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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Jack's Last Show
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Jack’s Last Show, a short co-op horror game for 1–4 players. Wind up the music boxes, start each act of Jack’s final performance, and try to escape before the house becomes his stage.
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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.
Co-op horror in the dark. Four players, each with a flashlight in a winding tunnel system that is generated fresh each round. Proximity voice carries through the tunnels. Your friends can hear echoes of your screams. Something else can hear them too.
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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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Nifland
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
Nifland is a surreal multiplayer horror game with social deduction, set inside a paranormal dream beneath the ocean. Maintain a decaying deep-sea station, survive the entities roaming its halls, and uncover the traitor hiding among your crew before the dream consumes you all.
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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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IMITATORS
Online Co-op alternative to Dead 4 Now: Extraction — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dead 4 Now: Extraction.
Co-op horror for 6 players and multiplayer for up to 20 players. Search for items on a randomly generated map and send them into the tube. But be careful: Imitators (Mimics) hide among ordinary things, ready to attack the moment the lights go out.