Co-op games like The Legacy
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to The Legacy, 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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Corroded
Online Co-op alternative to The Legacy — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with The Legacy.
In this creature filled, horrifying, procedurally generated world, survive by looting ruins, expanding your base, getting better gear, and staying fed. Don't get caught in the flood and survive this nightmare.
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THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
Online Co-op alternative to The Legacy — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with The Legacy.
Explore a dangerous open world, loot abandoned places, build your shelter, produce food, and manage your resources. Survive alone or in co-op against zombies, hostile humans, and the growing dangers that come with the fog.
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The Forest
Online Co-op alternative to The Legacy — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with The Legacy.
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.
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Ars Notoria
Online Co-op alternative to The Legacy — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with The Legacy.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
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Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
Online Co-op alternative to The Legacy — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with The Legacy.
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
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MISERY
Online Co-op alternative to The Legacy — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with The Legacy.
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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Whisper of the Swallows
Online Co-op alternative to The Legacy — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with The Legacy.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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Island Beekeeper
Online Co-op alternative to The Legacy — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Legacy.
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.