Co-op games like Bacterium / 生命之旅

If the tense and dark rhythm of Bacterium / 生命之旅 stuck with you, this helps. These co-op games could fill that gap nicely. Sharing the fun is easy with these picks.

NA.NO
Pilot your nanobot to defy the bloodstream, the gravity and the physics, unlock new weapons and capabilities from special hormones captured along the way. Fight the various bacteria and menacing virus with a classic gameplay mechanic and save your organism from infection.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Disinfection
Risk your life to save decaying spaceships and their crew from an out of control nanomachine infection, either alone or as a team in co-op in this tense sci-fi horror game.
Tense, Dark
69% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Pathogenic
Build your parasites from looted organelles, stack absurd synergies, and blast through lungs, heart, and brain together in this fast, replayable twin-stick roguelike.
Tense
93% of 5,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 519$9.99
Cell Scientist: Beyond
Save a sci-fi world from the dangerous Chaga virus in Cell Scientists: Beyond, an exciting game with a story mode and easy to pick gameplay mechanics. Embark on an adventure to destroy viruses using futuristics nano ships and help the patients. Save the day using your puzzle-solving skills!
Story-driven
$5.99
Plague Inc: Evolved
Team up with a co-op friend and end the world together: two plagues, one planet, and humanity fighting back harder. Split traits, time your mutations, and smash cure labs before you get eradicated.
Tense, Dark
94% of 59,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,023$2.99
Super Nano Blaster
Super Nano Blaster is a shoot-em-up for PC and Mac, offering single-player and local co-op modes, that transports you to a retro-style digital universe. Delve into technology with your vessel and destroy anything that gets in your way!
Tense
100% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone
Your mind wakes up in a robot gladiator with a laser sword, and the arena commentators are already taking bets on how fast you lose a leg. Bring co-op friends for online co-op survival, 1v1 private duels, or 15-player Last Bot Standing rounds where one clean hit decides everything.
Tense
96% of 36,476 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 280$4.99
CURE - A Hospital Simulator
Run a night-shift ER with up to six co-op friends while the apocalypse starts outside. You split triage, diagnosis, restocking, building, and zombie defense, then unlock new tools, medicine, weapons, and story bits as you survive more nights.
Tense, Dark
86% of 896 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$9.99
Guns n Zombies
This is the world after a zombie apocalypse in which the main characters have to go through many perils. It is a story about ordinary people who, when faced with danger, decided not to run away from it, but to fight back. As the story goes along, you will learn what caused the disaster and help other survivors to overcome its aftermath.
Tense, Dark
68% of 794 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Superbugs: Awaken
A Communication-Based, Co-Op game for 2P. Play either as the Scientist or the Hunter with communication as your only weapon to save your precious cat, Mimi, from deadly Superbugs!
Tense
92% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Scourge: Outbreak
Blast your way through Nogari Island as Echo Squad. Utilize a devastating array of weapons and special abilities to crush everything that stands in your way. Features a fully Co-op enabled Campaign for up to 4 Players, as well as a variety of 8 Player Versus multiplayer modes!
Tense, Dark, Story-driven
65% of 229 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Cargo Hunters
Scavenge a dead Earth as a remote-controlled robot, solo or with up to three co-op friends. Grab what you can, get out before you lose it all, then build up your shelter for the next run. Tense, dark, and built for squads who like to plan, sneak, or go in loud together.
Tense, Dark
81% of 817 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99

Cheaper than Bacterium / 生命之旅

NA.NO

Pilot your nanobot to defy the bloodstream, the gravity and the physics, unlock new weapons and capabilities from special hormones captured along…

$4.99

Disinfection

Risk your life to save decaying spaceships and their crew from an out of control nanomachine infection, either alone or as a team in co-op in this…

$10.99

Pathogenic

Build your parasites from looted organelles, stack absurd synergies, and blast through lungs, heart, and brain together in this fast, replayable…

$9.99

Cell Scientist: Beyond

Save a sci-fi world from the dangerous Chaga virus in Cell Scientists: Beyond, an exciting game with a story mode and easy to pick gameplay mechanics.

$5.99

Plague Inc: Evolved

Team up with a co-op friend and end the world together: two plagues, one planet, and humanity fighting back harder.

$2.99

Super Nano Blaster

Super Nano Blaster is a shoot-em-up for PC and Mac, offering single-player and local co-op modes, that transports you to a retro-style digital…

$11.99

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone

Your mind wakes up in a robot gladiator with a laser sword, and the arena commentators are already taking bets on how fast you lose a leg.

$4.99

CURE - A Hospital Simulator

Run a night-shift ER with up to six co-op friends while the apocalypse starts outside.

$9.99

Guns n Zombies

This is the world after a zombie apocalypse in which the main characters have to go through many perils.

$7.99

Scourge: Outbreak

Blast your way through Nogari Island as Echo Squad. Utilize a devastating array of weapons and special abilities to crush everything that stands in…

$5.99

Nano Neighbors

A cozy online incremental idle game you can play with your friends at the bottom of your screen. Customise, play mini games, earn & spend!

$4.39

SNOTROCKET™

SNOTROCKET™ is a chaotic 2–5 player online co-op space panic game where you and your friends are violently ill and racing to make a cure before time…

$3.99

Hidden gems like Bacterium / 生命之旅

GRAIN ROT

Ride a cursed elevator into shifting ruins with co-op friends, smash furniture for loot, feed the Grinder for gold, then make it back alive to…

$9.99

Pathogenic

Build your parasites from looted organelles, stack absurd synergies, and blast through lungs, heart, and brain together in this fast, replayable…

$9.99

CURE - A Hospital Simulator

Run a night-shift ER with up to six co-op friends while the apocalypse starts outside.

$9.99

Backroom Company

You and your co-op friends are test subjects for Axiom Corp, sent to film anomalies, grab strange items, and transmit the data before the Backrooms…

$8.99

Cargo Hunters

Scavenge a dead Earth as a remote-controlled robot, solo or with up to three co-op friends.

$19.99

Omega Crafter

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi!

$14.99

Nano Neighbors

A cozy online incremental idle game you can play with your friends at the bottom of your screen. Customise, play mini games, earn & spend!

$4.39

Vox Machinae

Strap into a mining machine turned war machine, seven times taller than a T. Rex, and stomp into battle with co-op friends.

$29.99

Abiotic Factor

A 1-6 player survival crafter set in a ruined underground lab, where you and your co-op friends play scientists with PhDs, office-supply weapons…

$34.99

Superbugs: Awaken

A Communication-Based, Co-Op game for 2P. Play either as the Scientist or the Hunter with communication as your only weapon to save your precious…

$14.99

UNDERWARD

UNDERWARD is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Investigators must carry «TEST-SUBJECT» monsters from a deadly underground abandoned…

$9.99

Lumencraft

Lumencraft is a top-down shooter crossed with base building and tower defense, set in dark underground tunnels where you drill for Lumen, humanity's…

$19.99

Newest co-op games like Bacterium / 生命之旅