Co-op games like Dead 4 Now: Extraction
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Dead 4 Now: Extraction, 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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Shadows Are Alive
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
Enter the ever-changing world of Shadows Are Alive! Team up, channel epic alter-egos, and outwit "The Shift" in a series of shape-shifting maps. Relentless suspense, vibrant visuals, and unmatched strategy. Can you escape the Shift, or will you fall to his wrath?
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Pinched
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
A multiplayer horror-race through pitch-black tunnels that shift every round. Grab your flashlight, drop flares, and claw toward the only way out, before the thing in the dark reaches you first. Up to 10 players. Don't get caught. Don't get lost.
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Cursed Carts
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
A PvPvE horror game playable with 2–6 players. Compete against each other with your alien team split into two groups. In a massive mansion filled with creatures, the team that collects the most loot within the time limit wins.
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MACE: Mapinguari's Temple
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
MACE: Mapinguari's Temple is a multiplayer, horror game with adventure and social deduction elements. Venture into a maze-like, procedurally generated dungeon filled with puzzles, avoid the terrible creature that roams it's corridors and discover who is the deceitful cultist among you.
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KAKUREONI: Hide-and-Seek Horror
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
This is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game. Play a 3-minute game of hide-and-seek in an abandoned school at midnight. With only the beam of a flashlight to guide them through the darkness, the children must play KAKUREONI and bring the Ritual of Reincarnation to an end.
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Labrys
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
Labrys is a multiplayer (up to 5v1) horror game where players are thrown into a randomly generated labyrinth against a minotaur. Play as the minotaur or one of up to five human players trying to escape the labyrinth.
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Shipping Nightmares
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
A co-op horror game where you and your teammates must scavenge for supplies, and survive relentless horrors lurking in the shadows.
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SCREAM NOTE
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
Jumpscare your friends. If you write your friend's name on a page, the monster jumpscares them and they scream. Co-op comedy horror where you and your friends are trapped in a haunted neighborhood house. Can you reach the exit together, or will you scare each other out? 222 unique, crazy jumpscares!