Co-op games like Protocol Meltdown

Looking for that same tense and chaotic spark as Protocol Meltdown? These co-op games are worth a look next. Most of them work well for a shared session.

Rasvyat Nuclear Power Station
A co-op RBMK reactor simulator, with a detailed control room, realistic physics and authentic sound design
Tense, Chaotic, Replayable
80% of 165 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Chernobyl: Simulator
You sit at Reactor 4's control desk, balancing core power, water flow, turbine load and safety systems by the book. It is slow, exacting 1980s procedure work where one wrong rod movement can spiral fast. Bring co-op friends who like shared problem-solving and taking turns on the same unforgiving machine.
Tense, Replayable
91% of 87 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$15.99
Nuclear Meltdown
Nuclear meltdown is a collective video game in which a group of players find themselves having to face an emergency in a nuclear power plant despite not having the technical skills.
Tense, Chaotic, Retro
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Zoo Protocol
ZOO PROTOCOL is a co-op sci-fi horror for 1–5 players with a dark story about escaping an abandoned energy facility. Outsmart the system or be scrapped.
Tense, Chaotic, Replayable
94% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Push It!
PUSH IT! is a local split-control co-op game about two operators running an unstable emergency reactor.
Tense, Chaotic, Replayable
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
MISERY
MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. You grab what you can in 60 seconds, then scavenge radioactive ruins by day, build and furnish your bunker, and try to make it home before nightfall with co-op friends watching your back.
Tense, Chaotic, Replayable
86% of 20,801 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 258$19.99
Neon Meltdown
Your own reactor is the thing trying to kill you. Every kill feeds the heat, and the coolant those kills drop is the only thing that vents it — lying exactly where the danger just was. A twin-stick score chase where diving into the crowd is the only way to survive it. Five modes, co-op up to four.
Tense, Chaotic, Retro
$4.99
Nuclear Nightmare
Grab co-op friends for an Arctic extraction run: recover classified files, gather supplies, and call the evac chopper before the nuclear strike lands. In between, test everyone for the black goo virus, because friends, huskies, anyone can turn.
Tense, Chaotic, Replayable
81% of 15,945 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 322$6.99
Survival Vacancy
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Replayable
60% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Roadside Research
Roadside Research puts you and up to three co-op friends in charge of a gas station, except you are aliens in paper masks studying humans for an invasion. Days are restocking, refueling and checkout, nights are alien upgrades, with government agents ready to turn you to goo if you get sloppy.
Chaotic, Replayable
85% of 4,126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$14.99
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, and a base made from stolen company property. Split the jobs, share the scares, and plan your escape together.
Tense, Chaotic, Replayable
95% of 43,099 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,131$34.99
FailFactory
FailFactory: Total Meltdown is a chaotic co-op factory disaster where everything that can go wrong, will. Repair failing machinery, survive ridiculous hazards, and keep production moving as one terrible shift spirals out of control. And whatever you do... don’t end up like Gary.
Tense, Chaotic, Fast-paced
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

Cheaper than Protocol Meltdown

FailFactory

FailFactory: Total Meltdown is a chaotic co-op factory disaster where everything that can go wrong, will.

$0.99

Virus Lab

Virus Lab is a first-person simulation where you run a high-security research facility. Play solo or team up in co-op with up to 3 friends.

$0.95

Ooglians

Ooglians are coming! Nothing excites an ooglian more than smashing machinery.

$1.99

Sand:box

A relaxing falling-sand pixel sandbox with circuits and playable stickmen.

$1.99

Scrapnaut

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

$1.39

Destroy The World

Destroy buildings, cars, trees! Use the destructive force of nuclear power plants to your advantage! Melt the ice caps! Kill all the baby seals!

$0.99

VRZ: Torment

Be immersed into Purgatory Island of undead and dying. Solve mysteries to escape while trying to survive.

$0.99

Embr

Embr turns firefighting into a frantic gig job for you and your co-op friends.

$19.99

Half Dead

Half Dead drops you and your co-op friends into a violent sci-fi TV show set in a maze of connected rooms, some empty and some rigged with lethal…

$1.99

B.A.N.K.

Congratulations on your new career at B.A.N.K.! Go it alone or with friends (1-4) — serve customers, uphold the bank's reputation, climb the…

$2.91

Into The Flames

Into The Flames is a solo and co-op firefighting game for up to 13 players online.

$1.79

Don't Bite Me Bro! +

Don't Bite Me Bro! is a 1-4 Player Couch Co-op open-world zombie apocalypse game.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Protocol Meltdown

Keep Her Safe

When humanity fell, chickens took over, and you are one of them: a high-IQ bird defending an Energy Core, holding off zombie waves, and building a…

$9.99

Roadside Research

Roadside Research puts you and up to three co-op friends in charge of a gas station, except you are aliens in paper masks studying humans for an…

$14.99

Space Station: Beyond

A top-down station sim where you and your crew take jobs, keep the lights on, and deal with traitors, zombies, and cultists.

Free

Bunker Invaders

A co-op horror game where you must scavenge for loot and maintain the bunker to keep it standing

$6.99

Space Beast Terror Fright

Grab up to three co-op friends and board a dark, maze-like spacecraft that rebuilds itself every run.

$14.99

Rasvyat Nuclear Power Station

A co-op RBMK reactor simulator, with a detailed control room, realistic physics and authentic sound design

$9.99

Dino Ramen Express

From RAMEN to RIFLES! This is an immersive first-person simulation game where players can run their own restaurant empire.

$14.99

Fast Food Simulator

Run a fast-food joint with up to six co-op friends, taking orders, grilling patties, frying potatoes and pouring drinks while the line keeps moving.

$14.99

Iron Core: Mech Survivor

100 years after a nuclear apocalypse, an AI-managed shelter and its guardian mechs await human survivors.

$6.99

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

MISERY

MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone.

$19.99

IT Simulator

IT Simulator is a co-op horror game where two players attempt to return power to an office building.

$4.99

Newest co-op games like Protocol Meltdown