10 Co-Op Horror Games to Play with Friends This Halloween

Want to make your Halloween night unforgettable? Try these spine-chilling co-op horror games with friends! Together, you will face haunted houses, dodge creepy cultists, and survive terrifying encounters that no solo game can match. These games test your teamwork and survival skills in intense, scary settings. We have put together the ten best co-op horror games that bring big scares.

10. Dead by Daylight

Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer horror game wherein four survivors team up for escaping a killer. The role of the survivors involves fixing generators scattered throughout the map in order to open exit gates and escape. But there’s a killer hunting after them, who does everything to catch them so he can sacrifice them to hooks. The survivors might try hiding, running or distract the killer to get out for as long time before elimination. They will work in collaboration with one another, be vigilant, and give others information to enhance chances for survival.

9. Pacify

Pacify is a cooperative horror game for up to four players with the idea of catching a fearful spirit terrorizing various areas. It’s an actual paranormal investigator exploring creepy houses, looking for certain objects to weaken the ghost and completing the mission. The major objective here is to identify and gather items that would be applied in rituals-which in turn will weaken or trap the ghost. But it gets really aggressive with a player as they progress; the mission gets dangerous in the last parts. Broadly, it has two major modes of play: a team-based PvE and a competitive PvP mode.

8. Demonologist

Demonologist is another cooperative horror game where 1 to 4 players would be able to play and the objective of the game would be to identify and exorcise evil spirits haunting haunted locations. Players can play separately or together, and they have to operate various devices to discover clues about the type of spirit that is hovering over that particular area. All this equipment helps in gathering evidence and getting one step closer in discovering the supernatural issue. Also, random events as well as ghostly interactions are constants throughout the game.

7. Content Warning

Content Warning is a cooperative game where, with your friends, you have to plunge into creepy and underground worlds and try to film spooky things and end up going viral on SpöökTube. Your target is to try and video as many horrifying moments you can while staying conscious within the scarce supplies of oxygen and camera batteries. Gear for each of the players helps capture some scary and physics-animated monsters or cursed relics with other kind of eerie stuff. Working together is highly important because survival if one is going solo is quite hard, and the more footage you have, the better your chances to become famous.

6. Panicore

In Panicore, players take the roles of urban explorers who are drawn to creepy abandoned places. Here, up to five friends can team up in order to enter these places in search of secrets and lost treasures. However, things turn terrifying when they find themselves trapped inside with a relentless monster. It can hear both footsteps and voices, so players must move quietly and communicate very quietly if they are going to avoid being detected. Goal is pretty simple: Find all the items you need to escape before the monster catches you.

5. Forewarned

The world of Forewarned takes you deeper into ancient Egyptian tombs, where you may enjoy exploring with up to four other friends. There are specific tools, and a teamwork effort is required when going out to search for hidden treasure, investigate the mystifying events, or in uncovering hidden stories and secrets from the past. Meanwhile, the tombs are filled with traps, curses, and puzzles to ensure survival, as careful use of equipment with bright teamwork is necessary for living. Players will also meet some deadly enemies along the way who don’t intend to let them escape.

4. Cry of Fear

This game Cry of Fear is more or less a survival and teamwork game. Players are moving through a dark, abandoned town with scary creatures. They have to stay together to protect one another from constant enemy attacks. The game is played in first-person perspective so that players feel fully immersed, facing threats directly in their line of sight. In addition, players use different weapons to defend against enemies, but enemies are tough and keep coming.

3. The Outlast Trials

The Outlast Trials is a horror game that places players in a nightmarish facility run by the Murkoff Corporation, where they are forced into twisted experiments. The game is set during the Cold War, and the players become unwilling test subjects trapped in psychological trials. The gameplay allows players to face these horrific challenges either solo or team up in groups of up to four. Working together is not necessary, but it usually helps complete the hard tasks set up by Murkoff in each trial.

2. Devour

Devour is a co-op horror survival game where up to 4 players team up to stop possessed cultists from dragging them to a terrifying fate. Players have to work together to complete ritual tasks while avoiding the dangerous cultists. All throughout the game, you will be racing against time to find and collect specific items that are crucial in performing forbidden rituals. Additionally, the titual items are scattered all over the map, and their positions change every time you play, so that each game is hopelessly unique.

1. Phasmophobia

If you enjoy ghost hunting with friends, you will definitely love Phasmophobia. You and three teammates are going to enter haunted locations and collect information about the type of ghost that might be present in the area. Moreover, using tools such as EMF readers, spirit boxes, and thermometers, you would detect supernatural activity. Also, team members divide the tasks and share findings with each other in the in-game voice chat. In addition to this, the ghost responds to certain words and phrases and creates unpredictable situations.

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