Games like Split Brain

If Split Brain left you wanting something mysterious and surreal, you have options. These games keep things close enough to feel familiar. Most of them work well for a shared session.

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.
Also in Duo · Mysterious
71% of 690 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$12.99
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 and Duo · Mysterious, Surreal, Atmospheric
65% of 86 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.74
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 and Duo · Mysterious, Surreal, Tense
94% of 824 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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 and Duo · Mysterious, Tense, Atmospheric
70% of 79 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure
A two-player escape room adventure where being shipwrecked is the easy part. Travel through rifts to a pirate ship, an art museum and a train that ignores physics, solving puzzles built on shapes, colours and numbers. You and your partner see different things, so talking is the whole game.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Surreal, Atmospheric
86% of 1,483 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$5.99
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 and Duo · Mysterious, Surreal, Tense
77% of 9,129 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$9.99
We Were Here Together
A distress flare over the Antarctic, a cry for help on the radio, and only the two of you at base camp. We Were Here Together is a co-op escape room where you and a partner, armed with walkie-talkies and nothing else, cross frozen wastes and infiltrate the haunted Castle Rock. Talk well, think alike, and you might both get out.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Tense, Atmospheric
82% of 14,597 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 184$12.99
To Be Headed Or Not To Be
In To Be Headed Or Not To Be, you and a friend will have to use your heads, both figuratively and literally, to solve enigmas and challenges in order to escape the mansion.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Surreal
58% of 229 Steam reviews are positiveFree
BOKURA
A puzzle adventure that only two people can play, on two separate screens that show two different worlds. One of you sees animals, the other sees machines, and neither of you can solve anything without talking. A short, strange story about two boys who ran away from home, best shared with a friend on a call.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Surreal, Atmospheric
91% of 11,010 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$5.49
Together in Between
Together in Between is a first-person adventure-puzzle game. You have been imprisoned in a magic book with your partner, in the same place but in different dimensions. Will you be able to overcome the Wizard-King's puzzles, and see your partner again?
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Surreal, Atmospheric
65% of 297 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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 · Mysterious, Tense, Atmospheric
73% of 100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.99
Parallel Experiment
Two detectives, one deadly experiment, and a killer who only speaks in puzzles. Each of you holds half the clues, so nothing gets solved without talking it through. A noir co-op mystery with 80-plus puzzles, comic book cutscenes and a partner you can legally poke.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Atmospheric
84% of 739 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$4.99

Cheaper than Split Brain

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

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…

$2.74

BOKURA

Two runaways, one shared journey: solve strange puzzles together by talking through what each of you sees.

$5.49

Parallel Experiment

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

$4.99

Tick Tock: A Tale for Two

Talk your way through a clockwork village, one player on each screen, solving puzzles neither of you can crack alone.

$2.99

The Past Within

One of you sees the Past, the other the Future, and every puzzle only opens when you talk each other through it.

$3.35

Climb The Backrooms

Climb through twisted Backrooms levels by grabbing, stacking, and shoving objects, solving riddles, and dodging what watches from the dark.

$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

Operation: Tango

One of you sneaks through the mission, the other cracks it open from a laptop, and neither of you can do it without talking.

$4.99

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip

Team up with a friend to solve three challenges in an abandoned amusement park, and find out how well you really communicate.

$3.99

Crucible Falls: Together Forever

Crucible Falls : Together Forever is a 2 player Co-Op Horror Escape game.

$4.99

Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a two-player cooperative indie game that escapes from enemies in a dark labyrinth.

$2.99

Hidden gems like Split Brain

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

Inkwellers

In this online 2-player co-op puzzle adventure, you and a friend become Inkwellers and dive into Celiphia’s magical journal.

$9.99

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

Parallel Experiment

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

$4.99

In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure

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

$5.99

Climb The Backrooms

Climb through twisted Backrooms levels by grabbing, stacking, and shoving objects, solving riddles, and dodging what watches from the dark.

$4.99

How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine

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

$12.99

USAC: Code Breach

You and a partner are special police sent into a shut-down research facility to find out what happened.

$5.99

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

I See Me

Overcome the trials by relying on your partner's sights! A 3D co-op game that goes beyond common sense.

Free

Eronoctosis: Put Yourself Together

A two-player online horror co-op where you and a friend wander the inside of a troubled mind.

Free

Newest games like Split Brain

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

Separated

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

$5.99

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

$10