- #1 Apparition
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 102 reviews2018
Dev: MrCiastkuPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
First-person survival horror with ghosts and demons. Find yourself smack in the middle of a haunted forest in the dead of night. Talk to spirits through your Spirit Board. Capture evidence of the paranormal, but beware, fiercely aggressive demons are on the hunt.
Why similar: Horror 26.1%, Gore 22.9%, Violent 16.2%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Indie 6.8%
- #2 Last Year
96% matchMixed62% of 9,749 reviews2019
Dev: Undaunted Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Enter the nightmarish world of Last Year, where you and four other classmates try to survive, fight back and ultimately escape a horrifying Fiend in this unique horror asymmetric game.
Why similar: Horror 23.4%, Gore 19%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Violent 15.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #3 Abnormality
95% matchMostly Positive73% of 238 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Studios
Windows
Explore abandoned locations, collect paranormal evidence, and survive the wrath of the former residents still haunting them. Team up with up to 3 friends to investigate by day, and hide for your life by night. What begins as an investigation quickly turns into a desperate struggle to stay alive.
Why similar: Horror 54.7%, Multiplayer 23.9%, First-Person 15.3%, Action 6.1%
- #4 Mist of the Dark
94% matchMixed45% of 137 reviews2018
Dev: Visualistic Studios, LLC.Pub: Visualistic Studios, LLC.
Windows
Mist of the Dark challenges your ability to survive. Can you face your fears? Play as a monster and scare your friends. Play as the soldier and use tactics to hunt the monster(s) down. Scare the players. Stick with your team and discover objects and level advantages to take down the monster.
Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Gore 25.2%, Violent 19.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Action 7%
- #5 Surrounded
94% matchMixed44% of 566 reviews2023
Dev: Nightmare Studios
Windows
A 6-player open world horror game. Explore a abandoned town, filled with mysteries, be chased around with your friends and survive creatures capable of ending your life. Uncover what really happened.
Why similar: Horror 36.1%, Survival Horror 31.4%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Open World 9.9%, First-Person 5.8%
- #6 Frightened
92% matchMixed69% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: Entry Studios
Windows
FRIGHTENED is a cooperative horror and survival game that can be played with 1-4 players. Your goal is to destroy the evil with your team and leave. Collect items in the area with your team, find the demon's weak spot and destroy it! But don't you dare get caught.
Why similar: Horror 27%, Survival Horror 25.7%, Gore 18.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%, First-Person 6.7%
- #7 The Isle
89% matchVery Positive80% of 107,823 reviews2015
Dev: Afterthought LLC
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 123.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Why similar: Horror 28.6%, Multiplayer 25.5%, Open World 22%, Third Person 10.4%, Action 9.3%
- #8 DeathWatchers
88% matchVery Positive87% of 421 reviews2024
Dev: Swain Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Use the specialized equipment at your disposal to locate & log as many paranormal events as possible. Decipher the ingredients needed for your ritual and try to exorcise any demons within. Any incorrect ingredients and you may never leave! 1-4 Players
Why similar: Horror 64.7%, Multiplayer 25%, First-Person 8%, Action 2.2%
- #9 Deathground
87% matchMixed63% of 958 reviews2025
Dev: Jaw Drop Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?
Why similar: Survival Horror 40.6%, Horror 40.1%, First-Person 10.4%, Action 8.9%
- #10 The Dark Occult
89% matchMixed69% of 1,264 reviews2018
Dev: RYM GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Dark Occult is a psychological driven horror game that puts players in a constant state of anxiety that crescendos into raw panic and terror. You will encounter grotesque creatures, who will take your life at any moment.Your only goal -- survive.
Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Gore 25%, Violent 21.7%, Action 8.9%, Indie 6.4%
- #11 Outbreak Island
86% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Horror 58.7%, Open World 14.6%, First-Person 13.5%, Action 13.2%
- #12 Dead by Daylight
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 888,188 reviews2016
Dev: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 34.4 hrsMean: 355.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Why similar: Horror 52.6%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Gore 10.7%, Violent 8.7%, Multiplayer 5.7%
- #13 Horror Story: Hallowseed
85% matchMixed65% of 349 reviews2021
Dev: Jeff WinnerPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Horror Story: Hallowseed is a story-driven psychological horror game. An obscure event causes two of your friends to disappear while you were camping in the woods. Left alone and stranded in an unknown place, you need to seek the answers about what happened, face the horror and find your friends.
Why similar: Horror 30.7%, Gore 25%, Survival Horror 23.2%, First-Person 8%, Indie 7.6%
- #14 Damned 2
82% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2025
Dev: 9heads Game StudiosPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Damned 2 is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where up to four survivors must work together to survive an unrelenting monster - either player or computer-controlled - while scavenging and solving puzzles in an attempt to escape.
Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Survival Horror 34.2%, Multiplayer 13.7%, First-Person 9.4%, Action 8.4%
- #15 Masks Of Deception
84% matchMixed62% of 203 reviews2022
Dev: Reflect Studios
Windows
Masks of Deception is a 6 player horror game where you must use teamwork, equipment, and sensing abilities to identify then exorcize the demon in your group... otherwise the demon will slay you first.
Why similar: Horror 80.4%, First-Person 19.6%
- #16 DON'T LOOK AWAY
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 288 reviews2022
Dev: DMNT
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
A frightening asymmetrical multiplayer experience! Survive as the Human or terrorize as the Entity that can only move when it isn't being watched.
Why similar: Horror 35.5%, Survival Horror 34.1%, Multiplayer 15.4%, First-Person 6.8%, Action 4.7%
- #17 Demonologist
79% matchVery Positive85% of 23,523 reviews2023
Dev: Clock Wizard Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 17.7 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: Horror 44.2%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Survival Horror 10.7%, First-Person 10.4%, Action 8.7%
- #18 Gehinnom
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Chaos Minds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gehinnom is a multiplayer horror game for 1-4 players. collect clues and complete various quests to perform a ritual and banish the demon that hunts you. Everything in Gehinnom is randomly generated, so you will always be scared.
Why similar: Gore 19.9%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Horror 19.1%, Violent 16.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #19 DESOLATE
82% matchMixed67% of 8,009 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
Why similar: Horror 38.8%, Gore 23.5%, Open World 15%, First-Person 8.2%, Action 6.9%
- #20 Nuclear Nightmare
78% matchVery Positive81% of 17,749 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 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: Survival Horror 37.3%, Horror 34%, Multiplayer 8.7%, First-Person 7.8%, Open World 7.3%
- #21 Lurch
81% matchMixed56% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Bartic Studios
Windows
A 4-person co-op horror game where teamwork is the key as players face malevolent demons in a mysterious mansion. An immersive experience with unpredictable AI that continuously changes and adapts to the players’ behavior. Can you conquer your fears and escape?
Why similar: Horror 33%, Survival Horror 31.9%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Action 9.7%, First-Person 8.3%
- #22 The Black Masses
79% matchMixed58% of 1,207 reviews2024
Dev: Brilliant Game Studios
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The Black Masses is an open world first-person fantasy co-op RPG. You find yourself stranded on an island corrupted by a strange black substance. Its unsuspecting inhabitants, once a strong flourishing society, have been possessed into mindless creatures, bent on the destruction of life.
Why similar: Gore 27.5%, Action 21.3%, Violent 19.2%, Indie 15.8%, Open World 8%
- #23 Sons Of The Forest
76% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.8%, Horror 27.1%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Open World 13.5%, First-Person 6.7%
- #24 Phylakterion
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Lich Again Games
Windows
Phylakterion is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game in which you’ll enter different locations in search of a possessed vessel. Search, Identify, and Destroy the vessel and the entity inhabiting it – before the entity finds YOU!
Why similar: Horror 52.4%, Multiplayer 22.4%, Action 11.8%, First-Person 11.6%, Indie 1.7%
- #25 Fear Therapy
77% matchMixed67% of 4,728 reviews2021
Dev: Black Flag Studios
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.
Why similar: Horror 56.7%, Multiplayer 22%, Violent 8.6%, Survival Horror 7.6%, First-Person 2.7%
- #26 Ghost Exorcism INC.
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,451 reviews2021
Dev: StudioGoupil
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.
Why similar: Horror 43.1%, Survival Horror 30.5%, Multiplayer 23%, Action 3.5%
- #27 Descending The Woods
75% matchMixed52% of 126 reviews2024
Dev: AIONWARE LTD
Windows
By day, tend to your farm, care for your pets, and explore the mysteries of the haunted woods. By nightfall, They will come from the woods, Beware of ghosts and demons of the haunted woods. Hide, Survive, Build, Fight and Explore in this eerie Survival Horror alone or with friends.
Why similar: Horror 35.9%, Survival Horror 35.6%, Open World 11.6%, Action 9.4%, First-Person 7.4%
- #28 Jaws Of Extinction™
77% matchMixed54% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Blood Eater GamesPub: Forthright Entertainment
Windows
The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
Why similar: Gore 29%, Violent 23.7%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Action 11.2%, Indie 8.1%
- #29 Exorcist Simulator
73% matchMixed68% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: D.M.G.V
Windows
Exorcist Simulator is a 1‑4 player online co‑op horror where every play asks the same, terrible question: Will you cast out the Devil —or wear his skin?
Why similar: Horror 48.2%, Multiplayer 22%, First-Person 15.3%, Action 14.4%
- #30 Macabre
73% matchMixed65% of 147 reviews2025
Dev: Weforge Studio
Windows
A 1-4 player co-op horror game where you must outsmart a monster that adapts to your every move. Enter a volatile Rift with shifting maps and objectives, scavenge rare resources, and extract together… or betray your friends for the lion’s share of the loot.
Why similar: Horror 39.6%, Survival Horror 37.5%, Multiplayer 15.1%, First-Person 7.7%
- #31 Mothman
74% matchMixed63% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: OrangutanLeMonk
Windows
A 1-4 player CO-OP horror game, a nightmare from hell, it is your objective to hunt down a sinister demon known as Mothman. Underequipped you must search the landscape for resources. Lay bear traps, stalk from a distance, and stay quiet. You came to hunt, only to be hunted.
Why similar: Horror 39.6%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Action 12.3%, First-Person 10.8%
- #32 Tales of Terror
75% matchMixed54% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: BearfoxBear
Windows
Tales of Terror invites you to delve into a chilling co-op horror survival experience. Unite to face unique enemies, navigate through visually stunning and treacherous levels and navigate the unknown. —Your ultimate challenge awaits: escape, if you can!
Why similar: Horror 33.2%, Survival Horror 29.6%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Action 10%, First-Person 7.9%
- #33 Hellcoming
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 823 reviews2021
Dev: AAD Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Hellcoming is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players, who need to clean large areas from hellish abomination with the help of special tools.
Why similar: Horror 27.1%, Survival Horror 24.7%, Violent 19.1%, Multiplayer 11%, First-Person 7.1%
- #34 SEVERANCE
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: Sykes Games
Windows
Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.
Why similar: Horror 37.6%, Survival Horror 36.1%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Action 11%
- #35 Ad Infernum
71% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Glass Knuckle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.
Why similar: Survival Horror 44.4%, Horror 34.7%, Action 13.3%, First-Person 7.5%
- #36 Psychoscopy
70% matchVery Positive93% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: CrowNest Games
Windows
Psychoscopy is a 5 player co-op horror game that you try to gather evidences about paranormal activities in large areas. Make a team with your 4 friends, take your equipments and hunt down paranormal activities.
Why similar: Horror 39.3%, Action 16.9%, First-Person 15.2%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Indie 9.4%
- #37 Slashers
72% matchMixed58% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: David GallardoPub: HeadArrow
Windows
Slashers is a 1-4 player cooperative horror game, you are explorers of abandoned and seemingly cursed places, your goal is to see what happened there.
Why similar: Gore 28%, Horror 26%, Violent 20.6%, Action 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #38 Nightmare of Decay
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,249 reviews2022
Dev: Checkmaty
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
Why similar: Horror 25.5%, Survival Horror 23.8%, Gore 18.8%, Violent 13.8%, Action 8.2%
- #39 Deadly Broadcast
71% matchMixed66% of 722 reviews2023
Dev: Apphic Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Deadly Broadcast is a co-op horror and survival game that can be played with 1-4 players. As a Famous Streamer, you have to stay alive, but at the same time you should stream the paranormal events in the cursed places to gather more donations and more viewers. Don’t die! Don’t cut the Broadcast!
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.8%, Horror 32.7%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Action 11.1%, First-Person 8.6%
- #40 Unlasting Horror
72% matchMixed64% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Matt Sowards Games
Windows
Experience the story of a Private Detective and find out what happened on the day of the accident in this First Person horror Adventure. play solo or with up to five friends using unique features from solving puzzles, buying equipment to stun the monsters and progress through the story.
Why similar: Horror 29.1%, Survival Horror 28.4%, Third Person 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%, First-Person 10.1%
- #41 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
67% matchVery Positive80% of 661 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 30.8%, Horror 28.4%, Gore 21%, Multiplayer 14%, First-Person 5.8%
- #42 Polygeddon
69% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Multiplayer 40.7%, Open World 34.4%, Action 24.9%
- #43 PARANOIA PLACE
66% matchVery Positive88% of 1,521 reviews2025
Dev: Bloody Pixel Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-3 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 29.9%, Horror 28.3%, Gore 24.5%, Multiplayer 8.9%, First-Person 8.4%
- #44 Vorax
69% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2024
Dev: IndieGala
Windows
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
Why similar: Gore 26.5%, Survival Horror 25.8%, Horror 24%, Open World 9.4%, Action 8%
- #45 Dark Past
70% matchMixed59% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: SURPRISED HOTDOG LIMITED
Windows
Dark Past is based on psychological horror by paranormal activity occurring during your investigations. Play solo or up to 4 players to try and solve the mystery of what entity is left behind.
Why similar: Horror 48.9%, Multiplayer 21%, First-Person 12.7%, Indie 9.5%, Action 7.8%
- #46 Spooky Men
68% matchVery Positive85% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Bloody Bear
Windows
Spooky Men is a online 1-8 player cooperative survival-horror game. Complete tasks and exorcise the malevolent demon. Use your wits to distract the ghost and survive its attacks as you explore the haunted property. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Survival Horror 36%, Horror 30.5%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Action 10.2%, First-Person 8.3%
- #47 MetaPhysical
67% matchVery Positive80% of 408 reviews2023
Dev: Paper Promises Programming
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Supernatural phenomena are on the rise. In MetaPhysical you and up to 5 other friends can go on the hunt for eerie creatures to put an end to their sinister activities! Whether it's an ordinary ghost or a demon, your task is to identify the rumbling creature and then finish it off.
Why similar: Horror 39.2%, Survival Horror 36.4%, First-Person 12.3%, Action 12%
- #48 Chased by Darkness
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 410 reviews2021
Dev: South Blue Moon
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Chased by Darkness is a 1-4 players co-op survival horror. Your mission is to face supernatural entities and banish them to the spiritual plane. Explore, fight enemies and don't let the darkness reach you.
Why similar: Horror 26.4%, Gore 19.4%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Violent 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #49 SILENT BREATH
66% matchMixed69% of 1,156 reviews2024
Dev: EXODIAC STUDIOS
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness
Why similar: Horror 56.4%, Multiplayer 16.9%, First-Person 11.5%, Open World 10%, Indie 5.2%
- #50 The Devil is in the Details
65% matchVery Positive98% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: HideWorks
Windows
A survival horror spot-the-difference game set in a twisted Hell gameshow. Demons will distract you, torment you, or try to kill you. The Arbiter is your mysterious guide—sometimes helpful, sometimes...not so much. Spot the anomalies or suffer the consequences.
Why similar: Horror 48.9%, Survival Horror 36.6%, Indie 14.5%