Games Like Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

You and your friend are trapped in a mystical world. As time ebbs away you must solve increasingly complex puzzles to escape. Cooperation is key as neither of you have the full picture! Play on two devices, local or remotely, all you need is a voice connection.

Why similar: Co-op 41%, Puzzle 19.4%, Local Multiplayer 14.4%, Local Co-Op 12.1%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: It requires two players to share information from different perspectives to solve puzzles, mirroring the asymmetric nature of the seed game.

Digital cooperative board game for 2-4 players. You, your friends and a ticking bomb! Work together, communicate efficiently to save lives!

Why similar: Board Game 24.2%, Local Multiplayer 20.2%, Local Co-Op 19.5%, Co-op 12.1%, Puzzle 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest experience to the seed, featuring intense bomb-defusal gameplay that requires constant communication between players.

It takes two to save the world in this cooperative spy adventure. Pair up with a friend as Agent or Hacker—with only your voices to connect you—and work together to bring a hi-tech global menace to its knees. Now with a FREE CONTENT UPDATE!

Why similar: Co-op 46.6%, Puzzle 26.4%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Family Friendly 9.2%, Casual 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game forces two players to work as a team with different roles, relying on verbal communication to navigate security systems.

How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices. "Talk together. Help each other." will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.

Why similar: Co-op 32.2%, Local Multiplayer 27.3%, Team-Based 14.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: One player is trapped in a train while the other uses a companion app to provide instructions, creating a perfect asymmetric puzzle dynamic.

Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?

Why similar: Co-op 58%, Puzzle 20.6%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Casual 2%, Indie 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original entry in the series that established the core mechanic of using walkie-talkies to solve puzzles through verbal description.

You both awaken imprisoned inside the sinister Castle Rock - were you betrayed, or simply not that clever? Find out in the greatest co-op puzzle adventure in the We Were Here Series! Do you and your partner have what it takes to face the dark forces of this realm or will you be trapped… forever?

Why similar: Co-op 54.8%, Puzzle 25.3%, Multiplayer 17%, Casual 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential asymmetric co-op puzzle game where players are separated and must describe their surroundings to progress.

The Past Within is the new co-op experience from Rusty Lake! Play together with someone you deem trustworthy: one in The Past, the other in The Future. Observe and communicate what you see around you. Solve the puzzles and uncover Albert Vanderboom’s plan.

Why similar: Co-op 54.8%, Puzzle 20.2%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Local Co-Op 8.2%, Local Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Players must communicate across different time periods to solve puzzles, emphasizing the need for clear and precise verbal exchange.

Unravel the mystery of a cryptic box in this 2-player co-op puzzle game. Join forces as two detectives, solve cooperative puzzles, communicate effectively, crack the codes and outsmart the killer.

Why similar: Co-op 43.1%, Puzzle 28.8%, Multiplayer 15%, Family Friendly 9.4%, Casual 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This cooperative puzzle game requires two players to share clues and observations to solve complex escape-room style challenges.

First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Why similar: Co-op 46.2%, Puzzle 20.9%, Multiplayer 14.6%, VR 8.9%, Family Friendly 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly interactive escape-room experience that is best enjoyed when players communicate effectively to solve environmental puzzles.

Test your problem-solving skills in this virtual reality escape-the-room puzzle game. Play as a secret agent armed with telekinetic abilities on a mission to stop Zoraxis, an evil corporation with plans for world domination.

Why similar: VR 39.3%, Puzzle 23.5%, Difficult 12.5%, Funny 9.9%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While single-player, this VR title captures the exact theme and tension of bomb defusal and espionage-based puzzle solving.

Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 31.2%, Co-op 25.7%, Local Multiplayer 15%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Funny 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game demands high-level coordination and communication under pressure, similar to the frantic pace of defusing a bomb.

PICO PARK is a cooperative local/online multiplay action puzzle game for 2-8 players.

Why similar: Co-op 22.7%, Local Multiplayer 19.2%, Local Co-Op 18.4%, Party Game 14.7%, Multiplayer 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative puzzle-platformer where success depends on precise timing and communication between all participants.

KeyWe is a cute, co-operative postal puzzler starring Jeff and Debra, two small kiwi birds working in a whimsical post office. They must jump, flap, peck and butt-slam their way across an interactive landscape of levers, bells and buttons to get those messages delivered on time!

Why similar: Co-op 33.5%, Local Co-Op 21.9%, Local Multiplayer 20.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Puzzle 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Players must coordinate as two tiny birds in a post office, requiring constant communication and teamwork to manage complex tasks.

Biped is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration between 2 players.

Why similar: Co-op 27.8%, Local Co-Op 22.9%, Difficult 12.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on two-player coordination to control mechanical characters, requiring synchronized movements and verbal planning.

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: Co-op 54.8%, Puzzle 23%, Multiplayer 17%, Casual 3%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strong follow-up that continues the series' focus on asymmetric communication and puzzle-solving.

Death Squared is a co-op puzzle game about cooperation, communication, and robot explosions. You should buy it!

Why similar: Co-op 25.1%, Local Co-Op 23.3%, Local Multiplayer 20.1%, Puzzle 11%, Difficult 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that requires intense coordination between players to navigate traps and obstacles without causing accidental failure.

As we explore these frozen wastes, misfortune strikes once again. Through the fierce blizzard, a flare lights the sky, followed by a cry for help over the radio - broken, dying... No one else can come to their rescue. Can we make it back - together?

Why similar: Co-op 50.9%, Puzzle 28.3%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Casual 2.4%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Expands the cooperative puzzle formula with more complex environments that require constant dialogue to navigate.

Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!

Why similar: Board Game 44.7%, Co-op 14.1%, VR 10.7%, Moddable 10.5% ★, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It allows players to interact with virtual manuals and board game components, which is essential for the 'manual-reader' role in cooperative play.

Partner up with your friend online and set sail for an unforgettable puzzle adventure in this bite-sized standalone We Were Here experience. Work together to overcome brain-teasing challenges and make fun memories, using your best communication, teamwork and trust skills.

Why similar: Co-op 52.2%, Puzzle 19%, Team-Based 13.5%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Casual 2%

Why You'll Like It: A shorter, focused experience that tests the communication and trust between two players through challenging puzzles.

The threequel to the party game phenomenon features the deadly quiz show Trivia Murder Party, the say-anything sequel Quiplash 2, the surprising survey game Guesspionage, the t-shirt slugfest Tee K.O., and the sneaky trickster game Fakin’ It.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 21.7%, Party Game 18.9%, Party 18.4% ★, Board Game 17.3%, Co-op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A staple for party settings that relies on social interaction and quick thinking, much like the social dynamic of the seed game.

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.

Why similar: Co-op 43.9%, Local Co-Op 23.2%, Local Multiplayer 12.9%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Puzzle 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A premier co-op experience that constantly introduces new mechanics requiring players to communicate and work together to overcome obstacles.

With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.

Why similar: Party Game 28.3%, Party 18.9% ★, Local Multiplayer 16%, Local Co-Op 13.2%, Puzzle 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that introduces chaotic, high-pressure moments similar to the tension found in bomb defusal.

A frantic co-op puzzle game where a Pilot and an Air Traffic Controller must communicate, decrypt, and improvise to save a failing aircraft. Talk fast, solve faster, and try not to crash.

Why similar: Co-op 33.4%, Party Game 25.4%, Puzzle 11.2%, Team-Based 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A time-management puzzle game that captures the frantic, high-stress atmosphere of managing a crisis with others.

Five new games: the hit threequel Quiplash 3, the collaborative chaos of The Devils and the Details, the fierce drawing game Champ’d Up, the speech game Talking Points and the guessing game Blather 'Round. Use phones or tablets as controllers and play with up to 8 players, and an audience of 10,000!

Why similar: Party Game 21.4%, Party 18.8% ★, Board Game 13.6%, Local Multiplayer 10.9%, Co-op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Includes diverse party games that emphasize verbal communication and quick wit in a group setting.

The sequel to the party game phenomenon The Jackbox Party Pack, featuring FIVE fresh, rib-tickling party games! Your phones or tablets are your controllers – no big mess of controllers needed. For up to 8 players plus an Audience of up to 10,000! It’s a game-night riot in a box… without the box!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 21%, Party 19.1% ★, Party Game 17.3%, Board Game 11.7%, Local Co-Op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers classic party games that are perfect for groups looking for high-energy, communication-based entertainment.

Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 31.5%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Co-op 11.7%, Local Co-Op 9.9%, Party Game 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced multiplayer game that forces players to communicate and adapt quickly to constantly changing rules.

Team up as two quirky construction workers in this fun 2-player co-op platformer! Carry a fragile glass window through colorful levels filled with challenges. Communicate and coordinate to dodge obstacles and solve puzzles. Can you finish the job without breaking the glass?

Why similar: Co-op 54%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Funny 9.9%, Family Friendly 8.7%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative puzzle game that requires careful coordination and communication to navigate fragile objects through difficult levels.

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

Why similar: Party 28.8% ★, Party Game 24.5%, Local Co-Op 16.2%, Local Multiplayer 14.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A competitive platformer where players build the level together, requiring strategic communication and sabotage.

Dive into this multiplayer online experience set in a sketchy bar where the games are as dangerous as the patrons. Join a table of 4 and test your skills in Liar's Dice and Liar's Deck, where lying and bluffing are key to victory. Ready for a night at Liar's Bar?

Why similar: Co-op 33.1%, Multiplayer 19%, Board Game 18.5%, VR 8.3%, Puzzle 6.9%

Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 28%, Local Multiplayer 23.5%, Co-op 22.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Team-Based 4.3%

The team behind YOU DON’T KNOW JACK presents FIVE guffaw-inducing party games in one pack! You’re gonna need more than one party for this. Your phones or tablets are your controllers! For 1-100 players!

Why similar: Party 30.5% ★, Local Multiplayer 19.6%, Party Game 18.1%, Board Game 9.9%, Co-op 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original collection that set the standard for social, communication-heavy party games on Steam.

It’s the wildest Party Pack yet, with the absurd deathmatch Trivia Murder Party 2, the weird word circus Dictionarium, the hidden identity game Push The Button, the comedy contest Joke Boat and the offbeat personality test Role Models.

Why similar: Party 22.7% ★, Local Multiplayer 17.9%, Party Game 16.3%, Board Game 11.4%, Local Co-Op 8.4%

Tools Up! is an exciting local co-op that tests your renovation and teamwork skills. Paint walls, tear off wallpaper, and move couches against the clock!

Why similar: Party Game 31.9%, Local Co-Op 22.2%, Local Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Puzzle 35.3%, Simulation 21%, Difficult 17.1%, Indie 16%, Strategy 6.6%

A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.

Why similar: Puzzle 66.9%, Difficult 15.9%, Indie 8.6%, Funny 4.4%, Casual 4.2%

A Way Out is an exclusively co-op adventure where you play the role of one of two prisoners making their daring escape from prison.

Why similar: Co-op 53.6%, Local Co-Op 35.1%, Multiplayer 11%, Indie 0.3%

Work together to solve puzzles and escape a desert island in this stylized multiplayer co-op adventure. Success requires more than just you and your partner thinking alike - you'll have to communicate and stay In Sink to overcome the challenges ahead.

Why similar: Co-op 45.8%, Puzzle 19.2%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Family Friendly 11.5%, Casual 3.7%

Play alone or with your friends in this cooperative adventure for 1 to 4 players. Make the right moves, and coordinate with your team to rescue people in danger. Have fun, and act fast! The success of your team depends on your choices. Save as many lives as possible in a frantic race against time!

Why similar: Party 30.8% ★, Co-op 23.4%, Local Co-Op 18%, Local Multiplayer 7.8%, Puzzle 6.2%

Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!

Why similar: Co-op 30.3%, Local Co-Op 28.6%, Puzzle 15.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Local Multiplayer 5.7%

Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!

Why similar: Co-op 27.3%, Local Multiplayer 23.4%, Local Co-Op 23.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Procedural Generation 6.1%

It’s the biggest Party Pack yet, including the return of the classic pop culture trivia mash-up YOU DON’T KNOW JACK: Full Stream; the game of hilarious hypotheticals Split the Room; the lyric-writing, robot rap battle Mad Verse City; the inventive drawing game Patently Stupid; and the outer space fling-fest Zeeple Dome.

Why similar: Party Game 26.5%, Local Multiplayer 26.2%, Party 19.3% ★, Board Game 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to "couch co-op"! Are you ready for an exciting career in furniture? As a newly certified Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician, you’ll take on moving jobs all across the busy town of Packmore.

Why similar: Co-op 24.4%, Local Multiplayer 23.1%, Local Co-Op 22.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Simulation 5.5%

"The Experiment" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! You took part in an experiment that went out of control, can you escape the facilities before it's too late?

Why similar: Co-op 41.1%, Multiplayer 18.3%, Puzzle 16.2%, VR 14.7%, Casual 5.3%

Team up with a friend to reach a lost submarine and prevent the outbreak of war. Work together on two devices to solve increasingly challenging puzzles, where each of you has your own unique role to play. 2 players: 1 buys the game, the other uses the free Companion App

Why similar: Board Game 32.7%, Team-Based 16.6%, Local Co-Op 12.4%, Co-op 12.2%, Puzzle 11.9%

Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for the Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games.

Why similar: Funny 42.8%, Family Friendly 23.4%, Simulation 17.9%, Casual 16%

For 3-8 Players and an Audience of thousands! Your phones or tablets are your controllers! The gut-busting, say-anything, no-rules party game!

Why similar: Party Game 23.4%, Party 21.4% ★, Local Multiplayer 17.3%, Co-op 16.3%, Multiplayer 9.6%

ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.

Why similar: Co-op 44.2%, Local Co-Op 25.4%, Puzzle 11.8%, Multiplayer 6%, Local Multiplayer 5.6%

BOKURA is a two-player puzzle adventure game. Play as two boys who ran away from their homes and work together to take yourselves somewhere far, far away. Relive the friendship of your childhood through the journey of two boys.

Why similar: Co-op 46.8%, Local Multiplayer 16.2%, Local Co-Op 15%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Puzzle 2.9%

You are a chef in VR who need to satisfy your customers in a limited amount of time. Share the experience with a friend in local multiplayer mode. Chaotic levels are waiting for you!

Why similar: Asymmetric VR 52.2% ★, VR 24.1%, Local Co-Op 15.4%, Simulation 3.8%, Casual 2.6%

Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 26%, Co-op 25%, Local Multiplayer 13.6%, Puzzle 11.4%, Difficult 11.2%

The fourth pack in this storied party game franchise features Fibbage 3 and its new game mode, Fibbage: Enough About You; the twisted web game Survive the Internet; the dating contest Monster Seeking Monster; the deranged debate match Bracketeering; and the one-up art game Civic Doodle.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 27.6%, Party Game 20.7%, Party 17.9% ★, Board Game 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Eye in the Sky is an asymmetrical local co-op escape room where a VR player and a Computer player solve puzzles from different perspectives. The goal is to share information from each perspective and overcome the obstacles on a journey to the center of a post-apocalyptic robot planet.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 30.3%, Asymmetric VR 26.6% ★, VR 18.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Casual 8.1%

Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

Why similar: Co-op 51.8%, Local Co-Op 31%, Procedural Generation 7.6%, Funny 5.1%, Strategy 2.5%

A new lead turns up old doubts about an 'Unsolved Case'. A trap, or a copycat killer? In this co-op puzzle game prequel to the award-winning Cryptic Killer series, put on your detective badges as you collaborate and communicate to crack the codes, solve the riddles, and catch the Cryptic Killer.

Why similar: Co-op 42.5%, Puzzle 27.8%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Family Friendly 8.4%, Casual 3.6%

BFF or Die is a cozy/crazy couch co-op puzzle-action game for one to four players. As time traveling aliens you’re sent on a risky rescue mission to Earth! Use your gadgets collaboratively to overcome danger and survive as a team.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 20.7%, Local Multiplayer 18.5%, Co-op 16.2%, Team-Based 11.6%, Puzzle 9.1%

Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal slapstick fight sequences, and absurd hazardous environments, set in the mean streets of Beef City.

Why similar: Party Game 20.8%, Party 20.2% ★, Co-op 16.5%, Local Multiplayer 14.3%, Local Co-Op 12%

For 3-8 players and an audience of thousands! Your phones or tablets are your controllers! The game of terrible drawings and hilariously wrong answers.

Why similar: Party 19.9% ★, Party Game 19.9%, Local Multiplayer 14.3%, Board Game 12.4%, Local Co-Op 10.5%

A co-op party game where you draw things humans can understand, but an image recognition AI can't! 2-6 players can join with just one copy of the game, using your mobile browser as your controller.

Why similar: Party Game 29.8%, Co-op 17.8%, Local Multiplayer 13.6%, Local Co-Op 12.2%, Team-Based 7.3%

Pummel Party is a 4-8 player online and local-multiplayer party game. Pummel friends or AI using a wide array of absurd items in the board mode and compete to destroy friendships in the unique collection of minigames.

Why similar: Party Game 23.9%, Board Game 17.7%, Party 13.6% ★, Multiplayer 11.2%, Local Multiplayer 11.2%

Use Your Words is the new party game for funny people and their unfunny friends! Laugh your way through four hilarious mini-games! Use your smartphone to fill in the blank, or try your luck using one of our answers to get laughs! No matter your strategy, Use Your Words brings comedy home!

Why similar: Party Game 32.2%, Local Multiplayer 29.7%, Party 15.5% ★, Co-op 13.5%, Funny 3.6%