Games Like REANIMAL

Little Nightmares III is an atmospheric adventure game in which you follow the journey of Low and Alone, two best friends in search of a way out of the Nowhere. In 2 players online cooperation or solo with an A.I., work together to solve puzzles and survive in this nightmarish world.

Why similar: Co-op 25.7%, Horror 18.9%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Puzzle 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match, pairing Little Nightmares-style cinematic stealth-platforming and grotesque environments with dedicated two-player co-op.

Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.

Why similar: Horror 31.1%, Dark 15.4%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Puzzle 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its tense puzzle-platforming, ominous oversized world, and child protagonists make it the clearest single-player precursor to REANIMAL.

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Horror 33.7%, Dark 17.1%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Puzzle 9.9%, Adventure 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the original compact journey through a haunting dollhouse-like world of environmental puzzles, stealth, and grotesque threats.

Bramble The Mountain King is a grim adventure set in a world inspired by dark, Nordic fables. Explore the beautiful yet dangerous and twisted land of Bramble in your endeavour to rescue your sister. Traverse a wondrous landscape and survive deadly encounters with Bramble's many hideous creatures.

Why similar: Cinematic 24.7%, Horror 24%, Dark 14.9%, Third Person 10.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It follows a child through a beautiful but horrific Scandinavian-folklore nightmare full of cinematic chases, puzzles, and monstrous set pieces.

Follow The Midnight Walk in a dark adventure from the minds behind Lost in Random. Befriend a lost lantern creature and light your way through a world of wonder and terror. Outsmart monsters and marvel at details in a landscape handcrafted with real clay and animated in a stop motion style.

Why similar: Horror 24.4%, Cinematic 20.3%, Dark 16.8%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Stealth 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its handcrafted stop-motion look, unsettling fantasy creatures, and puzzle-driven trek through darkness strongly evoke REANIMAL’s storybook horror appeal.

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: Co-op 32.8%, Horror 28.3%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Dark 7.9%, Stealth 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although more survival-focused, its cooperative objectives, pursuit-heavy horror, and grotesque institutional setting make it an intense multiplayer alternative.

DARQ tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to face his fears and decipher the meaning of the dream.

Why similar: Horror 23.7%, Dark 18.5%, Third Person 10.4%, Puzzle 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal nightmare adventure centers on navigating distorted rooms and solving perspective-based puzzles while avoiding frightening pursuers.

Shape your fears… Fear the shapes. Embark on a journey where you face your worst fears and are confronted with the emotional impact of your actions in this narrative adventure game with puzzles, stealth and action.

Why similar: Horror 31.2%, Puzzle 14.3%, Third Person 12.2%, Stealth 11.9%, Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A young protagonist explores a hostile, stylized nightmare town using stealth, light-based puzzles, and evasion rather than combat.

Tandem : A Tale of Shadows redefines the puzzle platformer genre with a unique gameplay and exceptional aesthetics. Help Emma and the teddy bear Fenton solve the mystery of the disappearance of the famous magician Thomas Kane.

Why similar: Puzzle 34.4%, Mystery 17.1%, Stylized 15.6%, Adventure 15.6%, 3D 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its Victorian gothic setting and dual-character puzzle design offer a dark fairy-tale adventure with a strong Little Nightmares-like mood.

Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

Why similar: Cinematic 26%, Horror 24.3%, Dark 19.6%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Puzzle 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers wordless, oppressive environmental storytelling and meticulously paced puzzle-platforming in a hostile dystopian world.

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 31.6%, Co-op 19.6%, Online Co-Op 18.4%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Stealth 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Players cooperate to navigate uncanny liminal spaces, decipher environmental puzzles, and evade terrifying entities.

A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…

Why similar: Horror 28.1%, Third Person 16.4%, Cinematic 16%, Co-op 13.4%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op horror story mixes a sinister isolated location, tense exploration, life-or-death traps, and multiplayer decision-making.

In the wake of catastrophe find the means to make your family whole again.

Why similar: Cinematic 29.3%, Dark 19.2%, Atmospheric 15%, Puzzle 12.6%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its eerie disaster atmosphere and largely wordless environmental puzzles create a similarly unsettling journey through an altered world.

The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.

Why similar: Co-op 29.8%, Horror 22.7%, Cinematic 18.7%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared-story co-op mode and claustrophobic ghost-ship horror make it a fitting choice for players wanting a darker cooperative narrative.

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: Co-op 25.1%, Horror 25.1%, Online Co-Op 20.1%, Multiplayer 13%, Puzzle 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a co-op horror escape experience focused on getting lost in dark maze-like spaces, solving puzzles, and surviving supernatural threats together.

When you cut ties to the past, new bonds form. Build relationships with other Yarnys in local co-op or as a single player, fostering friendship and support as you journey together.

Why similar: Co-op 36.5%, Local Co-Op 26.3%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Puzzle 7.9%, Local Multiplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its local or online co-op structure asks two small characters to coordinate movement and solve traversal puzzles through atmospheric environments.

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 22.5%, Online Co-Op 18.3%, Horror 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Puzzle 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers dedicated co-op escape-room puzzles in a bleak castle setting where communication and mutual reliance are essential.

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 35.6%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Puzzle 11.7%, Horror 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This purpose-built two-player puzzle adventure has partners communicate across different perspectives to unravel a macabre mystery.

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 33.9%, Local Co-Op 22.4%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Local Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a highly polished two-player adventure built entirely around collaborative traversal, changing mechanics, and mutual problem-solving.

Guide two brothers on an epic journey of discovery, loss, adventure and mystery remade for the latest generation of graphics, performance, and gameplay. Play in single-player mode or local co-op with a friend. This is one journey you will never forget.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 50%, Co-op 18.1%, Adventure 12.8%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The sibling-focused journey and cooperative environmental problem-solving make it a strong emotional adventure counterpart, despite its lighter fantasy tone.

Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…

Why similar: Horror 20.8%, Third Person 13.1%, Surreal 12.1%, Stealth 10.8%, Atmospheric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its teen protagonists, stealthy exploration, environmental puzzles, and restrained psychological horror suit players seeking an intimate creepy adventure.

For some time now, Leafmore High School has been the setting for unexplained disappearances. In this survival horror game, you take control of a group of 5 American students. With your friends, you try to unravel the mysterious happenings at this unremarkable-looking school. The night will be long and survival not will not be easy...

Why similar: Horror 33.2%, Local Co-Op 27.5%, Co-op 20.1%, Third Person 7.5%, Atmospheric 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This cult co-op survival-horror game lets two characters investigate a monster-infested school while solving puzzles and trying to keep each other alive.

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Dark 26.3%, Horror 22.1%, Puzzle 17%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Surreal 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A solitary child crosses a lethal monochrome world through physics puzzles, traps, and wordless sinister storytelling.

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Why similar: Dark 19.8%, Horror 18.8%, Cinematic 18.6%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Adventure 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This melancholy puzzle-platformer layers dark fantasy imagery, vulnerable characters, and an emotionally heavy mystery across several connected stories.

A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?

Why similar: Horror 41.4%, Dark 23.1%, Surreal 14.1%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Adventure 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its deceptively colorful hand-drawn visuals conceal an increasingly disturbing surreal nightmare packed with bizarre puzzle sequences.

A 1-3 player co-op puzzle horror game set in an accursed megastore. Work together to decode the store's twisted logic, and find a way out before the lurking horrors doom you to shop forever.

Why similar: Co-op 20.2%, Horror 15.4%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Dark 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.

Why similar: Co-op 32.8%, Local Co-Op 24.4%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Local Multiplayer 9.4%, Multiplayer 8%

Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.

Why similar: Horror 21.5%, Co-op 19%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Cinematic 7.1%

Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.

Why similar: Horror 61.5%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Dark 9.2%, Adventure 7.2%, Puzzle 5%

Why You'll Like It: You explore a warped domestic nightmare from the perspective of a vulnerable child, emphasizing atmosphere and discovery over combat.

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

Why similar: Horror 33.6%, Cinematic 29.1%, Multiplayer 22%, Co-op 12.3%, Adventure 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This cinematic ensemble horror game supports multiplayer decision-making and delivers a dark isolated-location survival story.

After noticing bone-chilling similarities to an episode of Fears to Fathom, Tessa and Marcus decide to share their own experience. Scratch Creek is an exclusively online co-op experience.

Why similar: Horror 35.6%, Co-op 30.1%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Adventure 4.9%

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: Horror 23.6%, Co-op 20.7%, Online Co-Op 19%, Multiplayer 17%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 42.9%, Co-op 16.1%, Local Multiplayer 14.1%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Puzzle 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: While less frightening, its intimate two-character co-op journey through dangerous atmospheric landscapes captures REANIMAL’s emphasis on companionship and traversal.

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 26.6%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Co-op 16.7%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Puzzle 6.9%

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: Co-op 24%, Horror 22.8%, Online Co-Op 20.7%, Cinematic 12.6%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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: Co-op 21%, Horror 19.5%, Online Co-Op 17.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Stealth 7.9%

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: Co-op 29.3%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Dark 12.9%, Horror 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%

Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.

Why similar: Co-op 32.7%, Horror 31.3%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Dark 13%, Mystery 4.4%

An online co-op detective horror for up to 3 players. Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers, as some are only pretending to be human. Make one mistake, and you’ll be forced to board up, set traps, and hide.

Why similar: Horror 28.8%, Online Co-Op 21.9%, Co-op 19.3%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Atmospheric 4.6%

2-player asymmetrical co-op game, Follow Us is a hilarious and horrifying relationship stress test, where one player explores a spooky environment, while another guides them remotely from the van, trying to keep their partner alive.

Why similar: Co-op 27.6%, Horror 25.4%, Online Co-Op 21.2%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Adventure 4.1%

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

Why similar: Co-op 30.1%, Horror 27.9%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Cinematic 9.1%, Online Co-Op 6.8%

Pragmata is a unique, sci-fi action-adventure game from Capcom. Follow Hugh, a member of an ill-fated investigation team, and Diana, a young android, as they navigate a lunar facility taken over by rogue AI in search of a way to Earth.

Why similar: Third Person 49.3%, Adventure 30%, 3D 17.2%, Singleplayer 3.5%

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: Co-op 20.1%, Horror 18%, Online Co-Op 16.2%, Dark 12%, Multiplayer 11.8%

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 36.6%, Online Co-Op 22.7%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Co-op 14.6%, Dark 5%

A horror survival and extraction game playable in single player or co-op for up to 4 players. Lost in a creepy forest, you and your friends are hunted by a monster. Stay quiet while extracting keys through nightmarish realms using items like traps, sonars, and flare guns to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 29.8%, Horror 26.4%, Third Person 12%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%

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: Horror 26.4%, Co-op 24.3%, Online Co-Op 20%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Puzzle 6.2%

ZOO PROTOCOL is a co-op sci-fi horror for 1–5 players with a dark story about escaping an abandoned energy facility. Outsmart the system or be scrapped.

Why similar: Horror 26.3%, Online Co-Op 25.2%, Dark 14.3%, Atmospheric 9.7%, 3D 7.8%

Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes is a dark atmospheric adventure‑puzzle game where you embody Dark Six, a mysterious figure with the shape of a little girl. Navigate in a disturbing world, solve intricate puzzles, and escape terrifying giant foes in a desperate search to become whole again.

Why similar: Horror 23.7%, Puzzle 19.8%, Adventure 19.1%, Atmospheric 17.2%, Stealth 13.3%

Forest Escape: Last Train is a co-op surreal horror game for 1–4 players. Explore bizarre nightmare locations, gather resources, solve the insane Warden's twisted puzzles, and keep your locomotive running as you fight to escape his unhinged world.

Why similar: Co-op 23.4%, Horror 21.1%, Online Co-Op 18.3%, Multiplayer 13.5%, 3D 5.6%

“VESSEL” is a two-player online horror puzzle game. Experience varied puzzles, monster chases, boss battles and item collection alongside a rich story. Join forces with your friend and help the siblings escape the haunted hospital!

Why similar: Co-op 24.7%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Horror 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Cinematic 12.4%

Climb up from the depths of Hell. Scale various worlds solo or chained together with your friends in the 1-4 player platforming sensation.

Why similar: Co-op 41.7%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Third Person 10%, Adventure 6.3%

A two-player co-op horror escape. Trapped in a haunted manor, you’ll need to solve puzzles, work together, and trust each other to make it out alive.

Why similar: Co-op 20.4%, Horror 16.8%, Online Co-Op 16%, Multiplayer 10%, Dark 9.5%

A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.

Why similar: Horror 38.2%, Dark 24.8%, Third Person 19.6%, Atmospheric 16.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%

PERFECTLY CRAFTED FOR PC. PlayStation® icon Sackboy bursts into action on PC in a huge 3D multiplayer platforming adventure. An epic journey stuffed with platforming challenges. Deeply immersive controls. Collaborative, chaotic and joyful multiplayer fun.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 28.6%, Co-op 22.6%, Multiplayer 17%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Adventure 7.3%

Embark on an original story, prequel to the award-winning games: A Plague Tale. As Sophia, journey to the Minotaur’s Island, outsmart deadly foes, unravel ancient secrets, and confront a mythical creature at the heart of a devastating curse.

Why similar: Third Person 31.4%, Puzzle 23.9%, Atmospheric 20.7%, Adventure 15.9%, Mystery 8.2%

Follow R.E.A.C.H., an AI trapped in a human body, on a cinematic adventure through an alternate 1980s America. Explore an atmospheric cyberpunk world full of high-stakes action wrapped in a unique 2.5D pixel art style.

Why similar: Cinematic 47.6%, Dark 25.2%, Atmospheric 17.2%, Adventure 8.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Psycho Reign is a Single or 2 player co-operative online horror puzzle and stealth game where in each level you will be chased by blood thirsty psychos. Look for and solve mini puzzles in order to progress further on the map. Ultimately, find something to fight back...or get chopped up.

Why similar: Co-op 19.2%, Horror 16.6%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Dark 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.3%