- #1 Escape the Backrooms
97% matchVery Positive90% of 162,444 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 6.8 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 20.9%, Online Co-Op 18.3%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam, built around co-op first-person exploration of liminal Backrooms-style levels with puzzles, entities, and escape-focused progression.
- #2 Inside the Backrooms
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 46,759 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 19.4%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it drops a small team into eerie Backrooms-inspired spaces where puzzle solving, navigation, and staying alive under pressure are the core loop.
- #3 PANICORE
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 12,921 reviews2024
Dev: ZTEK Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.2 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 27.4%, Horror 24.4%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Co-op 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is another tense co-op first-person horror game centered on stealth, escape, and realistic-feeling environments where panic and teamwork drive survival.
- #4 Labyrinthine
95% matchVery Positive84% of 17,449 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 18.8%, Horror 15.6%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Co-op 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op first-person horror emphasis on maze navigation, puzzle progression, and being hunted in oppressive environments makes it feel very close in moment-to-moment play.
- #5 The Outlast Trials
94% matchVery Positive92% of 111,040 reviews2024
Dev: Red Barrels
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 35.0 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 19.2%, Multiplayer 19%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Co-op 17%, Psychological Horror 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers some of the same cooperative survival-horror tension and immersive first-person dread, but with more structured objectives and heavier enemy pressure.
- #6 Lethal Company
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 510,500 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 25.8%, Horror 17%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Co-op 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It trades liminal office-space horror for procedural scavenging runs, but its co-op voice-chat panic, exploration, and survival pressure scratch a very similar itch.
- #7 Hospital 666
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,414 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 26.9%, Horror 21%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Realistic 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on cooperative exploration through uncanny, realistic indoor spaces and reacting to unpredictable scares lines up well with the seed game's liminal horror appeal.
- #8 Phasmophobia
91% matchVery Positive94% of 837,685 reviews2020
Dev: Kinetic Games
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 51.5 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 27.8%, Online Co-Op 26%, Multiplayer 17%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Co-op 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: While more investigation-driven, it shares the same slow-burn first-person co-op tension, realistic presentation, and constant fear of what might be around the next corner.
- #9 Zort
91% matchVery Positive90% of 14,004 reviews2024
Dev: Londer Software
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.3 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 24.2%, Horror 17.7%, Co-op 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Though a bit goofier in tone, it still delivers first-person co-op horror built around navigating dangerous spaces together while reacting to sudden threats.
- #10 Stay Close
92% matchMixed62% of 1,921 reviews2016
Dev: Blind Bird
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?
Why similar: Horror 27.8%, Co-op 25.1%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This one leans into atmospheric co-op horror, urban exploration, and environmental unease in a way that should click if you like being lost in threatening spaces with friends.
- #11 Pacify
90% matchVery Positive86% of 42,730 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 22.9%, Horror 21.7%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a classic small-team horror game about entering a creepy location, completing objectives, and surviving an aggressive supernatural threat in close quarters.
- #12 DEVOUR
89% matchVery Positive90% of 88,067 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 26.6%, Online Co-Op 24.9%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Co-op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its fast, team-based escape-and-survive structure captures the same feeling of coordinating under stress while a hostile force stalks you through dark environments.
- #13 Demonologist
89% matchVery Positive85% of 24,093 reviews2023
Dev: Clock Wizard Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 17.8 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 22.2%, Horror 18.1%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Co-op 14%
Why You'll Like It: This is another realistic co-op horror experience where careful first-person exploration of haunted locations creates the same oppressive, anxiety-heavy atmosphere.
- #14 Paranormal Cleanup
88% matchVery Positive88% of 1,178 reviews2025
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines co-op first-person exploration, hiding from a roaming threat, and objective-based survival in a way that feels very adjacent to Backrooms-style horror.
- #15 FOREWARNED
87% matchVery Positive90% of 6,648 reviews2024
Dev: Dreambyte Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.7 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 21.3%, Horror 17.7%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Co-op 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its blend of cooperative investigation, trap-filled environments, and escalating monster encounters offers a similarly tense balance of exploration and survival.
- #16 Content Warning
86% matchVery Positive94% of 162,731 reviews2024
Dev: ZorroPub: Evil Landfall?
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.9%, Horror 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Co-op 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is more comedic, but the co-op first-person descent into unsettling spaces filled with unpredictable monsters mirrors the seed game's group-survival energy.
- #17 Ghost Exile
86% matchVery Positive88% of 4,638 reviews2022
Dev: LostOneTeam
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ghost Exile - is a cooperative horror from 1 to 4 players: when hunting for ghosts, you need to determine the type of ghost, carry out a ritual of exorcism and then the ghost can no longer harm anyone. Be careful! Hasty conclusions can lead you to a sad outcome.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.4%, Horror 22.5%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Co-op 15.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its grounded first-person presentation and cooperative room-to-room tension make it a good fit for players who want more realistic multiplayer horror exploration.
- #18 In Silence
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 11,954 reviews2021
Dev: Ravenhood Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In Silence is a multiplayer horror game. One player takes on the role of the monster who has hypersensitive hearing abilities and is almost completely blind. The other players(2-6) play as survivors, trying to escape or hunting the monster.
Why similar: Horror 21.5%, Online Co-Op 20.8%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Co-op 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This one emphasizes stealth, communication, and trying to escape as a team while being hunted, which overlaps nicely with the seed game's survival-horror pressure.
- #19 Lunch Lady
84% matchVery Positive85% of 12,990 reviews2021
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 20.5%, Horror 17.3%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Co-op 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers simple but effective cooperative horror built around searching a threatening interior space while avoiding a relentless roaming enemy.
- #20 SCP: Containment Breach Multiplayer
83% matchVery Positive83% of 28,485 reviews2021
Dev: Fusion Creators Studio
Windows
Multiplayer survival horror game based on stories from the SCP Foundation. The game is about a facility containing anomalous entities known as SCPs. When a catastrophic containment breach occurs at one of the facilities, it is your main goal to escape the facility. Try to escape with your friends!
Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Co-op 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: If you want more first-person horror inside surreal institutional spaces with escape tension and creature encounters, this is an easy fit.
- #21 BIGFOOT
84% matchVery Positive82% of 22,321 reviews2017
Dev: CyberLight Game Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You are a Bigfoot hunter with an important mission: to put an end to rumours once and for all and prove to yourself that Bigfoot is not just a myth or an invention of the mind...
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.9%, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Horror 15%, Co-op 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly immersive first-person co-op hunt-or-survive loop in large hostile environments where teamwork and awareness matter constantly.
- #22 SCP: Secret Laboratory
82% matchVery Positive91% of 233,751 reviews2017
Dev: Northwood Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 47.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Why similar: Multiplayer 20.6%, Horror 19.2%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Co-op 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its facility-based first-person horror, chaotic group survival, and constant sense of being trapped in a dangerous maze make it a strong adjacent recommendation.
- #23 Silent Rain
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: 2Brains&CoffeePub: Seedlers Interactive
Windows
Silent Rain is a challenging and immersive co-op horror game, for 1 to 4 players. Explore abandoned locations, solve puzzles, and gather information while trying to survive the threats lurking in the dark. How many tries will it take you to master your fear?
Why similar: Survival Horror 16.2%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Horror 14.3%, Multiplayer 13%, Co-op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op psychological horror game leans heavily on atmospheric exploration and mounting dread, making it a good pick for fans of oppressive ambient horror.
- #24 Boo Men
81% matchVery Positive87% of 2,656 reviews2022
Dev: Twisted Corridor👻
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Boo Men is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game. You and your crew of burglars are tasked with stealing from ghosts. Just remember to stay in the light because you never know what could be lurking in the dark...
Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.2%, Horror 22%, Multiplayer 18.3%, Co-op 11%, First-Person 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes cooperative objective play with stealthy movement through dark interiors, creating a compact version of the same 'search carefully or die' tension.
- #25 GTFO
79% matchVery Positive84% of 66,632 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 25.7%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Horror 17.2%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Co-op 15.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is much more combat-heavy, but its brutal first-person co-op survival and dependence on communication make it a strong choice for groups wanting more intensity.
- #26 Sker Ritual
79% matchVery Positive82% of 5,997 reviews2024
Dev: Wales InteractivePub: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Tear through endless waves of supernatural enemies in this co-op horror horde shooter. Play solo or with up to 4 players, unleash god-like Miracle powers, supercharge your arsenal, and survive devastating boss encounters on Sker Island.
Why similar: Co-op 16.9%, Online Co-Op 15.7%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Multiplayer 12%, Horror 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a wave-based shooter first, but its creepy atmosphere, first-person co-op structure, and survival focus still overlap with the seed game's appeal.
- #27 Backrooms: Extractions
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 796 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.7 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 16.7%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Horror 12.2%, Multiplayer 12%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
- #28 Sign of Silence
80% matchMixed52% of 2,375 reviews2020
Dev: Renderise
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Sign of Silence is a 4-player cooperative horror game set in dreadful outskirts of Danwille town. Whether you will escape the place or stay here forever depends on cautious and coordinated actions of the whole team!
Why similar: Horror 23.5%, Co-op 20%, Multiplayer 18%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Psychological Horror 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Although set outdoors more often than indoors, its co-op survival, fear of unseen threats, and emphasis on sticking together hit many of the same notes.
- #29 Nuclear Nightmare
76% matchVery Positive81% of 18,981 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 21.8%, Survival Horror 18%, Horror 13.7%, Co-op 11.3%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #30 Backrooms Rec.
77% matchMixed69% of 2,102 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 19.7%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #31 No More Room in Hell
78% matchVery Positive90% of 76,465 reviews2013
Dev: No More Room in Hell TeamPub: Lever Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.
Why similar: Multiplayer 23%, Online Co-Op 19.6%, Horror 18.5%, Co-op 15.4%, Survival Horror 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: As a slower, harsher cooperative survival-horror experience, it fits players who mainly want tense teamwork and vulnerable first-person survival over pure Backrooms aesthetics.
- #32 Emissary Zero
75% matchVery Positive84% of 3,139 reviews2025
Dev: Rone Vine
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 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 18.4%, Horror 16.3%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
- #33 White Noise 2
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,868 reviews2017
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!
Why similar: Horror 20.4%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Multiplayer 17.6%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Co-op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers asymmetrical cooperative horror with heavy reliance on navigation, threat awareness, and environmental unease, even if its structure is less exploratory.
- #34 Backrooms Society
76% matchVery Positive80% of 706 reviews2023
Dev: Mikael Bihl
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.1 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 18.9%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
- #35 Climb The Backrooms
74% matchVery Positive81% of 1,214 reviews2025
Dev: LovDEV
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 25.5%, Puzzle 11.6%, Co-op 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, First-Person 11%
- #36 Backrooms Lost Runners
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 662 reviews2026
Dev: ShimStudioGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 2.7 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: Survival Horror 20.7%, Horror 16.2%, Co-op 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Multiplayer 15.2%
- #37 MIMESIS
73% matchVery Positive84% of 10,269 reviews2025
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.3%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Horror 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
- #38 Backrooms: Hide Together
75% matchMixed46% of 95 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 16%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #39 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,621 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 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 17.6%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
- #40 R.E.P.O.
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 419,749 reviews2025
Dev: semiwork
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 24.7 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 29%, Horror 20.9%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Co-op 14.2%, Procedural Generation 4.7%
- #41 Backrooms Media
74% matchMostly Negative40% of 647 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 14.4%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Co-op 13.7%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Horror 10.4%
- #42 Backrooms: Wit's End
72% matchVery Positive87% of 54 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 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 12.4%, Co-op 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.3%
- #43 DON'T SCREAM TOGETHER
71% matchMixed50% of 2,700 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 24.7%, Horror 23.1%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Co-op 8.9%
- #44 Murky Divers
69% matchVery Positive88% of 5,319 reviews2024
Dev: Embers
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.0 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 18.5%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Horror 14.9%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%
- #45 Dark Hours
68% matchVery Positive82% of 4,147 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 18.6%, Horror 14.3%, Survival Horror 14%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Co-op 11.3%
- #46 KLETKA
67% matchVery Positive90% of 7,811 reviews2026
Dev: Callback
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.0 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 28%, Horror 21.7%, Co-op 20.5%, First-Person 7.7%, Action-Adventure 5.7%
- #47 Behind The Backrooms
71% matchMixed47% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: SupKai
Windows
Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game
Why similar: Horror 26.5%, Co-op 23%, Online Co-Op 15%, First-Person 7.9%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #48 The Escape: Together
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,475 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 23.3%, Survival Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Co-op 12.6%, Realistic 11.9%
- #49 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
72% matchMixed46% of 111 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 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Co-op 10%
- #50 NO BACKUP
68% matchMixed68% of 983 reviews2026
Dev: Serundeox
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 19.9%, Online Co-Op 18.6%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Survival Horror 11.6%
- #51 Paranoia Place: Escape Together
67% matchVery Positive88% of 1,813 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 17.8%, Horror 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Co-op 11.5%
- #52 Funnel Runners
66% matchVery Positive84% of 3,155 reviews2026
Dev: Supernova Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.8 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: Online Co-Op 23.3%, Survival Horror 22.5%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Co-op 5.6%
- #53 The Backrooms : Last Expedition
71% 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 19.5%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Horror 15%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.9%
- #54 Dark Hours: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive89% of 6,124 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 19.4%, Horror 18.5%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
- #55 Chained in the Backrooms
68% matchMixed69% of 1,089 reviews2025
Dev: Task+ Studios
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 27.3%, Horror 18.5%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 13%, First-Person 6.1%
- #56 Ghost Janitors
66% matchVery Positive86% of 1,112 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Wave Studio
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 20.9%, Horror 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Co-op 10.8%
- #57 Storebound
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,364 reviews2026
Dev: Embers
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 20.4%, Horror 15.2%, Co-op 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.2%
- #58 Shift At Midnight
63% matchVery Positive88% of 10,180 reviews2026
Dev: Bun MuenPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.4 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 24.1%, Horror 20.5%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Co-op 10.7%
