Games Like The Outlast Trials

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: Horror 28.4%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Co-op 11.1%, Stealth 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person co-op structure, emphasis on hiding and escaping a relentless creature, and high-intensity chase design feel very close to The Outlast Trials.

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 25.1%, Multiplayer 19.7%, Co-op 15.8%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Outlast Trials, it throws a team into first-person horror scenarios where communication, puzzle-solving, and running from entities matter more than combat.

The Blackout Club is a first-person co-op horror game centered around a group of teenage friends investigating a monstrous secret beneath the skin of their small town. 1-4 players explore procedurally-generated missions against a fearsome enemy you can only see with your eyes closed.

Why similar: Co-op 27.7%, Horror 23.9%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Stealth 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the best matches for the seed's stealthy co-op horror, built around sneaking through hostile spaces, completing objectives, and surviving unsettling supernatural threats.

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 23.4%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Co-op 15%, Psychological Horror 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its claustrophobic co-op exploration and constant pressure to evade threats capture the same vulnerable, task-driven horror loop.

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%, First-Person 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Even without co-op, it is the clearest source of The Outlast Trials' helpless first-person stealth, grotesque institutional horror, and hide-or-die tension.

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: Horror 20.2%, Co-op 19%, Survival Horror 18.8%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its team-based descent into cursed ruins mixes puzzle objectives, scarce safety, and sudden creature attacks in a very Trials-like PvE format.

Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

Why similar: Horror 26.2%, Survival Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: It trades co-op for a stronger solo narrative, but the psychological breakdowns, brutal chases, and constant vulnerability feel unmistakably tied to The Outlast Trials.

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 32.1%, Multiplayer 18.6%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Co-op 13.3%, Psychological Horror 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op horror game nails the same frantic rhythm of completing objectives while a monstrous enemy grows deadlier and forces players into panicked escapes.

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 19.6%, Horror 18.9%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Character Customization 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers first-person co-op horror built on exploration, environmental puzzles, and terrifying monster encounters in oppressive spaces.

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 31.8%, Multiplayer 25.9%, Co-op 18.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Survival Horror 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its small-team psychological horror setup centers on completing tasks while navigating surreal threats, which overlaps well with The Outlast Trials' co-op terror.

There is reportedly an evil inside that house. Something about an old funeral parlor offering a last chance to talk to their dead loved ones. Plus something about lights, laughter, a girl, missing people, etc... You know the same stuff everyone claims. Take a team, and check the place out.

Why similar: Horror 28.7%, Multiplayer 20%, Co-op 17.7%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Survival Horror 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: PACIFY shares the seed's structure of cooperative objective completion under relentless pursuit, with players spending most of their time scrambling, hiding, and surviving.

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: Co-op 21.2%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Horror 17.1%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Stealth 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: GTFO is more combat-heavy, but its oppressive atmosphere, coordinated co-op objectives, and punishing PvE tension make it a strong fit.

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 35.6%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Co-op 19.4%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, First-Person 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: While slower and more investigative, it offers the same first-person co-op dread, voice-driven teamwork, and fear of losing control inside hostile locations.

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: Co-op 22.5%, Horror 21.3%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Psychological Horror 16%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another strong co-op first-person horror option if you want eerie environments, voice-based teamwork, and a heavy supernatural atmosphere.

Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

Why similar: Horror 20.1%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Survival Horror 18.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, First-Person 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game swaps the asylum for underwater wrecks, but the co-op objective pressure, monster avoidance, and get-in-get-out tension are very similar.

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

Why similar: Co-op 27.4%, Horror 24.8%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Multiplayer 13.1%, First-Person 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Ghost Watchers blends co-op investigation with active danger, giving you the same feeling of being fragile inside a space that can turn lethal at any moment.

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

Why similar: Horror 24.3%, Co-op 22.4%, Survival Horror 20.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same anxious co-op feeling of entering dangerous spaces for objectives, improvising under pressure, and suffering sudden, memorable deaths.

In Silence is a multiplayer horror game. One player takes on the role of the monster who has hypersensitive hearing abilities and is almost completely blind. The other players(2-6) play as survivors, trying to escape or hunting the monster.

Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Survival Horror 17.2%, Co-op 15.2%, Psychological Horror 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its reliance on stealth, sound awareness, and surviving a deadly pursuer makes it a good match for the seed's cat-and-mouse horror.

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: Horror 21.1%, Co-op 19.3%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a straightforward co-op hide-and-seek horror game where completing tasks under pursuit creates a very similar session-to-session tension.

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: Horror 27.2%, Co-op 25.5%, Multiplayer 23.5%, Stealth 10.2%, First-Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: R.E.P.O. channels a similar cooperative horror loop of looting under stress, managing noisy movement, and escaping monsters through tight team coordination.

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: Survival Horror 23.8%, Co-op 20.2%, Horror 18%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person co-op survival horror game matches the seed's teamwork-heavy tension and constant fear of being overwhelmed by hostile threats.

Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

Why similar: Horror 21.6%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Co-op 19.5%, Survival Horror 16.6%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person facility horror, unpredictable encounters, and desperate survival against terrifying entities echo the seed's institutional nightmare vibe.

Plan your own alien invasion and harvest humans as the iconic Killer Klowns, or gather a team of survivors to fight the extraterrestrial threat, in a game based on the ‘80s cult classic movie. Welcome to a new, craazzy take on the asymmetrical multiplayer horror experience!

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.2%, Co-op 16%, Horror 14.6%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Stealth 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This leans more arcade and asymmetric than The Outlast Trials, but the team-based horror chaos and survival-focused multiplayer make it a decent lighter alternative.

No More Room in Hell 2 is a terrifying 8 player co-op action horror experience. Find your friends in the dark and survive - in a dynamic, endlessly replayable zombie apocalypse.

Why similar: Co-op 21.4%, Survival Horror 19.8%, Multiplayer 17%, Horror 13.4%, Survival 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Though more grounded and zombie-focused, it still delivers punishing co-op horror where coordination and survival pressure matter more than power fantasy.

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: Co-op 18.8%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Horror 14.9%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Remnant Records focuses on co-op paranormal investigation with escalating danger and unsettling spaces, giving it a similar PvE horror cadence.

Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.

Why similar: Multiplayer 26.5%, Horror 23.6%, Survival Horror 20.1%, Science 12.5% ★, Dark 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: If you like cooperative horror runs with objectives, risky room-to-room exploration, and growing supernatural pressure, this fits nicely.

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: Co-op 15.8%, Horror 14.8%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10%

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 18.4%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Co-op 17%, Psychological Horror 13.2%

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 21.4%, Survival Horror 18.6%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Co-op 15%, Psychological Horror 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: White Noise 2 emphasizes group survival, limited information, and evading a powerful pursuer, which scratches a similar multiplayer horror itch.

Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

Why similar: Horror 29%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Co-op 17%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op mode and emphasis on psychological first-person horror, fragility, and oppressive environments line up well with Outlast's DNA.

Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.3%, Horror 15.6%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Co-op 11.3%

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 23.6%, Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Multiplayer 9%, PvE 8%

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Co-op 23.8%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Multiplayer 18%, Horror 14.6%, Survival 11%

Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.

Why similar: Horror 42.9%, Survival Horror 13%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Co-op 9.7%, Psychological Horror 6.3%

Occult is a dynamic cooperative game with elements of horror and quest. You are waiting for a variety of opponents, puzzles and endings!

Why similar: Horror 25%, Co-op 21%, Multiplayer 18.6%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, First-Person 6.5%

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: Survival Horror 21.1%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Horror 16.5%, Co-op 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.1%

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: Co-op 26.4%, Horror 22.4%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Survival Horror 7.4%, First-Person 5.3%

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: Horror 18.4%, Co-op 17.4%, Multiplayer 16%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, PvE 7.8%

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: Co-op 20.4%, Survival Horror 18.7%, Horror 17.5%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14%

Embark on a chilling co-op adventure in The Other Side, an action packed horror experience. Customize your gear, strategize with friends, and uncover paranormal mysteries. Are you prepared to face the unknown together in this immersive supernatural experience?

Why similar: Co-op 17.9%, Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.2%, First-Person 8.6%

Enter the nightmarish world of Last Year, where you and four other classmates try to survive, fight back and ultimately escape a horrifying Fiend in this unique horror asymmetric game.

Why similar: Co-op 23%, Horror 19.7%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Gore 5%

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 32.2%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Dark 5.6%

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 18.1%, Co-op 16.5%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 11.7%

Take on the role of one of the notorious Slaughter family, or their victims, in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a third-person asymmetrical horror experience based on the groundbreaking and iconic 1974 horror film. Experience the mad and macabre for yourself in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.9%, Horror 24.3%, Multiplayer 22.2%, Stealth 9.8%, Gore 6.2%

PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-3 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: Survival Horror 17.2%, Co-op 15.1%, Horror 13.5%, Stealth 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.7%

Step into the frozen unknown in Forsaken Frontiers, a cooperative analog horror adventure set in the unforgiving embrace of an everlasting winter.

Why similar: Co-op 21.5%, Horror 17.1%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Stealth 10.6%

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: Survival Horror 19.6%, Co-op 18.8%, Horror 17.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, PvE 8.6%

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: Survival Horror 17%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Stealth 12.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%

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: Horror 19.7%, Survival Horror 18.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Stealth 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

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: Survival Horror 20.3%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Horror 15.5%, Stealth 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.3%

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 17.4%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, PvE 10.2%, Stealth 10.2%, Survival Horror 9.3%

Hospital 666 is a 1-4 player horror escape game. Traverse through eerie hospital levels while observing the occurrence of anomalies and choosing the correct elevator. Some abnormal bosses will chase you to death, and you must find the right way to escape them.

Why similar: Horror 30.6%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Realistic 8.8%, PvE 8.5%

UNDERWARD is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Investigators must carry «TEST-SUBJECT» monsters from a deadly underground abandoned hospital ward.

Why similar: Horror 22.4%, Survival Horror 21.4%, Multiplayer 20%, Stealth 18.2%, First-Person 8.5%

The creators of Little Nightmares™ I & II have returned to take you on a darker, more terrifying journey than ever before. In this horror adventure game, a brother & sister go through hell to rescue their missing friends and escape the island that they used to call home.

Why similar: Co-op 31.9%, Horror 27.8%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Dark 8.4%, Stealth 6.5%

A co-op survival horror game set in a dark medieval castle. Play as one of four resurrected knights and work together to find hidden runes, unlock the ritual chamber, and escape before the Jester hunts you down. Teamwork, stealth, and survival are your only hope.

Why similar: Co-op 16.1%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Horror 13%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

The Escape: Together is a 1-3 player Online CO-OP escape horror. The paranormal creature has taken over the house. You must use everything you find to survive and make your runaway.

Why similar: Horror 20.4%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Co-op 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Stealth 10.4%

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 23.3%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Survival Horror 18.6%, Co-op 14.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%