Co-op games like Night City
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Night City, 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
- 1
Frostrail
Co-op alternative to Night City — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Night City.
Through the frost, death follows the tracks. Dive into a ruthless survival FPS, solo or co-op. Explore, scavenge, craft and fight to endure a frozen, corrupted world. Operate and upgrade your steam-powered train through an unforgiving wasteland, where every choice is a matter of survival.
- 2
The Highrise
Online Co-op alternative to Night City — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Night City.
THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.
- 3
MISERY
Online Co-op alternative to Night City — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Night City.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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The Forest
Online Co-op alternative to Night City — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Night City.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
- 5
Sunkenland
Online Co-op alternative to Night City — playable with friends. Shares Action and Early Access with Night City.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
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Crushed
Online Co-op alternative to Night City — playable with friends. Shares Action and Early Access with Night City.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
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KeepUp Survival
Online Co-op alternative to Night City — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Night City.
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
- 8
The Gold River Project
Online Co-op alternative to Night City — playable with friends. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Night City.
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.