Games like SHARDS

Looking for that same tense and replayable spark as SHARDS? These games could fill that gap nicely. Many of them are fun to share with friends.

Split Brain
Share the same body with a friend in Split Brain. One of you controls, the other one sees, but the decisions are made together! Face the illusion and uncover the truth to find your way out of Hexarture.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
92% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
United heist
Two elite thieves, one mysterious client, one item to steal. One of you runs intel, the other breaks into the facility, and you solve every puzzle by talking each other through it over a walkie-talkie. A co-op escape room with a story, choices and more than one ending.
Also in Co-op · Atmospheric, Mysterious
82% of 2,019 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Our Journey: The Silent Voice
Our Journey: The Silent Voice is a co-op (2 players) asymmetric adventure game. Communicate creatively with symbols to unveil the path to success. Find out who you really are by meeting intriguing characters and visiting new places.
Also in Co-op · Atmospheric, Mysterious
63% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$6.49
Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows is a 2–4 player online co-op horror escape game. Explore unsettling locations, uncover their stories, solve cooperative and asymmetric puzzles, and survive the hostile inhabitants of places your team was never meant to enter.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Scary
75% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Separated
Trapped and separated across two connected houses, you and your friend must use voice chat to solve puzzles from different perspectives. But beware, a blind presence is listening to your conversations. Your voice is your only way out.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
70% of 79 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Get Together: A Coop Adventure
Two lost beings and you are the only bond... Play with a friend to guide and reunite them on their journey in this communication-based coop puzzle adventure. You play on two devices with no connection except your voice!
Also in Co-op · Atmospheric, Mysterious
65% of 86 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99
The Unshared
A two-player online co-op puzzle climb where each of you sees a different truth on your own screen. Talk through the safe tiles, the right colours, and the real path, scale twenty floors of a hostile corporate Spire, and trust what you hear. Your voice is the controller.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
DEATH IN UNISON
Survive the world's deadliest psychopaths. Experience a unique 2-player co-op experience that puts your teamwork and communication to the test. Complete your duties alone or with a partner in a prison like no other.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
96% of 674 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$8.99
How 2 Escape
How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices. "Talk together. Help each other." will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.
Mysterious
71% of 690 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99
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.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
94% of 824 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Escape From Crimson Manor: Trapped Together
Work together to escape the manor in "Trapped Together", a narrative co-op puzzle campaign where logic reigns and death is not an option. Communicate, trade items via dumbwaiter, and solve intricate riddles.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
73% of 100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$12.99
We Were Here Too
Two explorers, one frozen castle, and nothing but walkie-talkies between you. We Were Here Too splits you and a partner into different corners of Castle Rock, where every puzzle only yields if you can describe what you see and understand what you hear. Dark, tense and surprisingly funny when the words refuse to cooperate.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Scary, Dark
77% of 9,129 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$9.99

Cheaper than SHARDS

Split Brain

Share the same body with a friend in Split Brain. One of you controls, the other one sees, but the decisions are made together!

$5.99

Our Journey: The Silent Voice

Our Journey: The Silent Voice is a co-op (2 players) asymmetric adventure game. Communicate creatively with symbols to unveil the path to success.

$6.49

Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows is a 2–4 player online co-op horror escape game.

$7.99

The Unshared

A two-player online co-op puzzle climb where each of you sees a different truth on your own screen.

$4.99

DEATH IN UNISON

Survive the world's deadliest psychopaths. Experience a unique 2-player co-op experience that puts your teamwork and communication to the test.

$8.99

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

In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure

A two-player escape room adventure where being shipwrecked is the easy part.

$5.99

Find or be Found

In this asymmetric 2 player co-op horror game, one hacker and one robber must collaborate and communicate to locate items in haunted houses.

$7.99

United Heist: Facility Zero

A co-op puzzle heist for two. One of you breaks into a secret bunker. The other sits in the observation office, watching the bunker.

$6.99

Palallel

Palallel is a 2D cooperative puzzle platformer for two players. You are stuck in a board where you can’t see your partner.

$2.99

My Friend is Blind

A two-player online co-op puzzle game where one of you sees everything and the other almost nothing.

$1.50

WE ARE SO DEAD

Talk to your living friends through flickering lights and a Ouija board, and get everyone out of the haunted house before sunrise.

$7.99

Hidden gems like SHARDS

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

BOMBANANA!

Three players, one bomb, and only fragments of the answer: coordinate with your team before the timer beats you.

$7.99

DEATH IN UNISON

Survive the world's deadliest psychopaths. Experience a unique 2-player co-op experience that puts your teamwork and communication to the test.

$8.99

Split Brain

Share the same body with a friend in Split Brain. One of you controls, the other one sees, but the decisions are made together!

$5.99

Parallel Experiment

Team up as two detectives who each hold half the clues, and talk your way through a noir murder mystery together.

$9.99

In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure

A two-player escape room adventure where being shipwrecked is the easy part.

$5.99

How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine

Team up with a friend to reach a lost submarine and prevent the outbreak of war.

$12.99

WE ARE SO DEAD

Talk to your living friends through flickering lights and a Ouija board, and get everyone out of the haunted house before sunrise.

$7.99

USAC: Code Breach

Play a special police unit of two and find out why a high-tech research facility went dark.

$14.99

Don't Panic! It is Just Turbulence

One of you flies through alarms and chaos, the other talks them through every emergency, and the jokes come fast on the way down.

$7.99

Unboxing the Cryptic Killer

Team up online to solve a hand-drawn co-op mystery where each of you sees only half the clues.

$5.99

Escape From Crimson Manor: Trapped Together

Work together to escape the manor in "Trapped Together", a narrative co-op puzzle campaign where logic reigns and death is not an option.

$12.99

Newest games like SHARDS

Nothing to Report

A co-op horror spot-the-difference game for 2-4 players. You're in the same room, but you might not see the same thing.

$4.99

Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows is a 2–4 player online co-op horror escape game.

$7.99

BABEL: Invent a Way

Existing languages are forbidden. Exchange only five symbols—↑ ↓ ← → •—to share what each of you knows, complete magical rituals, and break the seal.

$6.99

United Heist: Facility Zero

A co-op puzzle heist for two. One of you breaks into a secret bunker. The other sits in the observation office, watching the bunker.

$6.99

Solvimus

A two-player co-op puzzle game with 30 challenging levels. Work together, solve puzzles, and practice deep breathing as your partner "figures it out."

$19.99

BOMBANANA!

Three players, one bomb, and only fragments of the answer: coordinate with your team before the timer beats you.

$7.99

WE ARE SO DEAD

Talk to your living friends through flickering lights and a Ouija board, and get everyone out of the haunted house before sunrise.

$7.99

Keep It Contained

You’re part of a scientific team in a sealed facility, racing against time to keep dangerous anomalies contained.

$5.99

Separated

Trapped and separated across two connected houses, you and your friend must use voice chat to solve puzzles from different perspectives.

$9.99

The Unshared

A two-player online co-op puzzle climb where each of you sees a different truth on your own screen.

$4.99

2-player asymmetrical co-op game, Follow Us is a hilarious and horrifying relationship stress test, where one player explores a spooky environment…

$10

Escape From Crimson Manor: Trapped Together

Work together to escape the manor in "Trapped Together", a narrative co-op puzzle campaign where logic reigns and death is not an option.

$12.99