TOP 10: Best cooperative horror games (2019-2020)

Co-op Horror 2010-2018 ┃ Co-op Horror 2021-2023

Developers are coming up with more and more new ways to scare players. Therefore, today Steam is replete with a significant number of cooperative horrors of the most varied quality – it’s always more fun to be scared in the company of friends or at least with strangers from the Internet. Therefore, in this article we will talk about cooperative horror movies and scary games for two, among which everyone will find suitable entertainment for themselves.

The main thing in it Blackout Club – An atmosphere inspired by Stranger Things, It and Twin Peaks. The story is about a mysterious closed city where people disappear, and every night all the inhabitants get up from their beds and wander the streets unknowingly. Only a few children are not affected by this mysterious phenomenon. It is they who have organized themselves into the Blackout Club to find out what the hell is going on. Armed with a crossbow, polyurethane foam, a smartphone and other equipment, we go out every night to discover the truth, collect loot and get pump points.

Because the game was created by the developers Thief 3 and series BioShock, the process is characterized by the slowness characteristic of immersive sims, a variety of paths and ways of passing. The goal of each outing is randomly generated. Sometimes we have to find evidence that strange things are happening, sometimes we have to save a friend or do something else. The main thing is not to attract the attention of adults and a monster nicknamed Figure.

Secret Neighbor is a multiplayer horror game set in the universe Hello Neighbor, which takes place between Acts 1 and 2 of the original. Players take on the role of children who find themselves in great trouble because of their curiosity. They want to rescue their friend from the creepy basement of the Neighbor who kidnapped him. The problem is that the Neighbor is one of them.

So, in Secret Neighbor, gamers are divided into those who want to escape and those who want to catch. Children have to work together very carefully, collect keys and try to save a friend. The neighbor can also use various gadgets that can help him catch all potential victims.

In 2015, the game is the first really big game Supermassive Games “Survive Until Dawn” hit the jackpot. So it’s not surprising that after playing around with VR a bit, the developers returned to the topic of interactive horror stories. This time – in the form of an anthology of small independent adventures.

Yes, they mainly scare here with screamers, the plots do not really stand out against the background of category B films, and there is not so much content to keep you interested for a long time. But here there is a real non-linearity, a good cast, a nice picture and most importantly co-op, because co-op makes the game much more interesting. It’s well worth spending a few days trying to go through each fork, pick all the solutions and kill all the heroes. In addition, the second part has recently seen the light.

The game is distributed with a remake Resident Evil 3 and tells of the Umbrella training ground, where the four heroes must confront the puppeteer. The brave quartet must make their way through dangerous locations to find special keys and further open the way. Five minutes are given for each location, and in total you must go through three such zones to successfully exit the test. Their rival in turn unleashes hordes of zombies, setting traps and unleashing the famed tyrant.

Of course, the combat system behaves extremely clumsily at times. Since the Resident Evil 3 remake is still being bought, why not play with your friends in multiplayer and try to keep the Umbrella experiment alive?

Project of Kazan studio Fair Games, authors Protocol, quite famous in the narrow circles of the game. IN We play Loco Parentis as a character who, when leaving the apartment, sees a small and very suspicious girl. The child asks for help to find his mother, and it won’t be easy. After all, the usual entrance to an apartment building here is very unusual: having reached the first floor, we find ourselves at the very top again – and so again and again. Each new circle gives new plot details and reveals another unpleasant monster, a shortage of cartridges and batteries for a flashlight puts pressure on the psyche, and many generally confuse complex puzzles with bugs.

This game has something to complain about, but the atmosphere is on top and you can get scared more than once. Loco Parentis fulfills its task on a limited budget, but it does it.

A completely new project that appeared on Steam on October 1, 2020. Therefore, now is a very good time to jump into the game and enjoy it online, as a group of four players is quickly recruited in most cases.

In general, the game leaves a pleasant impression, but so far every plus is accompanied by a minus. The map is large but empty, the forest is beautiful but monotonous, the village is pleasant but not enough, the graphics are good but there is no optimization. However, all this can be fixed with patches and updates. Most importantly, developers are actively investing in the game while interest in it is still alive.

It’s worth saying that right away Phasmophobia is one of the best games on our list that you should definitely try. It was released on September 18 and immediately broke into the tops of Twitch, thanks to high-quality gameplay, a thick terrifying atmosphere, and some entertaining mechanics.

We play for the investigators of the paranormal. Our task is to sneak into locations with mystical activity and explore the situation: look for the habitats of ghosts and try to understand what type of paranormal creature is hiding there. One of the main features is that ghosts respond when you say their name or other keywords in conversations. This forces you to carefully dialogue and not talk too much. Unfortunately, so far such mechanisms only work in English, but suddenly this becomes a motivation for someone to enroll in an online school.

Phasmophobia is one of the scariest games in the industry, and having a comrade here is not comforting at all. Nice that the result is not achieved by shouting, but by creating the right atmosphere. If the game has passed you by, think about buying.

Pacify is a game where gamers have to go to a haunted house. It all starts with the fact that a real estate agent wants to put a house up for sale, but he hears rumors that something supernatural is going on there. The man wants to make sure of that and so hires a group of specialists from PAH Inc. Paranormal Activity Helpers Incorporated, tasked with figuring everything out.

You can play alone or with up to three friends. In this case, players can help each other and act as opponents. During the passage, gamers must collect various evidence of an evil spirit in the house. So, for example, you need to interact with objects and find keys that will allow you to explore the estate. However, one must be extremely careful not to stir up evil and fall victim to it.

Hunt: Showdown cannot be called a full-fledged horror, rather, it is a first-person shooter with horror elements, but still fans of playing games about various monsters with friends should not miss this project.

The developer is the infamous company Crytek, which gamers still know from the Crysis series. This time, the authors have abandoned the science fiction theme and created a game in a steampunk setting, where monster hunters fight each other while trying to survive among different kinds of monsters.

The features of Hunt: Showdown include beautiful graphics (after all, the game is made by Crytek) and rather addictive gameplay that combines elements of PvP and PvE. In addition, there are different modes in which gamers can work together in groups or fight alone for a reward.

DESOLATE is a cooperative horror game in which gamers must assemble a team of four and head to Granichny Island, where a terrible tragedy has occurred. Because of this, various anomalies began to occur there and people turned into mutated monsters.

During the passage you can craft items, upgrade your character, and also improve weapons, which is indispensable for survival among monsters. Players must also discover the gruesome truth behind the many victims. By the way, you can play not only in co-op, but also alone.

As you can see, the co-op horror genre is alive and well. Together with your friends you can not only shoot boring zombies, but also hunt ghosts, reveal the secrets of suspicious American cities and even travel through the endless entrances of high-rise buildings. We hope you found something interesting in our review. Happy Halloween!

Co-op Horror 2010-2018 ┃ Co-op Horror 2021-2023