Games like SMS Returns

Miss the scary and tense pull of SMS Returns? Give these games a try when the craving hits. Sharing the fun is easy with these picks.

Slender: The Arrival
Slender Man is back, and he is still the same tall, faceless problem. Search dark woods and abandoned houses for pages and generators while a flickering camera warns you he is close. Short, tense and mean, with a 10th Anniversary visual overhaul, a new chapter and co-op.
Scary, Tense, Atmospheric
88% of 7,987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$19.99
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation
A haunted mansion dares you to survive 1000 rooms, and it starts cute: cardboard cutouts of cupcakes and pumpkins jumping out at you. Then the cuteness fades, real monsters move in, and you are sprinting for your life through corridors that never seem to end. Funny, scary and endlessly replayable, with chases you will not forget.
Scary, Tense, Replayable
96% of 3,776 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$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 · Scary, Tense, Replayable
91% of 536 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Phasmophobia
Grab EMF readers, thermometers and a spirit box, then walk into a haunted house with up to three friends to figure out which of 20-plus ghosts is messing with you.
Also in Co-op · Scary, Tense, Atmospheric
94% of 686,867 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12,535$19.99
Boo Men
Boo Men is a 1-4 player co-op horror heist where you burgle haunted houses and steal from ghosts. Light keeps you safe, but every switch drains the power, so you creep through the dark flipping lamps on and off while something hungry waits for the lights to go out.
Also in Co-op · Scary, Tense, Replayable
88% of 2,095 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Shadow Man Remastered
Explore sprawling, interconnected levels, gather dark souls to grow stronger, and uncover one of the strangest, darkest worlds early 3D ever built. Getting lost is part of the deal.
Scary, Tense, Atmospheric
94% of 1,385 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Slashers
Slashers is a 1-4 player cooperative horror game, you are explorers of abandoned and seemingly cursed places, your goal is to see what happened there.
Also in Co-op · Scary, Tense, Replayable
52% of 65 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Folklore Hunter
You are a hunter of supernatural beasts, tracking creatures like the Wendigo through handcrafted forests, caves and abandoned camps. Set traps, place cameras, solve puzzles and scavenge for ammo before the thing hunting you finds you first. Play solo if you dare, or bring friends and share the terror.
Also in Co-op · Scary, Tense, Replayable
75% of 1,225 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$17.99
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. Explore, fight enemies and don't let the darkness reach you.
Also in Co-op · Scary, Tense, Replayable
73% of 324 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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 · Scary, Tense, Replayable
87% of 1,588 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$7.99
Horror Night
A new multiplayer, third-person, horror experience: Escape from an appaling environment by solving different puzzles with the help of your friends, and hiding from a hideous monster... or maybe becoming one ;) Unlock new maps, cosmetics and skins with the new Horror Night DLCs
Also in Co-op · Scary, Tense, Replayable
53% of 286 Steam reviews are positiveFree
It Has My Face
IT HAS YOUR FACE. Now it wants your life. Hide, seek, and try to kill your clone in this deceptively simple first-person horror roguelite.
Scary, Tense, Replayable
88% of 625 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99

Cheaper than SMS Returns

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

Boo Men

Raid haunted houses with up to three friends, grab everything on your list, and pray the power holds.

$7.99

Slashers

Slashers is a 1-4 player cooperative horror game, you are explorers of abandoned and seemingly cursed places, your goal is to see what happened there.

$5.99

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

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

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

Slaughter Me Street: 1999

You are being hunted for your misdeeds. With blood on your hands and weight on your conscience, you must collect the relics of your past, and…

$4.99

Surrounded

A 6-player open world horror game. Explore a abandoned town, filled with mysteries, be chased around with your friends and survive creatures capable…

$8.99

7 Sins : Lost in Labyrinth

“7 Sins : Lost in Labyrinth” A Survival Horror Game, based on the Cutie Characters and World of 7 Sexy Sins Series.

$3.99

White Noise Online

A fully cooperative horror experience like never before! On White Noise Online, a team of up to 4 investigators has to explore an area looking for…

$4.99

Inside the Backrooms

Solve shifting puzzles and sneak past six entities in endless backrooms, scarier with friends along.

$6.99

Hidden gems like SMS Returns

It Has My Face

IT HAS YOUR FACE. Now it wants your life. Hide, seek, and try to kill your clone in this deceptively simple first-person horror roguelite.

$9.99

Ghost Janitors

Grab a mop, keep the lights on and survive the ghosts haunting every job.

$9.99

Paranormal Cleanup

Clean haunted houses while something hunts you through the halls, alone or with up to three friends.

$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

Project Unknown

An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics.

$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

Folklore Hunter

Hunt folklore monsters through dark forests, setting traps and cameras while the creature hunts you back, alone or with friends.

$17.99

The Anomaly Project

Your goal is simple, spot anomalies to escape. Play alone or together with up to 8 players in online co-op.

$7.99

MIMESIS

Loot a ruined building with your crew, dodge the rain, catch the last tram, and figure out which of you is still human.

$9.99

Escape from Playtime

You are a Smiling Critter, small and plush, loose in an abandoned toy factory with up to seven friends.

$9.99

The Backrooms: Survival

Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger…

$9.99

Newest games like SMS Returns