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Games like Species: Unknown

2025PC89 % positive9.75 €

You team up with up to three friends on risky missions aboard an abandoned ship, hunted by an unseen creature in the dark. Upgrading your gear between runs is what keeps you alive against each new threat.

  • Playing together in co-op
  • Dread and tension
  • Runs that play out differently every time
  • Co-op or multiplayer

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In short: Games like Species: Unknown

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Species: Unknown special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Killing Floor

91 %Match

2009PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive17.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Species: Unknown: playing together in co-op as well as dread and tension.

A wave-based co-op shooter where up to six players fend off hordes of grotesque clone mutants and gear up at the trader between rounds. Class perks, teamwork and the brutal Patriarch boss fight define the experience.

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Sker Ritual

Playing together in co-op

A co-op horror first-person shooter where you fend off waves of supernatural enemies solo or with up to four players. As a spiritual successor to Maid of Sker, it leans on an occult Welsh atmosphere.

Killing Floor 2

Playing together in co-op

A brutal co-op wave shooter where up to six players use class-based perks to hold off hordes of grotesque Zed clones, set to a heavy metal soundtrack with slow-motion gore. Each match builds to a nasty boss fight, and leveling perks keeps you coming back.

Left 4 Dead

Playing together in co-op

Four survivors fight through relentless zombie hordes together, with an AI Director reshaping enemy waves and special infected so every run feels tense and different. Teamwork is essential – stray from the group and you'll be pinned down fast.

SCP: Secret Laboratory

Dread and tension

An asymmetric multiplayer shooter set in an underground SCP facility where you play as a scientist, guard, insurgent or escaped monster, fighting for survival or escape in chaotic, player-driven rounds.

No More Room in Hell 2

Runs that play out differently every time

A tense co-op horror shooter for up to eight players surviving a zombie apocalypse together. Scarce resources and shifting scenarios keep the fear high and the runs replayable.

Resident Evil: Revelations 2

Dark, serious atmosphere

Episodic survival horror on a grim island prison, alternating between two duos – Claire and Moira, Barry and Natalia – mixing gunplay with sneaking and item-finding. The addictive co-op Raid Mode adds loot-driven replay value.

Alien Swarm

Shooting and gunplay

A free top-down co-op shooter from Valve where a squad of four marines with distinct classes fights through hordes of aliens. Teamwork, loadouts and unlockable weapons drive frantic, tactical firefights.

GTFO

Playing together in co-op

GTFO is a brutally hard four-player co-op horror shooter where you retrieve artifacts from a monster-infested underground complex. Tight communication, stealthy approaches and careful resource management are essential to survive.

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