Co-op games like Doldrums
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Doldrums, 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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Expendabots
Online Co-op alternative to Doldrums — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doldrums.
Expendabots is a 1–4 player co-op horror-extraction game where expendable robots explore ever-changing islands and terrifying dungeons. Outmatched and vulnerable, you’ll need to stay quiet, hide from hostile creatures, survive the horrors, and extract with your squad before the island is lost.
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Escape From Monster
Online Co-op alternative to Doldrums — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doldrums.
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.
- 3
MIMESIS
Online Co-op alternative to Doldrums — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doldrums.
4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
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Lethal Company
Online Co-op alternative to Doldrums — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doldrums.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
- 5
The Outlast Trials
Online Co-op alternative to Doldrums — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doldrums.
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?
- 6
Burglin' Gnomes
Online Co-op alternative to Doldrums — playable with friends. Shares Adventure with Doldrums.
An online Co-op game about breaking into houses and causing havoc as a tiny gnome. Avoid danger, repurpose stolen household items, and complete tasks to meet the High-Gnome’s demands. Craft equipment and upgrade your home to make your missions easier and more successful.
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Floor44
Online Co-op alternative to Doldrums — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doldrums.
Floor44 is a hardcore luckiness detector kinda game with randomly generated maps, the goal is to make it to the top floor. You can rely on your skills to reach floor30, but you'll need more than that to make it to Floor44.
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Deathground
Online Co-op alternative to Doldrums — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Doldrums.
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?