- #1 Dark Hours
97% matchVery Positive82% of 4,236 reviews2025
Dev: Piece of Cake studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.1%, Horror 18.3%, Survival Horror 12%, Co-op 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Like Shift At Midnight, it places players in a high-stress cooperative environment where stealth and teamwork are essential for survival against sudden horrors.
- #2 Happy's Humble Burger Cult
96% matchVery Positive85% of 621 reviews2026
Dev: Scythe Dev TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.1%, Horror 19.7%, Co-op 11.7%, Comedy 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a mundane food service shift simulation with terrifying horror elements and dark comedy.
- #3 MIMESIS
96% matchVery Positive84% of 10,506 reviews2025
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 30.9%, Horror 19.4%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Comedy 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features similar social deduction and paranoia mechanics where you must figure out who among you or your environment is actually a monster.
- #4 Phasmophobia
95% matchVery Positive94% of 840,154 reviews2020
Dev: Kinetic Games
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 51.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Why similar: Horror 28.8%, Online Co-Op 25.1%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 8.7%, Investigation 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the same investigative co-op horror vibe where gathering clues and staying alive under pressure is key.
- #5 Emissary Zero
94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,218 reviews2025
Dev: Rone Vine
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Online Co-Op 23.4%, Horror 22.3%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Co-op 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A tense psychological horror game that tests your investigative skills in cooperative scenarios.
- #6 Storebound
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,461 reviews2026
Dev: Embers
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Online Co-Op 22.8%, Horror 18.2%, Co-op 13.7%, Stealth 9.4%, 1990's 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative survival and exploration inside unsettling commercial environments reminiscent of late-night shifts.
- #7 Escape the Backrooms
92% matchVery Positive90% of 166,958 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Why similar: Horror 27.2%, Online Co-Op 22.2%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Co-op 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sprawling cooperative horror exploration game where teamwork is your only lifeline.
- #8 Inside the Backrooms
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 46,832 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 26.7%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Co-op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Presents cooperative puzzle-solving and maze navigation under constant threat of terrifying entities.
- #9 Lethal Company
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 511,107 reviews2023
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 29.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 34.2%, Horror 24.3%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Co-op 12.6%, First-Person 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers chaotic cooperative survival gameplay filled with terrifying encounters and comedic moments during hazardous shifts.
- #10 Content Warning
91% matchVery Positive94% of 163,640 reviews2024
Dev: ZorroPub: Evil Landfall?
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.6%, Horror 19%, Co-op 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Comedy 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the same blend of funny multiplayer antics and terrifying cooperative survival.
- #11 DON'T SCREAM TOGETHER
90% matchMixed50% of 2,727 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Cybercherries
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A very simple co-op jumpscare horror experience where you and friends walk through a pitch black forest and try to stay quiet. Reach 8:00 AM without screaming or making a loud noise, or everyone dies. You will scream, shout, and probably laugh.
Why similar: Horror 28.5%, Online Co-Op 27.9%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Amplifies cooperative tension with horror mechanics that punish even a single slip-up from your team.
- #12 Demonologist
89% matchVery Positive85% of 24,258 reviews2023
Dev: Clock Wizard Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.7%, Horror 17.3%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Investigation 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides intense co-op ghost hunting and investigation with high production value and jump scares.
- #13 Night Shippers
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 350 reviews2026
Dev: Young Buffalo
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 22.9%, Horror 16.9%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the exact same quirky night-shift cooperative horror aesthetic and comedic undertones.
- #14 Anomaly Company
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 218 reviews2026
Dev: Kekdot
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You and your crew are sent in to assess reality in this 4-player co-op horror game. Memorize the environment. Spot disturbing anomalies. Decide if the timeline is safe. One bad call—and you’re forced to start over.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.1%, Horror 19%, Co-op 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to work together through dangerous shifts while spotting anomalies and dodging threats.
- #15 PANICORE
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,019 reviews2024
Dev: ZTEK Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.7%, Horror 22.5%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Co-op 12%, Multiplayer 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A thrilling survival horror game where you must evade terrifying monsters while scavenging together.
- #16 FOREWARNED
86% matchVery Positive90% of 6,668 reviews2024
Dev: Dreambyte Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
FOREWARNED is a 1-4 player co-op survival horror. Delve deep into ancient Egyptian ruins with your team of fellow archaeologists. Investigate phenomena, collect treasure, discover lore, survive danger, and banish the evil that lurks within.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.6%, Horror 23.8%, Survival Horror 15%, Co-op 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines archeological investigation and cooperative horror as you unearth secrets and flee from deadly entities.
- #17 Paranormal Cleanup
86% matchVery Positive88% of 1,259 reviews2025
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.6%, Horror 18.8%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Stealth 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Merges mundane cleaning tasks with terrifying cooperative ghost-hunting gameplay.
- #18 Remnant Records
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 704 reviews2024
Dev: Noctiluca Studio
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 24.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Remnant Records is a horror investigation game for 1 to 4 players. Explore places haunted by the dead, survive elaborate and unique ghosts and find out what happened to them through thousands of generated stories.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.6%, Horror 13.2%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Investigation 10.5%, Detective 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in investigative co-op horror where gathering evidence is crucial to escaping alive.
- #19 YAPYAP
82% matchVery Positive84% of 10,094 reviews2026
Dev: Maison Bap
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34.4%, Horror 17.3%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Comedy 9.9%, Survival Horror 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides cooperative horror gameplay packed with chaotic comedic moments and proximity chat fun.
- #20 Midnight Mayhem
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Gradient Games
Windows
Work together to survive against an invisible monster with ever changing abilities. Asymmetric horror game best played with friends! (NO PUBLIC LOBBIES)
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.6%, Horror 17.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Co-op 10.2%, Survival Horror 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers late-night cooperative horror blended with psychological elements and chaotic humor.
- #21 Ghost Watchers
82% matchVery Positive86% of 16,334 reviews2025
Dev: Renderise
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses
Why similar: Horror 31.5%, Co-op 19.4%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Lets you and your friends use a variety of tools to track down and survive supernatural entities.
- #22 Pacify
84% matchVery Positive86% of 42,795 reviews2019
Dev: Shawn HitchcockPub: Hitchcock Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
Why similar: Horror 29%, Online Co-Op 28.3%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Co-op 10%, Survival Horror 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A creepy co-op horror game where you must work together to deal with a cursed, malicious entity.
- #23 Hired 2 Die
83% matchVery Positive84% of 233 reviews2025
Dev: Electric Monkeys
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A 1-4 player co-op survival horror where the horror begins when the shift starts. Clean, organize, and contain dangerous creatures using CCTV, motion sensors, and more. Earn your paycheck, upgrade your tools, and capture them. New game mode available!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.2%, Horror 13.5%, Stealth 11.5%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Co-op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Puts you in high-stakes professional roles where survival depends on completing tasks and avoiding danger.
- #24 Zort
80% matchVery Positive90% of 14,124 reviews2024
Dev: Londer Software
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 31.6%, Horror 24.9%, Co-op 15%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, First-Person 7%
Why You'll Like It: An indie co-op horror experience featuring spooky exploration and lighthearted frights.
- #25 Project Unknown
79% matchVery Positive83% of 925 reviews2025
Dev: PsychoRavensPub: Nightmare Studios
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics. Exorcise ghosts using your special abilities and tools while surviving the supernatural onslaught
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.7%, Horror 14.9%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Investigation 9.9%, Co-op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Pits teams of players against terrifying entities in dark, atmospheric locations.
- #26 Lunch Lady
81% matchVery Positive85% of 13,082 reviews2021
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Lunch Lady is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. The school final exams are coming up and the best idea you and your friends had was to steal the test answers. Find all 10 pages and don't get caught by the murderous Lunch Lady!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.2%, Horror 23.9%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Co-op 12.1%, Multiplayer 12%
Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative survival horror set within an eerie school environment with stressful hiding mechanics.
- #27 The Outlast Trials
78% matchVery Positive92% of 112,483 reviews2024
Dev: Red Barrels
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 35.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Co-op 17.8%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: An intense cooperative horror experience focusing on stealth, hiding, and surviving sadistic experiments together.
- #28 They See Us
79% matchVery Positive84% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: MalumGames
Windows
They See Us is a multiplayer horror game built for creepy vibes, scream-worthy jump scares and hilarious co-op tension. Work together to spot terrifying anomalies lurking in familiar places – before they find you!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.2%, Horror 16.8%, Investigation 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Mystery 9%
Why You'll Like It: Builds psychological terror and suspense in a cooperative environment requiring careful observation.
- #29 Species: Unknown
77% matchVery Positive94% of 11,374 reviews2025
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.8%, Horror 19.9%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Investigation 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #30 Friki
81% matchMixed58% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Wompa Labs
Windows
Friki is an online co-op investigative horror. Solve how these supernatural beings have died, collect evidence to be paid, and survive the dangers that await you.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17%, Horror 14%, Detective 11.7%, Investigation 10.9%, Survival Horror 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A detective-focused co-op horror title that relies on deduction and teamwork.
- #31 WE ARE SO DEAD
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 860 reviews2026
Dev: REAL PLAYERS
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A co-op seance communications game where one of you died first, and only you can see what's killing the others. Your only voice is a Ouija board your friends keep misreading. Guide them down 9 floors of a haunted house and banish the demon before sunrise. 2-6 players. Brain required.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.4%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Horror 13.9%, Investigation 10.8%, Comedy 8.4%
- #32 Backrooms: Escape Together
77% matchVery Positive89% of 49,842 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 24%, Horror 21.3%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Co-op 10.7%
- #33 Supernormal
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,234 reviews2024
Dev: Hitori de Productions
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.
Why similar: Horror 19.9%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Detective 15.4%, Investigation 13.6%, Mystery 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological detective horror game where you investigate paranormal crime scenes under extreme pressure.
- #34 Backrooms: Extractions
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 824 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 21.7%, Horror 17.1%, Survival Horror 13%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Co-op 10.5%
- #35 How to Fish
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 72,328 reviews2026
Dev: Dazed Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 39.9%, Multiplayer 22.4%, Co-op 19.4%, First-Person 8.3%, Psychological Horror 5.7%
- #36 Burglin' Gnomes
73% matchVery Positive84% of 5,701 reviews2026
Dev: Fobri
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Co-op 33%, Multiplayer 19.9%, Horror 16.9%, First-Person 8.5%, Stealth 8.5%
- #37 NO BACKUP
74% matchMixed68% of 1,056 reviews2026
Dev: Serundeox
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Escape together or die alone. A relentless creature is hunting you in this intense co-op bodycam horror experience. Communicate. Stay quiet. Survive. Every move matters. Every sound could be your last. Made by one developer.
Why similar: Horror 28.1%, Online Co-Op 24.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
- #38 The Anomaly Project
75% matchVery Positive82% of 651 reviews2024
Dev: Kekdot
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your goal is simple, spot anomalies to escape. Play alone or together with up to 8 players in online co-op. Make the right decisions to advance to the next level, or risk being reset to the beginning!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.7%, Horror 18.4%, Co-op 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Psychological Horror 7.7%
- #39 Ghost Janitors
73% matchVery Positive87% of 1,158 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Wave Studio
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4 players. Your job? Cleaning haunted houses while avoiding terrifying monsters. Ready to face the spine-tingling challenge with your team?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.7%, Horror 22%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Investigation 11.4%, Co-op 11.2%
- #40 DEATH IN UNISON
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 777 reviews2024
Dev: Blank Dream Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 23.5%, Horror 18.7%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Co-op 11.3%, Retro 7.1%
- #41 Paranoia Place: Escape Together
73% matchVery Positive88% of 1,846 reviews2025
Dev: Bloody Pixel Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.
Why similar: Horror 19.4%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Co-op 12.1%, Stealth 10.6%
- #42 Ghost Exorcism INC.
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,451 reviews2021
Dev: StudioGoupil
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ghost Exorcism INC is a 1 to 6 player co-op horror game. Track down entities with your detectors, identify them… then carry out the exorcism protocol to send them back to the afterlife before it's too late!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.7%, Horror 16.8%, Investigation 15.1%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Survival Horror 9.7%
- #43 Backrooms Lost Runners
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 737 reviews2026
Dev: ShimStudioGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 21.7%, Horror 16.7%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Co-op 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #44 Nuclear Nightmare
71% matchVery Positive81% of 19,279 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.2%, Horror 19.8%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Co-op 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #45 The Headliners
70% matchVery Positive86% of 10,528 reviews2025
Dev: KAFI
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 8 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 33.6%, Horror 23.6%, Co-op 15.6%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival Horror 5.2%
- #46 Machine Party
68% matchVery Positive87% of 5,392 reviews2026
Dev: Mike KlubnikaPub: Oro Interactive
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Machine Party is a collection of violent party games where failure is lethal. Gather your friends and endure high stakes situations to prove your life is worth more than theirs. Survival is unlikely.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.7%, Multiplayer 20.5%, Horror 19.9%, Co-op 18%, Psychological Horror 6.3%
- #47 Dodgy Deliveries
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,576 reviews2025
Dev: Tomas GonzalezPub: Deliver Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Co-op "Horror" game about running a delivery service with your friends! B̵̨̦͓͖̹̪̥̮͛̀̏̈́̐̔̉Ę̴̤̦̤͓̰̤́͗̚ ̵̨̺͓̱̞͔͉͙̀̂͂͋͠͠Ç̸̫͈̋͋͆̋̾̑̕͜Ä̴̛̟͑͛͋͂̌̕͜͝R̵̛͎̮̜̒̽̈́͂̓̒͘Ę̸͉̙̎̀͐͆Ḟ̶̼͖̭͇̗U̸̡̫͇̤̭̪̦̣̔Ḷ̶̛͖̙͗̋̈̇̕ ̷̡̢͕̦̜͚̌̎̃̔Ā̷̧͇͎̳͔̩̜̤̗͊̋Ţ̸̭̩͚̮͖͇̹̬̾ ̷͍̞̰͈̻̣͚̂̾ͅN̵̛̤͒̏̒͝Ḯ̵̡̘͇̖̏͘Ģ̸̛͙̥̞̽̀͒͜H̶̲̜̺̐̄͋͊̍̈́͘͜T̴̯̲̳̪͚̜̼̈͠
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.6%, Horror 17.2%, Co-op 12.1%, Survival Horror 12%, Detective 10.5%
- #48 Dark Hours: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive89% of 6,233 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.
Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Online Co-Op 24%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Survival Horror 13%, Co-op 8.3%
- #49 Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 8,388 reviews2026
Dev: RayllPub: Rayll Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 38.4%, Co-op 18.6%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Multiplayer 13%, Psychological Horror 8%
- #50 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,672 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.6%, Horror 17.4%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Investigation 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.9%
- #51 Midnight Shift
72% matchMixed70% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Shatter Glass games
Windows
A 90's horror inspired first-person game about working the midnight shift at a gas station.
Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Survival Horror 14.5%, 1990's 12.2%, Comedy 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #52 SEVERANCE
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 616 reviews2025
Dev: Sykes Games
Windows
Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.5%, Horror 18.2%, Detective 14%, Investigation 12.6%, Co-op 10.1%
- #53 KLETKA
67% matchVery Positive90% of 7,936 reviews2026
Dev: Callback
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 31.2%, Horror 26%, Co-op 18.6%, First-Person 9.1%, Mystery 7%
- #54 Exorcist Simulator
70% matchMixed67% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: D.M.G.V
Windows
Exorcist Simulator is a 1‑4 player online co‑op horror where every play asks the same, terrible question: Will you cast out the Devil —or wear his skin?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.1%, Horror 14%, Investigation 10.7%, Detective 10.6%, Co-op 9.2%
- #55 R.E.P.O.
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 426,191 reviews2025
Dev: semiwork
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 29.4%, Horror 22.8%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Co-op 11.7%, Comedy 10.3%
- #56 Forest Escape: Last Train
67% matchVery Positive81% of 598 reviews2026
Dev: Frag Lab, LLCPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Online Co-Op 22.3%, Horror 18.4%, Co-op 11.7%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Multiplayer 11%
- #57 Gamble With Your Friends
65% matchVery Positive90% of 23,444 reviews2026
Dev: TEAM GWYFPub: TENSTACK
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An online 1-6 player co-op "casino crawler" where you and your friends share one bank account and one massive debt. Gamble, buy sketchy items, make terrible decisions, and climb an ominous casino tower to hit your loan shark’s daily quota in 5 minutes - or face the consequences.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 34%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Co-op 17.3%, Comedy 12.5%, First-Person 6.8%
- #58 Midnight Heist
66% matchVery Positive93% of 527 reviews2025
Dev: MediaTale
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Go on heists through Midnight City alone or with up to four players to fulfill tasks as a hacker for various organizations. Improve your reputation, earn money, and uncover the secrets of shady companies all while being hunted by terrifying entities.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.2%, Horror 24.8%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Co-op 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #59 This is a Ghost
68% matchVery Positive91% of 471 reviews2024
Dev: Nuci
Windows
This is a Ghost is an FPS psychological horror and investigation game for 1 to 4 players. Track down supernatural activity, identify demonic entities using specialised equipment, and banish them with crafted ammunition in solo or online co-op!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.7%, Horror 13.1%, Investigation 10.8%, Detective 10.4%, Co-op 9.3%
- #60 GRAIN ROT
64% matchVery Positive89% of 2,361 reviews2026
Dev: Beck & Branch GamesPub: Neem Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A horror co-op extraction builder set in a scorched wasteland where everything burns. Descend with your friends into shifting ruins, rip out furniture, and scavenge for loot before the Corrupted close in. Make it back alive, then rebuild the Outpost to better your chances for the next run.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 33%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Horror 18.5%, Comedy 11.2%, First-Person 9%
