How Many of These Scary Multiplayer Games Have You Played?
You and your friends like getting scared together. Or maybe you guys just like to beat each other up. Either way, these fifteen games are guaranteed to scare your pants off and excite you. These games can range from puzzles, search and destroy, to fighting off hordes of zombies. Do you trust your friends enough to play these games with them?
15. Identity V
Identity V Gameplay
When you receive a letter inviting you to investigate an abandoned manner, you discover something truly terrifying about a mystery involving a missing girl. In a horrifying game of cat and mouse, you play against your friends as you survive the night in this first-of-its-kind mobile game.
- Be a survivor and sabotage the hunter
- Terrify your friends as a hunter
- Each character has their own unique background
- Available on iOS and Android
Capture, torture, and kill survivors as one of the unique hunters in this one-of-a-kind mobile game
Clowns aren't the only ones giving out balloons
14. Secret Neighbor
In a game of strategy and terror, you and your friends must save your friend from your neighbor’s basement. It seems simple enough, but be careful who you trust. The neighbor is among you, and his goal is to divide and confuse you and your friends.
- Work together to get to the basement and save your friend
- Be careful of the neighbor, as he tries to deceive you and gain your trust
- Trust no one
- Available on Steam
Adults ruin everything, especially when they disguise themselves as your friends
Rescue your friend from your creepy neighbor in this suspenseful survival horror game
13. The Blackout Club
The Blackout Club Gameplay
The whole town is sleepwalking at night, and one of your friends has gone missing. You and your friends begin experiencing blackouts, but no one believes you. You and your friends-The Blackout Club-have come to realize this isn’t just a strange occurrence-it’s a dangerous one.
- Gather evidence of the nightly blackouts and expose it to the world
- Explore a neighborhood like any other, but with a nightmare next door
- No night is like the other, with new adventures with every sleep
- Available on XboxOne, PS4, and Steam
Record evidence and find the disturbing secret behind the blackouts
Be so good at fighting off enemies that you can literally only do it with your eyes closed
12. Killing Floor
Killing Floor Gameplay
In a world of failed cloning experiments, you and your friends are assigned a mission to cleanse the area of these zombie-like creatures. Don’t let your guard down, though. These zombies are armed to the teeth, literally.
- Fight against zombies in a perk system to fit your playing style
- Play with up to five other friends to dispose of failed experiments in deserted British countrysides and cities
- Ten types of enemies that can fight with various weapons from teeth, to rocket launchers
- Available on XboxOne, PS4, and Steam
Fight hordes of zombies in the military with your team
Cleanse England of these failed monstrosities in the classic first-person shooter
11. Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle Gameplay
Do you ever watch the Friday the 13th movies and hate the characters so much that you wish you could help Jason kill them? In Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle, you can! Guided by your mother, Pamela Voorhees, kill your friends as Jason in this grotesque (and strangely adorable) puzzle game. Will you kill the final girl? Or will she get away yet again?
- Over 150 levels of gruesome puzzles
- Terrorize victims from all of the Friday the 13th settings, from Camp Crystal Lake, to Manhattan, and even in space
- Play the family-friendly “PG” mode, or the gorey “R” mode
- Available on iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, and Steam
Make mommy proud and kill the campers as Jason Voorhees
Takedown the final girl in either R-rated gore of PG-rated violence
10. Friday the 13th: The Game
Friday the 13th: The Game Gameplay
In a more gritty game than Killer Puzzle, submerge yourself into Camp Crystal Lake as you and your friends evade everyone’s favorite hockey mask-wearing monster. Either play as Jason or as a camper and relive the 1980s slasher, Friday the 13th.
- Escape or takedown Jason as one of six camp counselors
- Stalk, scare, and kill your friends as a killer with more kills under his mask than any of his cinematic rivals
- Unlock other versions of Jason from Part II-The Final Friday
- Available on XboxOne, PS4, and Steam
Get creative with your kills or stick to the classics as you wreak havoc on Camp Crystal Lake
Stick to classic Jason kills and crush, stab, or beat the counselors
9. The Forest
The Forest Gameplay
Your biggest fears come to life when your plane crashes in The Forest. You and your friends must work together to build a shelter, find food, and survive against the forces of nature and whatever else lurks within the forest. Don’t worry about the locals; they just want to have you for dinner.
- Explore, craft, build, and survive against the odds in a survival simulation
- Defend yourself against human-like mutants with up to 8 friends
- Decorate and customize your home, while making sure it’s sturdy enough to protect you during the night
- Available on PS4 and Steam
Fight for survival against a cannibalistic clan of mutants
Save your friends from the local clan with crafted weapons and sturdy shelter
8. SCP: Secret Laboratory
SCP Secret Laboratory Gameplay
Based on the infamous SCP: Containment Breach, SCP: Secret laboratory’s objective is to escape the laboratory without being detected by SCP anomalies. When the facility experiences multiple breaches, you must do what you can to survive, even if it means to kill each other.
- Play as one of five randomly generated roles and try to escape, survive, protect, or kill as many as possible
- Based on the SCP Foundation Creepypasta series
- Surprises lurk around every corner, no matter your role
- Available on Steam
Don’t take your eyes away from SCP-173; you’ll be dead in an instant
Don’t look directly at SCP-096; he’s a shy guy
7. We Were Here
We Were Here Gameplay
After seeking shelter in an abandoned castle, you and your friend must work together to solve puzzles and escape. The only form of communication is your walkie-talkies. Solve the puzzles and find a way out before whatever lurks finds you.
- The first game of a series of co-op puzzle adventures
- Optional virtual reality support
- A different game experience for both players involved
- Available on Steam
Solve puzzles to find your way out of the castle, with death lurking in every room
Hurry to stop the performance of the marionette before it’s over
6. Deceit
Deceit gameplay
When a third of your friends are infected by a deadly virus, you must decipher truth and deception in this first-person shooter. This game tests your trust and cooperation between you and five of your friends, keeping you at the edge of your seat and making you paranoid with each zone.
- Play as the randomly generated “innocent,” or “infected”
- See how fragile your friendships are, as you sabotage the innocents’ plans to escape
- Vote off those you suspect to be infected to increase your chances of survival
- Available on Steam
Test your trust in your friends as you try to figure out who is infected, and who is innocent
Kill the innocents in the dark as a blood-thirsty infected
5. Dead by Daylight
Dead by Daylight Gameplay
Survive the night as your friend hunts you and four others down. You can work together, or it can be every man for himself. As each level changes every time you play, there’s no telling if you will survive the Killing Ground, or if you will be the Killer’s next sacrifice.
- Play as an array of killers from Ghostface, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, and many more horror icons
- Play in third-person as a survivor, or in first-person as the killer
- New Stranger Things chapter
- Available on XboxOne, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Steam
Die by your favorite horror villains, or survive against them
Escape the map before the killer finds you
4. Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5 Gameplay
Taking place five years after Chris Redfield’s survival in Raccoon City, Resident Evil 5 is a must-play for any zombie fans! Redcliff, now a member of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance, has been sent on a mission to an undisclosed African nation to investigate the transformation of the population to violent, grotesque creatures. Explore the Kijuju Autonomous Zone and take down a biological weapons dealer and stop the Umbrella Corporation in the seventh installment of the Resident Evil series.
- Play co-op with your friends in either a single or split-screened mode as either Chris Redfield or Sheva Alomar
- Fight against familiar enemies and with familiar friends
- Dispose of the infected “Majini” during your investigation
- Available on Xbox 360, XboxOne, PS3, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Steam
Save the people from the Majini and defeat the Umbrella Corporation
Protect yourself against chainsaw-wielding zombies in the corrupted African town
3. Pacify
Pacify Gameplay
After receiving a well-paying job with Paranormal Activity Helpers Inc., you're assigned to a haunted house with a daunting past. The broker recommends checking it out with at least three other friends. You can say the job is corny all you want, but it doesn’t explain the little girl staring at you from the window.
- Search for evidence of paranormal activity within a century-year-old house
- A little girl will switch between good and evil, depending on different circumstances
- Once evil, she will chase you around the house and will get smarter and faster as time passes
- Available on Steam
Collect the dolls and solve the mystery of the house
Run from the little girl who haunts the house or your fate will be uncertain
2. Cry of Fear
Cry of Fear Gameplay
Descend into madness as you scramble for answers in a city plagued with delusions and monsters that will make you question your sanity. Players are taken into a nightmare in the streets of a deserted Scandanavian town, fighting for their lives in this psychological horror.
- Play with up to 3 of your friends in a full-length multiplayer mode
- Take a ride on a nightmarish rollercoaster of hallucinations, terrifying creatures, and strong emotions
- Available on Steam
Fight your way through delusions and monsters in a deserted Scandanavian town
Delusion? Reality? You can never be certain.
1. Hunt: Showdown
Hunt: Showdown Gameplay
Banish dastardly creatures with your group-your Bloodline-of hunters in the swamps of Louisiana. Cleanse the world of these monsters and you’ll be paid for your efforts. If you fail, death’s grasp will take everything from you. Play with twelve others, combining teams of 2-3 and solo players, and fight ghastly monsters and each other for the bounty. Watch your back, or your prize will be stripped away from you, along with your life.
- Higher risks mean higher rewards, but one wrong move and someone else could be walking away with your prize
- A mixture of PvP and PvE to keep you on the edge of your seat and your guard up
- Just because you die, doesn’t mean you won’t progress among the ranks if your Bloodline is still alive
- Available on XboxOne and Steam
Banish the creatures within the Louisiana swamps with your Bloodline
Fight disturbing monsters like the spider and the butcher and earn high rewards
Remember, trust no one; not even your best friends!
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