Games Like Dead by Daylight

Take on the role of one of the notorious Slaughter family, or their victims, in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a third-person asymmetrical horror experience based on the groundbreaking and iconic 1974 horror film. Experience the mad and macabre for yourself in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Why similar: Horror 36.3%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Gore 12.1%, Team-Based 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its asymmetrical family-versus-victims matches turn escape routes, stealth, teamwork, and a relentless hunter into a similarly tense horror loop.

Plan your own alien invasion and harvest humans as the iconic Killer Klowns, or gather a team of survivors to fight the extraterrestrial threat, in a game based on the ‘80s cult classic movie. Welcome to a new, craazzy take on the asymmetrical multiplayer horror experience!

Why similar: Horror 28.6%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Team-Based 11.1%, Stealth 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7%

Why You'll Like It: This asymmetric horror game has survivors completing escape objectives while a coordinated team of Klowns hunts and disrupts them.

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 47.1%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Co-op 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: One player becomes a sound-sensitive monster while the others must quietly gather resources and escape together.

This is an asymmetrical game of hide and seek. In true form to IllFonic’s past titles, this title is a 4v1 setup where players will either play as part of a team of new Ghostbusters or a singular Ghost.

Why similar: Horror 22.3%, Team-Based 21.7%, Online Co-Op 20.1%, Multiplayer 16.7%, First-Person 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighter but highly comparable 4v1 setup in which one ghost evades and haunts a coordinated team of human pursuers.

Hunt or be hunted in this asymmetrical multiplayer shooter that pits man against Predator. As part of a Fireteam, complete missions before the Predator finds you. Or be the Predator and hunt your prey.

Why similar: Multiplayer 32.5%, Stealth 21.9%, Third Person 16.6%, First-Person 13.7%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A squad must complete missions and extract while one exceptionally deadly Predator stalks them from the environment.

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 42.7%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Co-op 9.4%, Psychological Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces PvP with co-op, but its stealth, objective-driven trials, brutal chases, and helpless-survivor horror feel strongly echo the survivor side of Dead by Daylight.

Deceit 2 is an online social deduction horror game. Inspire fear as the Infected, investigate as the Innocent, or create mayhem as the Cursed. Trapped with friends and strangers: who can you trust to help you escape?

Why similar: Horror 44.3%, Survival Horror 22.6%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Psychological Horror 6.3%, First-Person 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its horror social-deduction matches make players identify and survive hidden monsters, creating paranoia and sudden player-versus-player danger.

PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a Free-to-Play multiplayer horror game where six players attempt to create one giant toy while surviving a terrifying monster that roams the toy factory. A seventh player controls the monster and is given only one goal: Find and kill everyone.

Why similar: Horror 39.4%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Team-Based 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A team of players solves factory puzzles and works toward escape while a player-controlled monster tries to eliminate them.

DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS is an online asymmetrical action game where a team of 7 ordinary citizens tries to survive the Raider (a classic DRAGON BALL rival such as Cell, Frieza, and Buu), who will hunt and evolve into an unstoppable force!

Why similar: Team-Based 21%, Stealth 16.5%, Online Co-Op 15%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Survival 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Seven ordinary survivors scavenge, cooperate, and activate an escape system while one evolving Raider hunts them down.

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 41%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Team-Based 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Online Co-Op 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Investigators must locate clues and survive against a creature controlled by another player in an especially close asymmetric-horror format.

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 37.6%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Gore 10.4%, Multiplayer 9%, Co-op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Class-based students cooperate to finish escape objectives while a player-controlled killer uses mobility and traps to isolate victims.

The chaotic multiplayer hide-and-seek game. Possess seemingly harmless objects as Ghosts or chase them down as Hunters before the clock strikes midnight!

Why similar: Horror 42.4%, Team-Based 22.2%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Co-op 9.5%, First-Person 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Ghosts hide in and possess environmental objects while ghost hunters track them down, delivering tense rounds of supernatural hide-and-seek.

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: Horror 46.4%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Co-op 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its chaotic multiplayer containment scenarios mix escapes, monsters, factions, and shifting alliances in an ominous horror facility.

Hello Neighbor Multiplayer. Secret Neighbor is a Multiplayer Social Horror Game where a group of intruders try to rescue their friend from the Neighbor's creepy basement. Only problem is one of the intruders is the Neighbor in disguise.

Why similar: Horror 40.1%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Stealth 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Children search for keys to rescue a friend while a disguised Neighbor secretly sabotages the group from within.

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 55%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival Horror 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Co-op 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Teams perform ritual objectives under escalating pressure from a possessed enemy that can suddenly incapacitate isolated players.

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 63.1%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Co-op 6.3%, Psychological Horror 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It trades direct PvP for cooperative ghost investigation, but preserves the suspense of coordinating under pressure while a supernatural threat hunts the team.

An online multiplayer game about shapeshifting deception and betrayal! As a hapless, brave spaceman employed by The Company you'll work diligently to defend and be rescued from failing outposts, but not everyone around you is who they claim to be...

Why similar: Horror 34.1%, Survival Horror 18%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Co-op 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its space-horror rounds pit a crew completing tasks against hidden shapeshifting monsters that can blend into the team.

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: Horror 30.6%, Team-Based 12.8%, Gore 12.3%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Though underwater rather than slasher-themed, its divers-versus-sharks matches capture the same asymmetric pressure between hunters and vulnerable objective players.

Death Swap is a first person online co-op horror game where you are stuck in a secret science facility with a horrific monster! Work as a team to save each other by swapping positions with the creature. Communicate with one another to solve tasks in order to survive and escape the science facility!

Why similar: Horror 37.6%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Gore 11.8%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op horror experience emphasizes survival under lethal pressure and coordinating with others when every mistake can doom the group.

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

Why similar: Horror 35%, Multiplayer 25.3%, Gore 19.6%, Co-op 13.7%, Action 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This fast local asymmetric dungeon game lets one player control the hero while others possess monsters and traps to stop their escape.

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

Why similar: Horror 49.1%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Co-op 8.4%, Psychological Horror 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op scavenging loop creates the same high-stakes teamwork, sudden monster encounters, and desperate extraction moments that make survivor matches exciting.

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: Horror 56.4%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Survival Horror 7.4%, Co-op 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact co-op horror sessions revolve around completing a dangerous ritual while evading an aggressive supernatural pursuer.

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: Horror 44.7%, Team-Based 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Teams navigate puzzle-filled horror mazes while communicating, avoiding monsters, and trying not to be separated from one another.

On Halloween night, 1978, no one is safe from Michael Myers. Become the Boogeyman or fight back against the face of evil itself in Halloween.

Why similar: Horror 40.9%, Survival Horror 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Gore 8.3%, Stealth 8.1%

The Blackout Club is a first-person co-op horror game centered around a group of teenage friends investigating a monstrous secret beneath the skin of their small town. 1-4 players explore procedurally-generated missions against a fearsome enemy you can only see with your eyes closed.

Why similar: Horror 52.2%, Co-op 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Stealth 6.1%, Online Co-Op 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A group of teens investigates a sinister neighborhood conspiracy while avoiding and outsmarting hostile forces in co-op stealth missions.

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: Horror 41.3%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Co-op 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Players gather supplies, investigate clues, and survive a roaming predator that can ambush the team across an open wilderness.

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

Why similar: Horror 59%, Survival Horror 9.8%, Gore 8.4%, Psychological Horror 4.4%, Survival 3.8%

Carnival Hunt is a 5v1 first-person asymmetrical horror game. Five wind-up Bunnies must work together, manage their noisy keys, and find a way to escape an ever-changing carnival world while one player hunts them as the Carnival Monster.

Why similar: Horror 30.2%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Gore 8.8%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Stealth 7.4%

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

Why similar: Horror 48.9%, Survival Horror 12%, Gore 10.9%, Psychological Horror 7.1%, Violent 5.4%

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: Horror 32.7%, Survival Horror 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Co-op 7.4%, Stealth 7.3%

Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.

Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Team-Based 15.1%, Survival Horror 12%, Gore 10.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

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: Horror 40.3%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Co-op 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.

Why similar: Horror 47.8%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Gore 12.4%, Psychological Horror 6.5%, Stealth 4.9%

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 51.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Co-op 6.1%

Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!

Why similar: Horror 65.2%, Multiplayer 20%, Co-op 4%, Psychological Horror 3.7%, First-Person 3.4%

Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

Why similar: Horror 48.1%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Gore 10.6%, Violent 5.2%, Psychological Horror 4.8%

Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.

Why similar: Horror 67.7%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Multiplayer 5.2%, Psychological Horror 4.4%, First-Person 3.6%

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

Why similar: Horror 60.1%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Gore 9.1%, Survival Horror 6.3%, Co-op 4.2%

Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses

Why similar: Horror 56.2%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Co-op 11.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Team-Based 5.2%

Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame

Why similar: Horror 44.4%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Gore 9.8%, Violent 7.2%, Stealth 6.6%

Freakout is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Visit your school and find all your seized items and don't get caught by the possessed principal and his pet dog and stop the principal from sacrificing his goats. Stop the Ritual, Run, Scream, hide. Just don't get caught.

Why similar: Horror 28.3%, Survival Horror 10.9%, Gore 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Stealth 7.5%

You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?

Why similar: Horror 74.5%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Psychological Horror 2.6%, Co-op 1.5%

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 50%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival Horror 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Psychological Horror 6.5%

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 34%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Co-op 7.1%

In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Gore 13.9%, Team-Based 11.4%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Online Co-Op 8.3%

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 32.3%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9%, Gore 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Labrys is a multiplayer (up to 5v1) horror game where players are thrown into a randomly generated labyrinth against a minotaur. Play as the minotaur or one of up to five human players trying to escape the labyrinth.

Why similar: Horror 29.2%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Gore 8.9%, Team-Based 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%

Welcome to Murderer’s Island. Your companions: four dead-sexy Killers who, underneath their murderous exteriors, just want a little romance. Flirt your way into their hearts, uncovering dark twists along the way. Will you find true love, forge friendships… or get hacked to death?

Why similar: Horror 46.4%, Psychological Horror 44.2%, Comedy 7.6%, LGBTQ+ 1.8%

Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 8 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one.

Why similar: Horror 38.8%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Team-Based 9%, Co-op 8.5%, Gore 8.5%

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 39.6%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Gore 9.8%, Co-op 7.4%