- #1 Escape the Backrooms
97% matchVery Positive90% of 166,958 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: The closest alternative, offering multiplayer exploration through numerous recognizable Backrooms levels with puzzles, entities, and escape-focused progression.
- #2 Inside the Backrooms
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 46,832 reviews2022
Dev: MrFatcat
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...
Why similar: Horror 19.6%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op Backrooms survival game centered on navigating uncanny levels, solving puzzles, managing resources, and evading threats.
- #3 Backrooms: Extractions
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 824 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Co-op horror for 1 to 6 players. Anyone can try to escape the Backrooms. You are going back in: locate the lost agents, solve the puzzles, film the entities, and hold out until extraction. Everything you carry can be lost. Your ranks, gear and storage are built to last.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.5%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Horror 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly sends a team into hostile Backrooms environments to explore, survive encounters, and extract safely.
- #4 Backrooms Society
95% matchVery Positive81% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Mikael Bihl
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.7%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op horror experience emphasizes exploring procedural Backrooms spaces, completing objectives, and surviving the entities within.
- #5 Backrooms Rec.
94% matchMixed69% of 2,129 reviews2024
Dev: Liminal Logic
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Dive into the mysteries of the Backrooms with a solo-developed survival game. Explore eerie hallways, uncover secrets alone or in multiplayer (up to 6 players), and take on unique challenges.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.6%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer Backrooms game with exploration, survival elements, and varied ways for a group to approach dangerous liminal areas.
- #6 Backrooms: Hide Together
94% matchMixed46% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: ICON GAME STUDIO
Windows
A visually realistic 1-7 player co-op survival horror game. Explore 5 levels filled with confined environments, puzzles, and entities with new levels and content added regularly. Beware of terrifying moments and ruthless monsters. Do whatever it takes to escape, even if it means hiding.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.9%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its realistic Backrooms locations and multiplayer hide-and-survive premise closely match the social tension of escaping levels as a group.
- #7 The Backrooms Multiplayer
93% matchMostly Negative37% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Untold Backrooms Stories
Windows
You and your friends have found a camera with a footage in it. For some reason you can't rewind the video, and as soon as you try winding it forward you all find yourself in the Backrooms. Together figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.5%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Co-op 12%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers straightforward online co-op exploration of eerie Backrooms environments where players must stick together and find a way out.
- #8 Behind The Backrooms
92% matchMixed47% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: SupKai
Windows
Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game
Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Co-op 22.9%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, First-Person 7.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy Backrooms adventure that retains the seed game's focus on navigating strange spaces and uncovering routes forward with others.
- #9 Backrooms: Wit's End
91% matchVery Positive88% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Augusto Micheli Debard
Windows
Backrooms: Wit's End is an immersive coop survival horror game, featuring procedurally generated, non-linear level progression and dynamic gameplay mechanics. Explore the different disturbing levels with your friends, while trying to escape from many puzzling entities.
Why similar: Survival Horror 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Horror 12.5%, Co-op 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its procedural generation, psychological-horror tone, and cooperative survival make it a natural fit for players wanting more unpredictable Backrooms runs.
- #10 The Backrooms : Last Expedition
91% matchMixed51% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Valkyrie Interactive
Windows
"The Backrooms: Last Expedition" is a cooperative horror game designed for 1 to 4 players. Its main objective is to create an enjoyable gaming experience for friends. Players will navigate through terrifying levels, filled with various entities and dangers, as they strive to escape.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.3%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Horror 15.1%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op expedition into the Backrooms emphasizes eerie exploration, survival pressure, and progressing through dangerous unknown areas.
- #11 PANICORE
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,019 reviews2024
Dev: ZTEK Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19%, Horror 17%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A group of players must explore threatening locations, collect escape tools, and flee an unpredictable monster together.
- #12 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
90% matchMixed46% of 112 reviews2023
Dev: Sushi Studio
Windows
If you are not careful enough, you may end up in that place, the place some call The Backrooms. The Backrooms of existence, a hellish dimension of infinite maze-like constructs, each level pushing deeper into the despair. Could you, a normal person find the way out? Dive deeper into the horror
Why similar: Survival Horror 14.9%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Another multiplayer descent through maze-like Backrooms spaces with exploration, puzzles, and PvE threats at its core.
- #13 Labyrinthine
88% matchVery Positive84% of 17,494 reviews2023
Dev: Valko Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A co-op horror game like no other... Play with 1-8 players online as you solve puzzles, collect items and run from the horrors that lie within. Follow in the footsteps of Joan in the story mode or tackle procedurally generated maps that scale with your level and bring a fresh experience each game..
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.7%, Horror 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Co-op 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Though set in haunted hedge mazes and other locations, it captures the same co-op navigation, puzzle-solving, and creature-avoidance tension.
- #14 Chained in the Backrooms
87% matchMixed69% of 1,101 reviews2025
Dev: Task+ Studios
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chained in the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op, mission-based horror game. Trapped in a blurry subconscious and chained together, toy bears must solve puzzles, complete challenging missions, and survive against creatures trying to destroy them.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 27%, Horror 18.8%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 13%, First-Person 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op Backrooms adventure built around being forced to coordinate while traversing dangerous levels and confronting threats.
- #15 Nuclear Nightmare
86% matchVery Positive81% of 19,279 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.6%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Horror 13.9%, Co-op 11.2%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Players cooperate to survive a frozen research setting while dealing with infection, limited visibility, and escalating monstrous danger.
- #16 The Outlast Trials
86% matchVery Positive92% of 112,483 reviews2024
Dev: Red Barrels
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 35.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Horror 19.4%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Co-op 16.8%, Psychological Horror 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers polished objective-based co-op survival horror where teams sneak, scavenge, solve environmental problems, and escape brutal scenarios.
- #17 Lethal Company
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 511,107 reviews2023
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 29.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.6%, Horror 17.2%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Co-op 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Cooperative scavenging in dangerous, randomly generated interiors creates the same combination of exploration, panic, and emergent group stories.
- #18 Emissary Zero
84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,218 reviews2025
Dev: Rone Vine
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.3%, Horror 16.5%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person co-op horror game focuses on communicating with teammates while navigating a surreal, hostile environment.
- #19 R.E.P.O.
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 426,191 reviews2025
Dev: semiwork
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.8%, Horror 21.2%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Co-op 14.2%, Procedural Generation 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its physics-driven co-op scavenging turns exploring monster-filled interiors into chaotic, tense teamwork with friends.
- #20 Pacify
85% matchVery Positive86% of 42,795 reviews2019
Dev: Shawn HitchcockPub: Hitchcock Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.7%, Horror 21.9%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A compact co-op horror game about exploring a cursed location, collecting key items, and surviving a relentless supernatural pursuer.
- #21 FOREWARNED
83% matchVery Positive90% of 6,668 reviews2024
Dev: Dreambyte Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
FOREWARNED is a 1-4 player co-op survival horror. Delve deep into ancient Egyptian ruins with your team of fellow archaeologists. Investigate phenomena, collect treasure, discover lore, survive danger, and banish the evil that lurks within.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.1%, Horror 17.9%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Co-op 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its procedurally arranged tombs, cooperative investigation, and deadly pursuit sequences provide a similar explore-and-escape rhythm.
- #22 SCP: 5K
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 15,254 reviews2022
Dev: Affray InteractivePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
SCP: 5K is a co-op or singleplayer tactical horror FPS project that puts players in the midst of a conspiracy where the SCP Foundation has turned on humanity. Enjoy Early Access as we continue to work towards a completed full release of the project!
Why similar: Co-op 28.8%, Horror 23.1%, Multiplayer 22.4%, Realistic 12.7%, First-Person 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This tactical co-op horror shooter trades the Backrooms for SCP facilities but preserves the unsettling anomalies, coordinated exploration, and survival stakes.
- #23 Demonologist
81% matchVery Positive85% of 24,258 reviews2023
Dev: Clock Wizard Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22%, Horror 18.3%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Co-op 14%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers immersive online co-op paranormal investigations in atmospheric locations where identifying and surviving entities is the main challenge.
- #24 GTFO
81% matchVery Positive84% of 66,909 reviews2021
Dev: 10 Chambers
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.5%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Horror 17.5%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Co-op 15.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive facilities, scarce supplies, stealthy monster encounters, and mandatory teamwork make it ideal for a more punishing co-op survival experience.
- #25 Phasmophobia
80% matchVery Positive94% of 840,154 reviews2020
Dev: Kinetic Games
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 51.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Why similar: Horror 28.1%, Online Co-Op 25.8%, Multiplayer 17%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Co-op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative ghost investigations reward communication, careful exploration, and keeping calm as supernatural activity escalates.
- #26 Abiotic Factor
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 42.4%, Multiplayer 25.1%, Sci-fi 11.2%, First-Person 9.2%, Exploration 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer survival gameplay in a sprawling anomaly-ridden research complex offers exploration, crafting, strange creatures, and collaborative problem-solving.
- #27 POOLS
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,717 reviews2024
Dev: Tensori
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.8%, Realistic 18.1%, Atmospheric 12.8%, First-Person 11.4%, Exploration 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This non-combat exploration game is an excellent atmospheric companion piece for players who especially enjoy the quiet, dreamlike liminal architecture of the Backrooms.
- #28 DEVOUR
79% matchVery Positive90% of 88,265 reviews2021
Dev: Straight Back Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.
Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Online Co-Op 24.7%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: Teams must search hostile maps for ritual items while being relentlessly hunted, creating a fast and frightening co-op escape loop.
- #29 Backrooms Lost Runners
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 737 reviews2026
Dev: ShimStudioGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.5%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Co-op 10.5%
- #30 The Classrooms
79% matchVery Positive89% of 3,259 reviews2022
Dev: Xefier Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Survival Horror 23%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 17.6%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, First-Person 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: While primarily solo, its procedurally generated liminal school environments and unpredictable entity encounters strongly evoke the unsettling Backrooms atmosphere.
- #31 Zort
77% matchVery Positive90% of 14,124 reviews2024
Dev: Londer Software
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24%, Horror 17.9%, Co-op 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #32 Backrooms: Code Yellow
76% matchMixed49% of 394 reviews2026
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
An online 1-6 player co-op game about investigating and collecting data in the infinitely massive Backrooms with your fellow employees. Explore. Do your job. Return alive.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.5%, Multiplayer 20%, Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 12%, Co-op 6.1%
- #33 Climb The Backrooms
75% matchVery Positive81% of 1,230 reviews2025
Dev: LovDEV
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Ascend through the twisted levels of the Backrooms using physics-based object manipulation to overcome obstacles, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover unsettling secrets. Play solo or team up in online co-op with up to 4 players as you climb higher, think smarter, and survive the unknown.
Why similar: Horror 25.7%, Puzzle 11.6%, Co-op 11.3%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, First-Person 11%
- #34 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
75% matchVery Positive83% of 1,672 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.8%, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
- #35 MIMESIS
74% matchVery Positive84% of 10,506 reviews2025
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A 4-player online co-op survival horror game. Avoid the contaminated rain, gather scrap and get back to the tram. Monsters that copy your friends' voices and behavior, and many other threats, stand in your way. Gear up and stick together to survive.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Horror 13.6%, Procedural Generation 9.7%
- #36 Backrooms Lost Unit
74% matchVery Positive81% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: JD Archives
Windows
Find yourself lost in the Backrooms in this co-op journey for 1 to 4 players. Explore eerie levels, solve puzzles, and find your way out using scavenged items. Entities lurk everywhere, and the deeper you go, the deadlier it gets.
Why similar: Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Co-op 7.9%
- #37 Backrooms Media
76% matchMixed40% of 649 reviews2025
Dev: NPK Games
Windows
Backrooms Media is a 1-4 player co-op horror that plunges you into unsettling, hyper-realistic liminal spaces. Navigate eerie environments filled with lurking horrors. Group up with your friends to face the terror of the endless backrooms together and... try to escape.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.3%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Co-op 13.6%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Horror 10.5%
- #38 DON'T SCREAM TOGETHER
73% matchMixed50% of 2,727 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Cybercherries
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A very simple co-op jumpscare horror experience where you and friends walk through a pitch black forest and try to stay quiet. Reach 8:00 AM without screaming or making a loud noise, or everyone dies. You will scream, shout, and probably laugh.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.3%, Horror 23.4%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Co-op 8.9%
- #39 NO BACKUP
72% matchMixed68% of 1,056 reviews2026
Dev: Serundeox
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Escape together or die alone. A relentless creature is hunting you in this intense co-op bodycam horror experience. Communicate. Stay quiet. Survive. Every move matters. Every sound could be your last. Made by one developer.
Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Online Co-Op 18.4%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Survival Horror 11.5%
- #40 Dark Hours: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive89% of 6,233 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.2%, Horror 18.7%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
- #41 The Escape: Together
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,497 reviews2023
Dev: Nightstuff Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
The Escape: Together is a 1-3 player Online CO-OP escape horror. The paranormal creature has taken over the house. You must use everything you find to survive and make your runaway.
Why similar: Horror 23.4%, Survival Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Co-op 12.5%, Realistic 11.9%
- #42 Hospital 666
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,418 reviews2024
Dev: Lokin
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hospital 666 is a 1-4 player horror escape game. Traverse through eerie hospital levels while observing the occurrence of anomalies and choosing the correct elevator. Some abnormal bosses will chase you to death, and you must find the right way to escape them.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.6%, Horror 21.1%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Realistic 8.6%
- #43 Dark Hours
70% matchVery Positive82% of 4,236 reviews2025
Dev: Piece of Cake studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.5%, Horror 14.5%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Co-op 11.3%
- #44 Paranoia Place: Escape Together
70% matchVery Positive88% of 1,846 reviews2025
Dev: Bloody Pixel Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.
Why similar: Survival Horror 17.9%, Horror 14%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12%, Co-op 11.5%
- #45 Ghost Janitors
69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,158 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Wave Studio
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4 players. Your job? Cleaning haunted houses while avoiding terrifying monsters. Ready to face the spine-tingling challenge with your team?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.7%, Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Co-op 10.7%
- #46 Content Warning
69% matchVery Positive94% of 163,640 reviews2024
Dev: ZorroPub: Evil Landfall?
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.8%, Horror 15.9%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Co-op 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.4%
- #47 Funnel Runners
68% matchVery Positive84% of 3,623 reviews2026
Dev: Supernova Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Trapped in a doomed city, you and up to 7 friends must scavenge parts, fix your van, and escape the brutal tornado that approaches. A first-person co-op survival game with escalating disasters and total environmental destruction.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Co-op 10.3%
- #48 KLETKA
68% matchVery Positive90% of 7,936 reviews2026
Dev: Callback
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
KLETKA is a co-op (up to 6 players) horror game about going down in an elevator that is trying to eat you. Feed the elevator, explore deadly floors and descend deeper.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.8%, Horror 21.9%, Co-op 20.4%, First-Person 7.7%, Action-Adventure 5.8%
- #49 Storebound
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,461 reviews2026
Dev: Embers
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 1-3 player co-op puzzle horror game set in an accursed megastore. Work together to decode the store's twisted logic, and find a way out before the lurking horrors doom you to shop forever.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.2%, Horror 15.3%, Co-op 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.2%
- #50 Lunch Lady
71% matchVery Positive85% of 13,082 reviews2021
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Lunch Lady is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. The school final exams are coming up and the best idea you and your friends had was to steal the test answers. Find all 10 pages and don't get caught by the murderous Lunch Lady!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.3%, Horror 17.5%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Co-op 11.6%
- #51 Granny: Escape Together
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,019 reviews2024
Dev: CreepyToad
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
This is a creepy co-op horror game. In which you find yourself locked in a crazy Granny's house. But Granny is not the only danger that awaits you in the house, someone else creepy lives in the basement. You have five days to get out of the house!
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.7%, Horror 20.1%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Realistic 6.2%
- #52 The Backrooms: Survival
70% matchVery Positive82% of 1,127 reviews2023
Dev: RE:CODE
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.4%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Horror 15.3%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%
- #53 Return the Backrooms
71% matchMixed63% of 140 reviews2022
Dev: Skmaestro
Windows
Return the Backrooms is a Co-op horror game for 1-4 players where you can have a great time with your friends. Think, Explore, Wander, find the key items and try to escape. but be careful because something is lurking in the dark...
Why similar: Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14%, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival Horror 12%, Co-op 8.5%
- #54 Murky Divers
67% matchVery Positive87% of 5,341 reviews2024
Dev: Embers
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.3%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Horror 15%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%
- #55 Backrooms Cleanup Crew
67% matchVery Positive92% of 544 reviews2025
Dev: On The Bridge Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
You and your crew are tasked with cleaning up after the last exploration team's ill-fated journey into the Backrooms. Dodge deadly incursions, scrub every surface, and leave no trace.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.4%, Survival Horror 17.2%, Co-op 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 14.1%
- #56 School 666
67% matchVery Positive84% of 691 reviews2025
Dev: Lokin
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
School 666 is a 1-4 Player Co-op Survival Horror. You must escape this endless nightmare. Try to identify the correct path and survive the anomalies in this endless school. Some extremely powerful anomalies will catch you to their dimensions. Explore the reason why you are here... and don't die.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.9%, Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Realistic 11.1%, First-Person 6.7%
- #57 Shift At Midnight
64% matchVery Positive88% of 12,524 reviews2026
Dev: Bun MuenPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
An online co-op detective horror for up to 3 players. Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers, as some are only pretending to be human. Make one mistake, and you’ll be forced to board up, set traps, and hide.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24%, Horror 21.3%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Co-op 10.7%
- #58 Species: Unknown
64% matchVery Positive94% of 11,374 reviews2025
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.3%, Horror 17.6%, Survival Horror 16%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
