Co-op games like Night Shippers
Below are 10 cooperative Steam games similar to Night Shippers, 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
Shift At Midnight
Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Simulation with Night Shippers.
An online co-op detective horror for up to 3 players. Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers, as some are only pretending to be human. Make one mistake, and you’ll be forced to board up, set traps, and hide.
- 2
Sketchy's Contract
Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Action with Night Shippers.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
- 3
PARANOIA PLACE
Online Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Action and Simulation with Night Shippers.
PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.
- 4
Dreadline: Net Quota
Online Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Action with Night Shippers.
Dreadline: Net Quota is a chaotic co-op game for up to 6 players set on dangerous seas. Catch fish with different rods or spearfishing, keep your boat afloat as systems fail, and survive unpredictable encounters without drowning as everything falls apart.
- 5
I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator
Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Simulation with Night Shippers.
Run your pizza shop up front and handle shady business out back. Help hand-crafted NPCs with favors that never go as planned. Play solo or online co-op with up to four players and expand your operation across Hobarey Town. In this darkly comedic management sim - become that guy everyone knows.
- 6
Unpossess: Exorcism Simulator
Online Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Action and Simulation with Night Shippers.
Unpossess is a 1-4 co-op exorcism simulator game set in the early 1900s. Players take on the role of exorcists responsible for addressing cases of human possession.
- 7
Species: Unknown
Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Action with Night Shippers.
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
- 8
Restaurats
Online Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Action and Simulation with Night Shippers.
Lead a medieval restaurant with a team of rats like you! Cook the food, throw it at the guests, wipe the drinks under the skeletons! Become a legendary rat chef, proving to orcs and vampires that the most delicious bloody meat is served in your restaurant!
- 9
Lethal Company
Online Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Action with Night Shippers.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
- 10
R.E.P.O.
Online Co-op alternative to Night Shippers — playable with friends. Shares Action with Night Shippers.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.