Open source	2019-05	659 stars, no longer maintained	Local multi-instance split-screen only
Single-game co-op mods like Skyrim Together / sm64coopdx / Elden Ring Seamless Co-op	Open source	2021-2023	1.2k–1.6k stars each	Each one is a team that spent years on a single game. coop-anything is an agent playbook plus a directory that applies to any game.
Steam Remote Play Together / Parsec	Big-company features	From ¥2019	Built into Steam	Streaming: only the host's machine runs the game. coop-anything does real synced co-op.

Where users come from

Verified Multiple Reddit subs, posted in the author's first person: starting around 10-17, the same title "a 'reverse engineer anything' like repo that lets you make ANY existing game co-op" went up in r/pcmasterrace, r/decomps, r/CoOpGaming, r/accelerate and r/Agent_AI. A follow-up in r/accelerate showed online co-op working in Ocarina of Time (found via Brave search and reposted on reamcp.dev).
Verified Game media (mostly Russian-language, spreading to Chinese, Korean, Portuguese and Turkish): MindPattern 10-17; VGTimes, playground.ru, cybersport 10-18; iXBT, pcnews.ru 10-19; 3DM 10-21; Shiplog, tau-home 10-25; game.donga 10-27
Verified Borrowing REA's name: the title and README both say "REA-style" and recommend REA MCP. reamcp.dev lists it as a use case.
Verified YouTube and Instagram reposter accounts: Preston (10-18, embedded by iXBT), Hypeless Ai Shorts; on Instagram, gitscope (10-19) and speedy_devv (10-30, "comment COOP and I'll DM the link")
Verified Community projects feeding back into a directory site: the README lists 14+ community-built co-op games; there's a coopanything.app directory, a Discord, and an issue template for submissions
Inferred X / HN: one HN post with 1 points; on X we only found a small account, and the x-radar corpus has 0 mentions

cranebeaker/coop-anything: why it took off

In one line: it's an "instruction manual + MCP server" for AI coding agents. You point an agent like Claude Code or Codex at the repo and name a single-player game. The agent then looks for existing co-op mods, reverse-engineers the game, builds or fixes co-op, tests it with an in-game bot, packages it, and lets you play with friends over Steam relay. Research date 2026-11-06. Data comes from our GitHub database (repo_profile / repo_day), Trendshift, and the web pages listed below.

1. Data overview

Repo created 2026-10-16 11:12 UTC. The author's GitHub account cranebeaker was registered the same day 08:54 (per the GitHub API). No bio, no X account, only 23 followers. On the same day they also created single-game repos like deus-ex-coop, ocarina-coop, fnv-coop, dungeon-keeper-coop, and stalker-soc-coop-fixes. It looks like they finished the work first, then opened a new account and released it all at once.
As of 11-06: 1,910 stars, 261 forks (fork/star ratio about 13.7%, above the median 11% for similarly aged new repos), 123 open issues. Trendshift shows 76 PRs merged over 22 days from only 1 contributors (our GitHub database; Trendshift).
Star growth curve (daily, per Trendshift): 10-17 +65, 10-18 +237 (peak, ranked #15 on Trendshift's Python chart that day), 10-19 +179, 10-20 +123, then a drop to 50–60 a day. 10-23 +206 and 10-25 +224 were two smaller secondary spikes. From November on, it's only 26–37 a day. In our database: up 330 over the last 7 days and 812 over the 7 days before that. It's cooling off.
It has never appeared on GitHub Trending. That's because Trending only includes repos about 60 days old, so it doesn't mean the repo isn't popular.

2. Competitors: who else does the same thing

Competitors	Type	Launched	Scale	How it differs from others
rehan-remade/universal-modder	Open source (Claude skill + fal MCP)	2026-09-30	9,443 stars / 1,054 forks; biggest single-day gain 10-13 385	Positioned as "let Claude mod any game," covering art, 3D and audio generation as general-purpose mods. It doesn't focus on co-op. coop-anything targets only the co-op need, and comes with a sync testing toolchain and Steam relay.
morluto/rea (Reverse Engineer Anything)	Open source, agent reverse-engineering MCP	2026-04-14	433,868 stars, still gaining ~7k over the last 27 days	It's the underlying reverse-engineering tool. coop-anything calls itself a "REA-style repo" and its README recommends using it alongside REA. It stands on REA's shoulders, so the two are upstream and downstream.
Nucleus Co-op (SplitScreen-Me)	Open source / Windows app	2022-02	2,142 star	Runs several game instances on one PC for local split-screen. It depends on a separate script for each game and can't do online sync. coop-anything builds co-op into the game itself and hands local split-screen to its own Couchlink.
Universal Split Screen	Open source	2019-05	659 stars, no longer updated	Same as above: local multi-instance only
Single-game co-op mods: Skyrim Together (TiltedEvolution), sm64coopdx, Elden Ring Seamless Co-op, etc.	Open source / mod sites	2021–2023	1.2k–1.6k stars; Seamless Co-op is bigger on Nexus (unverified)	Each one is a team that spent years on a single game. coop-anything packages that approach as a playbook an agent can follow, and claims it works for any game.
Steam Remote Play Together, Parsec	Big-company features / commercial software	Since 2019	Built into Steam, widest reach	It's streaming: only the host's machine runs the game, so a single-player game is still single-player. coop-anything gives each player their own character with real synced co-op.
A batch of similar AI-built single-game co-op or port repos from the same period (SporeCoop, sa-coop, recvx-enhanced-port, NightwatchCoop, hotd2-re, etc.)	Open source	2026-10	Dozens to a couple hundred stars	All of them are finished products, not methodology. Some were pulled into coop-anything's directory, which sent traffic back to it.

Bottom line: a general "let an agent mod any game" version already exists (universal-modder, two weeks earlier, with a bigger following). coop-anything narrows the idea to the single vertical of co-op, and so far it's the first general-purpose agent playbook to gain real traction.

3. Growth tactics: where users came from

The author posted across several Reddit subs themselves (confirmed, and the source of the initial surge): around 10-17, account Salty_Molasses5801 posted the same title "The 'coop-anything' repo, a 'reverse engineer anything' like repo that lets you make ANY existing game co-op. I have already succeeded in deus ex, zelda: ocarina of time, stalker games, dungeon keeper…" It went up in r/pcmasterrace, r/decomps, r/CoOpGaming, r/accelerate, r/Agent_AI and more. The body was in first person: "I have been busy adding FULLY functional co op to the CLASSICS of our childhood… I've made a co-op-anything repo, in the style of the REA one." Later a results post in r/accelerate: "AI and the Coop Everything Repo let me add ONLINE Coop to Zelda: Ocarina of Time! Fully synced boss fights…" Sources: Reddit results found via Brave search; the original post full text on reamcp.dev/en/cases/…-6e4327. We could not fetch the Reddit pages, so scores and comment counts are unverified.
- The approach had two parts: the title borrows REA's reputation ("reverse engineer anything like repo"), and the body hits the emotional hook of "classic games from childhood, now playable with friends." It targeted both AI and gamer communities.
Game media followed up, especially in Russian-language outlets (confirmed): MindPattern (10-17); 10-18 had VGTimes (published simultaneously in Russian, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Chinese), playground.ru, cybersport.metaratings.ru, the 2ch VG Telegram channel, and decomps.net; 10-19 had iXBT Games, pcnews.ru, se7en.ws, handheld.guru and OyunPress (Turkey); 10-20 had Yahoo Taiwan; 10-21 had 3DM (credited to playground); 10-25 had tau-home, Shiplog and an "AI Repos That Blew Up This Week" list; 10-27 had game.donga (Korea); 11-01 had indiekings. The 10-18 and 10-19 peaks line up with this coverage.
AI reposter accounts on YouTube and Instagram (confirmed, reach unknown): YouTube has Preston (@PrestonDev1, 10-18; an iXBT article embedded this video) and Hypeless Ai Shorts. Instagram has gitscope (10-19) and speedy_devv (10-30), who uses a DM funnel: "comment COOP and I'll DM you the link and prompt." On X we only found a small account (DivyanshT91162, 10-24), and our x-radar corpus has 0 mentions. We found no evidence that any major X account pushed it.
HN didn't do much: the only post was "Turn any single player PC game into coop instantly" (10-21), with 1 points and 1 comments (Algolia).
Community and retention hooks (confirmed): Discord is live. They built coopanything.app, a catalog of games that can be played online with friends, searchable and scored, with a voting system for "online co-op %". It's forked from Recomp Haven and doubles as SEO. There's a Ko-fi tip jar. The README's "From the community" section lists 🟩14+ games built with the playbook by the community (Mega Man X, Pilotwings 64, Gothic 3, MW2 campaign co-op, Poppy Playtime, and more). Every community project links back, turning users into a second distribution channel. The secondary spikes on 10-23 and 10-25 most likely came from community showcase posts and a second wave of media (which specific post drove them is unverified).

4. Why it took off

Timing: 2026 October lined up with the big wave of "AI agents reverse-engineering and modding games." REA has 430k stars, adding 27k per week. AI decompile-and-recompile PC ports keep appearing one after another (bloodborne_pc repo, 10-01, already 3.9k stars). universal-modder blew up in late September. r/aigamedev already has people discussing "AI will make online co-op mods for any game within a year." coop-anything is the first to package co-op, the mod type players want most and that used to take a team years, as "works for any game."
Ship finished results first, method second: at launch, Deus Ex already had online co-op, Ocarina of Time was nearly fully synced, and STALKER and Dungeon Keeper were on the list, with New Vegas in progress. Media headlines read "Co-op for Fallout: New Vegas and Deus Ex," and the credibility and shareability come from specific game names, not a vague "AI can do this."
Two circles lit up at once: the AI crowd (r/accelerate, r/Agent_AI, the REA ecosystem) was excited that "an agent can get this far," while the player crowd (r/pcmasterrace, r/CoOpGaming, game media) was excited that "I can finally play my childhood single-player games with friends." Game media reaches a far bigger audience than AI developers, which sets this apart from a typical agent tooling repo.
It keeps people: there's a Discord, a catalog site, community projects feeding back into the README, Couchlink as a local split-screen launcher, and sync test tools distilled from fnv-coop (chaos, flight, fuzz, ownership, etc., each runnable with one command to get ALL OK). Forks and stars are 13.7%, with 123 issues and 76 merged PRs. That shows people are actually building, not just bookmarking.

5. Differentiation, and whether that's why it took off

Compared with the universal modding playbook (universal-modder): it narrows to co-op, the strongest emotional need and the one with the highest barrier before. It also offers two paths: revive an abandoned co-op mod, or write co-op from scratch. The "revive an abandoned mod" path is clever. Most classic games people want to play co-op already have a half-dead co-op mod, and an agent digging through bug reports and fixing code has a much higher success rate.
Compared with split-screen launchers and streaming (Nucleus, Remote Play Together): it does truly synced online co-op, plus Steam relay so no port forwarding is needed.
Compared with single-game co-op mods: methodology plus toolchain plus catalog, so each additional game adds value to the project.
Was it manufactured? Mostly real, but timing mattered. The co-op angle got it into game media (universal-modder spread mainly in AI circles), and real finished builds gave reporters something to write about. But without REA and the AI-port wave educating the market first, a "REA-style" headline wouldn't ride on anything.

6. Visibility and copycats

Visibility: widely covered. Russian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Chinese (3DM, Yahoo Taiwan), Korean (game.donga), Turkish, and other game outlets have written about it, and YouTube and Instagram have reposter accounts. No mainstream English game outlets (PC Gamer, Kotaku, etc.) surfaced in search, and no major X accounts were found posting about it (full coverage unverified). No revenue involved, only Ko-fi tips.
Copycats: no generic "co-op playbook" clone has gained traction yet. In the same category (agent-modding playbooks) there's NPCTalk (10-15, making NPCs talk, 219 stars) and bg3-coop-agent (11-05, 0 stars, a different direction: the agent acts as a teammate). A large batch of single-game AI co-op mods also exists, but most are "downstream" projects absorbed into its catalog, not real competitors.

7. What others can learn

Riding a name with "X-anything": once the big tool (REA) took off, they built a vertical-niche version of it and wrote "REA-style" straight into the headline.
Build 4–5 real finished projects first, then release the methodology. Users share the finished projects; the methodology is what keeps them around.
Pick the vertical with the strongest emotion: "play childhood games with friends" opens up both the AI crowd and the mainstream player press at once.
Turn the repo into a catalog and platform: a catalog site, an issue template for submissions, and backlinks from community projects, so every user's finished build is free distribution.
Post the same title across several Reddit subs, then add a showcase post, and media comes looking for you. Russian game outlets picked it up especially fast.

8. What's still uncertain

Reddit post scores and comment counts couldn't be retrieved, so it's unclear which subreddit actually drove the surge. Whether the poster Salty_Molasses5801 is the author is probably yes based on first-person phrasing, but unverified.
The specific sources of the 10-23 and 10-25 secondary spikes.
How many of the 123 open issues are "make game X co-op" or new mod submissions versus bugs, and what share of community projects actually run.
Whether any major English or X accounts reshared it (0 entries in the x-radar corpus, possibly incomplete coverage).
Interest is clearly fading (about 30 per day in November). Whether the catalog site and Couchlink can turn this into a lasting community is still to be seen.

Sources

Repo README: github.com/cranebeaker/coop-anything; GitHub API (repo and account creation dates, the same author's other repos)
Trendshift: trendshift.io/repositories/309724
Our GitHub database: repo_profile / repo_day (2026-11-06)
Reddit original posts (Brave search results): r/pcmasterrace 1x89uji, r/decomps 1x7l1st, r/CoOpGaming 1x7rs7r, r/accelerate 1x7kskw and 1x9d3cm, r/ClaudeWorkflows 1x9b94l; reposted article: reamcp.dev/en/cases/the-coop-anything-repo-a-reverse-enginee…
iXBT Games 10-19: ixbt.games/en/news/2026/10/19/liubye-odinocnye-igry-prevrash…
VGTimes 10-18: pt.vgtimes.com/gaming-news/171492-…; playground.ru 10-18; 3DM 10-21: www.3dmgame.com/news/202610/3957249.html; game.donga 10-27: game.donga.com/124837/
MindPattern 10-17: mindpattern.ai/s/2026-10-17-co-op-anything-has-coding-agents…
YouTube: Preston www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvrrHEQyMlI; Instagram: speedy_devv www.instagram.com/reel/DfHpex7MbM2/, gitscope www.instagram.com/p/DetH5Bkk77u/
HN Algolia: "Turn any single player PC game into coop instantly" (10-21, 1 points)
Catalog site: coopanything.app/

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.