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2025PCSteam Deck verified85 % positive7.79 €

As a reckless journalist, you team up with up to three friends to chase spectacular footage in a city overrun by deadly creatures. The fun lies in making headlines without becoming one yourself.

Sneaking and hiding
Playing together in co-op
Dread and tension
A party of several characters

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The closest matches for The Headliners are Lunch Lady, The Outlast Trials and Pacify. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Headliners special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like The Headliners

Best alternative overall: Lunch Lady 86% match – Sneaking and hiding
To play together: The Outlast Trials 85% match – with co-op
Newest alternative: Backrooms: Escape Together 84% match – released 2026

Best match

Lunch Lady

86 %Match

2021PCSteam Deck playable86 % positive4.99 €

You sneak through a school with up to three friends, collecting ten stolen exam pages while trying to escape the murderous Lunch Lady. The fun comes from tense co-op coordination and the rush of hearing her close in around the next corner.

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The Outlast Trials

Sneaking and hiding

A co-op survival horror where you endure the cruel experiments of the Murkoff Corporation, alone or with up to three friends. You sneak, flee and complete objectives while sadistic stalkers hunt you down.

Pacify

Sneaking and hiding

A co-op horror game for up to four players: you search a creepy mansion together, gather items and must keep a frightening girl pacified as she roams the halls.

Devour

Sneaking and hiding

A co-op horror game for up to four players where you complete ritual objectives while fleeing a possessed cult leader and her minions. Panic, hiding and jump scares shine best with friends.

Backrooms: Escape Together

Co-op or multiplayer

A co-op survival horror for up to six players where you escape together through procedurally generated, eerily empty Backrooms levels. You solve puzzles and evade entities, with new levels added over time.

R.E.P.O.

Sneaking and hiding

A chaotic online co-op game for up to six players where you haul fragile valuables through procedurally generated levels while monsters hunt you. Physics-driven slapstick mishaps and proximity voice chat blend big laughs with real tension.

Friday the 13th: The Game

Sneaking and hiding

An asymmetric multiplayer horror game where seven camp counselors try to escape while one player hunts them down as Jason Voorhees. It thrives on tension, teamwork and the classic slasher atmosphere of the film series.

Lethal Company

Co-op or multiplayer

You and your friends scavenge dangerous abandoned moons for scrap to meet the Company's quota. Proximity voice chat, lethal monsters and chaotic mishaps blend real tension with slapstick laughs.

Desolate

Co-op or multiplayer

A first-person survival horror where you explore an open world full of mysteries, either solo or as a research team with up to four other players.

Labyrinthine

Co-op or multiplayer

A first-person co-op horror game where you and your friends explore a dark, twisting maze, solve puzzles and evade lurking horrors. The focus is on shared tension and atmosphere.

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