Games Like GRAIN ROT

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 35.4%, Survival Horror 26.2%, Horror 15.3%, PvE 9.1%, First-Person 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore cooperative horror shooter that perfectly captures the tense, tactical extraction loop found in GRAIN ROT.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 33.6%, Survival Horror 20.1%, Horror 14.2%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, First-Person 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential co-op extraction horror game focused on scavenging loot from dangerous, procedurally generated ruins.

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 24.6%, Base Building 22.9%, Crafting 19.2%, Building 14.9%, PvE 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar blend of base-building, crafting, and survival horror within a mysterious, dangerous facility.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.9%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Action Roguelike 13.4%, Comedy 9.5%, Horror 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-risk, high-reward loop of entering terrifying locations to scavenge resources with friends.

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: Survival Horror 63.8%, Horror 29.8%, Action 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a complex, cooperative survival experience where managing your base and scavenging in a hostile environment is essential.

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: Loot 23.5%, Procedural Generation 21.1%, PvE 17.1%, Action Roguelike 12.7%, First-Person 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines procedural generation, cooperative extraction, and base-like upgrades in a high-intensity PVE environment.

Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.3%, Loot 14.2%, Action Roguelike 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Roguelite 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite extraction shooter that mirrors the procedural generation and PVE focus of the seed game.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Online Co-Op 20.9%, Building 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Procedural Generation 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the definitive experience for combining base-building and crafting with intense survival horror gameplay.

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 24.7%, Base Building 22.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 14.2%, Horror 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep base-building and survival mechanics set within a terrifying, horror-filled open world.

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 21.4%, Survival Horror 17.2%, Loot 16%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Horror 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative extraction game that captures the chaotic, horror-filled atmosphere of scavenging in deep, dangerous ruins.

A light horror roguelike adventure through a post apocalyptic world, with airships.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.2%, Action Roguelike 17.6%, Loot 16.4%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, PvE 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar loop of dungeon-crawling and extraction, emphasizing action-roguelike mechanics.

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 31.5%, Survival Horror 27.9%, Horror 12.7%, First-Person 9%, PvE 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game that focuses on cooperative PVE combat in a post-apocalyptic setting.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.8%, Crafting 22.7%, Building 20.4%, Horror 17.9%, First-Person 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational survival horror game that emphasizes building a base to survive against relentless, corrupted threats.

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 14.6%, Survival Horror 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused horror game that emphasizes the harsh realities of a post-apocalyptic world.

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 50.2%, Horror 34.4%, First-Person 10.7%, 3D 2.4%, Action 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the investigative, cooperative horror aspect of entering dangerous locations to survive and gather evidence.

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: Online Co-Op 35.6%, Survival Horror 34.1%, Horror 17.1%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Action 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Masterfully blends competitive extraction mechanics with a dark, atmospheric horror setting.

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 25.3%, Action Roguelike 15.7%, PvE 13%, Horror 12.6%, First-Person 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that captures the claustrophobic feeling of scavenging in a shifting, dangerous environment.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.7%, Survival Horror 23.3%, Crafting 23%, Building 22.5%, Indie 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in base-building and survival mechanics within a bleak, post-apocalyptic setting.

Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.

Why similar: Loot 17.3%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Crafting 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the cooperative horror and exploration elements of navigating shifting, surreal environments.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.2%, Survival Horror 24.6%, Horror 12.9%, First-Person 12.4%, PvE 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the cooperative survival horror loop of clearing out and scavenging dangerous, enclosed spaces.

PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.4%, Survival Horror 24.2%, Horror 15.5%, Action Roguelike 9%, PvE 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that emphasizes the tension of scavenging while being hunted by corrupted entities.

REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 35.9%, Post-apocalyptic 24%, PvE 14.8%, Horror 12.6%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished action-roguelike experience with procedural elements and challenging cooperative combat.

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 27.5%, Survival Horror 22.6%, Horror 12.3%, First-Person 12.3%, PvE 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative extraction game that focuses on scavenging loot while navigating terrifying, procedurally generated locations.

Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 31.2%, Loot 24.3%, Online Co-Op 19.5%, Roguelite 19.1%, Action 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A premier action-roguelike that excels in cooperative play and procedural scaling, similar to the intensity of GRAIN ROT.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Online Co-Op 20.5%, Crafting 19.7%, Building 16.4%, PvE 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building with a dark, gothic aesthetic that fits the horror theme of the seed game.

An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.8%, Comedy 14.4%, Horror 13.8%, Physics 9.2%, Procedural Generation 7.7%

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: Online Co-Op 29%, Roguelite 22.8%, PvE 20.5%, First-Person 14.1%, 3D 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative space-extraction game that requires team coordination to scavenge and survive in hostile territory.

Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.

Why similar: Loot 57.2%, First-Person 27.2%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical extraction shooter that focuses on scavenging loot in hostile, sci-fi environments.

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 26.1%, Survival Horror 20.6%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Horror 12%, First-Person 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative exploration and survival mechanics in a dark, atmospheric horror setting.

A 4-player online co-op survival horror game. Avoid the contaminated rain, gather scrap and get back to the tram. Monsters that copy your friends' voices and behavior, and many other threats, stand in your way. Gear up and stick together to survive.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.8%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Roguelite 9.7%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 38.5%, Crafting 33%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Horror 5.5%, Atmospheric 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that emphasizes crafting and base-building against a backdrop of constant, eerie 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 25.3%, Procedural Generation 16.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Horror 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric cooperative horror game that focuses on surviving and exploring dangerous, psychological landscapes.

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 30.8%, Survival Horror 13%, Comedy 12.2%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Horror 9.3%

An online co-op horror experience for up to 4 players. Use your elastic arms to grab valuable loot for your captain. But be careful, danger lurks around every corner trying to take your booty!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.8%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Physics 11%, Horror 10.3%, Action Roguelike 9.7%

Trapped in a doomed city, you and up to 7 friends must scavenge parts, fix your van, and escape the brutal tornado that approaches. A first-person co-op survival game with escalating disasters and total environmental destruction.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.7%, Procedural Generation 19.7%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Physics 15.2%, First-Person 11.4%

Online co-op horror for 1–6 players. Board a cursed flying ship, raid haunted graveyards for loot, and survive monsters that hear every sound. Beware of UFO abductions, grab boosters from vending machines, gamble in the onboard casino, and embrace pure chaos with friends in voice chat.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.8%, Comedy 15.3%, Horror 14.6%, Physics 10.7%, First-Person 7.9%

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 24%, Survival Horror 16%, Comedy 13.2%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Horror 10.7%

In this online horror co-op, you play as a scrappy goblin, scavenging dungeons, dodging traps, and fleeing monsters to feed the Goblin King-Queen. Team up with goblin pals, or go rogue, as you dive deep and cause chaos! Fail to feed them, and you might be the next meal!

Why similar: Loot 23.8%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Survival Horror 17.7%, PvE 11.2%, Horror 9.2%

Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.4%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Crafting 13.9%, PvE 10.3%

Survive the world's deadliest psychopaths. Experience a unique 2-player co-op experience that puts your teamwork and communication to the test. Complete your duties alone or with a partner in a prison like no other.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.6%, Survival Horror 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, PvE 11.5%, Horror 10.7%

Guntouchables is an online co-op doomsday roguelite for 1-4 players. You play as a gun-toting group of 'preppers' trying to reclaim the world from an ever-evolving horde of mutants, constantly working to develop new unique ways to kill you.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.8%, Action Roguelike 15.7%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Roguelite 11.7%

Enter unstable rifts, survive otherworldly creatures, and grab bizarre ingredients to fuel a secret brewery hidden beneath a British pub. Hazard Levels is a 1–4 player physics-driven co-op survival horror where the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Just make it back before last orders.

Why similar: Loot 17.2%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Action Roguelike 13.8%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, PvE 10.5%

A co-op horror game where you are part of a crew sheltering in a collapsed tunnel, scavenging loot across maps filled with deadly creatures born from a biological war. Feed the creature, convert its waste into fuel, and reach the radio tower

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, PvE 13.2%, Horror 12.8%, Roguelite 11.8%

An online Co-op game about breaking into houses and causing havoc as a tiny gnome. Avoid danger, repurpose stolen household items, and complete tasks to meet the High-Gnome’s demands. Craft equipment and upgrade your home to make your missions easier and more successful.

Why similar: Loot 16.7%, PvE 13.5%, First-Person 11.8%, Physics 11%, Survival Horror 10.8%

You signed up to deliver food in the underworld, alone or with up to 8 friends. Everynight your work condition changes. Take orders, dodge monsters, and survive the night - or be trapped in hell forever.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24%, Survival Horror 19%, Comedy 13.4%, Roguelite 12.1%, Horror 10.6%

A survival horror set in a massive maze. Play solo or 6-player co-op. Scavenge resources to craft gear and survive against terrifying enemies. Unlock unique abilities and find the exit.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22%, Online Co-Op 21.3%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 14.8%, Horror 10.8%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 30.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Crafting 18.4%, First-Person 7.5%

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 29.8%, Survival Horror 24.7%, Horror 15.8%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, First-Person 7.8%

1-4 player online HORROR COMEDY HUNTING game set in a forbidden national park. Hunt wildlife to meet dangerous quotas, drag massive carcasses with your friends and evade the creatures that begin hunting you back.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Comedy 10.1%, Action Roguelike 9.6%, Horror 9.4%

A 4-player co-op horror comedy where you drop in as couriers delivering packages in a dystopian world ruled by grotesque monsters. You share 99 lives - deliver, don’t die, and make it count!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.4%, Action Roguelike 15.9%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Comedy 11.4%

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 25.8%, Procedural Generation 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Horror 12.4%, First-Person 10.4%

Mycelium: The Silent Contract is a co-op/single player extraction horror set in a haunted liminal forest. Your contract is simple: get mycelium and extract. But in this forest, nothing is what it seems. So what did you sign, exactly?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.6%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Procedural Generation 16%, Loot 13.8%, PvE 9.7%

Co-op horror for 1 to 6 players. Anyone can try to escape the Backrooms. You are going back in: locate the lost agents, solve the puzzles, film the entities, and hold out until extraction. Everything you carry can be lost. Your ranks, gear and storage are built to last.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.8%, Survival Horror 23.6%, Horror 12.6%, PvE 11.9%, First-Person 10.5%

The original cooking horror returns in an unhinged co-op experience for 1-4 players. Grill burgers, serve customers, and hit your quota before the kitchen turns into a nightmare. When Asset Joy begins her hunt, try to escape alive and extract your hard-earned cash to survive another shift.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.1%, Comedy 15.7%, Physics 13.5%, Horror 13.1%, First-Person 9.5%

Pilgrim is a medieval-based, co-op horror, adventure. Can you and your friends make it to the end of The Road?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Procedural Generation 16.5%, PvE 16.3%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Horror 14.8%

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 25.1%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Horror 11.9%, First-Person 11%

A co-op horror comedy game for you and your friends about burglarizing a nightmarish neighborhood full of mutated pets. No one said this would be easy, but maybe you can make it out of there with a sweet wood paneled video cassette recorder.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.3%, Loot 14%, Physics 12.4%, Comedy 12.2%, Horror 10.2%