Let's Countdown To The Best Scary Multiplayer Games
When done correctly, horror games can be just as scary and entertaining as horror movies.
It can be pretty time consuming to try and sift through what is good, what’s not, what’s scary, and what stinks.
Here is a list of the the top 15 best horror games the genre has to offer. Be sure to play with your friends for the best experience.
15. Pacify
Pacify gameplay
In Pacify, you are a helper with Paranormal Activity Helpers Inc.
You and three of your fellow helpers are tasked with investigating and old house that a broker is trying to sell...but with the events and hauntings happening inside the house, your task of reporting this evidence will be no leisurely stroll through a haunted attraction.
The goal of this game will be to explore the haunted house for PAH Inc., and the best feature is that you can play with, or against, up to three friends. Try and steer clear of the creepy little girl, and utilize the clues to pacify her or...all hell will break loose.
Make sure you move through the house without the girl seeing or hearing you. Keys, dolls, and other objects can be used to pacify her.
The villain of the game, known simply as the girl. She is even creepier than she looks and the game is more difficult in single player mode. Utilize the help of your friends.
14. The Blackout Club
The Blackout Club gameplay
The concept of the Blackout Club combines the best of horror and adventure in one game.
At night, everybody in town sleepwalks through the city on a murderous rampage with no idea what they are doing and no recollection of what they did the next day.
After the recent disappearance of a friend, you and up to 4 players must navigate through the city streets and try and record the adults to show the world that your town is full of sleepwalking killers.
Your arsenal includes drones, noisemakers, and grappling hooks to help you survive the evil sleepwalkers.
You and up to four players must work together to stop and film sleepwalking adults from hell.
The Blackout Club features optimal and high quality graphics, including allowing the player to see what they are filming for accuracy.
13. We Were Here
We Were Here gameplay
We Were Here is an eerie and atmospheric horror puzzle that allows you and one other player to navigate your way through and out of an abandoned castle in a remote Antarctic outpost.
Think John Carpenter’s The Thing without the gore and a whole lot more mystery and psychological anxiety.
One player must search for the other player, who is trapped in an opposite wing of the castle. You have to use your voice through the walkie-talkie, as this is the only form of communication you have with one another.
Make sure your microphone is working and to make it even more tense, play it with a stranger.
The castle is filled with puzzling corridors which will require help from your partner to escape.
After finding refuge from the brutal Antarctic weather, you and your friend are split up and must solve the puzzle of the castle to escape in time.
12. Deceit
Deceit gameplay
Deceit divides players between the Infected and the Innocents, in an unknown setting that sees the outbreak of a deadly virus.
As an infected, you are tasked with taking out the other innocent players. The goal of the innocent is to stay alert, form alliances only with those that you can trust, and try and traverse the three zones to reach the escape hatch.
Tense, fast-paced, and intelligent, Deceit serves up both a creepy atmosphere and an innovative gameplay that involves psychological maneuvering and a pretty terrifying virus.
The first-person shooting will require the player to figure out who they can trust in addition to killing the infected.
At the end of each zone, a blackout occurs, which allows infected players to become their gruesome, vile, and true form.
11. Desolate
Desolate gameplay
Granichny Island underwent an unexplainable catastrophe two years ago, and “The New Light” conglomerate is seeking to rectify the disaster.
As a group of “volunteers” you and up to four players will explore the island and its labyrinthine sites of weirdness and carnage to undergo research of the paranormal and strange entities inhabiting the island.
There is strength in numbers and the game allows up to four players to form a group to form a better advantage against the monsters and creatures of the island. Unlock new abilities, upgrade your weapons and equipment, and keep strength in numbers to solve the mysteries of this weird island.
You can play Desolate in a group of four players to stand a better advantage of surviving the island.
The creatures on the island are pretty horrifying, make sure you research each creature so that you know what weapon works against it.
10. Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5 gameplay
Chris Redfield is back in Resident Evil 5 and his quest takes him to Africa to investigate a biological agent that is transforming the locals into gruesome and ultra-violent creatures.
With the help of Sheva Alomar, the two BSAA agents must work together to solve the new outbreak and battle their way through the bloody ground zero of flesh-eaters.
With excellent third-person graphics and a double-player format, Resident Evil 5 brings the gore...and an addictive gameplay.
You must utilize good aim to take down the gory creatures, as no movement is allowed when firing.
Chris and Sheva, the protagonists of the game.
9. Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil 6 gameplay
Resident Evil 6 takes the horror global, with the C-virus causing widespread outbreaks in North America, Easter Europe, and China. Chris Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy, Ada Wong, and Jake Muller join the fight and an interactive gameplay of up to four players spreads the action evenly between multiple players.
Resident Evil 6 also gives you the option of joining the side of the hunter, allowing you to experience what it is like to hunt human prey.
Resident Evil 6’s co-op player mode maximizes the challenges.
It will take more than one player to take down some of this versions creatures.
8. Hunt: Showdown
Hunt: Showdown gameplay
Hunt: Showdown is an action-packed, first-person bounty hunting game, where you are part of a group of bounty-hunters who roam the Louisiana swamps battling some pretty vicious monsters.
It's not just the monsters you have to watch out for, once you defeat your monster target, you become a target to the other bounty hunters and must outwit up to ten players who are all scrambling to secure that their bloodline achieves victory.
The gameplay allows up to ten individual players to battle and outmaneuver one another, as you all compete for a dwindling pool of bounty.
Hunt:Showdown pits bounty-hunters against both gruesome monsters as well as themselves. It isn’t just creatures you have to watch out for, it is your fellow bounty-hunters too.
The game features incredible graphics and some pretty eerie looking creatures.
7. GTFO
GTFO gameplay
High intensity combat, challenging team-based puzzles, and horrific monsters...GTFO combines all of these features with an underground expedition premise that brings on the scares.
Up to four players can work together to gather weapons, resources, and utilize teamwork to survive and learn about the underground mystery world.
With the game’s Expedition Director throwing players into challenging situations at every turn, GTFO is a strategy horror game that delivers a satisfying experience.
Players must work together to take out the weird creatures that populate the underground maze.
Make sure you collect the proper equipment to effectively battle the games disproportionately-challenged monsters.
6. Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th gameplay
The horror icon that defined 80s horror cinema, (not so much in his NES persona), is finally back in a game that is miles away better than any of his previous gaming experiences.
For the first time, you can either play as a camp counselor or as Jason himself. If you choose to take on Jason, you will be given tools and tips to effectively help you escape or even kill everybody’s favorite hockey mask wearing maniac.
As Jason, you will be able to covertly stalk your prey and the darker it gets in the game, the stronger Jason becomes.
Jason has arrived and this time you can play as Jason himself, or choose to flee or battle him as a camp counselor.
An exciting feature of the game allows you to play as Jason from five different Friday the 13th movies. This is when jason had yet to discover the iconic hockey mask in Friday the 13th Part 2.
5. The Forest
The Forest gameplay
After being the only survivor from a passenger jet crash, The Forest finds you having to run for your life against a forest of cannibalistic mutants.
With an iconic horror premise, and a gameplay that allows players to battle against one another, The Forest delivers the chills.
The entire game is accessible, you can go underground, chop down trees for firewood, and build shelters. Just remember to defend your camp at night. The game is worth the time investment just to hear that piercing, terrifying scream that occurs every thirty minutes.
Not only will you have to battle the cannibals during the day, you will also have to defend your camp at night.
A cool aspect of the game is all the different varieties of weapons that you can use, including a molotov cocktail.
4. Cry of Fear
Cry of Fear gameplay
Maybe the most creepy, atmospheric, and minimalist of horror games, Cry of Fear combines psychological delusions that may or may not be real.
Puzzles, jump scares, and combat form the action of the game. But the real star of this game is the spine-tingling and dark atmospheric journey that you get to go on as a player.
Set in a deserted town, filled with monsters and delusions that may be the players very own, Cry of Fear is a stellar entry in the horror genre.
Real or delusion? Either way, the phantoms in Cry of Fear are some of the scariest in gaming history.
The game features 24 unique and scenario specific tools and weapons to choose from.
3. SCP: Secret Laboratory
SCP: Secret Laboratory gameplay
SCP: Secret Laboratory is a multiplayer horror game that allows players to assume the identities of an underground research facility, whose anomalies have escaped from their containment chambers.
Players can either choose personnel (the anomalies), neutralization team, scientists, or traitors who are secretly helping the personnel to escape.
Multiple players will have a blast navigating the mazes of the underground facility. Your arsenal includes firearms, with the option of detonating the whole facility to take out the creatures.
The graphics and the creatures of SCP really stand out in the dark setting of the game.
You never know where you are headed and what awaits you behind each door of SCP.
2. Killing Floor 2
Killing Floor 2 gameplay
Horzine Biotech has recently experienced a failed experiment that has caused the clones, known as Zeds, to spread all over continental Europe.
Amidst the breakdown of European society, a group of mercenaries take up arms to battle the Zeds. Featuring a pulsating heavy metal soundtrack, co-op play of up to six players, and enough gore to fully qualify as a stellar horror game, Killing Floor 2 brings the mayhem.
The suspense and blood-spilling never lets up until the final Zed is slaughtered.
The Zeds serve as the main foe of Killing Floor 2. Outmaneuvering them is a gore-filled challenge.
You will have to take on multiple enemies at once...and they never stop coming.
1. Dead by Daylight
Dead by Daylight gameplay
Dead by Daylight is the ultimate stalker/survivor horror game. One player takes on the role of the killer and the other four players take on the roles of the survivors.
The object of the survivors is basically not to get caught, or else, they will be tortured and killed. Survivors can either cooperate with one another, or choose to be selfish, you will have to figure out works best for you, which is pretty much the cornerstone in survival horror.
You never know what to expect with this game and the unpredictability adds to the games suspense.
The killer gets to choose from a variety of guises and types, including paranormal entities, or more general slasher types.
The object of the game is not to fight...but to run and outsmart.
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