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The Silent Expedition Echo Protocol is a co-op first-person horror game for 1–4 players, set in endless liminal “backrooms” where nothing makes sense and reality feels wrong. You are not a soldier or a hero. You are just… stuck. Your only real weapons are your flashlight, almond water – and your friends. THE PLAYERYou wake up in a cold, humming corridor with no idea how you got there. The room… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Silent Expedition Echo Protocol.

ADD TO WISHLIST About the GameThis Time, There Are Two HuntersNight of the Slayers is a first-person asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where Survivors and Hunters face off in the dark. Survivors search houses in a dark forest, gather equipment, repair vehicles, and try to reach the exit. Hunters move as a two-person team: tracking, ambushing, cutting the power, and hunting down Survivors try… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Night of the Slayers.

Backrooms: Splatter is a first-person co-op horror game about painting the wrong rooms at the wrong hour. You are the night shift. PIGMENT CO. has sent your crew into an empty office that doesn't end, with a paint sprayer on your back and one safety notice on the wall: "Do not run from the entity. Running voids your warranty." In here, paint is the only thing that tells the truth. It s… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backrooms: Splatter.

THE HUMANS ARE BEHIND THE DOOR You and up to five friends are the maintenance robots of a post-nuclear bunker. Keep the power on, the air breathable, and the machines running — for the humans who live behind a sealed door you are not authorized to open. THE BUNKER IS ALWAYS FAILING The power runs out. Pipes burst and cables spark, and the longer the game runs the faster it all comes apart. S… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bunker and Friends.

The party was going great: the music was loud and the coolers were full, but nobody checked the guest list. MURDER YOUR FRIENDS is an asymmetric horror party game. Every round, one player becomes The Guest — a masked killer with a knife, a bag of cruel toys, and all night. Everyone else just has to make it out of the mansion alive.Find the key. Unlock a way out. Don't die.When night falls, the ma… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Murder Your Friends.

UNDERFEDYou wake up in a concrete cell somewhere inside a facility with ten floors and no exit. Once a day a platform loaded with food descends through the shaft in the middle of the building. It stops at the top floor first. Whatever is left continues down. By the time it reaches the bottom, there is usually nothing left. THE RULEAt nine o'clock every night the heat comes on. If you are not ins… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to UNDERFED.

MAEVORThe village of Maevor has vanished. Nestled deep within a cursed forest, the once-thriving settlement now sits abandoned. No fires burn in the windows. No voices echo through the trees. The only thing that remains is an ancient curse and the monstrous Harpy Vampire Demon responsible for it. In MAEVOR, you and up to three friends enter the haunted wilderness to uncover the truth behind the … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MAEVOR.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

89% User Score Based on 79 reviews

Damned 2 is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where four survivors must explore cursed locations, solve puzzles, and escape alive — while a fifth player takes on the role of a deadly creature hunting them down. Each match is unpredictable and filled with tension. To escape, survivors must search for items, unlock doors, and complete puzzles scattered across the map. Every match reshuffles ke… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Damned 2.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

86% User Score Based on 240 reviews

What Lies BeneathAt the bottom of the ocean floor lie The Biospheres. These weather-controlled domes once supported vast arrays of lifeforms, but have since been abandoned. Explore arid deserts, dark forests, and frozen tundras. But don't stay too late, as you are not alone out in the great abyss. What Lies WithinVenture into procedural dungeons deep within The Biospheres. Discover why the underw… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Subterror.

YOU ARE ARMED. YOU ARE STILL A DUCK.Someone took the egg. TIDE OR HIDE is a 1-4 player co-op survival game about a duck family with a hatchet, a stolen egg to find, and ninety-nine nights to get through. You are small. Four armed hunters standing over your camp at midnight is not a fight you win by walking at them. What decides that fight is water - deep water is a wall nothing on four legs will… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TIDE OR HIDE.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, stability

77% User Score Based on 243 reviews

After a dreadful infection spread throughout the land. You join a government operation to help what's left of pony-kind. You will be required to venture out into the infected landscape and complete tasks, all while staying in one piece. You can earn money for each task completed, and use that money to purchase goods. The more tasks you complete, the more challenging they become. Simply because we … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PONE.

The lights are gone. The walls are closing in. Somewhere ahead is the only way out - and somewhere behind you, something is listening. Pinched is a multiplayer survival-horror race through a maze of pitch-black tunnels that is never the same twice. Up to 8 players spawn deep underground and scramble for the single exit, armed with nothing but a failing flashlight and a handful of flares. Every fo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pinched.

Something is growing inside the school. Find the lab. Find the exit. Burn your way out before it finds you. HALL PASS is a pixel-art co-op survival horror game for one to four players. You wake in a pitch-black school overrun by sentient moss, armed with nothing but a lighter, a flashlight, and whatever you can pry out of the lockers. The moss slows you. The thing that lives in the moss hunts y… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hall Pass.

Stranded. Hunted. Not Alone. Four friends head into the woods for a fun camping trip But after their vehicle is stripped for parts overnight, they're left with nothing but fear and a flickering flashlight. The forest isn’t empty. Each night brings new horrors twisted traps, shifting shadows, and creatures that hunt without warning. Nothing is what it seems. A mailbox in the mid… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Camp Wombo.

FEARWOODS A co-op survival horror where the forest becomes your enemy. Step into the cursed woods. Silence lives here. And the shadow watches. Will you save Aveline… or condemn her forever? Explore. The forest breathes. The fog thickens.Every step echoes, as if something listens.Sometimes you hear whispers. Sometimes it’s just the wind... or maybe not.The light flickers. The ground creaks.You are … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fearwoods.

65%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization

65% User Score Based on 102 reviews

Inout is a cooperative horror game for 1-4 players. For years, the locals have been afraid of an old mansion in Madyland. A possessed maniac and an ancient evil have settled here. Become a member of a team of exorcists and expel the evil force! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Inout.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

88% User Score Based on 1,348 reviews

Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Emissary Zero.

68%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, optimization

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, atmosphere

68% User Score Based on 90 reviews

Survival Horror mixed with Cozy Farming Sim and an Open world, up to 4 Co-op You are tasked with paranormal activities, managing a farm surrounded by haunted woods and rescuing animals from its curse. Either alone or with friends. Farm Crops, rescue/Tame/Breed animals, and explore the cursed woods. Seek out the cursed objects within the woods and survive long enough to lift the curse. THE DE… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Descending The Woods.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

70% User Score Based on 345 reviews

Experience psychological horror in a large abandoned hospital. Hide, explore and survive from a mysterious creature living in the ruins of this hospital. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to AfterHours.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability

83% User Score Based on 48 reviews

Phylakterion is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game. You and your friends will enter different locations in search of a possessed vessel. Search, Identify, and Destroy the vessel and the entity inhabiting it – and be quick, or the entity will find you first! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Phylakterion.

RoadmapRoadmap will be updated soon after early access release About the GameA tense investigative horror experience for solo players or up to 4-player co-op. Search for hidden clues, notes, and evidence in the darkness as you piece together the truth behind the spirit’s death, including the killer, the time, the place, and the method. You may not be alone in the house. Something is watching,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Necrowhisper.

Somewhere under the wood, the King is sleeping. He is blind, and he listens. Don't Wake the King is a co-op horror game for up to four players that listens to your actual microphone. Not a push-to-talk button - your real voice, in your real room. Whisper and the forest ignores you. Raise your voice, and something that was asleep is not asleep any more. Four cursed bones have to reach the alt… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Don't Wake the King.

Survival is optional, rent is mandatory. Team up in Dead Margin, a brutal 1-4 player co-op horror. Whisper to survive, avoid anomalies, and scavenge scraps. Sell it to pay the greedy customer. Out here, everything has a price. Especially you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead Margin.

Hallness is a virtual reality horror game you can play alone or in online co-op. You wake up in a place that should not exist: corridors that seem to go on forever, abandoned rooms, and environments that make no sense. Explore, look for a way out, and stay alive while something moves through the halls with you. HORROR BUILT FOR VIRTUAL REALITYHallness is built around making you feel physically… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hallness.

A co-op seance horror 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 through a haunted house and banish the demon before sunrise. 2-8 players. One of you starts dead. Each game, one player becomes the ghost — able to see the demon, the dangers, and the way out, but unable to be heard by the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to WE ARE SO DEAD.

YOU WORK FOR THE COMPANY. YOU OWE $1,000,000. MEET THE QUOTA OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. In this 1-6 player online co-op survival horror game, you descend into dangerous and abandoned facilities as contracted workers for a ruthless corporation. Your goal isn't just to scavenge valuable scrap and escape; you must also complete mandatory and deadly operational tasks deep within the facility. Try to e… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to DRYN: Don't Reveal Your Next.

The rich live underground. Safe. Shielded. Climate-controlled. You live at the top, where the sun can kill you. They call you Penthouse Rats. Useful bacteria. Every shift, you and your crew descend into the ruins of the old world to scavenge scrap for the machines below. The quota must be met. The creatures are waiting. And there is no safe way to move. THE NOISE PARADOX One creature hunts so… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FEEDERS.

Shifting Reality: Corridors move every time you turn around. Doors you once passed vanish; you will lose your sense of direction in this living labyrinth. Move or Fade: The moment you stop, your flashlight dies. The only way to survive in the dark is to never stop moving. ️ The Price of Paranoia: Look back too often and your mind blurs, turning everything you see into a hallucination. In this… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Grinnel.

Capybara DungeonCapybara Dungeon is a first-person cooperative multiplayer game where you and your friends control capybara explorers venturing into dangerous dungeons and hostile environments, filled with strange creatures, deadly traps, and situations that blend horror, tension, and absolute chaos. Explore, survive, and try to make it back alive — if panic doesn’t take over first. ️ Local … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Capybara Dungeon.

55%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding

87% User Score Based on 15 reviews

Earth is no longer habitable! Humanity relies on WALKERs to move supplies across the last remaining colonies. Your mission is to successfully fend off any threats to your WALKER, this is your number one priority. You and 4 pilots are inside a giant cargo WALKER. Your primary objective: fulfil your quota by neutralizing and securing Abnormal Entities that have infiltrated your WALKER. Fulfil your q… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to WALKER.

HUSHED is a 1–4 player online co-op horror game where your team is split by different senses, tied together by a rope, and hunted by a monster that can hear your voice. Work together to search for ritual items, burn the skull cups, find the ritual book, and complete the ritual before the monster catches you. SPLIT SENSES: TRUST YOUR TEAMIn Senses Mode, each player has a different role. • The Ey… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HUSHED.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story

71% User Score Based on 2,844 reviews

Overview In this first person horror game, immerse yourself in the dark otherworldly horror of the medieval. A long and dangerous road awaits the chosen Pilgrims. You will journey to find out what lies at the end of the road. Thrust from the safety of your Village, given little supplies and a powered wagon. Take yourself and your companions through a dark world to find what awaits you along this … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PILGRIM.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

90% User Score Based on 51,622 reviews

You've fallen into the backrooms and now need to find a way to escape. Traverse through eerie procedurally generated levels while avoiding entities and other danger. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Escape the Backrooms.

68%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization

68% User Score Based on 895 reviews

Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest. The dark, foreboding forest trail leading directly to the Pineview property must be explored – but your every move and reaction is being watched. You must stay calm during your walk – or else IT will take you! To survive you will need stea… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Passing Pineview Forest.

35%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, atmosphere

60% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Happy housewarming, my friend! Happy housewarming! HouseWarming is a first-person psychological thriller about the new owner of an old house, where mysteries and strange stories hide behind ordinary walls. Story Brian Lewis is an ordinary man who has recently bought an old house, hoping to start a quiet life. But on the very first evening, everything goes wrong... During a phone call with his frie… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HouseWarming.

The Reflection is a ritual-based co-op horror game where players attempt to exorcise a demonic entity while being relentlessly hunted. Investigate cursed locations, perform the correct rituals, stay silent, and work together under pressure — one mistake can mean certain death. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Reflection.

One seeker. Up to seven hiders. One asylum with the lights off.Hide & Shriek is an asymmetric multiplayer horror game for up to eight players, and a single player one when there's nobody about. One of you is handed a torch and told to find the others. The rest get a head start, a building that creaks, and a locked front door. A night is a run of rounds: three, four, five, seven, or until some… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hide & Shriek.

YOUR INTERVIEW NEVER ENDEDYou showed up for a job application. You never left the building. Unemployed Nightmare Together is a 1–4 player online co-op survival horror set inside a procedurally generated corporate nightmare. Somewhere in the flickering hallways, a relentless job application stalks the floors and the only way out is to finish your "onboarding" and reach the elevator befor… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Unemployed Nightmare Together.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

84% User Score Based on 1,513 reviews

Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for up to 4 players. You and your crew were ready for the perfect heist, until something went terribly wrong. Right after breaking in, the power cuts out and you realize something isn’t right. You’re trapped inside the building you came to rob… and you’re not alone. A monster has taken over the place and you’re its next prey. Will you manage to escape?… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dark Hours.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, atmosphere

71% User Score Based on 295 reviews

Backrooms: Extractions is a 1-6 player co-op horror game set in 2062. As a MEG operative, enter the Backrooms to locate and extract lost agents while evading lurking entities. Use advanced tools, solve tense puzzles, and survive eerie environments. Stay alert: every sound could be your last! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Backrooms: Extractions.

65%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

65% User Score Based on 147 reviews

Alone or up to 6 players, deliver pizzas to the survivors of a city where an oppressive mist has turned almost everyone into monstrous creatures. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pizza Deathlivery.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability

87% User Score Based on 1,188 reviews

WISHLIST THE FULL GAME About the GameDark Hours: Prologue is a free version of Dark Hours. Experience the core gameplay and get a taste of the experience that awaits in the full game. Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Just when you think you've pulled off the perfect heist, your break-in is suddenly interrupted by an unexpected supernatural event. You find yourself t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dark Hours: Prologue.

66%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, optimization

66% User Score Based on 109 reviews

‘The Experiment’ is a fast paced experience about killing a mutated human. Your flashlight is essential to your survival, use it sparingly. Collect all the hidden bottles and use the X-ray machine to kill the lurking creature. 'The Experiment' is a First Person Survival Horror Game. You will need to explore locations and pickup bottles you find. After you meet the required amount, you can … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Experiment.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, optimization

89% User Score Based on 94 reviews

Delve into the infinitely AI-generated, ghastly haunted mansion of TORUTARU. Use talismans, maps, your wits, and the friends you make along the way to fight off the angered spirits and survive. Every playthrough is a unique experience. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ToruTaru.

66%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story

70% User Score Based on 44 reviews

Gear up, hunt, adapt, survive. Engage in a co-op survival horror experience with up to 4 players online. Explore the haunted location, find the clues and tools needed to complete the ritual and defeat the entity. Will you be able to survive? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SO BELOW.

You are trapped in an unfamiliar facility. Scattered through its rooms are documents containing the safety rules you need to survive. But not every notice tells the truth. Separate real instructions from convincing lies, and find the objects and clues you need to escape. Share information with your crew. Help each other. And watch who is hiding what.READ THE RULES. DOUBT THE PAPER.Real and false… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sorry, That Notice Guarantees Nothing.

YOU CAN'T SEE. YOU CAN HEAR.That's the whole problem. HEARKEN drops 2–4 players into a dead, pitch-black facility with one job: haul out the reagent before the shift ends. There's no flashlight. There never was one. The only thing that shows you the room is the noise you just made — and something down here is listening for it too. Sound is the only light you get Every footstep, whisper, and dro… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HEARKEN.

You are locked inside a Victorian mansion. Four floors from basement to roof, sealed doors, and torn paper scraps scattered through the rooms — each one carrying a single digit of the escape code. But one of you is the Admin. The Admin looks like you. Walks like you. Stands in the group and listens to you talk. And then, whenever they choose, they disappear and drift through the walls. Staying h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to One of You.

Yorkfield is sick. Its people are dying, the woods are watching, and something in the dark has learned to speak with your friends’ voices. Malpractice is a 1–4 player online co-op survival horror game where you and your fellow plague doctors enter a cursed village to treat its afflicted residents before the Leshy claims everyone left behind. Every run is a fight to keep the team alive long enoug… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Malpractice.

A weekend getaway. A harmless treasure hunt. A desperate rescue mission. You arrive at the dense, suffocating edge of the woods expecting a cheerful reunion with your girlfriend, Steph, who went missing during a girls' weekend trip. Instead, you find an abandoned campsite, scattered gear, and a trail of frantic notes. The "treasure hunt" Steph and her friends were following wasn't a ga… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Just a stroll in the forest.