- #1 Escape the Backrooms
97% matchVery Positive90% of 152,962 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 17.7%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Escape Room 14.2% ★, Multiplayer 13.7%, Survival Horror 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that captures the liminal space horror and puzzle-solving exploration found in Emissary Zero.
- #2 The Outlast Trials
96% matchVery Positive93% of 106,237 reviews2024
Dev: Red Barrels
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 33.8 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 18.4%, Co-op 16.7%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for co-op escape horror, featuring intense stealth mechanics and objective-based survival in a terrifying facility.
- #3 Inside the Backrooms
96% matchVery Positive80% of 46,418 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 20.5%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a challenging co-op experience with complex puzzles and distinct survival mechanics in a surreal, shifting environment.
- #4 Phasmophobia
95% matchVery Positive94% of 833,391 reviews2020
Dev: Kinetic Games
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 51.2 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 27.9%, Online Co-Op 24.9%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Co-op 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It defines the co-op investigation genre, requiring players to use specialized equipment to identify ghosts while exploring haunted environments.
- #5 Demonologist
94% matchVery Positive85% of 23,851 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 19.5%, Horror 16.7%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Co-op 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A high-quality co-op ghost hunting experience that emphasizes exploration, environmental puzzles, and terrifying jump scares.
- #6 Dark Hours
94% matchVery Positive82% of 4,013 reviews2025
Dev: Piece of Cake studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 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 16.7%, Horror 13.5%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Co-op 11%
Why You'll Like It: Combines heist-style planning with intense stealth horror, forcing players to work together to escape a trapped location.
- #7 Lethal Company
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 509,512 reviews2023
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 27%, Horror 18.8%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Co-op 13.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on scavenging and exploration in hostile, mysterious environments that demand tight team coordination to survive.
- #8 FOREWARNED
92% matchVery Positive90% of 6,629 reviews2024
Dev: Dreambyte Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.6 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 20.3%, Horror 17.7%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Co-op 12.6%, Multiplayer 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival horror game where players must navigate ancient ruins and solve puzzles to escape.
- #9 PANICORE
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 12,775 reviews2024
Dev: ZTEK Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.5 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 24.6%, Horror 23.2%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Co-op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival horror game that emphasizes the tension of being hunted while trying to find an exit.
- #10 Ghost Watchers
91% matchVery Positive86% of 16,224 reviews2025
Dev: Renderise
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses
Why similar: Horror 24.1%, Co-op 20.2%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a deep co-op system for hunting and capturing supernatural entities using a variety of unique tools.
- #11 Hospital 666
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,389 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 29.4%, Horror 24%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Exploration 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric escape-room style horror game that keeps players on edge with constant threats and environmental hazards.
- #12 Backrooms: Escape Together
89% matchVery Positive89% of 45,224 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A visually lifelike co-op horror game for 1-6 people. Journey through 11 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.4%, Horror 15.9%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a solid co-op experience specifically designed for fans of liminal space horror and exploration.
- #13 Pacify
89% matchVery Positive86% of 42,629 reviews2019
Dev: Shawn HitchcockPub: Hitchcock Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.0 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 23.4%, Horror 23.3%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Co-op 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10%
Why You'll Like It: A classic co-op horror experience that focuses on completing specific objectives to cleanse a location of evil.
- #14 DEVOUR
87% matchVery Positive91% of 87,737 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 26.1%, Online Co-Op 23.3%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes co-op survival game where players must complete ritualistic objectives while being pursued by an unstoppable force.
- #15 We Were Here Too
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 11,096 reviews2018
Dev: Total Mayhem Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As your final hour approaches, a large structure looms up in the distance, towering above the relentless storm. Discover the truth behind this dark castle in a communication-based, cooperative puzzle adventure.
Why similar: Escape Room 28.4% ★, Online Co-Op 16.2%, Co-op 11.5%, Horror 10.9%, Multiplayer 9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the escape-room puzzle aspect, requiring constant communication between players to solve environmental challenges.
- #16 Hellcoming
86% matchMostly Positive78% 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: Online Co-Op 17.6%, Horror 13.7%, Survival Horror 13%, Co-op 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival horror game that tasks players with cleansing haunted locations through teamwork and resource management.
- #17 Backrooms: Extractions
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 725 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Escape Room 18.7% ★, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Horror 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Adds a layer of objective-based extraction to the liminal horror genre, making every escape attempt feel meaningful.
- #18 Forsake: Urban horror
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 222 reviews2023
Dev: Unseen Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Forsake is a 1 to 4 player co-op online survival horror game where each player is a member of an urban explorer group. Choose your equipment to explore places full of paranormal and exorcise them, if you think you can handle it!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.4%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Horror 14%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Co-op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration-based ghost hunting in abandoned, decaying locations that feel very similar to the setting of Emissary Zero.
- #19 Lunch Lady
84% matchVery Positive85% of 12,954 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 18.2%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Co-op 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic cat-and-mouse co-op horror game set in a school that requires finding items while avoiding a deadly pursuer.
- #20 Murky Divers
81% matchVery Positive88% of 5,275 reviews2024
Dev: Embers
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.9 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 19.8%, Horror 16.8%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Exploration-heavy horror that requires players to dive into dangerous, abandoned locations to retrieve items while avoiding threats.
- #21 Zort
81% matchVery Positive90% of 13,742 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 24.8%, Horror 19.1%, Co-op 15.7%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A lighter, more chaotic take on the co-op horror escape formula that still provides plenty of jump scares.
- #22 Sign of Silence
84% matchMixed52% of 2,374 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 23.8%, Co-op 20.7%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric co-op survival horror game that emphasizes stealth and the desperate need to escape a dangerous area.
- #23 Somewhere in the Shadow
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 731 reviews2021
Dev: Aydy
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.6%, Horror 20.8%, Co-op 15%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Survival Horror 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-driven horror game that emphasizes cooperative puzzle-solving to progress through a mysterious building.
- #24 Occult
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,957 reviews2022
Dev: Renderise
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Occult is a dynamic cooperative game with elements of horror and quest. You are waiting for a variety of opponents, puzzles and endings!
Why similar: Horror 22%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Multiplayer 16%, Co-op 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op horror game that emphasizes ritualistic objectives and survival in dark, atmospheric settings.
- #25 Content Warning
79% matchVery Positive94% of 160,914 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 24.5%, Horror 18.5%, Co-op 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Survival Horror 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and horror with a unique social twist, encouraging players to document their terrifying findings.
- #26 Agonize
82% matchMixed62% of 145 reviews2022
Dev: Vault Interactive
Windows
Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Horror 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Intense co-op horror that focuses on psychological tension and the struggle to survive against supernatural entities.
- #27 Inout
79% matchMixed69% of 251 reviews2025
Dev: Gample
Windows
INOUT is a cooperative horror game for 1-4 players. For years, the locals have been afraid of an old mansion in Madyland. A possessed maniac and an ancient evil have settled here. Become a member of a team of exorcists and expel the evil force!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.8%, Horror 12.8%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A violent and atmospheric survival horror game that features intense co-op mechanics and exploration.
- #28 Nuclear Nightmare
77% matchVery Positive81% of 18,602 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: Online Co-Op 23.3%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Horror 15.5%, Co-op 13.1%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
- #29 Ghost Janitors
77% matchVery Positive86% of 1,011 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 19.1%, Horror 15.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Co-op 10.6%
- #30 Chased by Darkness
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 413 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: Online Co-Op 21.8%, Horror 18.8%, Co-op 14.5%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Multiplayer 13%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on team-based survival against supernatural entities in dark, claustrophobic environments.
- #31 Silent Rain
78% 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: Online Co-Op 14.3%, Horror 13.9%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Co-op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric first-person horror game that emphasizes team coordination and survival in a dark, rainy setting.
- #32 Cry of Fear
78% matchVery Positive89% of 85,341 reviews2013
Dev: Team Psykskallar
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Why similar: Horror 27.9%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Psychological Horror 13%, Co-op 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a gritty, first-person co-op campaign that captures the feeling of classic survival horror perfectly.
- #33 Anomaly Company
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 142 reviews2026
Dev: Kekdot
Windows
You and your crew are sent in to assess reality in this 4-player co-op horror game. Memorize the environment. Spot disturbing anomalies. Decide if the timeline is safe. One bad call—and you’re forced to start over.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.3%, Horror 15.9%, Co-op 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.4%
- #34 Dark Hours: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive88% of 5,876 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 19.8%, Horror 19.8%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #35 Backrooms Media
76% matchMostly Negative40% of 638 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: Escape Room 21% ★, Co-op 12.7%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Survival Horror 10.1%
- #36 Backrooms Rec.
75% matchMixed69% of 2,036 reviews2024
Dev: Liminal Logic
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.0 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 21.7%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #37 DON'T SCREAM TOGETHER
74% matchMixed50% of 2,611 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Cybercherries
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 26.4%, Horror 25.7%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Co-op 10.1%
- #38 Forsaken Frontiers
73% matchVery Positive81% of 499 reviews2025
Dev: made in fairyland
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 19.6%, Horror 14%, Co-op 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
- #39 Paranoia Place: Escape Together
72% matchVery Positive88% of 1,757 reviews2025
Dev: Bloody Pixel Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.4 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 14.1%, Horror 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Co-op 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
- #40 Jester: A Foolish Ritual
73% matchVery Positive87% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: Fire Foot Studios
Windows
A co-op survival horror game set in a dark medieval castle. Play as one of four resurrected knights and work together to find hidden runes, unlock the ritual chamber, and escape before the Jester hunts you down. Teamwork, stealth, and survival are your only hope.
Why similar: Survival Horror 14.1%, Horror 13.3%, Co-op 12.6%, Multiplayer 12%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
- #41 Species: Unknown
69% matchVery Positive95% of 9,857 reviews2025
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.3%, Horror 18.1%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Stealth 10%
- #42 MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!
70% matchVery Positive83% of 520 reviews2026
Dev: Absam Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Multiplayer 16.7%, Co-op 16.5%, Horror 15.8%, Survival 12.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #43 The Backrooms : Last Expedition
74% matchMixed52% of 66 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 16.7%, Horror 13.5%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.8%
- #44 School 666
70% matchVery Positive84% of 655 reviews2025
Dev: Lokin
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
School 666 is a 1-4 Player Co-op Survival Horror. You must escape this endless nightmare. Try to identify the correct path and survive the anomalies in this endless school. Some extremely powerful anomalies will catch you to their dimensions. Explore the reason why you are here... and don't die.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.7%, Horror 22.9%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, First-Person 9.1%, Exploration 4.8%
- #45 Boo Men
71% matchVery Positive87% of 2,651 reviews2022
Dev: Twisted Corridor👻
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 13.7 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 22.2%, Horror 18.8%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Co-op 9.7%, Stealth 8.9%
- #46 Project Unknown
69% matchVery Positive83% of 914 reviews2025
Dev: PsychoRavensPub: Nightmare Studios
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 19.2%, Horror 15%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Co-op 13.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%
- #47 INVITATION To FEAR
73% matchMixed61% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: CHEST BOX
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
『INVITATION To FEAR』 is a survival horror game for 1 to 4 players. After receiving one of the invitations, you will wake up in an unfamiliar place. Before long, you will realize that a terrifying creature is wandering around the building. Don't let "her" find you.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.8%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Horror 12.3%, Co-op 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #48 Storebound
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 999 reviews2025
Dev: Embers
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 1-3 co-op puzzle horror game. Lost in an accursed megastore, work together to find the exit before its lurking horrors trap you forever.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.8%, Co-op 14.2%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #49 Damned 2
68% matchVery Positive88% of 137 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: Escape Room 15.7% ★, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Horror 11.6%, Co-op 10.9%
- #50 The Anomaly Project
68% matchVery Positive81% of 622 reviews2024
Dev: Kekdot
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Your goal is simple, spot anomalies to escape. Play alone or together with up to 8 players in online co-op. Make the right decisions to advance to the next level, or risk being reset to the beginning!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.3%, Horror 15.4%, Co-op 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.4%
- #51 Horror Squad
72% matchMixed53% of 697 reviews2021
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Horror Squad is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game. Assemble your squad to clear the areas cursed by terrifying creatures.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.7%, Horror 14.9%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Co-op 13.6%, Multiplayer 13.1%
- #52 In Silence
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,949 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 20.3%, Online Co-Op 18.7%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Co-op 9.9%
- #53 NO BACKUP
66% matchMixed68% of 856 reviews2026
Dev: Serundeox
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.1 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 21.1%, Online Co-Op 18.1%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Survival Horror 10.7%
- #54 Paranormal Cleanup
66% matchVery Positive88% of 1,156 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 19.4%, Horror 15%, Survival Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Stealth 11%
- #55 Escape From Monster
70% matchMixed67% of 276 reviews2022
Dev: Thunder Games
Windows
You woke up in a dusty room, in an unknown place, with no memory of how you got here. Your pockets are empty, and there is something outside the door producing frightening sounds.
Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Multiplayer 16%, Co-op 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.8%
- #56 Granny: Escape Together
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,831 reviews2024
Dev: CreepyToad
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
This is a creepy co-op horror game. In which you find yourself locked in a crazy Granny's house. But Granny is not the only danger that awaits you in the house, someone else creepy lives in the basement. You have five days to get out of the house!
Why similar: Horror 17.2%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Hidden Object 10.5%, Stealth 10.5%
- #57 Fear Therapy
67% matchMixed67% of 4,736 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 34.5%, Multiplayer 27.5%, Co-op 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Survival Horror 4.8%
- #58 Frightened
67% 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: Online Co-Op 15.9%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Co-op 11.1%, Multiplayer 11%
