Co-op games like Descending The Woods
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Descending The Woods, 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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Zector 7
Online Co-op alternative to Descending The Woods — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Descending The Woods.
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
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Footage
Online Co-op alternative to Descending The Woods — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Descending The Woods.
Unravel a spiritual entity, learn its behavior, manage your anxiety, loot for medicine, and exorcise its presence.
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Blind Descent
Co-op alternative to Descending The Woods — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Descending The Woods.
Blind Descent is an open-world survival adventure that unveils the mysteries of the Martian depths. Play solo or with friends in 4-player co-op as you search for the missing team. Adapt to survive by building custom tools, upgrading the base, and/or mutating in this bizarre alien world.
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Pathless Woods
Online Co-op alternative to Descending The Woods — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descending The Woods.
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
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The Devourer: Hunted Souls
Online Co-op alternative to Descending The Woods — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Descending The Woods.
Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?
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IfSunSets
Co-op alternative to Descending The Woods — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Descending The Woods.
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
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S.P.A.T.
Online Co-op alternative to Descending The Woods — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Descending The Woods.
Join the Special Paranormal Assault Team in this thrilling hunting shooter! Battle monsters, demons, and ghosts. S.P.A.T. - where our motto is "Fight monsters, get paid, die horribly."
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Fade to Silence
Co-op alternative to Descending The Woods — playable with friends. Shares RPG with Descending The Woods.
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.