- #1 Monstrum
97% matchVery Positive91% of 3,704 reviews2015
Dev: Team JunkfishPub: Junkfish Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
Why similar: Horror 48.4%, Survival Horror 32.7%, Survival 4.5%, Indie 3.7%, Difficult 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a procedurally generated ship and a persistent, terrifying monster that forces players to adapt their survival strategy every time.
- #2 WORLD OF HORROR
96% matchVery Positive90% of 9,764 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Horror 29.5%, Lovecraftian 29.2%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Roguelite 7.4%, Difficult 7%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the Lovecraftian aesthetic and roguelite structure, where every run presents new, randomized cosmic horrors.
- #3 Labyrinthine
96% matchVery Positive84% of 17,307 reviews2023
Dev: Valko Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 38%, Lovecraftian 30.3%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Roguelite 8%, Atmospheric 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly atmospheric, procedurally generated cooperative horror experience that emphasizes puzzle-solving and survival.
- #4 Barotrauma
95% matchVery Positive94% of 86,224 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Horror 30.6%, Survival Horror 26.6%, Multiplayer 23.8%, Survival 12.1%, Difficult 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, procedurally generated survival horror game set in a Lovecraftian underwater environment that relies heavily on cooperative teamwork.
- #5 Darkwood
94% matchVery Positive95% of 24,197 reviews2017
Dev: Acid Wizard StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Why similar: Horror 43.7%, Survival Horror 34.3%, Survival 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: While top-down, its procedurally generated world and oppressive, survival-focused atmosphere capture the same dread found in Phantasmal.
- #6 Amnesia: The Bunker
94% matchVery Positive93% of 11,778 reviews2023
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.
Why similar: Horror 32.4%, Survival Horror 27.3%, FPS 12.4%, Difficult 11.2%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an emergent, highly reactive survival horror experience where the environment and threats change based on player actions.
- #7 SIGNALIS
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,665 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.4%, Survival Horror 44.6%, Atmospheric 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title masterfully blends Lovecraftian themes with classic survival horror mechanics and a claustrophobic, shifting environment.
- #8 GTFO
91% matchVery Positive84% of 65,714 reviews2021
Dev: 10 Chambers
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 32.1%, Survival Horror 22.3%, Multiplayer 17.3%, FPS 13.6%, Difficult 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: An intense, cooperative survival horror game that requires extreme coordination to navigate its dangerous, procedurally-influenced levels.
- #9 Dungeon Nightmares II : The Memory
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 284 reviews2015
Dev: K Monkey
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Dungeon Nightmares II is a first-person psychological horror that takes you through a journey of discovering what nightmares are.The game is inspired by classic roguelike games which include 100% procedural-generated maps and permadeath.
Why similar: Horror 62.1%, Survival Horror 31.5%, Indie 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on procedurally generated nightmares and jump-scare-heavy survival horror that feels very similar to Phantasmal.
- #10 White Noise 2
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,868 reviews2017
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 39.5%, Survival Horror 23.1%, Multiplayer 20%, FPS 5.9%, Survival 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated cooperative horror game where players must work together to survive against a creature controlled by another player.
- #11 Shadow Corridor
90% matchVery Positive91% of 2,156 reviews2019
Dev: Space Onigiri Game LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Now on Steam, revamped with brand new content! Immerse yourself in the latest chapter of the popular, Japanese indie horror title, Kageroh: Shadow Corridor. Survive against the onslaught of horrors that lie in wait in eerie, traditional Japanese locales that change with every playthrough.
Why similar: Horror 69.3%, Survival Horror 18.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Indie 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features procedurally generated maps and a relentless pursuit mechanic that captures the tension of being hunted in the dark.
- #12 The Forest
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 670,097 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Horror 48.5%, Survival Horror 24.9%, Survival 21.2%, Atmospheric 3.7%, Indie 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival with procedural elements and terrifying, intelligent AI enemies that hunt you in the dark.
- #13 UNLOVED
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,129 reviews2016
Dev: BlueEagle ProductionsPub: Paul Schneider
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Based on the community award-winning Doom2 mod with the same name by the same creator, UNLOVED is reimagined in the Unreal Engine 4 to bring forth the unspeakable terror in new ways. Play coop with your friends, increase your skills, mod your weapons and face the horror that this unearthly place holds...
Why similar: Horror 42.8%, Survival Horror 18%, FPS 17%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Survival 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A visceral, cooperative FPS that leans into gore and horror with procedurally generated levels and challenging combat.
- #14 Project Zomboid
87% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Multiplayer 37.5%, Survival 32.8%, Survival Horror 25.3%, Indie 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: This hardcore survival game features deep roguelike mechanics and a persistent sense of dread that makes every decision matter.
- #15 Remnant: From the Ashes
86% matchVery Positive84% of 56,630 reviews2019
Dev: Gunfire GamesPub: Arc Games
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.8%, Multiplayer 26.5%, Horror 17.4%, Difficult 10.6%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes procedural generation to create a challenging, Lovecraftian-inspired action experience that can be played entirely in co-op.
- #16 SCP: Containment Breach Multiplayer
86% matchVery Positive83% of 28,196 reviews2021
Dev: Fusion Creators Studio
Windows
Multiplayer survival horror game based on stories from the SCP Foundation. The game is about a facility containing anomalous entities known as SCPs. When a catastrophic containment breach occurs at one of the facilities, it is your main goal to escape the facility. Try to escape with your friends!
Why similar: Horror 43%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Survival Horror 16.5%, FPS 7.5%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the iconic SCP horror universe into a cooperative, randomized environment that is both chaotic and terrifying.
- #17 Inscryption
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,872 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Horror 78.7%, Roguelite 21.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric roguelike that blends horror elements with card-based gameplay to create a deeply unsettling and unpredictable experience.
- #18 Chasmal Fear
85% matchMixed53% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: MystiveDevPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Chasmal Fear is a next-gen FPS action horror game built in Unreal Engine 5 from the perspective of a body camera. Manage limited resources, make smart choices that affect playthrough, and survive monsters that mutate to get stronger. Played as singleplayer or Co-Op with 2 players.
Why similar: Horror 39%, Survival Horror 28.6%, FPS 16%, Survival 9.3%, Atmospheric 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror game that emphasizes co-op survival and intense, claustrophobic encounters in dark environments.
- #19 The Backrooms: Survival
84% matchVery Positive82% of 1,124 reviews2023
Dev: RE:CODE
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
Why similar: Horror 34.4%, Survival Horror 28%, Multiplayer 19.8%, Roguelite 9.7%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the surreal, procedurally generated nature of the Backrooms with a heavy emphasis on survival and exploration.
- #20 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
82% matchVery Positive93% of 130 reviews2022
Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
Windows
An unsettling rogue-lite survival horror adventure. Iconic levels reshape around you. Classic and original entities lurk as greater beings bid for your favor. Collect relics and strange items. Grow stronger. Survive, escape, or claim more uncertain fates. Fall in. Get lost. Go beyond The Backrooms.
Why similar: Horror 44.5%, Survival Horror 33.9%, Roguelite 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the exploration of shifting, liminal spaces that evoke a strong sense of existential horror.
- #21 The Consuming Shadow
83% matchVery Positive95% of 421 reviews2015
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.7%, Survival Horror 21.2%, Horror 18.1%, Roguelite 6.5%, Atmospheric 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D Lovecraftian roguelike that focuses on investigation and survival against ancient, eldritch threats.
- #22 Gehinnom
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Chaos Minds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gehinnom is a multiplayer horror game for 1-4 players. collect clues and complete various quests to perform a ritual and banish the demon that hunts you. Everything in Gehinnom is randomly generated, so you will always be scared.
Why similar: Horror 31.9%, Survival Horror 26.6%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Difficult 11.4%, Atmospheric 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that forces players to navigate dangerous, randomized environments while being hunted by supernatural entities.
- #23 Fear Therapy
81% matchMixed67% of 4,733 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 59.4%, Multiplayer 30.7%, Survival Horror 6.5%, Difficult 2.1%, Indie 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer psychological horror game where the environment and objectives shift, requiring constant communication to survive.
- #24 Mirrored Phantoms
79% matchMixed69% of 226 reviews2025
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows · Linux
Trapped in a nightmarish mannequin factory where reality itself is shattered, unravel the secrets of Mirrored Phantoms. Explore a deeply atmospheric world, solve the mystery of the mirror shards, and survive the terrors that await in this slow-burning, first-person horror experience.
Why similar: Horror 82.4%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Indie 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric horror game that uses psychological tension and first-person exploration to create a haunting experience.
- #25 Paranormal
82% matchMixed56% of 526 reviews2013
Dev: Matt Cohen
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience the horrors of a haunting that's never the same twice. Paranormal is a 3D fully dynamic haunting experience. The player takes the role of Mattel Clarke, an artist who has a haunted house. Mattel decides to film the hauntings with his camera, which is the viewpoint of the game.
Why similar: Horror 94.1%, Indie 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: An indie horror title that uses a dynamic, randomized haunting system to ensure that no two playthroughs are identical.
- #26 Shadownest
80% matchMixed55% of 507 reviews2021
Dev: Briny Boi StudiosPub: Briny Boi Studios
Windows
Asymmetric multiplayer meets atmospheric horror
Why similar: Survival Horror 48.2%, Multiplayer 33.7%, Indie 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game that emphasizes cooperative play and action-oriented encounters in a dark, indie-developed setting.
- #27 No More Room in Hell 2
78% matchMixed49% of 20,921 reviews2024
Dev: Torn Banner Studios
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.2%, Horror 25.1%, Multiplayer 20.3%, FPS 12%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative survival horror game features large, randomized maps and a focus on resource management under extreme pressure.
- #28 Phantom Hysteria
79% matchMixed63% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: Lunar Tale Games LLC
Windows
Phantom Hysteria thrusts you into the ghost hunting genre. Play solo or co-op with up to four players, where you will have to investigate, banish, and neutralize phantoms with your taped-together gear.
Why similar: Horror 69.9%, FPS 16%, Atmospheric 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative investigation game that uses randomized ghost behaviors to keep players on edge during every session.
- #29 Changgwi
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Mandam
Windows
First-perspective Co-op horror game (up to 4 online players). A terrible incident has struck a Joseon-era village. Become an investigator and survive the cursed night.
Why similar: Horror 45.9%, Survival Horror 27.9%, Multiplayer 23.7%, Indie 2.6%
- #30 SCP: Containment Breach 2
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,146 reviews2025
Dev: Euclid LabsPub: Mixarar
Windows
Survive the chaos of SCP Foundation! Step into a thrilling SCP horror experience with story-driven co-op, intense PvP Breach mode, and randomized maps. Play as Class-D, scientist, SCPs, and more, each role bringing unique challenges in an unpredictable, immersive facility.
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Survival Horror 26%, Multiplayer 19.4%, FPS 13.8%, Atmospheric 6.1%
- #31 The Designer's Curse
77% matchVery Positive88% of 810 reviews2019
Dev: CBGames
Windows · Mac
Chapter 2 is OUT NOW! The first chapter of an unforgettable survival horror experience. Solve puzzles and work your way through this terrifying place. You may be more familiar with it than you initially think.
Why similar: Horror 33.3%, Lovecraftian 31.2%, Survival Horror 26.8%, Atmospheric 6.9%, Indie 1.8%
- #32 Minds Eyes
78% matchMixed70% of 1,834 reviews2016
Dev: Stanislaw TruchowskiPub: TurnVex
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 21%
You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?
Why similar: Horror 62.8%, Survival Horror 18.8%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Indie 2.3%, FPS 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror experience that focuses on survival and exploration within dark, atmospheric environments.
- #33 Space Beast Terror Fright
75% matchVery Positive92% of 1,781 reviews2022
Dev: nornware AB
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
S.B.T.F. is a very hard arcade-style / rogue-like / perma-death first person shooter. You play as Marines who must brave dark, claustrophobic and terrifyingly intense Space Beast infested spacecraft in order to extract critical data and lucrative upgrades. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Horror 41.3%, Survival Horror 19.8%, FPS 16.7%, Multiplayer 12%, Indie 5.6%
- #34 Devil of the Plague
74% matchVery Positive80% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: SoulByte Games
Windows
A 1–4 player co-op horror game. Cleanse cursed lands, perform forbidden rituals, and survive a spreading plague. Fear is not scripted. It emerges from your choices, your mistakes, and your team.
Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Survival Horror 27.4%, Multiplayer 18.3%, FPS 11.6%, Atmospheric 8.1%
- #35 Project Unknown
73% matchVery Positive83% of 905 reviews2025
Dev: PsychoRavensPub: Nightmare Studios
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Horror 37.7%, Survival Horror 27.3%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Difficult 10.3%, Indie 3.4%
- #36 Dead Blue Rose
76% matchMostly Negative33% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: ColdBones
Windows
A multiplayer horror where you escape a laboratory at the cost of others.
Why similar: Horror 34.1%, Survival Horror 26.3%, Multiplayer 19.1%, FPS 11.6%, Atmospheric 6.4%
- #37 Forsaken Frontiers
72% matchVery Positive82% of 491 reviews2025
Dev: made in fairyland
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Step into the frozen unknown in Forsaken Frontiers, a cooperative analog horror adventure set in the unforgiving embrace of an everlasting winter.
Why similar: Horror 57.4%, Multiplayer 31.2%, Atmospheric 11.4%
- #38 Our Elusive Suffering
73% matchMixed66% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: 👁️Pub: ⚰️
Windows
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Why similar: Horror 50.9%, Lovecraftian 46.3%, Indie 2.8%
- #39 Inside the Backrooms
70% matchVery Positive80% of 46,110 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 43.9%, Multiplayer 24.9%, Survival Horror 21.6%, FPS 6.1%, Atmospheric 3.5%
- #40 Unlasting Horror
73% matchMixed64% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Matt Sowards Games
Windows
Experience the story of a Private Detective and find out what happened on the day of the accident in this First Person horror Adventure. play solo or with up to five friends using unique features from solving puzzles, buying equipment to stun the monsters and progress through the story.
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Survival Horror 27.6%, FPS 19.6%, Multiplayer 18.1%
- #41 Welcome to Hanwell
74% matchMixed47% of 364 reviews2017
Dev: Steel Arts
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.
Why similar: Horror 48.2%, Survival Horror 27.9%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Indie 7.1%, Atmospheric 4.8%
- #42 44 Minutes in Nightmare
71% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: loloop
Windows
All randomly generated roguelike stealth horror FPS! Different dungeons every time you play, items that constantly change their placement, several Enemies with different characteristics and rare appearance special Enemies. Your boldness, discretion and luck will determine your escape.
Why similar: Horror 67%, FPS 24.9%, Indie 8%
- #43 Visage
69% matchVery Positive84% of 10,723 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Horror 58.7%, Survival Horror 22.5%, Multiplayer 13%, Atmospheric 4.1%, Indie 1.7%
- #44 CRYO
67% matchVery Positive90% of 442 reviews2025
Dev: Valko Game Studios
Windows
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...
Why similar: Horror 53.3%, Survival Horror 19.4%, Survival 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.3%
- #45 Backrooms: Escape Together
67% matchVery Positive88% of 36,535 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.
Why similar: Horror 41.5%, Survival Horror 27.1%, Multiplayer 26.1%, Atmospheric 5.3%
- #46 White Noise Online
72% matchMixed66% of 712 reviews2014
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A fully cooperative horror experience like never before! On White Noise Online, a team of up to 4 investigators has to explore an area looking for clues, while avoiding being devoured by a supernatural creature. Will you be able to uncover the truth behind the mysterious events?
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Survival Horror 25.9%, Multiplayer 20.3%, FPS 11.9%, Atmospheric 5.2%
- #47 Doorways: Old Prototype
70% matchVery Positive86% of 670 reviews2016
Dev: Saibot Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 23%
An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga
Why similar: Horror 59.6%, Lovecraftian 22.6%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Atmospheric 5.6%, Indie 4.3%
- #48 Stay Close
71% matchMixed62% of 1,912 reviews2016
Dev: Blind Bird
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?
Why similar: Horror 55.9%, Survival Horror 23.9%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Indie 2.2%
- #49 Silent Rain
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 220 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: Horror 35.3%, Survival Horror 26.9%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Survival 7.6%
- #50 Project Liminal 2
66% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
Windows
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: FPS 43.4%, Horror 33.2%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Indie 7.4%
- #51 FLIGHTMARE
69% matchMostly Negative27% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Van Studios
Windows
Indie horror game that will take your adrenaline to another level.
Why similar: Horror 71.8%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Indie 12.3%
- #52 Ghostship Aftermath
71% matchMostly Negative39% of 108 reviews2014
Dev: MadAboutGamesStudios
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Ghostship Aftermath takes survival horror to a new level with random events and multiple story-lines. Your survival skills will be put to the test on a huge open-world military spacecraft with limited light and oxygen as you struggle to discover what happened, and fight to stay alive!
Why similar: Horror 73.2%, Survival 16.1%, Indie 10.7%
- #53 Forsake: Urban horror
66% matchVery Positive80% of 222 reviews2023
Dev: Unseen Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 23.5 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: Horror 34.9%, Survival Horror 28.6%, Multiplayer 18.7%, FPS 8.6%, Survival 5.3%
- #54 Cthulhu's Reach: Devil Reef
66% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: The Fine ArcPub: First Break Labs
Windows
1923. You owe a gangster money. The answer is buried beneath Devil Reef — if the horrors lurking in the dark don’t claim your mind first. A Lovecraftian co-op roguelite for 1–4 players where your sanity is the real final boss.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47%, Horror 35%, Roguelite 9.9%, Atmospheric 8.1%
- #55 Mistfal
70% matchMixed47% of 77 reviews2016
Dev: Sergei Minin
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Interactive novel, survival horror, psychological thriller - you can find in Mistfal, what you're interested in.And when you pass the game, I'm sure it will not leave you indifferent.Welcome to Mistfal !
Why similar: Horror 57.1%, Survival 17.1%, Indie 16.3%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #56 Tales of Terror
67% matchMixed54% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: BearfoxBear
Windows
Tales of Terror invites you to delve into a chilling co-op horror survival experience. Unite to face unique enemies, navigate through visually stunning and treacherous levels and navigate the unknown. —Your ultimate challenge awaits: escape, if you can!
Why similar: Horror 38.5%, Survival Horror 28%, Multiplayer 21.5%, FPS 5.3%, Survival 3.5%
- #57 Backrooms Rec.
65% matchMixed70% of 1,769 reviews2024
Dev: Liminal Logic
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Horror 32.5%, Survival Horror 27.7%, Multiplayer 22.2%, FPS 12.5%, Atmospheric 5.1%