Co-op games like Macabre
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Macabre, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Terres
Online Co-op alternative to Macabre — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Macabre.
Terres is a challenging teamwork and communication based 4-player co-op puzzle adventure game. While inside the trials you can adjust everything from lighting, duration and visibility to enemy behaviour and difficulty. Creating entirely new ways to overcome the challenge. Includes Singleplayer.
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InfestStation
Online Co-op alternative to Macabre — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Macabre.
INFESTSTATION is a multiplayer Sci-Fi horror game. Board danger-filled abandoned space craft, work together to complete objectives, and sever the dimensional gateways that have allowed horrifying threats to take over and infest these now derelict spaces.
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Species: Unknown
Online Co-op alternative to Macabre — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Macabre.
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
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EXOME
Online Co-op alternative to Macabre — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Macabre.
EXOME is a co-op sci-fi survival shooter that blends wave-based survival with open-world exploration. Battle hordes of aliens, upgrade your arsenal, and uncover the hidden truths of the deep forest. Will you face it alone or bring your friends along?
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Lethal Company
Online Co-op alternative to Macabre — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Macabre.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
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Nuclear Nightmare
Online Co-op alternative to Macabre — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Macabre.
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
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Sketchy's Contract
Online Co-op alternative to Macabre — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Macabre.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
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War of the Worlds
Online Co-op alternative to Macabre — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Macabre.
Hardcore horror open world survival game which throws the player into the middle of the extermination of mankind with the sole purpose of surviving long enough to find a way to bring down the alien machines. Loot buildings, fight off hostile survivors, stay hidden from the machines, and stay alive.