Games Like Whimsical Artefacts

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 39.1%, Horror 14.7%, Exploration 10%, Psychological Horror 9%, First-Person 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive co-op experience for scavenging in liminal, industrial bunkers with high-stakes exploration.

Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)

Why similar: Online Co-Op 34.9%, Procedural Generation 16.6%, Exploration 14.3%, Horror 14.3%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same spirit of cooperative scavenging and creative documentation in a surreal, dangerous environment.

A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 33.8%, Exploration 14.2%, Horror 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, First-Person 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar loop of co-op scavenging and exploration in mysterious, atmospheric locations.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Exploration 72.1%, Adventure 16.7%, Colorful 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on whimsical exploration and resource collection in a stylized 3D world with deep customization.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: PvE 28.5%, Procedural Generation 22.4%, Exploration 19.7%, First-Person 14.1%, Horror 12%

Why You'll Like It: Offers excellent co-op exploration and procedural scavenging mechanics in a highly interactive 3D environment.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 44.4%, Horror 18.3%, Exploration 17.6%, Adventure 8.4%, First-Person 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and scavenging in a unique, stylized world that rewards cooperative play.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 69.1%, Adventure 11.7%, Roguelike 8.8%, Horror 8.7%, Action 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a distinct, quirky art style and a heavy emphasis on cooperative survival and exploration.

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

Why similar: Adventure 49.5%, Action 29.2%, Casual 21.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based co-op game that prioritizes character customization and chaotic, whimsical exploration.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 49.9%, First-Person 20.1%, Casual 10.9%, Exploration 10.5%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative exploration and interacting with objects in varied, atmospheric settings.

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: Online Co-Op 30.6%, PvE 13.2%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Exploration 12%

Why You'll Like It: Matches the liminal space aesthetic and the core loop of scavenging for items in a dangerous setting.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 57.6%, Exploration 18.8%, PvE 16.1%, Adventure 4.8%, Action 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast world for cooperative exploration and resource gathering with a focus on building and customization.

Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!

Why similar: Character Customization 28.3%, Online Co-Op 23%, PvE 15.4%, Exploration 10.3%, First-Person 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op game centered on scavenging and exploration within a sci-fi setting that requires teamwork.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 32.9%, Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Exploration 12.7%, First-Person 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes cooperative exploration and puzzle-solving in mysterious, atmospheric environments.

Welcome to the coziest way to kill your friends. Super Animal Royale is a 64-player, top-down 2D battle royale where adorably murderous animals fight tooth, claw, and machine gun. Then, relax in Super Animal World with fishing, hamsterball races, and story quests before the next fight to the death.

Why similar: Character Customization 39.6%, Online Co-Op 39.5%, Casual 10.5%, Colorful 7.1%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly whimsical aesthetic with a strong focus on character customization and casual, fun gameplay.

Team up with up to 8 friends online to explore the haunted, randomly generated depths of these dusty attics. Find and repair the objectives, flip the master switch and escape before the ghastly ghoul that lurks in the darkness catches up to you. Play through the career mode or explore free play!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.7%, Character Customization 17.1%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, PvE 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Fits the job-based co-op scavenging theme with a focus on procedural exploration.

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 30.1%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 11.8%, Surreal 11.5%, Exploration 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an atmospheric, co-op exploration experience in a mysterious setting.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 40.1%, Roguelike 27.4%, Procedural Generation 19.7%, Casual 10.7%, Action 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, chaotic co-op game that rewards coordination and creative management.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 79.8%, Casual 13.3%, Horror 4.5%, Action 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative puzzle game that relies heavily on communication and teamwork to navigate 3D-like spaces.

Mortuar is a 1-4 player Online co-op psychological horror game. Delve deep into Hoia Baciu Forest where eerie sightings and paranormal activity have transpired. Make use of various ghost hunting equipment to first identify the ghost's type, then attempt to banish it back to the afterlife.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 33.5%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Casual 10.7%, Exploration 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, co-op exploration game that fits the vibe of scavenging in strange locations.

H.I.A: Horror Investigation Agency is a fun multiplayer horror game in which you and co-players have to investigate exciting horror cases. Among finding victims and evidence of the horror event that has taken place, you will be faced with jumpscares and scary monsters along your investigation.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.6%, Character Customization 17.5%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 10.5%, PvE 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative investigation and exploration in a mysterious, narrative-driven setting.

In this co-op horror game, your team visits abandoned toy factories. Collect various junk, extract materials from it, create and improve your equipment. And try to survive, because while you are exploring the dark dungeons of factories, bloodthirsty toys are hunting you

Why similar: Online Co-Op 39.5%, Horror 15.6%, Surreal 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Procedural Generation 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative exploration with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and environmental storytelling.

Grab your best bud for help in this new co-op challenge to help two adorable penguins, Bread and Fred, reach the top of the snowy summit. Time your jumps, cling to walls and swing across gaps to see how far you can make it before you tumble all the way back down the mountain.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 73.6%, Casual 17.1%, Colorful 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based co-op platformer that perfectly captures the 'friendslop' dynamic of working together.

You and your crew are tasked with cleaning up after the last exploration team's ill-fated journey into the Backrooms. Dodge deadly incursions, scrub every surface, and leave no trace.

Why similar: Character Customization 23%, Online Co-Op 20.7%, PvE 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes physics-based co-op mechanics for cleaning and scavenging in liminal spaces.

Play as plague doctors with your friends in this multiplayer co-op medieval horror! Purge the plague. Create the cure. Escape the mutated creatures. Make the queen proud.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 29%, Exploration 12.2%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op exploration and survival game that emphasizes teamwork in a dark, atmospheric world.

Collect pellets to power the safe room and survive. Solve the mystery of how you were sucked into this haunted arcade machine, and escape.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.4%, Collectathon 22.9%, Exploration 11.3%, Horror 10.5%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers co-op exploration with a retro, stylized aesthetic that feels distinct and whimsical.

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 39.5%, Horror 14.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Exploration 9.6%, PvE 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on co-op survival and exploration in a tense, atmospheric environment.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Exploration 57.9%, First-Person 28.4%, Adventure 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and resource gathering in a 3D world with deep creative building mechanics.

An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players...in space!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 68.7%, Cartoony 12.7%, Casual 9.7%, Colorful 5.8%, Action 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong focus on character customization and social co-op dynamics in a contained environment.

Put on your thermos bags and head outside with your friends. You will have to deliver food to the aliens and make sure that the last company on Earth does not close down.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 31%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Horror 12%, Exploration 11.9%, PvE 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, co-op game that emphasizes procedural exploration and teamwork.

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: PvE 23.3%, Exploration 17.7%, First-Person 16%, Horror 14.8%, Procedural Generation 10.8%

Retrieve dolls from the crawlspace with your friends, or alone.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 46.2%, PvE 16.8%, Horror 12.8%, First-Person 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

A co-op horror game where you must scavenge for loot and maintain the bunker to keep it standing

Why similar: Online Co-Op 35.7%, PvE 13.9%, Horror 13.5%, Exploration 11.5%, First-Person 10.8%

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.8%, Character Customization 14.8%, Roguelike 11.2%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Horror 9.6%

Free multiplayer 2D ghost hunting game that you can play with friends created by a small game dev team.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.4%, Character Customization 29%, Psychological Horror 14%, Horror 12.8%, Casual 6.5%

Enter strange, unpredictable dimensions with up to 8 players to grab artifacts and survive the chaos waiting inside. Showcase your loot in your private museum, unlock new machines, and gear up for your next dive. And please, shower between missions. Management insists.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.8%, Character Customization 18.5%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Exploration 10.7%, Horror 9.8%

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 34.2%, Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Exploration 8.3%

Skeleton Hell is a cooperative horror game where you and your friends must work together to find your missing organs and reclaim your humanity. Using your skeletal form, you can solve puzzles and collaborate with each other to escape, while avoiding the dangers that lurk within!

Why similar: First-Person 22%, Horror 20.4%, Procedural Generation 20.2%, Stylized 14.3%, Online Co-Op 11.6%

Skibidi Gyatrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror game. You and the homies just fell into the Backrooms, you must out-GYAT the Skibidi Toilet with max rizz or get flushed. Expect cursed levels, and brainrot that’ll keep you on edge.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.5%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Horror 13.1%, Exploration 11.5%, First-Person 9%

A co-op horror game where you team up with friends to hunt anomalies and collect rare loot. Customize your loadouts, your looks, and get to work!

Why similar: Character Customization 27.9%, PvE 15.2%, Exploration 13.5%, Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

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 49.8%, Horror 13.7%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Exploration 8.9%, First-Person 6.8%

A co-op survival horror game where you and your closest friends must work together to survive in an upside down world crawling with the infected.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 36.2%, Horror 15.4%, PvE 13.3%, Exploration 12.8%, Adventure 7.9%

A visually realistic 1-7 player co-op survival horror game. Explore 5 levels filled with confined environments, puzzles, and entities with new levels and content added regularly. Beware of terrifying moments and ruthless monsters. Do whatever it takes to escape, even if it means hiding.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.8%, Character Customization 21.7%, Exploration 12.4%, Horror 10.3%, Psychological Horror 10%

Ecto is a goofy lil game about jumping around in randomly generated nature worlds. Complete movement challenges, pick up frogs, unlock goofy items, or set time trial records against your friends. Play singleplayer or multiplayer up to 8 players.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 23.8%, Exploration 20%, Casual 14.3%, First-Person 11.6%, Stylized 8.7%

Collect, run and be a pain in the porcelain

Why similar: Collectathon 50%, Exploration 23.9%, Adventure 8.9%, Horror 6.9%, 3D 5.4%

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: Online Co-Op 26.5%, Character Customization 20.4%, Horror 12.4%, PvE 10.9%, Procedural Generation 10.7%

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Why similar: Online Co-Op 37.5%, Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Exploration 11.5%, First-Person 7.9%

In this online horror co-op, you play as a scrappy goblin, scavenging dungeons, dodging traps, and fleeing monsters to feed the Goblin King-Queen. Team up with goblin pals, or go rogue, as you dive deep and cause chaos! Fail to feed them, and you might be the next meal!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.2%, Character Customization 21.2%, PvE 13.6%, Exploration 11.1%, Horror 10.4%

A creepy-cozy co-op fishing game for 1–4 players with proximity voice chat. Explore a haunted swamp for rare fish, sell your haul by the pound, and try to survive what hunts you in the dark.

Why similar: Character Customization 22.9%, Online Co-Op 20.3%, PvE 12.7%, Exploration 12.3%, First-Person 8.9%

An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Use fully physics-based objects and fluid movement to grab some cash and escape The Grind. Use cash to buy items and equipment and fund community goals. Create your Grabba and get rich or die trying.

Why similar: Character Customization 37.7%, Procedural Generation 17.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 11%, Casual 7.2%

"The Backrooms: Last Expedition" is a cooperative horror game designed for 1 to 4 players. Its main objective is to create an enjoyable gaming experience for friends. Players will navigate through terrifying levels, filled with various entities and dangers, as they strive to escape.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 32.7%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 14.2%, Exploration 12.8%, First-Person 10.8%

Treasure Hunters: Raid Together is an intense CO-OP treasure-hunting game for up to 4 players, set in mysterious dungeons filled with puzzles, platforms, and deadly creatures, where your goal is to find and steal the most valuable treasures in the world.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.9%, Character Customization 16.9%, First-Person 10%, PvE 9.9%, Horror 9.5%

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: Online Co-Op 25.2%, Character Customization 14.4%, Horror 11.6%, Exploration 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

A 1-4 player co-op horror game where you must outsmart a monster that adapts to your every move. Enter a volatile Rift with shifting maps and objectives, scavenge rare resources, and extract together… or betray your friends for the lion’s share of the loot.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 39.1%, Horror 18.5%, PvE 14.9%, Casual 9.3%, First-Person 9.3%

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 32.7%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 12.6%, Surreal 9.8%, Exploration 9.4%

Join up to three friends in this mouse-sized adventure! Explore, gather resources, solve puzzles, and battle enemies as you try to bring your kidnapped brothers and sisters home.

Why similar: Collectathon 32.7%, Online Co-Op 31.3%, Character Customization 14.1%, Casual 11.2%, Adventure 6.3%

A co-op game for 1-6+ players where you fall, dig, and explode your way down a dangerous cave system to find your lost dog. Catch your friends and watch your step on this journey full of traps, hazards, and the most deadly force of all: gravity. Will you jump into the unknown to rescue your dog?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.2%, Character Customization 22.3%, Roguelike 13.8%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Exploration 11%

A co-op horror comedy game for you and your friends about burglarizing a nightmarish neighborhood full of mutated pets. No one said this would be easy, but maybe you can make it out of there with a sweet wood paneled video cassette recorder.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 39.5%, Horror 17.5%, PvE 17.4%, First-Person 10.7%, Casual 6.3%

A 2-Player Networked Horror Co-Op game. Explore the deepest recesses of your mind to put yourself back together. Work together to defend yourself from its denizens.

Why similar: Collectathon 27%, Horror 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Exploration 10.6%, First-Person 10%