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Games Like Lethal Company: Co-op Horror Jobs With Friends

Lethal Company sends a crew of friends into dark places to bring back scrap for a quota, and the fun is as much in the panicked voice chat as in the monsters. These co-op horror games share that formula: a job to do, a team that has to talk, and something in the dark that makes everything go wrong.

The games

  1. R.E.P.O. key art: three round googly-eyed robots in green, red and blue standing in the dark, the red one holding a lit flashlight Co-opR.E.P.O.Up to six robots carry fragile valuables out of dark buildings to meet a cash target, with monsters roaming.
  2. Content Warning art: four crew members in dark suits with round emoji faces, one holding a clapperboard, posing in a grey ruin Co-opContent WarningFilm monsters in an underground ruin with up to four friends and upload the footage for views.
  3. GRAIN ROT screenshot: wooden puppet crewmates with weapons face a spiked, glowing-eyed figure in dark ruins Co-opGRAIN ROTCo-op extraction horror: ride a cursed elevator into shifting ruins, haul loot back to your outpost, and lose it all if the whole crew breaks.
  4. Escape the Backrooms screenshot: the empty yellow-wallpapered rooms and fluorescent lights of the first level Co-opEscape the BackroomsA crew explores thirty-plus levels of the Backrooms, talking by proximity chat that the entities can hear.
  5. Phasmophobia: a dark 1950s-style diner with a glowing orange jukebox and a pie-of-the-day board Co-opPhasmophobiaThe classic four-player ghost hunt, where the ghost listens to your voice.
  6. Demonologist key art: a pale girl with dark eyes and grimy cheeks stares out of the dark beside two lit candles Co-opDemonologistCo-op ghost hunting with evidence, two dozen kinds of spirit and an exorcism to perform.
  7. Inside the Backrooms key art: a dim yellow room with buzzing ceiling lights and pillars scrawled with warnings such as It sees you and Left no exit Co-opInside the BackroomsUp to four friends solve changing puzzles in the Backrooms and avoid the entities to find the exit.
  8. Two players in yellow hazmat suits face a tall, thin black entity in the yellow halls of Level 0, with a grinning face glowing in a dark doorway Co-opBackrooms: Escape TogetherUp to six players in the Backrooms, with proximity voice chat and entities that each hunt in their own way.
  9. DEVOUR art: a possessed woman with matted dark hair, black eyes and a wide grin, with other demonic faces in red behind her Co-opDEVOURA four-player race to find ritual items and banish a demon while she hunts you.
  10. Ghost Watchers key art: a flashlight beam crosses a dark living room with an armchair, while a pale clawed ghost floats in the doorway behind Co-opGhost WatchersFour-player ghost hunting that ends in catching the ghost before it gets you.
  11. BIGFOOT key art: the creature's hairy face with glowing yellow eyes peers out from behind green ferns in a misty forest Co-opBIGFOOTA camping trip to prove Bigfoot exists while it stalks your camp, or one friend plays the creature.
  12. Pacify art: a pale girl with long black hair, half her face painted white with a dark eye, and a black shape over her mouth, against red Co-opPacifyBurn possessed dolls with up to three friends while a girl hunts you through the dark.
  13. SCP: Secret Laboratory key art: two soldiers in gas masks, one with green night-vision goggles and one holding a revolver, in an orange-lit shaft with huge pipes Co-opSCP: Secret LaboratoryA free online containment breach where each round deals you a role, from prisoner to creature.
  14. Species: Unknown key art: a mercenary in a sci-fi suit and helmet in a blue-lit ship corridor, with a dark creature's red eyes glowing beside them Co-opSpecies: UnknownMercenaries take contracts on an abandoned spaceship, from recovering a black box to capturing the creature that hunts them.
  15. Shift At Midnight key art: a grinning, wide-eyed monster with clawed hands leans over a gas station till, holding up an ID card that reads Real Human Co-opShift At MidnightA night shift at a gas station for up to three players, checking each customer for a doppelganger before it comes back as a monster.
  16. GTFO key art: four prisoners' face masks and helmets against a red background Co-opGTFOPrisoners sent on work orders deep into a dark complex, where a team that does not talk wakes everything at once.

R.E.P.O. is the closest match. Up to six players control small robots that search dark buildings for valuables and carry them, carefully, to an extraction point to hit a cash target, while monsters roam each level; fragile loot and physics make every trip its own kind of panic. Content Warning, from members of the Landfall team, swaps loot for footage: up to four friends dive into an underground ruin with a camera, film as many frightening things as they can before oxygen runs out, and upload it to SpookTube for views. GRAIN ROT is the newest take on the loot run: your crew rides a cursed elevator into shifting ruins in fragile wooden bodies, smashes furniture for resources and hauls loot back to rebuild an outpost, with plenty of physics chaos.

If you like the exploring and the proximity chat, Escape the Backrooms and Inside the Backrooms take a crew into the endless liminal rooms of internet legend to solve puzzles and find the exits, with entities that can hear you talk in Escape the Backrooms. Backrooms: Escape Together does the same for up to six players, with levels that change each attempt.

If the monster is your favourite part, Phasmophobia, Demonologist and Ghost Watchers are co-op ghost hunts: gather evidence, work out what haunts the place, and get out when it turns on you. DEVOUR and Pacify are shorter and louder, a race to complete a ritual or burn possessed dolls while one enemy hunts the group. BIGFOOT sends you camping in a national park to prove the creature exists while it stalks your camp.

If what you like is the job itself, Species: Unknown sends mercenaries on paid contracts aboard an abandoned spaceship, with a motion tracker and a monster to identify, and Shift At Midnight puts up to three friends behind a gas station counter at night, deciding which customers are doppelgangers. GTFO is the hard version: a team of prisoners sent on work orders into a dark underground complex, where talking and planning are the only way through.

For something bigger and stranger, SCP: Secret Laboratory is a free online game of a containment breach where each round deals you a role, from an unarmed prisoner to an escaped creature hunting everyone.

If you only try one, play R.E.P.O. for the closest feel, or Content Warning for the most laughs.

Questions

What is the closest game to Lethal Company?

R.E.P.O.: a crew searches dark buildings for valuables to hit a cash target while monsters roam, with up to six players. GRAIN ROT is another close one, a co-op loot run into shifting ruins.

Is there a free game like Lethal Company?

SCP: Secret Laboratory is free to play online, though it is a round-based game of roles rather than a loot job.

Can you play games like Lethal Company solo?

Most can be played alone, but they are built for groups; R.E.P.O., Content Warning, Phasmophobia and the Backrooms games are best with friends.

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