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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.

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  1. 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.
  2. KLETKA key art: a gas-masked figure with a wrench and a gas-masked creature on a red background of giant teeth Co-opKLETKAFeed a living elevator with fuel scavenged from deadly floors and get back before the anomaly hits.
  3. Murky Divers wide art: a diver in a round helmet reaches toward a severed leg in a dark green flooded lab while other divers float behind Co-opMurky DiversUp to eight divers haul failed experiments out of underwater labs while creatures stalk the wrecks.
  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. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Dark Hours key art: two masked robbers beside a royal crown freeze as a tall dark figure appears in a bright doorway Co-opDark HoursA crew's heist goes wrong when the power cuts and the building turns out to belong to a monster.

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.

Several newer games keep the scrap run and add their own twist. In MIMESIS four players gather valuables and race back to the tram before the contaminated rain, while monsters that copy your friends' voices and behaviour slip into the group. Murky Divers sends up to eight players by blind submarine into abandoned underwater labs to drag out the corpses of failed experiments for credits, with creatures in the dark water. KLETKA puts up to six friends in a living elevator descending through an endless building: you scavenge deadly floors for fuel to feed it and get back before an anomaly sweeps the floor. Lucid Cats turns it into a shared dream: cat-headed dreamers loot a procedurally generated nightmare for a quota and find the exit before the dream ends. Paranormal Cleanup and Ghost Janitors make the job cleaning: tidy up haunted houses for up to four players while the ghosts grow angrier, and keep the lights on to stay safe. Nuclear Nightmare is the most tense: a team crosses a frozen Arctic map for classified material, testing each other for a black goo infection while a nuclear strike draws closer.

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.

Two games turn the run into a robbery. In Dark Hours a crew of up to four breaks into a building for a heist, the power cuts out, and one of eight monsters has the place to itself. Boo Men has you burgle homes in the dark, where every lamp you switch on drains the power and the Boo Men wait wherever the light does not reach.

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. MIMESIS and KLETKA are newer loot runs with their own twists.

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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