In horror movies, you never want to be alone, as that’s when they get you. So for video games, having a tag team partner is just as important.
Update: We will continue to update this list periodically throughout the year, so you will likely see some games removed or added. These games are not ranked in any particular order, as the focus here is to showcase titles we are excited to see hit the marketplace.
#6 The Outlast Trials
Ah, it’s time for your “human guinea pig” phase of life, huh? Well, if you want to do that in one of the most twisted ways possible, then try The Outlast Trials!
In the game, you’ll be put in the era of the Cold War and have been forcibly put into a set of trials where survival is emphatically optional. As in, you have to make efforts to survive! Good luck with that.
Oh, you want good news? Well, you can try to play the game with friends via co-op so that you have a better chance of survival! However, those friends aren’t required to help you and could leave you to die. Just saying.
#5 Content Warning
Who’s ready to get famous? Are you willing to risk your life doing it? If so, then you’re going to want to try Content Warning! In this game, you play as one of a set of friends who are trying really hard to get famous. But how can you do that in this specific day and age? By finding scary places, recording them at the risk of your own life, and then posting them on the internet! Yep, it’s that simple.
And so, you’ll go to the world below, which has plenty of scary places and things, and you’ll attempt to get the best videos possible without dying!
The better your videos do, the more you can upgrade your character so that dying doesn’t have to be a sure thing!
#4 Deathground
Let’s start this off small, with dinosaurs. Oh, dinos aren’t small? Well, that’s not our problem, now is it? Exactly, they’re YOUR problem now!
In Deathground, you can team up with two other players to see if you can work your way through an area without getting caught by the deadly dinosaurs that are hunting you!
Oh, and we mean “hunt you.” These dinos have a complex AI driving them, and that means that how you interact with them will determine how much they come after you. Plus, you’ll need to complete objectives while staying alive! Think you can handle all that?
#3 Level Zero
There will be two asymmetrical multiplayer games on this list, and the first is Level Zero. The game will put you on a station where four scientists will attempt to repair the place so that they can stay alive and escape. The problem? Two other players in the game will be monsters trying to kill the scientists before that can happen!
The good news is that the scientists can stop the monsters in their tracks using light. The bad news is that they’ll have to be mindful at all times because they won’t always have light to use.
Work together and complete tasks to get the job done!
#2 Instinction
Yep! We have another dinosaur game for you to endure; aren’t you lucky? This time, in Instinction, you’ll head to a mysterious land where dinosaurs and people live together. But harmony isn’t exactly what’s going on here.
As Isabel, you’ll have to work your way through this world and attempt to learn its secrets, while also staying alive against the dinosaurs who won’t be so friendly with you. Not only will you be fighting, but you’ll be solving puzzles to help unravel this rift’s mysteries.
What is going on here? How is all of this possible? You’ll have to play the game to find out, and hope you survive the experience!
#1 Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game
We’ve shown you many terrors within this list. But now, we will show you the most terrifying thing this world has ever produced: clowns.
In Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game, you’ll pick a side to decide the fate of Crescent Cove! Three of you will be the evil space clowns who are trying to take out the citizens of this town and claim it for yourself so you can start your invasion of Earth!
The other seven players will be the citizens who are trying to fight back! You must work together and use weapons, both familiar and not, to survive! Who wins in the end? That’s up to you.
