Co-op games like Dust Vein
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Dust Vein, 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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Voidwood
Online Co-op alternative to Dust Vein — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dust Vein.
Voidwood is a 1-4 player co-op survival horror game, where your voice can save your friends or give them all away. By day, you scavenge an inviting, cursed forest. By night, you survive the hunt. Push your luck, go deeper, and speak carefully. The forest is listening.
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Backrooms: Multiverse
Online Co-op alternative to Dust Vein — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dust Vein.
Backrooms Multiverse is a cooperative survival horror exploration game where you play as a team of researchers venturing deep into the endless Backrooms multiverse. Explore rare and mysterious environments, and encounter unique entities that few explorers have ever lived to see.
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G.H.O.S.T. Ghost Hunt Ops Special Team
Online Co-op alternative to Dust Vein — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dust Vein.
G.H.O.S.T. — a tactical co-op for 1-4 players. Your main objective: track the Ghost via anomalies and capture it before it collects 7 runes to open the portal. Use Devastators, secure torsional artifacts, and remember—you are there to stop the invasion, not to become its victim.
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Pinched
Online Co-op alternative to Dust Vein — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dust Vein.
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 4 players. Don't get caught. Don't get lost.
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DEPLETED
Online Co-op alternative to Dust Vein — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Early Access with Dust Vein.
DEPLETED is an upcoming asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where sacrifices must escape a ritualist who hunts them down for blood in order to complete the ritual. Use stealth, teamwork, and strategy to survive.
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Empty House
Online Co-op alternative to Dust Vein — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dust Vein.
In a world emptied by the zombie apocalypse, loot the houses left behind — a first-person co-op stealth horror for up to 4 players. Team up to gather supplies and escape alive! Every sound draws zombies, from footsteps to your voice over the mic. Evade them, or disguise yourself as one to slip past.
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Vasilisa
Online Co-op alternative to Dust Vein — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dust Vein.
VASILISA is a co-op horror game for 1–4 players, inspired by Slavic folklore and culture. Team up with friends, gather mythical artifacts, and stop the invasion of darkness threatening your kolkhoz.
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Cooking Cave
Online Co-op alternative to Dust Vein — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Dust Vein.
A co-op survival horror for up to 4 players. Descend into the dungeon, gather ingredients while avoiding traps and monsters, then cook a meal for a starving beast. Learn its tastes, choose the right ingredients, and don't become dinner yourself! More hands mean more loot!