Co-op games like Caves of Madness
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Caves of Madness, 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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Necromancer's Last Stand
Online Co-op alternative to Caves of Madness — playable with friends. Shares Action and Strategy with Caves of Madness.
Bound by death and driven by vengeance, a fallen king must raise armies of the dead and tear through the wreckage of forgotten worlds to break free from a god’s cruel game you must strenghten your armies
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The Neath
Online Co-op alternative to Caves of Madness — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Caves of Madness.
Beneath you go. Below the bones of the earth and lower into the darkness. Find your way through twisting passages past vile monsters. Explore, discover and conquer your way to greater depths and greater rewards.
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DarkShine
LAN Co-op alternative to Caves of Madness — playable with friends. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Caves of Madness.
DarkShine is an open-world game with a classic graphical style, where you as a former soldier have to save the inhabitants of your village from the white queen and her army, going a long way from nobody to the savior of the world.
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The Chenwei Unveiler
Online Co-op alternative to Caves of Madness — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Caves of Madness.
Breaker of Clouds is a dark medieval single-player action game: scour, fight, and extract by day; hold the tower against the cloud tide by night—survive to the next dawn through tough choices in building, troops, and builds.
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The Guardian Stone
Online Co-op alternative to Caves of Madness — playable with friends. Shares Action and Strategy with Caves of Madness.
The Guardian Stone is a online third person Action Tower Defense Game with Rpg elements and mulitplayer. Set in the fantasy world of Elrone, You play as a hero protecting the realm from the forces of evil.
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Blacklode
Online Co-op alternative to Caves of Madness — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Caves of Madness.
A medieval dungeon extraction game for parties of one to three. Take a torch and a blade into the halls under Karnhollow, fight monsters and rival crews for the gold in the black stone, and get out before the gates seal. Die down there and you lose everything you carried.
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EX-Tractus
Online Co-op alternative to Caves of Madness — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Caves of Madness.
A soulslike extraction game for up to four players. Master melee, archery, and magic combat as you raid the danger-soaked lands of EX-Tractus for loot. The stakes are high: everything you carry is lost when you die. Upgrade your gear and fight your way to extraction, or lose it all.
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Necrofane
Online Co-op alternative to Caves of Madness — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Caves of Madness.
A dark power is rising. Defeat the necromancer and his generals before they conquer the kingdom. In this old school dark fantasy RPG, explore cursed dungeons, battle monstrous foes, master forbidden magic, and gather powerful loot in a world teetering on the edge of ruin.