Co-op games like Jester: A Foolish Ritual
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Jester: A Foolish Ritual, 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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Backrooms: The Last Observer
Online Co-op alternative to Jester: A Foolish Ritual — playable with friends. Shares Adventure with Jester: A Foolish Ritual.
Backrooms: The Last Observer is a cooperative horror game. Descend into something that resists understanding, where perception itself begins to fracture. You are here not to fight, but to witness — and sometimes, witnessing is the worst thing you can do.
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Deathground
Online Co-op alternative to Jester: A Foolish Ritual — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Jester: A Foolish Ritual.
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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Backrooms: Forgotten Floors
Online Co-op alternative to Jester: A Foolish Ritual — playable with friends. Shares Adventure with Jester: A Foolish Ritual.
Backrooms: Forgotten Floors is a cooperative horror game for 1–4 players. Descend into levels no one remembers, through spaces that shouldn't exist. You're here now — and the only thing worse than being lost is being noticed.
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Sly Apes
Online Co-op alternative to Jester: A Foolish Ritual — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Jester: A Foolish Ritual.
A retro PSX survival horror game for 1–4 players. Navigate randomly generated maps while hidden apes lurk in the shadows. Spot the threat, run, hide, or slam the door. One wrong move, and you're dead.
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Specimen 13
Online Co-op alternative to Jester: A Foolish Ritual — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Jester: A Foolish Ritual.
In Specimen 13 you play as one of five survivors (or a traitor) who find themselves as unwilling subjects in an experiment set on a mysterious island. Alternatively, play as the Specimen and prevent the survivors from escaping through the underground elevator.
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The Organ Woman | 臓器女
Online Co-op alternative to Jester: A Foolish Ritual — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Jester: A Foolish Ritual.
A 1–4 player cooperative horror game set in an abandoned hospital in Japan. Work together with your friends, collect boxes containing organs, and escape from the hospital where something lurks!
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The Outlast Trials
Online Co-op alternative to Jester: A Foolish Ritual — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Jester: A Foolish Ritual.
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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Escape From Monster
Online Co-op alternative to Jester: A Foolish Ritual — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Jester: A Foolish Ritual.
You woke up in a dusty room, in an unknown place, with no memory of how you got here. Your pockets are empty, and there is something outside the door producing frightening sounds.