Helldivers 2 for spectacle, Deep Rock Galactic for cooperation. Helldivers is loud, chaotic and built around friendly fire and stratagem calls. Deep Rock is four classes that genuinely need each other, in caves you dig through, and it is far more good-natured.
Four-player co-op against overwhelming numbers, with a mission structure you drop into and extract from.
Orbital strikes, friendly fire that is always on, and a live war that the whole playerbase moves together. It is very funny and very tense.
Driller, Engineer, Gunner and Scout each solve problems the others cannot, the caves are fully destructible, and it has the best community in the genre. Also much cheaper.
Helldivers 2 for spectacle, Deep Rock Galactic for cooperation. Helldivers is loud, chaotic and built around friendly fire and stratagem calls. Deep Rock is four classes that genuinely need each other, in caves you dig through, and it is far more good-natured.
Better is the wrong question for these two — they are close enough that the answer depends on what you want from the next twenty hours. Pick Helldivers 2 if you want the chaos. Pick Deep Rock Galactic if you want the teamwork.
No. There are no scores anywhere on this page. This is a written opinion about what each game is for, so you can judge whether it matches what you are after.