Co-op Horror Games to Play with Friends

Top 16 co-op horror games

1. 1

   Phasmophobia

   Paranormal investigators enter haunted locations with thermometers, cameras and other gear to collect evidence and identify the type of ghost. The ghost hears your microphone, responds to your voice and can hunt you.

   2–4 onlineCrossplay

2. 2

   Lethal Company

   A company sends you to abandoned moons to collect scrap and meet a quota before the deadline. The facilities have monsters, and voice only carries at close range or over walkie-talkies.

   2–4 online

3. 3

   Dead by Daylight

   The killer chases survivors and hangs them on hooks while they repair generators to power the exit gates and escape. Several killers come from horror films like Alien and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

   2–5 onlineCrossplay

4. 4

   R.E.P.O.

   As robots, you enter abandoned locations to haul valuables to an extraction point and meet a quota while monsters roam. Objects are physics-based and lose value with every bump.

   2–6 online

5. 5

   SCP: Secret Laboratory

   After a containment breach in an underground facility, each player is randomly assigned a side: SCP creatures, Class-D personnel, scientists or guards. Humans hunt for keycards to escape while the SCPs try to kill them.

   2–40 onlineFree

6. 6

   Escape the Backrooms

   You explore levels of the Backrooms, the empty halls and rooms from the internet legend, looking for the exit while avoiding the entities that hunt you. Voice chat is proximity-based.

   2–4 onlineCrossplay

7. 7

   The Outlast Trials

   As test subjects of the Murkoff Corporation during the Cold War, you complete objectives while hiding from enemies you can't kill. Each of you picks one rig, like a stun or a heal.

   2–4 onlineCrossplay

8. 8

   Content Warning

   You take a camera to the Old World, an underground place with monsters, to film them and upload the video to SpookTube. Views pay for gear, and you have three days to hit a quota.

   2–4 online

9. 9

   Barotrauma

   Beneath the ice of Europa, Jupiter's moon, you crew a submarine. Everyone has a job, like captain or medic, and together you patch leaks, run the reactor and fight sea monsters.

   2–16 online

10. 10

    GTFO

    Prisoners are sent into an underground complex to complete objectives among sleeping creatures. Waking them brings hordes, so you move in stealth with melee strikes and ration ammo, which is scarce.

    2–4 online

11. 11

    DEVOUR

    A possessed cult leader hunts you while you complete the ritual that stops her, like burning ten goats on an altar. Each step makes her faster, and a UV flashlight holds her off briefly.

    2–4 online

12. 12

    Backrooms: Escape Together

    You descend through randomly generated Backrooms levels, each with its own puzzles, items and entities, looking for the exit to the next one. The layout regenerates on every attempt.

    2–6 online

13. 13

    The Quarry

    Nine summer camp counselors, controlled by the players, spend a night chased by hunters and creatures. Your choices and timed button presses decide who is still alive at dawn.

    2–8 online · 8 on one screen

14. 14

    REANIMAL

    A brother and sister cross an island on foot and by boat to rescue their missing friends, hiding and running from creatures. Both players share one camera, with no split screen.

    2–2 online · 2 on one screenCrossplay

15. 15

    Shift At Midnight

    You run a gas station at night, stocking shelves and ringing up sales while questioning each customer and checking their ID to spot doppelgangers. The ones you miss come back later to kill you.

    2–3 online

16. 16

    The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

    Five characters, US military personnel and an Iraqi soldier, are trapped in an underground Sumerian temple during the Iraq War and hunted by creatures. Your choices and reflexes decide who survives.

    2–2 online · 5 on one screen