Co-op games like Whispers in the Dark
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Whispers in the Dark, 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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HAUNTMATES
Co-op alternative to Whispers in the Dark — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Whispers in the Dark.
Co-op horror investigation game across multiple maps. Enter procedurally generated environments, use your equipment to gather clues, and identify the entity. Watch your back, because monsters are hunting you down.
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Dream Eaters.exe
Co-op alternative to Whispers in the Dark — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Whispers in the Dark.
Trapped in a secret sleep experiment, you and your friends must survive terrifying nightmares, completing tasks to wake up before it's too late. Play solo or in co-op, but beware the experiments are never the same and something watches from the dark.
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Terres
Online Co-op alternative to Whispers in the Dark — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Whispers in the Dark.
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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Zomdied
Co-op alternative to Whispers in the Dark — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Whispers in the Dark.
A hardcore top-down zombie survival sandbox RPG. Scavenge for supplies, craft essential gear, and fight to survive against an ever-evolving horde that grows stronger and more dangerous the longer you last. Finding it too easy to survive the turning? Make it a challenge worthy of your skill.
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Red Core Division
Online Co-op alternative to Whispers in the Dark — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Whispers in the Dark.
Red Core Division is a co-op survival horror game for 1–4 players. Enter a classified containment facility, where something has gone horribly wrong. Your mission: find evidence of paranormal activity, complete high-risk objectives, and escape alive. But, something is down there—something that hunts.
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Breach Signal
Co-op alternative to Whispers in the Dark — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Whispers in the Dark.
Breach Signal is a 1-6 player co-op cosmic horror game. As a recruit of the FNA, lead expeditions into strange places and investigate mysterious anomalies that threaten our reality.
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Horror Simulator VR
Online Co-op alternative to Whispers in the Dark — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Whispers in the Dark.
The First Multiplayer Horror VR game inspired by Phasmophobia. Play with friends, laugh & run! Work together to solve puzzles, explore creepy places & survive scary chases with cool power-ups & customized avatars.
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Ghost Exorcism INC.
Online Co-op alternative to Whispers in the Dark — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Whispers in the Dark.
Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.