Games like HALF DEAD 2

Want something that feels brutal and tense the way HALF DEAD 2 does? You will find a few strong contenders among these games. Many of them are fun to share with friends.

Lethal Company
You are a contract worker sent to abandoned moons to grab scrap and meet the Company's quota. Land by day, strip the derelict complexes, haul it back before night turns lethal. It is tense, ridiculous, and best with a full crew of friends.
Also in Co-op · Brutal, Tense, Fast-paced
96% of 412,175 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,014$9.99
Invokyr
A cursed 1970s board game has trapped you and five friends in a groaning house, and the only way out is to play. You roll, something hunts you, and you scramble back to the board to roll again. Funny, tense, and built for a full group night.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced, Chaotic
93% of 1,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,559$12.99
The Bonerooms
A goofy horror shooter set in a living maze that rearranges itself while you're inside it. Fight skeletons, sabotage friends with landmines and airhorns, and listen to monsters speak in your own voice through proximity chat. Chaos, screaming and laughing in the same round, best with four or more friends and a headset.
Tense, Fast-paced, Chaotic
78% of 3,471 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21Free
SOS OPS!
A co-op chaos game about saving a city, badly. Up to four of you play emergency responders whose fire hoses, rescue cats and teammates all obey wobbly physics, so every mission turns into shouting, falling over and laughing. There are fast story missions, PvP arenas, and no tutorial to slow you down.
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Chaotic, Competitive
81% of 5,644 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 107$4.99
KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2
You are an Exterminator, and the spiders have taken over the multiverse. Hunt them solo or with up to three friends through seven strange dimensions, armed with 45 weapons from a rolled-up newspaper to a laser sword. When you tire of burning the horde, turn the tables and play as the spider in 8-player PvP. It is silly, loud and hard to put down.
Also in Co-op · Brutal, Tense, Fast-paced
93% of 1,455 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$5.99
BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
Trapped in the Backrooms with up to 11 other people, and one of them is not a person. As a scientist you scavenge for weapons and supplies, expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer and escape. As the monster you wear their faces and pick the team apart from inside. Proximity voice chat turns every conversation into a gamble.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced, Competitive
83% of 1,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$2.99
Zort
Zort is a co-op horror game for up to 4 players: search different maps for an exit while creatures hunt you, talk through proximity voice chat that changes with the atmosphere, and laugh your way through the parts that terrify you. Scary and funny at the same time, and best with friends.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced, Chaotic
90% of 11,865 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$4
Escape from Playtime
You are a Smiling Critter, small and plush, loose in an abandoned toy factory with up to seven friends. A mysterious Voice gives you a quota, the halls shift every run, and rejected Playtime Co. creations hunt in the dark. Grab parts, use them or turn them in, and get out alive.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Chaotic
74% of 2,587 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 252$9.99
Paranoia Place: Escape Together
A 1-4 player co-op survival horror where you solve puzzles, hunt for randomly hidden items and run from a demonic killer that gets faster and angrier the longer you take. Hide in lockers, banish it with a camera, and try not to scream into proximity chat where it can hear you.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark
87% of 1,590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$7.99
GRAIN ROT
A co-op horror extraction builder in a scorched wasteland where everything burns. Ride a cursed elevator into shifting ruins as fragile wooden puppets, smash furniture for loot and flee the Corrupted. Die and your Spark keeps playing. Make it home, rebuild the Outpost, then go deeper.
Also in Co-op · Brutal, Tense, Fast-paced
87% of 2,182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 475$9.99
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, Fast-paced, Chaotic
89% of 6,561 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$9.99
Emissary Zero
A co-op horror for 1 to 4 players: you are sent into a mysterious building at night, your manager is the only help you get, and somewhere in there is the Moon. Explore, solve puzzles, manage what you find, and try to get back out alive.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark
83% of 2,782 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99

Cheaper than HALF DEAD 2

Half Dead

Trapped in a deadly TV show, you search a maze of rooms for the exit while your friends test the doors with thrown shoes.

$1.99

Zort

Four friends, a dark map full of creatures, and one exit to find before panic wins.

BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION

Scavenge, investigate and escape with your team while one of them wears a stolen face and hunts you from within.

$2.99

Madness Cubed

Dig in, build your defenses and blast waves of blocky zombies, or face other players in PvP, alone or with up to 16 friends.

$1.99

Perfect Heist 2

Blend in with the bank staff, then crack the vault before the cops pick you out of the crowd.

$3.99

Move or Die

A frantic party game where your character melts if you stand still, and the rules flip before you settle into a rhythm.

$3.74

Dead Pixels

Run, shoot and scavenge your way across a zombie-filled city that never looks the same twice.

$2.99

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

Yet Another Zombie Defense HD

Fortify your spot with turrets and barricades, then shoot your way through the night, alone or with three friends.

$3.99

Chained in the Backrooms

Chained in the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op, mission-based horror game.

$2.99

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

Party Hard 2

Sneak through crowded raves as a killer with a toolbox of traps and craftables, alone or with a friend in co-op.

$3.99

Hidden gems like HALF DEAD 2

Invokyr

Roll the dice, survive whatever the house sends, and play your way out of a cursed board game together.

$12.99

KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2

You are an Exterminator, and the spiders have taken over the multiverse.

$5.99

We Escaped a Twisted Game

A two-player co-op horror escape. Trapped in a haunted manor, you’ll need to solve puzzles, work together, and trust each other to make it out alive.

$4.99

the cabin game

Play cards to reshape the haunted cabin, uncover clues before time runs out, and choose who walks out alive.

$11.99

GRAIN ROT

Ride a cursed elevator down with friends, grab what you can from the ruins, and rebuild your Outpost before the Corrupted catch you.

$9.99

Paranoia Place: Escape Together

Team up with up to three friends to solve puzzles, hunt down randomly hidden items and survive a demon that grows faster the longer you stall.

$7.99

BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION

Scavenge, investigate and escape with your team while one of them wears a stolen face and hunts you from within.

$2.99

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

Whisper Mountain Outbreak

Team up, scavenge and puzzle your way off a cursed 1998 mountain, one frantic run at a time.

$7.99

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

Forsaken Frontiers

Step into the frozen unknown in Forsaken Frontiers, a cooperative analog horror adventure set in the unforgiving embrace of an everlasting winter.

$14.99

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

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