Games like Dark Descent

If Dark Descent scratched a tense and retro itch for you, keep reading. These games could fill that gap nicely. Plenty here let you team up if you like.

Descent Into Darkness
A co-op horror game about descending into the abyss. Explore a procedurally generated underground complex with your friends and escape before the creatures of the dark find you. The deeper you go, the scarier it gets.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Scary
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Backrooms: Descent
The Backrooms: Descent is a 1-4 player co-op horror experience. You are tasked with descending into the vast levels of the Backrooms which have dangerous entities while also finding evidence of previous research teams before you find your escape.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
66% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Dark Hours
A heist gone horribly wrong: your crew breaks in, the power dies, and something in the dark claims the building. Dark Hours is co-op survival horror for 1-4 players where you loot, hack and sneak past eight very different monsters, then escape with the goods. Or trip your friends and let them outrun it instead.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Scary
81% of 3,597 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 103$9.99
Sleeping Dawn
Join into this confusing procedural maze. Lose yourself... is the only way to get out. Sleeping Dawn is a survival horror cooperative game up to 4 players. Join your friends, cooperate with them, make quick choices and... RUN. What really matters is not falling asleep: it's your last chance.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Scary
71% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
If you are not careful enough, you may end up in that place, the place some call The Backrooms. The Backrooms of existence, a hellish dimension of infinite maze-like constructs, each level pushing deeper into the despair. Could you, a normal person find the way out? Dive deeper into the horror
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
48% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
KLETKA
KLETKA is a co-op horror game for up to six players about riding an elevator that wants to eat you. Feed it fuel and flesh, loot the endless Gigastructure floor by floor, and run for the cab when the siren wails. A tense, darkly funny descent where every stop could be your last.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Retro, Replayable
89% of 6,579 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$9.99
Handy Harry's Haunted House Services
Team up with up to 8 friends online to explore the haunted, randomly generated depths of these dusty attics. Find and repair the objectives, flip the master switch and escape before the ghastly ghoul that lurks in the darkness catches up to you. Play through the career mode or explore free play!
Also in Co-op · Tense, Retro, Replayable
91% of 535 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Im Bann Der Dunklen Jagd
Two detectives. Five eerie levels. One fight for survival. Explore dark locations with a friend in this free two-player co-op horror game. Collect hidden documents and items, survive dangerous creatures, and compete for the fastest Backrooms completion time on a global leaderboard.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
71% of 229 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Eronoctosis: Put Yourself Together
A two-player horror co-op where one of you carries the light and the other the camera that banishes what crawls out of your own mind. Explore a strange, oppressive dreamscape, learn each nightmare's habits, and piece yourself back together before it takes you apart.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Retro, Scary
90% of 1,904 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Backdoors
Enter the twisted realm of the Backrooms. Explore 100 procedurally generated rooms, and survive with up to three friends in intense co-op action. Unravel the secrets, beware of lurking entities. Find the way out or become lost forever in the depths of the Backrooms.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Scary
63% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Somewhere in the Shadow
Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
80% of 578 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Together After Dark
Together After Dark is a co-op horror psychological game with a survival touch for 1-4 players. 4 Teens are stuck in the forest and need to find a way out but they are not alone
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
52% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99

Cheaper than Dark Descent

Descent Into Darkness

A co-op horror game about descending into the abyss. Explore a procedurally generated underground complex with your friends and escape before the…

$4.99

Backrooms: The Deep Dark

Backrooms: The Deep Dark is a 4-player cooperative horror game where you will survive in a mysterious scary atmospheric world, wander through…

$2.99

Handy Harry's Haunted House Services

Team up with up to 8 friends online to explore the haunted, randomly generated depths of these dusty attics.

$4.99

Somewhere in the Shadow

Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...

$2.99

Climb The Backrooms

Climb the Backrooms by throwing, stacking and outsmarting your way through physics puzzles, alone or with up to four players.

$4.99

Together After Dark

Together After Dark is a co-op horror psychological game with a survival touch for 1-4 players.

$2.99

Darkest Descent

Fight for your life in the endless halls of a primordial stronghold to escape an endless cycle.

$4.99

Jester: A Foolish Ritual

A co-op survival horror game set in a dark medieval castle. Play as one of four resurrected knights and work together to find hidden runes, unlock…

$4.99

Occult

A co-op horror quest where you and up to three friends explore cursed places, solve puzzles, dodge monsters you cannot fight, and pick which ending…

$4.99

The Escape: Together

Split up to search for keys and tools, stick together when the lights go out, and reach one of several endings before the creature finds you.

$3.99

Chased by Darkness

Chased by Darkness is a 1-4 players co-op survival horror. Your mission is to face supernatural entities and banish them to the spiritual plane.

$3.99

Escape From Monster

You woke up in a dusty room, in an unknown place, with no memory of how you got here.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Dark Descent

LockYourDoor

Challenging co-op horror (1-4 players). You are looking for your missing friend Darvin. Do whatever it takes to stay alive.

$8.99

KLETKA

Ride a hungry lift with up to five friends, feed it fuel and flesh, and loot as deep into the Gigastructure as you dare.

$9.99

Climb The Backrooms

Climb the Backrooms by throwing, stacking and outsmarting your way through physics puzzles, alone or with up to four players.

$4.99

Devil of the Plague

A 1–4 player co-op horror game. Cleanse cursed lands, perform forbidden rituals, and survive a spreading plague. Fear is not scripted.

$9.99

Emissary Zero

Sneak through a building that does not want you there, solve what it hides, and get out with whatever the Moon turns out to be.

$8.99

Dark Hours

Loot, hack and sneak your way out of a building that hunts you, alone or with up to three friends.

$9.99

School Labyrinth

Sneak through corridors that rearrange themselves, light candles to see, and find the emergency exit before whatever roams the halls finds you.

$6.99

Pixel Descent

Pixel Descent is an action rogue-lite in which you navigate a series of complex dungeons packed to the brim with monsters that want you dead.

$5.99

Im Bann Der Dunklen Jagd

Two detectives. Five eerie levels. One fight for survival. Explore dark locations with a friend in this free two-player co-op horror game.

Free

Eronoctosis: Put Yourself Together

Explore the depths of your own psyche with a friend, using light and a camera to hold the nightmares back.

Free

The Escape: Together

Split up to search for keys and tools, stick together when the lights go out, and reach one of several endings before the creature finds you.

$3.99

Handy Harry's Haunted House Services

Team up with up to 8 friends online to explore the haunted, randomly generated depths of these dusty attics.

$4.99

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