Games Like A Way Out

Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.

Why similar: Split Screen 36.2% ★, Co-op 19.6%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Local Co-Op 14.9%, Story Rich 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: From the same studio, this is another lavishly cinematic, strictly two-player co-op campaign built around constantly changing action set pieces and complementary teamwork.

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.

Why similar: Split Screen 30.8% ★, Co-op 24.1%, Local Co-Op 16.2%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Hazelight’s acclaimed co-op adventure similarly gives each player distinct roles in a polished, story-led journey designed exclusively around cooperation.

Guide two brothers on an epic journey of discovery, loss, adventure and mystery remade for the latest generation of graphics, performance, and gameplay. Play in single-player mode or local co-op with a friend. This is one journey you will never forget.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 40.3%, Split Screen 16.5% ★, Co-op 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Action-Adventure 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although more intimate and less action-oriented, its emotional escape-and-survival journey is expressly reworked to let two local players guide the brothers together.

At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.

Why similar: Co-op 41.6%, Story Rich 27.2%, Action-Adventure 20.6%, Atmospheric 5.3%, Adventure 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its Shared Story mode lets two players jointly navigate a cinematic, high-stakes action-horror narrative where decisions and survival depend on both partners.

This game is a port of the Games for Windows - Live version that was released in 2009. If you buy the Untold Stories Bundle here on Steam, it will be the same as upgrading to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.

Why similar: Co-op 30.1%, Online Co-Op 26.6%, Split Screen 14.8% ★, Local Co-Op 14.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This action-heavy two-player campaign has partners covering each other, sharing resources, solving occasional environmental problems, and progressing through a dramatic story together.

Journey across space to the icy planet of Tau Volantis with Isaac Clarke and Sgt. John Carver to discover and destroy the source of the Necromorph outbreak.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 46.1%, Co-op 34.1%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Action 4.9%, Third Person 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: The full sci-fi horror campaign supports two-player co-op, pairing combat, exploration, and narrative set pieces with moments where partners have different experiences.

When you cut ties to the past, new bonds form. Build relationships with other Yarnys in local co-op or as a single player, fostering friendship and support as you journey together.

Why similar: Split Screen 31.5% ★, Co-op 29.9%, Local Co-Op 21.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Online Co-Op 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated two-player platforming adventure where tethered characters must coordinate movement and puzzles, with a gentle but emotionally grounded story.

Fight a fanatical cult in this open world FPS. Engage in intense combat, free hostile territory, recruit loyal followers and animal allies, and liberate Hope County solo or in full 2-player co-op.

Why similar: Co-op 42.2%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 15.1%, Action 4%

Why You'll Like It: You and a partner can tackle a story-driven open-world campaign together, combining gunfights, stealth, rescues, and emergent action.

Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.

Why similar: Split Screen 26.5% ★, Co-op 25.6%, Online Co-Op 21.3%, Local Co-Op 12.9%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiple co-op campaigns offer a similarly cinematic, mission-based action-adventure experience with frequent cooperative combat and spectacle.

As we explore these frozen wastes, misfortune strikes once again. Through the fierce blizzard, a flare lights the sky, followed by a cry for help over the radio - broken, dying... No one else can come to their rescue. Can we make it back - together?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 43%, Co-op 26.5%, Story Rich 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Action-Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A full two-player cooperative adventure that requires sustained communication and synchronized puzzle-solving as partners try to escape a hostile castle.

Clandestine is a 2-player or singleplayer stealth/hacking game set in 1996. Asymmetrical co-op allows one player to take the role of the spy while a friend provides overwatch and assistance as the hacker, and unravel a post-Cold War espionage conspiracy.

Why similar: Co-op 81.4%, Story Rich 7.3%, Action 6.3%, Third Person 3.3%, Indie 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: This asymmetrical two-player spy thriller assigns one player to infiltrate in the field and the other to provide surveillance and hacking support.

Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.

Why similar: Co-op 26.4%, Crime 15.3%, Story Rich 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Dialogue Heavy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This interactive crime drama emphasizes group decisions and branching character outcomes, retaining A Way Out’s mature, cinematic criminal-story appeal.

When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.

Why similar: Multiplayer 28.8%, Co-op 22.2%, Story Rich 18%, Cinematic 16.4%, Sexual Content 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A movie-like ensemble horror adventure with couch and online multiplayer modes, ideal for sharing a dramatic story full of split-second decisions.

The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.

Why similar: Co-op 49.4%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Story Rich 11.6%, Cinematic 9.6%, Adventure 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its Shared Story and Movie Night modes turn a branching, cinematic thriller into a collaborative experience where both players shape who makes it out.

Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27%, Split Screen 22.5% ★, Co-op 21%, Local Co-Op 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its prison-break premise directly echoes A Way Out, while its cooperative planning, distractions, crafting, and escapes provide a more systemic take on breaking free.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Co-op 51.9%, Story Rich 22%, Action-Adventure 15.4%, Action 5.6%, Atmospheric 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its dedicated two-player campaign uses strong co-operative level design, communication, and playful character interaction to make both players indispensable.

It takes two to save the world in this cooperative spy adventure. Pair up with a friend as Agent or Hacker—with only your voices to connect you—and work together to bring a hi-tech global menace to its knees. Now with a FREE CONTENT UPDATE!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 56.4%, Co-op 30.8%, Multiplayer 10%, Adventure 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: This purpose-built two-player espionage game makes each player responsible for different information and tools, rewarding clear communication like A Way Out’s coordinated sequences.

A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…

Why similar: Crime 19.9%, Co-op 17.7%, Story Rich 16.4%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Local Co-Op 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This cinematic horror story supports shared online and couch play, making it a strong choice for players who value tense cooperative storytelling and consequential choices.

BOKURA is a two-player puzzle adventure game. Play as two boys who ran away from their homes and work together to take yourselves somewhere far, far away. Relive the friendship of your childhood through the journey of two boys.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 36.9%, Co-op 23.1%, Local Co-Op 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Story Rich 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Two players see different versions of the same world and must communicate to advance its unsettling narrative, creating a uniquely interdependent co-op story.

Two lovers gave up everything and escaped to a lost planet to be together. Glide through a mysterious landscape, explore a fragmented world and fight against what’s trying to tear them apart in this RPG adventure about love, rebellion, and freedom.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 49.2%, Story Rich 16.5%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Third Person 9.2%, Sexual Content 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relationship-focused co-op adventure about a couple escaping to a new world, blending shared exploration and combat with an unusually personal story.

The Past Within is the new co-op experience from Rusty Lake! Play together with someone you deem trustworthy: one in The Past, the other in The Future. Observe and communicate what you see around you. Solve the puzzles and uncover Albert Vanderboom’s plan.

Why similar: Co-op 45.4%, Online Co-Op 33.9%, Local Co-Op 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Story Rich 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: This two-player-only puzzle story splits players across different time periods, demanding communication to uncover its mysteries and progress.

Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.3%, Local Co-Op 22%, Co-op 18.5%, Split Screen 17.7% ★, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op escape-room campaign that keeps two players actively collaborating through themed challenges and a light story framework.

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Split Screen 30.5% ★, Online Co-Op 22.3%, Co-op 20%, Local Co-Op 17.7%, Multiplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op fantasy journey supports local split-screen and online play, letting partners explore, survive, fight, and build an adventure together.

Blanc is an artistic cooperative adventure that follows the journey of a wolf cub and a fawn stranded in a vast, snowy wilderness. They must come together in an unlikely partnership to find their families.

Why similar: Co-op 28.5%, Local Co-Op 24.6%, Online Co-Op 23.9%, Emotional 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A quiet, hand-drawn two-player adventure in which a fawn and wolf cub rely on one another to reunite with their families.

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

Why similar: Co-op 42.3%, Split Screen 17.7% ★, Local Co-Op 17.6%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Action 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its physics-driven co-op levels create the same kind of shared problem-solving and memorable mishaps that make a partnered adventure fun.

Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 30.8%, Online Co-Op 29.8%, Co-op 23.7%, Story Rich 9.4%, Action-Adventure 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its paired protagonists have opposite elemental powers, making every platforming and puzzle challenge depend on close cooperation.

PERFECTLY CRAFTED FOR PC. PlayStation® icon Sackboy bursts into action on PC in a huge 3D multiplayer platforming adventure. An epic journey stuffed with platforming challenges. Deeply immersive controls. Collaborative, chaotic and joyful multiplayer fun.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 26%, Online Co-Op 20.4%, Co-op 20.2%, Split Screen 18.7% ★, Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: A cheerful co-op platforming campaign with numerous levels and challenges specifically designed for partners to coordinate their abilities.

Climb up from the depths of Hell. Scale various worlds solo or chained together with your friends in the 1-4 player platforming sensation.

Why similar: Co-op 43.1%, Online Co-Op 29.5%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Action-Adventure 6%, Third Person 4.8%

River Tails: Stronger Together is a 3D co-op adventure platformer designed around an asymmetrical co-op system. Teammates must work together to defeat end-of-level bosses and solve puzzles across a range of natural-world environments. All you need is communication, coordination and complete trust!

Why similar: Split Screen 40.4% ★, Co-op 20.8%, Local Co-Op 16.2%, Story Rich 6.1%, Emotional 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A two-player adventure built around asymmetric animal abilities, requiring partners to work through platforming, puzzles, and light action together.

Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 55.9%, Co-op 20.6%, Story Rich 12.7%, Atmospheric 4.2%, Adventure 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric puzzle-platformer lets two local players cooperate as a girl and fox through an emotionally resonant Arctic folktale.

"WELCOME TO THE PIONEER PROGRAM! As the newest recruit of Kindred Aerospace - The 4th best interstellar space exploration company - Your job is to determine if the planet ARY-26 planet is fit for humans. You may be short on equipment and experience, but you'll figure it out. Good luck!

Why similar: Co-op 33.8%, Multiplayer 21.4%, Action-Adventure 18.2%, Story Rich 9.6%, Adventure 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful sci-fi exploration adventure supports cooperative discovery, combat, traversal, and playful experimentation across an alien world.

Partner up with your friend online and set sail for an unforgettable puzzle adventure in this bite-sized standalone We Were Here experience. Work together to overcome brain-teasing challenges and make fun memories, using your best communication, teamwork and trust skills.

Why similar: Co-op 38.7%, Online Co-Op 36.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Story Rich 5.6%, Emotional 5.5%

Biped is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration between 2 players.

Why similar: Split Screen 34.6% ★, Online Co-Op 20.1%, Local Co-Op 18%, Co-op 17.3%, Multiplayer 6.4%

A handcrafted two player adventure set in low gravity. Solve intricate asymmetric puzzles and escape Moontella’s extremely profitable slime empire through chaos, laughter, and unforgettable true co-op moments with your partner.

Why similar: Split Screen 42.6% ★, Online Co-Op 28.2%, Co-op 18%, Local Co-Op 7.8%, Adventure 2.1%

You both awaken imprisoned inside the sinister Castle Rock - were you betrayed, or simply not that clever? Find out in the greatest co-op puzzle adventure in the We Were Here Series! Do you and your partner have what it takes to face the dark forces of this realm or will you be trapped… forever?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 42.2%, Co-op 30.1%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Story Rich 8%, Action-Adventure 5.8%

You and your friend are trapped in a mystical world. As time ebbs away you must solve increasingly complex puzzles to escape. Cooperation is key as neither of you have the full picture! Play on two devices, local or remotely, all you need is a voice connection.

Why similar: Co-op 37%, Online Co-Op 35%, Local Co-Op 13.6%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Story Rich 4.1%

The creators of Little Nightmares™ I & II have returned to take you on a darker, more terrifying journey than ever before. In this horror adventure game, a brother & sister go through hell to rescue their missing friends and escape the island that they used to call home.

Why similar: Co-op 29.4%, Local Co-Op 23.9%, Online Co-Op 23.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Cinematic 4.7%

Little Nightmares III is an atmospheric adventure game in which you follow the journey of Low and Alone, two best friends in search of a way out of the Nowhere. In 2 players online cooperation or solo with an A.I., work together to solve puzzles and survive in this nightmarish world.

Why similar: Co-op 37.7%, Online Co-Op 31.6%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Split Screen 5.2% ★, Story Rich 5%

Biped 2 is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration alone or between 2 or 4 players.

Why similar: Split Screen 35.4% ★, Online Co-Op 20.6%, Local Co-Op 17.5%, Co-op 17%, Multiplayer 6%

Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

Why similar: Story Rich 36.7%, Multiplayer 30%, Third Person 9%, Adventure 7.8%, Action 7.6%

As your final hour approaches, a large structure looms up in the distance, towering above the relentless storm. Discover the truth behind this dark castle in a communication-based, cooperative puzzle adventure.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 43.4%, Co-op 32.8%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Action-Adventure 7.8%, Adventure 2.5%

Work together to solve puzzles and escape a desert island in this stylized multiplayer co-op adventure. Success requires more than just you and your partner thinking alike - you'll have to communicate and stay In Sink to overcome the challenges ahead.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 46.3%, Co-op 35.8%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Adventure 3.4%, Indie 0.6%

Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?

Why similar: Co-op 45%, Online Co-Op 32.4%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Action-Adventure 3.2%, Adventure 2.6%

Download Friend's Pass* and play It Takes Two with a friend for free. Just grab a friend who owns the full game, download Friend's Pass for free, and play together!

Why similar: Split Screen 30.8% ★, Co-op 24.1%, Local Co-Op 16.1%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%

A co-op climbing game about two stuck-together toys on an escape mission from their evil owner.

Why similar: Co-op 32.1%, Local Co-Op 22.6%, Online Co-Op 20.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Action-Adventure 5.3%

First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Why similar: Co-op 47.5%, Online Co-Op 29%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Story Rich 4.3%, Adventure 2.6%

ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.

Why similar: Co-op 36.3%, Online Co-Op 29.9%, Local Co-Op 26.3%, Multiplayer 5.2%, Adventure 1.1%

Saddle up for a bike-riding, frisbee-throwing, goose-petting, friendship-building, treasure-hunting, story-driven adventure for 1 or 2 players!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.1%, Local Co-Op 26%, Co-op 20.7%, Story Rich 8.5%, Action-Adventure 6.3%

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

Why similar: Co-op 61.2%, Multiplayer 25.3%, Action-Adventure 7%, Action 2.7%, Atmospheric 2.1%

Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Why similar: Story Rich 27%, Local Co-Op 22%, Emotional 17.8%, Adventure 11%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.

Why similar: Story Rich 28.6%, Crime 20.1%, Cinematic 13.4%, Emotional 11.5%, Sexual Content 6.2%

"Escape Memoirs: Safe House" is a co-operative reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a member of a criminal organization who must break into one of their own safe houses to fetch some important tools. Do you think you have what it takes to overcome the puzzles that stand in your way?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 42.8%, Co-op 38.6%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Adventure 2.6%, Atmospheric 1%

How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices. "Talk together. Help each other." will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.

Why similar: Co-op 44.5%, Online Co-Op 39%, Multiplayer 16.5%

A co-op adventure about driving your Recreational Vehicle home.

Why similar: Co-op 40.3%, Online Co-Op 37.6%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Adventure 2.3%, Atmospheric 1%

Two detectives, one deadly experiment, a race against time. Each player only has one half of the puzzle. In this 2-player co-op puzzle game you can survive the parallel experiment only by working together.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.5%, Co-op 29.2%, Crime 16.4%, Story Rich 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

Why similar: Multiplayer 21.2%, Story Rich 16.2%, Co-op 15.2%, Violent 11.8%, Nudity 9.4%

Embark on a chaotic co-op drive in Chained Wheels, where two vehicles are chained together and every move turns into a shared adventure or a DISASTER.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 50.9%, Co-op 20.9%, Local Co-Op 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Adventure 4.6%

You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 41.5%, Crime 22%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Co-op 11.6%, Action-Adventure 6.1%

A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.

Why similar: Co-op 32.2%, Story Rich 24.2%, Cinematic 11.9%, Emotional 10%, Adventure 6%