Games Like Phasmophobia
12 multiplayer games like Phasmophobia, starting with Demonologist, the closest. The best free one is Cry of Fear. Flip a card to see what it has in common, how many can join and whether it has crossplay.
12 games like Phasmophobia
Start with: Demonologist, Shift At Midnight, Escape the Backrooms and The Outlast Trials.
Demonologist
2–4 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. You enter haunted locations with gear, identify the demon, and exorcise it before it kills you.
PC
Demonologist: View game →Shift At Midnight
2–3 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC · Xbox
Shift At Midnight: View game →Escape the Backrooms
2–4 onlineCrossplay
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC · PS5 · Xbox · Switch 2
Escape the Backrooms: View game →The Outlast Trials
2–4 onlineCrossplay
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC · PS5 · Xbox
The Outlast Trials: View game →Content Warning
2–4 onlineCrossplay
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC · PS5 · Xbox · Switch
Content Warning: View game →Devour
2–4 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC
Devour: View game →Backrooms: Escape Together
2–6 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC · PS5 · Xbox
Backrooms: Escape Together: View game →Lethal Company
2–4 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC
Lethal Company: View game →R.E.P.O.
2–6 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC
R.E.P.O.: View game →Cry of Fear
Free2–4 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. Push through a dark city together, watching each other's backs with scarce ammo.
PC
Cry of Fear: View game →No More Room in Hell
Free2–8 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. Up to eight share scarce ammo and heal bite wounds while crossing a map full of zombies.
PC
No More Room in Hell: View game →GTFO
2–4 online
In common: Co-op horror · Co-op. 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.
PC
GTFO: View game →
How we pick games like Phasmophobia
The order depends on how much each game has in common with Phasmophobia. Style of play and genre (Horror) count the most, then whether you play on the same side or against each other, and after that pace, setting and camera, with the most-played game going first when two are tied. Every game here runs on at least one platform that Phasmophobia is on, so nobody in the group needs new hardware to switch.