Top 32 Multiplayer Co-op Horror Games

Some of these send four friends into the dark with flashlights and a ghost-hunting checklist; others hand them shotguns and a horde. Pick the one that made your group scream loudest.

1. 1
   Left 4 Dead

   Valve's 2008 original, which turned four survivors against hordes of infected and defined the co-op zombie shooter.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Demonologist

   Clock Wizard Games' 2023 co-op exorcism game with voice recognition and ritual-based investigations.
   907pts
3. 3
   Phasmophobia

   A 2020 four-player ghost-hunting game where teams gather evidence with EMF readers and spirit boxes to identify the haunting.
   898pts
4. 4
   Left 4 Dead 2

   Valve's 2009 four-player zombie shooter set across the American South, with the AI Director shaping every run.
   835pts
5. 5
   Escape the Backrooms

   Fancy Games' co-op exploration horror game set in the liminal, entity-haunted levels of the Backrooms.
   800pts
6. 6
   World War Z

   Saber Interactive's 2019 four-player shooter built around massive zombie swarms from the World War Z universe.
   734pts
7. 7
   Project Zomboid

   The Indie Stone's sandbox zombie survival game set in Knox County, famous for its brutal multiplayer servers.
   734pts
8. 8
   Devour

   Straight Back Games' four-player game about stopping possessed cult leaders before they drag the team to Hell.
   734pts
9. 9
   Sons of the Forest

   Endnight's 2024 sequel that sends a rescue team to a cannibal-filled island with deeper building and co-op survival.
   659pts
10. 10
    Dead Space 3

    The 2013 Dead Space entry that added a drop-in co-op campaign with Isaac Clarke and John Carver on the ice planet Tau Volantis.
    659pts
11. 11
    Dead by Daylight

    Behaviour Interactive's long-running horror game where four survivors work together to escape a killer.
    659pts
12. 12
    The Quarry

    Supermassive's 2022 summer-camp slasher with online voting and couch co-op for groups of friends.
    659pts
13. 13
    The Blackout Club

    Question's 2019 co-op stealth horror game about teenagers uncovering a sinister secret beneath their town.
    571pts
14. 14
    GTFO

    10 Chambers' punishing four-player stealth-horror shooter set in a vast underground complex full of sleeping monsters.
    571pts
15. 15
    Forewarned

    Dreambyte Games' co-op ghost-hunting game set in cursed Egyptian tombs full of relics and Mejai.
    571pts
16. 16
    Resident Evil 5

    Capcom's 2009 co-op action-horror game pairing Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar against the Las Plagas outbreak in Africa.
    467pts
17. 17
    Man of Medan

    The 2019 first Dark Pictures chapter, a ghost-ship story built for shared-story online and couch co-op.
    467pts
18. 18
    Hunt: Showdown 1896

    Crytek's PvPvE bounty-hunting shooter where duos and trios track monsters through Louisiana bayous.
    467pts
19. 19
    Content Warning

    Landfall's 2024 co-op game about filming monsters in the Old World to go viral on SpookTube.
    467pts
20. 20
    R.E.P.O.

    Semiwork's 2025 physics-based co-op horror game in which robots haul valuables out of haunted locations.
    467pts
21. 21
    Back 4 Blood

    Turtle Rock's 2021 spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead with card-based runs against the Ridden.
    467pts
22. 22
    Barotrauma

    A 2D submarine survival game for up to 16 players set in the monster-filled ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa.
    467pts
23. 23
    Killing Floor 2

    Tripwire's gory six-player wave shooter where squads fight off Zeds and boss monsters with perk-based classes.
    467pts
24. 24
    The Outlast Trials

    Red Barrels' co-op spin on Outlast, where test subjects survive Cold War experiments run by the Murkoff Corporation.
    343pts
25. 25
    The Forest

    Endnight's 2018 survival horror game about a plane-crash survivor hunted by cannibal mutants on a forested peninsula.
    343pts
26. 26
    Resident Evil 6

    Capcom's 2012 globe-trotting entry with four interlinked co-op campaigns starring Leon, Chris, Jake and Ada.
    343pts
27. 27
    Zombie Army 4: Dead War

    Rebellion's 2020 four-player shooter against Hitler's undead armies across occult wartime Europe.
    343pts
28. 28
    Lethal Company

    Zeekerss' 2023 indie hit in which a crew of contractors scavenges scrap from monster-infested moons to meet a quota.
    0pts
29. 29
    Resident Evil Revelations 2

    Capcom's 2015 episodic entry pairing Claire Redfield and Moira Burton on a prison island, plus a co-op Raid Mode.
    0pts
30. 30
    House of Ashes

    Supermassive's 2021 Dark Pictures chapter about soldiers trapped in a buried Sumerian temple, playable in online co-op.
    0pts
31. 31
    Dying Light

    Techland's 2015 parkour zombie game set in Harran, with four-player co-op and deadly night-time Volatiles.
    0pts
32. 32
    Labyrinthine

    Valko Game Studios' co-op horror game of procedurally generated mazes and monster-chased case files.
    0pts

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