Games like Cry of Fear
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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.
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$9.99Backrooms: Escape Together
Oct 18 · Triiodide Studios
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
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.
MultiplayerHorrorOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorCo-opAtmosphericFirst-PersonRealisticEarly Access👍 42,321
$4.99Fear Therapy
Dec 24 · Black Flag Studios
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Co-op
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.
HorrorMultiplayerPsychological HorrorCo-opEarly AccessIndieViolentFirst-PersonSurvival HorrorDark👍 3,629
-20%$7.99Escape the Backrooms
Oct 23 · Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Co-op
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.
HorrorMultiplayerOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-opSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonEscape RoomExplorationAdventure👍 137,469
$9.99PANICORE
May 31 · ZTEK Studio
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
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.
HorrorOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorCo-opMultiplayerFirst-PersonPvEStealthAtmospheric👍 10,746
-30%$6.99DEVOUR
Jan 28 · Straight Back Games
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Co-op
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.
HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerSurvival HorrorSexual ContentCo-opPsychological HorrorDarkSurvivalFirst-Person👍 68,680
$19.99Phasmophobia
Sep 18 · Kinetic Games
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Co-op
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.
HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorCo-opVRSupernaturalFirst-PersonInvestigationDark👍 684,124
$3.99Chased by Darkness
Jun 1 · South Blue Moon
Both: Horror · Co-op · Survival Horror
Chased by Darkness is a 1-4 players co-op survival horror. Your mission is to face supernatural entities and banish them to the spiritual plane. Explore, fight enemies and don't let the darkness reach you.
HorrorOnline Co-OpCo-opMultiplayerSurvival HorrorIndieActionGorePsychological HorrorFirst-Person👍 325
$9.99In Silence
Oct 29 · Ravenhood Games
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Co-op
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.
HorrorMultiplayerOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorCo-opPsychological HorrorSurvivalStealthFirst-PersonAction👍 9,452
$4.00Zort
Dec 7 · Londer Software
Both: Horror · Co-op · Psychological Horror
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!
Early AccessHorrorOnline Co-OpCo-opFunnyPsychological HorrorFirst-PersonPvEAtmosphericAction👍 11,741
$11.99Lost in Vivo
Nov 5 · KIRA
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror · Survival Horror
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
Psychological HorrorHorrorAtmosphericSurvival HorrorIndiePsychologicalFirst-PersonFPSRetroLovecraftian👍 3,685
$4.99INVITATION To FEAR
Nov 24 · CHEST BOX
Both: Horror · Co-op · Survival Horror
『INVITATION To FEAR』 is a survival horror game for 1 to 4 players. After receiving one of the invitations, you will wake up in an unfamiliar place. Before long, you will realize that a terrifying creature is wandering around the building. Don't let "her" find you.
HorrorMultiplayerCo-opSurvival HorrorOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorDarkThrillerActionStealth👍 421
-20%$27.99Visage
Oct 29 · SadSquare Studio
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
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.
HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorDarkMultiplayerFirst-PersonSingleplayerAtmosphericAdventureIndie👍 8,750
$19.99Dead by Daylight
Jun 14 · Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Co-op
10 years of horror. 10 years of jump scares and close calls. 10 years of brutal sacrifices and thrilling escapes. 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.
HorrorMultiplayerSurvival HorrorGoreOnline Co-OpCo-opSurvivalTeam-BasedThird PersonViolent👍 685,627
$8.99Stay Close
Oct 14 · Blind Bird
Both: Horror · Co-op · Survival Horror
Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?
HorrorCo-opMultiplayerSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorAdventureActionIndieOnline Co-OpSingleplayer👍 1,496
FreeLast Year
Dec 9 · Undaunted Games
Both: Horror · Co-op · Survival Horror
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.
ActionMultiplayerHorrorCo-opSurvival HorrorGoreViolentFirst-PersonSurvivalTeam-Based👍 4,485
$69.99SILENT HILL 2
Oct 7 · Bloober Team SA
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror · Survival Horror
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Psychological HorrorHorrorStory RichSurvival HorrorAtmosphericPsychologicalGreat SoundtrackRemakeSingleplayerThird Person👍 43,461
$7.99Backrooms Media
Dec 16 · NPK Games
Both: Co-op · Psychological Horror · Horror
Backrooms Media is a 1-4 player co-op horror that plunges you into unsettling, hyper-realistic liminal spaces. Navigate eerie environments filled with lurking horrors. Group up with your friends to face the terror of the endless backrooms together and... try to escape.
Co-opMultiplayerCasualPsychological HorrorHorrorOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonExplorationSingleplayer👍 546
$19.99Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Sep 8 · Frictional Games
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
HorrorGorePsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorAtmosphericPuzzleFirst-PersonNudityDarkLovecraftian👍 20,429
$9.99White Noise 2
Apr 7 · Milkstone Studios
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Co-op
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!
HorrorMultiplayerSurvival HorrorTeam-BasedCo-opOnline Co-OpSurvivalFirst-PersonAdventureAction👍 2,229
$4.99Rake
Jul 13 · Konsordo
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · First-Person
Do ghosts exist? What about Bigfoot, Chupacabras,Rake or Skinwalkers? And how will we ever know? You play as Gordon Davis, a scientist,a traveller and an explorer of unknown creatures and unusual events.
HorrorMultiplayerSurvival HorrorSurvivalFirst-PersonHuntingOpen WorldActionIndieCo-op👍 3,794
$4.99Horror Squad
Feb 26 · Cheesecake Dev
Both: Horror · Co-op · Survival Horror
Horror Squad is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game. Assemble your squad to clear the areas cursed by terrifying creatures.
HorrorMultiplayerCo-opSurvival HorrorThrillerActionPsychological HorrorOnline Co-OpIndieAdventure👍 518
-90%$3.49In Sound Mind
Sep 28 · We Create Stuff
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · First-Person
In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.
HorrorPsychological HorrorStory RichPuzzleActionAtmosphericSingleplayerFirst-PersonIndieAction-Adventure👍 5,467
$34.99MADiSON
Jul 7 · BLOODIOUS GAMES
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
HorrorPsychological HorrorDarkSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonPuzzleAtmosphericAdventureSurvivalIndie👍 3,007
$9.99Spectral Scream
Aug 28 · STOIC Ent.
Both: Co-op · Horror · Psychological Horror
Spectral Scream is a 1-4 player cooperative horror exploration game. Are you ready to face death in the maw of purgatory? Your goal is to find key items in each chapter and retrieve the orb. But be careful! Threatening and vicious creatures await you at every stage.
Online Co-OpCo-opHorrorMultiplayerPsychological HorrorThrillerDemonsSurvival HorrorLogicPuzzle👍 653
-80%$0.99Boogeyman 2
Feb 7 · Clockwork Wolf
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
Awoken in the night by your doll. Speaking as if it possesses a mind of its own. The doll warns you of a monster that has come to take you away.
IndieStrategyHorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorAtmosphericSurvivalMultiplayerVRFirst-Person👍 344
$9.99NO BACKUP
May 9 · Serundeox
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · First-Person
Escape together or die alone. A relentless creature is hunting you in this intense co-op bodycam horror experience. Communicate. Stay quiet. Survive. Every move matters. Every sound could be your last. Made by one developer.
HorrorFPSOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorActionRealisticFirst-PersonSurvival HorrorShooter👍 893
$7.99Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Jul 23 · Scott Cawthon
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · First-Person
In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.
HorrorSurvival HorrorSingleplayerFirst-PersonRobotsDarkDifficultPoint & ClickPsychological HorrorSurvival👍 15,488
$13.99Demonsomnia
Aug 13 · Serhat Akgul
Both: Horror · Co-op · Psychological Horror
Demonsomnia is a CO-OP multiplayer bodycam horror game focused on the impact of nuclear reactions. Radiation has spread everywhere, so put on your gas mask. Your goal is to activate the nuclear reactor device and escape without being caught by mutants.
Early AccessHorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerCo-opPsychological HorrorExplorationSupernaturalFirst-PersonSci-fi👍 278
$4.99Decay: The Mare
Feb 13 · Shining Gate Software
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · First-Person
Sam is an addict who ends up in an institution named “Reaching Dreams”, hoping to kick his drug problem and sort out his miserable life. But during the first night, something goes horribly wrong and he gets stuck in an endless nightmare…
AdventureHorrorIndiePoint & ClickPsychological HorrorPuzzleSingleplayerMultiplayerFirst-PersonPsychological👍 1,674
$4.99MEGA
Sep 2 · Red Kraken studio
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
This is a short story about humanity's last attempt to resist nature. Cities lie in ruins, there are traces of huge claws everywhere - once disturbed by people, giants began to wreak havoc around the world. But is there a solution?...
ActionHorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorFPSFirst-PersonAtmosphericShooterSurvivalDark👍 103
$6.99Backrooms Rec.
Mar 6 · Liminal Logic
Both: Survival Horror · Horror · First-Person
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.
MultiplayerOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorHorrorChoose Your Own AdventureFPSFirst-PersonLocal MultiplayerPsychological HorrorAction-Adventure👍 1,832
Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
Aug 15 · VRWERX
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
AVAILABLE TO PLAY IN NON-VR (KEYBOARD/MOUSE AND CONTROLLER) VR HEADSET NO LONGER REQUIRED.“PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE LOST SOUL” immerses you in a terrifying realistic environment with haunting atmosphere, and the need to survive.
HorrorVRAdventureRPGSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorGoreSingleplayerIndieMultiplayer👍 729
$4.99Sign of Silence
Oct 1 · Renderise
Both: Horror · Co-op · First-Person
Sign of Silence is a 4-player cooperative horror game set in dreadful outskirts of Danwille town. Whether you will escape the place or stay here forever depends on cautious and coordinated actions of the whole team!
HorrorCo-opMultiplayerAtmosphericSingleplayerAction4 Player LocalDarkAdventureFirst-Person👍 1,787
$39.99The Evil Within 2
Oct 12 · Tango Gameworks
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
HorrorSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorStory RichOpen WorldActionGoreAdventureSingleplayerAtmospheric👍 19,782
$13.99Never Again
May 9 · Primary Games
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
HorrorSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorPuzzleFemale ProtagonistAdventureSingleplayerExplorationWalking SimulatorFirst-Person👍 887
