Co-op games like Nightmare Pursuit
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Nightmare Pursuit, 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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The Outlast Trials
Online Co-op alternative to Nightmare Pursuit — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare Pursuit.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
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HorrorBox
Online Co-op alternative to Nightmare Pursuit — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Early Access with Nightmare Pursuit.
HorrorBox is a Multiplayer Horror Game dripping with an eery cinematic experience set in the 80s. Utilize tools and work together to survive either PvE or PvP fright nights...
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CRYO
Online Co-op alternative to Nightmare Pursuit — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare Pursuit.
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...
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H.A.I.N
Online Co-op alternative to Nightmare Pursuit — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare Pursuit.
H.A.I.N: Heir of the Ancient Immortal Necromancer is an asymmetrical co-op horror/thriller game for 1–4 players. Explore hostile regions, collect ancient artifacts, and begin the final ritual. But one of you will become H.A.I.N, the betrayer, and trust will collapse.
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Backrooms Lost Runners
Online Co-op alternative to Nightmare Pursuit — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare Pursuit.
Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.
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Deathground
Online Co-op alternative to Nightmare Pursuit — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare Pursuit.
A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?
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Storebound
Online Co-op alternative to Nightmare Pursuit — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare Pursuit.
A 1-3 player co-op puzzle horror game set in an accursed megastore. Work together to decode the store's twisted logic, and find a way out before the lurking horrors doom you to shop forever.
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PANICORE
Online Co-op alternative to Nightmare Pursuit — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare Pursuit.
PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.