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Games Like Phasmophobia: Ghost Hunts and Co-op Horror

Phasmophobia's hook is a team of friends in a dark building, working out what is haunting it before it turns on them. These games share that mix of investigation, co-op panic and something in the dark that hunts the group.

The games

  1. 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-opPacifyUp to four players find and burn possessed dolls in haunted places while a girl hunts them.
  2. DEVOUR art: a possessed woman with matted dark hair, black eyes and a wide grin, with other demonic faces in red behind her Co-opDEVOURFour cultists banish a demon with ritual items while the possessed leader chases them.
  3. Lethal Company art: silhouettes of crew members in bulky suits against a red background, a long-armed creature among them Co-opLethal CompanyCo-op crews in dark facilities with creatures you learn to read, and screams over voice chat.
  4. The Mortuary Assistant key art: a close-up of a pale, rotting face with a bloody open mouth in a dark room PsychologicalThe Mortuary AssistantIdentify which demon has come with the bodies before it takes you, alone at night.
  5. Content Warning art: four crew members in dark suits with round emoji faces, one holding a clapperboard, posing in a grey ruin Co-opContent WarningGo into the dark with up to four friends and film the monsters for views.
  6. Visage art: a veiled ghostly figure seen through a rain-spattered window in the dark PsychologicalVisageA solo haunted house where the ghosts of the families who died there close in.
  7. Dead by Daylight art: a smiling dark-haired woman drawn in an anime style raises blood-smeared hands against a red background Co-opDead by DaylightOnline horror with friends where one of you is the thing hunting the others.

The closest in structure are Pacify and DEVOUR. In Pacify up to four players go into haunted places for Paranormal Activity Helpers Inc., find and burn possessed dolls and run from the girl who hunts them. DEVOUR is faster and louder: four cultists race to find ritual items and banish a demon from their possessed leader while she and her fiends chase them, armed only with UV flashlights.

If what you love is the team chatter and the screaming over voice chat, Lethal Company and Content Warning keep that and add a job. In Lethal Company the crew hauls scrap out of dark facilities to meet a quota; in Content Warning you film monsters in an underground ruin to go viral. Both are as funny as they are frightening.

If you liked the identification side, working out which entity you face from evidence, try The Mortuary Assistant on your own: you embalm bodies at night and must work out which demon came with them before it takes you. Visage is the solo haunted house in full: a large home where families died and their ghosts close in, with only light to keep your sanity.

And if your group wants one player to be the thing in the dark, Dead by Daylight puts a friend in the role of the killer against four survivors.

Questions

What is the closest game to Phasmophobia?

Pacify and DEVOUR: both send a team of up to four into haunted places to complete a ritual task while a possessed enemy hunts them.

Are there single-player games like Phasmophobia?

The Mortuary Assistant has you identify a demon on your own, and Visage is a solo haunted house game. Phasmophobia itself can also be played alone.

Which games like Phasmophobia are on console?

Pacify, Content Warning, Dead by Daylight and The Mortuary Assistant are on PlayStation and Xbox as well as PC.

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