These games have no server to host and no address to type. They find friends by looking around the local network, which normally means everyone has to be in the same building. Connect gives your party a private network of its own, so "the same building" can be four different houses.
Battlefield 1942: World War II Anthology
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: create a LAN game
- 2.Friends: find the match in Battlefield 1942's LAN browser
ANEURISM IV
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: start a LAN game in ANEURISM IV
- 2.Friends: join the host from the LAN menu
Stardew Valley
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: load a co-op farm
- 2.Friends: join the farm from the Co-op menu
Starbound
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: start a multiplayer world
- 2.Friends: connect to the host's PlayBound network address in Join Game
Necesse
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: open a world to LAN
- 2.Friends: join the world from the LAN list
Don't Starve Together
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: start a LAN world
- 2.Friends: find and join the world in the LAN server list
Factorio
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: host a LAN game
- 2.Friends: find it under Browse LAN Games
Terraria
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: Multiplayer → Host & Play
- 2.Friends: Multiplayer → Join via IP, using the host's PlayBound network address
Vintage Story
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: open the world to LAN
- 2.Friends: join the world from the LAN list or use the host's PlayBound network address
Counter-Strike: Source
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: create a LAN server in-game
- 2.Friends: find it in the LAN server browser or connect to the host's PlayBound network address
Unturned
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: start a LAN server
- 2.Friends: find it in Unturned's LAN server list
HoloCure - Save the Fans!
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Play → Multiplayer
- 2.Use saved network adapter
- 3.Host LAN Session (leader) or Join LAN Session (everyone else)
- 4.If the controller stops navigating menus, use mouse/keyboard for lobby and level-ups
- 5.Stagger weapon upgrades when possible — simultaneous picks can still be unstable
OpenTS
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Party members share the PlayBound virtual network overlay
- 2.Host: Select Network → New to host the match
- 3.Friends: Select Network to find the host in the local lobby list
Beyond All Reason
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: Multiplayer → Host Custom Battle
- 2.Friends: Multiplayer → Custom Battles → Join host's room
- 3.Ready Up → Start Game
Zero-K
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: Multiplayer → Host Custom Room
- 2.Friends: Multiplayer → Custom Battles → Join host's room
- 3.Ready Up → Start Game
OpenTyrian 2000
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: Click Join Game to launch as Player 1
- 2.Friends: Click Join Game to connect as Player 2
- 3.Local / Couch: Main Menu → Two Player Arcade Mode (Controller / Phone Controller)
Sonic Robo Blast 2
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: Multiplayer → Host Network Game (Co-op, Match, Race, or CTF)
- 2.Friends: Multiplayer → Join Network Game (or +connect directly)
Shadow Warrior (JFSW)
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: WangBang Multiplayer → Host Net Game
- 2.Friends: Join Net Game via Virtual LAN
YORG
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Local / Couch: Main Menu → Split-Screen
- 2.Plug in 2–4 Gamepads or use Phone Controllers
TORCS
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Local / Couch: Race → Split-Screen Race
- 2.Configure Player 1 and Player 2 Controls
Stunt Rally
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Local / Couch: Single Race / Championship → Split-Screen (2–4 Players)
- 2.Configure gamepads for each player
Heroes of Might and Magic III: Complete
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Open HD_Launcher and choose HD+ Online Lobby for public community rooms
- 2.For a private Connect party, the leader creates a TCP/IP/LAN game and everyone else joins it from the multiplayer menu
Ground Control Anthology
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Leader: Multiplayer → Local Area Network → Create Game
- 2.Everyone else: Multiplayer → Local Area Network, refresh the list, then join the leader
Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Use Online for GC2 Essentials' OpenSpy community rooms
- 2.For a private Connect party, the leader hosts from Local Area Network and everyone else joins from the LAN list
Stronghold Crusader HD
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Make sure every player is using the same base game or UCP3 preset
- 2.Leader: Multiplayer → Host and create the skirmish
- 3.Everyone else: Multiplayer → Local Network and join the leader
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Leader: Multiplayer → Local Network → Create
- 2.Everyone else: open Local Network and join the leader's server
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Leader: Multiplayer → Local Network → Create
- 2.Everyone else: open Local Network and join the leader's server
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Leader: Multiplayer → Internet TCP/IP Connection For DirectPlay → Create Game
- 2.Everyone else: Multiplayer → Internet TCP/IP Connection For DirectPlay, enter the leader's virtual IP, and click Show Games
SRB2Kart
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Host: Multiplayer → Host Network Game (Race or Battle)
- 2.Friends: Multiplayer → Join Network Game (or +connect directly)
FlatOut 2
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Create a PlayBound Connect party first so everyone shares a LAN segment
- 2.Leader: Multiplayer → create / host a LAN game
- 3.Everyone else: Multiplayer → join the LAN session (refresh if needed)
Cry of Fear
Click Join Game in your party, then in the game:
- 1.Main menu → Co-op
- 2.Leader: Create a game and pick the co-op campaign
- 3.Everyone else: the server browser's LAN tab lists the leader's game
Exult
The launcher sets the network up and points the game at it. The steps above are the part that happens inside the game, where we cannot click for you.