Games Like Darkwater

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Submarine 30.5% ★, Underwater 16.9% ★, Co-op 10%, Naval 8.5% ★, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive cooperative submarine survival game, featuring complex vessel management and intense underwater horror.

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: Underwater 25.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival Horror 9.6%, Horror 8.7%, Procedural Generation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This underwater extraction horror game focuses on team coordination and surviving against deep-sea threats.

Explore abandoned biospheres at the bottom of the ocean, alone or with up to 4 friends.

Why similar: Submarine 28% ★, Underwater 20.2% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Horror 7.4%, Survival Horror 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person underwater horror experience that captures the claustrophobic tension of being trapped in a hostile environment.

A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24%, Horror 13.3%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Co-op 12%, Procedural Generation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for cooperative extraction horror, focusing on scavenging resources while avoiding deadly entities.

DIVE. DISCOVER. DIE. Crew a submarine with friends in We Need To Go Deeper - a 2-4-player cooperative submarine roguelike set in a Verne-inspired undersea universe.

Why similar: Submarine 37.6% ★, Underwater 24.2% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, PvE 7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative submarine exploration game that emphasizes teamwork and resource management in a dangerous underwater world.

Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!

Why similar: Co-op 25.6%, Online Co-Op 19.8%, Multiplayer 17.2%, PvE 12.2%, Action-Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This cooperative space survival game mirrors the intense vessel management and team-based combat found in submarine simulators.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 23.4%, Procedural Generation 18.5%, PvE 16.3%, Survival 11.5%, Horror 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative PVE extraction game that emphasizes resource gathering and team-based survival against alien threats.

As captain of the Pandora sub, you must explore the Trench and retrieve data from the Neptune wreckage. But beware - the trench is home to unimaginable horrors that will test your courage. Can you survive the terrors of the deep and complete your mission, or will you become the next victim?

Why similar: Submarine 44.1% ★, Underwater 28.1% ★, Survival Horror 12.3%, Horror 8.9%, Sci-fi 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater submarine horror game that perfectly mirrors the setting and atmospheric dread of Darkwater.

Subterranauts is a 1-6 player multiplayer horror game with proximity voice chat and terrifying creatures. Your job is to complete assignments by gathering scrap for the Association of Scrap Allocation. Work together with your team to complete assignments, earn company Bucks, and survive!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.6%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Horror 12.3%, Resource Management 12%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features procedural underwater exploration and team-based survival mechanics similar to Darkwater's core loop.

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 24.9%, Survival Horror 17%, Horror 15.5%, PvE 11%, Multiplayer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric cooperative horror game that focuses on exploration and survival against mysterious threats.

A co-op extraction horror for 1-4 players where you survive nuclear wastelands on a train. Scavenge scrap for fuel and supplies, and use voice mechanics to stay alive.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.8%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Resource Management 13.6%, Horror 11%, Co-op 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric psychological horror game that blends co-op adventure with survival elements.

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 25.9%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Co-op 17.6%, Horror 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes, tactical cooperative horror game that demands extreme coordination and resource management to survive.

A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.2%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Co-op 14.6%, Horror 11.8%, Sci-fi 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative extraction horror game that focuses on exploration and resource gathering in dangerous settings.

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 17.6%, Co-op 12.3%, Horror 11.5%, PvE 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival horror game with first-person tactical gameplay and team-based objectives.

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 21.9%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Horror 15.2%, Co-op 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that features exploration and survival mechanics in enclosed, dangerous environments.

The experiment has failed. The facility that was supposed to control the monster has stopped working, and now your only hope is to escape the facility before the monster hunts you down.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.1%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Horror 14.7%, Co-op 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy underwater horror game that focuses on survival and team-based resource management.

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 16.1%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Co-op 10.9%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Horror 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative heist-style horror game that emphasizes high-stakes survival and team coordination.

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 19.6%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Horror 10.5%, PvE 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological cooperative horror game that focuses on survival-oriented gameplay and team dynamics.

A co-op horror game where you must scavenge for loot and maintain the bunker to keep it standing

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.5%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Co-op 13.2%, Horror 12%, PvE 10%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival horror game that utilizes claustrophobic, enclosed environments to build tension.

Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.1%, Procedural Generation 17.5%, Horror 12.8%, Co-op 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative extraction horror game that emphasizes exploration and survival in dangerous, alien-like environments.

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 30.2%, Horror 22.7%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Co-op 8.6%, PvE 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that features exploration and survival mechanics in high-tension scenarios.

A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.8%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Horror 13.6%, Multiplayer 13%, Co-op 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological cooperative horror game that emphasizes survival and team-based navigation.

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 22.1%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Horror 13.7%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Action-Adventure 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that blends action-adventure with survival elements in a haunted setting.

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 25.9%, Horror 15.8%, Co-op 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that balances survival mechanics with team-based objectives.

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 21%, Horror 15%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Co-op 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival horror game that features intense chase mechanics and team-based objectives.

Dreadline: Net Quota is a chaotic co-op game for up to 6 players set on dangerous seas. Catch fish with different rods or spearfishing, keep your boat afloat as systems fail, and survive unpredictable encounters without drowning as everything falls apart.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.8%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Co-op 13.5%, Survival 11.9%, Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that incorporates exploration and resource-gathering themes.

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.5%, Survival 14%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Co-op 11.4%, Procedural Generation 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival horror game set in a post-apocalyptic environment that demands careful resource management.

UNDERWARD is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Investigators must carry «TEST-SUBJECT» monsters from a deadly underground abandoned hospital ward.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.9%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Horror 12.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that emphasizes stealth and survival mechanics in dangerous environments.

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: Online Co-Op 32.8%, Horror 29.4%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Co-op 15.6%, First-Person 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that emphasizes investigation and team-based survival against supernatural threats.

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Underwater 33.4% ★, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 10.9%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Horror 10%

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 20.6%, Horror 16.5%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Multiplayer 13%, Co-op 9.9%

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 20.6%, Horror 15.1%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Co-op 13.4%, Multiplayer 13%

GONE Fishing is a 1-8 player survival horror game where you and your friends must work together to stay alive, by fishing. The only way to survive is to keep feeding the lake’s insatiable hunger before it feeds on you. Can you satisfy the hunger... or will you become the next offering?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.9%, Horror 18%, Co-op 17.7%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Survival Horror 14.8%

Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.2%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Horror 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.8%, PvE 9.9%

A horror survival and extraction game playable in single player or co-op for up to 4 players. Lost in a creepy forest, you and your friends are hunted by a monster. Stay quiet while extracting keys through nightmarish realms using items like traps, sonars, and flare guns to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 22.3%, Horror 19.8%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Survival 13.4%, Survival Horror 8.5%

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 25.9%, Co-op 16.8%, Horror 15.9%, PvE 10.8%, Funny 10.5%

In this co-op horror game, your team visits abandoned toy factories. Collect various junk, extract materials from it, create and improve your equipment. And try to survive, because while you are exploring the dark dungeons of factories, bloodthirsty toys are hunting you

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.2%, Co-op 13.8%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Horror 13%, Procedural Generation 10.8%

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 25.5%, Co-op 20.6%, Horror 16.5%, PvE 15%, First-Person 9.5%

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 25.5%, Horror 20.3%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival Horror 9.6%

Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen. This is deep-sea horror. Obey or drown.

Why similar: Submarine 47% ★, Underwater 25.7% ★, Survival Horror 10.9%, Horror 8.6%, First-Person 4.5%

CRUSH DEPTH is first-person sci-fi horror game set at the bottom of the ocean. A salvage operation that would set you up for life goes sideways when you realize you're not alone down there. You'll solve puzzles and run from danger as you uncover the mysterious fate of Eclipse Station.

Why similar: Submarine 39.7% ★, Underwater 30.4% ★, Horror 8.6%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Action-Adventure 5.4%

Play as plague doctors with your friends in this multiplayer co-op medieval horror! Purge the plague. Create the cure. Escape the mutated creatures. Make the queen proud.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.9%, Survival Horror 13%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Co-op 11.5%, Horror 10.8%

Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.

Why similar: Underwater 33.1% ★, Survival Horror 14%, Co-op 12.1%, Survival 12%, Horror 9.8%

Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…

Why similar: Co-op 23.2%, Horror 20.6%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Action-Adventure 14.1%, Sci-fi 13.4%

IronWolf VR is a roomscale submarine game playable either singleplayer or online co-op with motion controls. Built from the ground up for VR, each part of the submarine has been crafted for an optimal VR experience.

Why similar: Submarine 26.8% ★, Naval Combat 19.6% ★, Naval 18.6% ★, Underwater 15.1% ★, Co-op 6.8%

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 28.6%, Co-op 20.1%, Horror 19.6%, Multiplayer 16.3%, First-Person 8.7%

An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics. Exorcise ghosts using your special abilities and tools while surviving the supernatural onslaught

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.1%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Co-op 17.7%, Horror 15.6%, Multiplayer 13.3%

A magic-themed co-op horror game where you and up to 5 friends are minions summoned by a wizard to break into their rival's towers to cause mayhem. Try to fufill your vandalism target with an assortment of spells while avoiding magical beasts and monsters that protect the tower.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.1%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Survival Horror 12%, Horror 12%, Procedural Generation 10.2%

Unsafe Express is a cooperative first-person survival horror game for 1-4 players. Navigate through space stations, collect materials and outlast your enemies! Choose your objective based on complexity levels, then cast your vote. Gather items, exterminate hostiles, fulfill missions and repeat!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.8%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Co-op 14.5%, Horror 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.7%

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: Online Co-Op 24.5%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Horror 16.9%, Co-op 16.7%, Multiplayer 11.5%

CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...

Why similar: PvE 21.2%, Horror 19.5%, Survival 14.1%, Survival Horror 12.4%, First-Person 12%

A short first-person horror game. An accident cripples your submarine while trying to find the wreck of the Titanic. In the darkness, you must restore life-support systems through tense puzzles, only to discover that you are not alone.

Why similar: Submarine 49.8% ★, Underwater 29.1% ★, Horror 14.4%, Exploration 2.9%, First-Person 2.6%

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: Co-op 15.7%, Online Co-Op 15%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Survival 10.6%

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 27.5%, Survival 21.9%, PvE 12.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Choose your loadout, blast through the corrupted denizens of a sunken civilization, and wield godly powers in Abyssus – a fast-paced 1-to-4 players FPS and roguelite brinepunk adventure.

Why similar: Underwater 22.8% ★, Online Co-Op 19%, Submarine 17.9% ★, Co-op 15%, PvE 11.2%

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: Co-op 18.7%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Survival Horror 17%, Horror 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%

Step into the frozen unknown in Forsaken Frontiers, a cooperative analog horror adventure set in the unforgiving embrace of an everlasting winter.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.3%, Co-op 17.7%, Procedural Generation 17.4%, Horror 14.5%, Multiplayer 11.9%

In this survival horror, you're surrounded by sea and a towering gate ahead. Walk into the maze, hunt, gather, and run to survive, alone or with friends. Remember: You're not the only one starving...

Why similar: Survival 18.6%, Co-op 17.2%, Horror 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Online Co-Op 10.7%

A 1-4 player co-op survival horror where the horror begins when the shift starts. Clean, organize, and contain dangerous creatures using CCTV, motion sensors, and more. Earn your paycheck, upgrade your tools, and capture them. New game mode available!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.7%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Co-op 14.2%, Survival 11.7%, Horror 11.4%