While exploring a spooky house or escaping a killer can be fun on your own, there’s nothing quite like playing the best multiplayer horror games and facing off against demons with a few friends by your side. Sometimes screams will be replaced with laughter as you bond over a friend’s death or near-death experience. Oftentimes, the fear comes rushing back as soon as you’re the last one standing and everyone’s survival rests on your shoulders.

Quality multiplayer horror games aren’t as common as you’d think, though. It’s quite difficult to find the right balance between creating fun gameplay and enough scary moments to keep people coming back. Luckily, there are more than enough to keep you entertained during the 2025 spooky season that’s taking place right now. Horror is a diverse genre, so be sure to check out the best overall horror games in 2025 and the best horror games on Steam.

From gathering evidence to identify ghost types in Phasmophobia, to fighting off hordes of the undead in Left 4 Dead 2, we’ve compiled a list of the best multiplayer horror games that you can jump into with your friends right now. We’re highlighting several cross-play enabled games in this list as well, so you can play with your friends across PC, consoles, and other platforms.

Phasmophobia

• Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
• Cross-play: Yes

Remember Ghostbusters? Phasmophobia puts you in control of the prep team that goes into haunted locales first. This co-op ghost-hunting simulator tasks players with identifying spirits in haunted locations using a variety of tools. Tension builds as ghosts stalk the team, creating heart-pounding moments. Voice chat integration makes the scares even more immersive, turning every creak and whisper into potential doom.

A sensation after its launch in 2020, Kinetic Games’ cooperative horror game has received regular updates introducing new maps, ghosts, and items over the past five years. You’ll explore haunted lighthouses, high schools, prisons, and even an abandoned psychiatric hospital that made use of some questionable treatments when it was operational. It’s no wonder some angry spirits got left behind.

Special events bring cosmetics, community-wide scavenger hunts, and decorations throughout the year, and the celebrations include Halloween. Make sure to jump in to see how the haunts are different for the spookiest time of year.

Lethal Company

• Platform: PC

Originally developed in Roblox by solo creator Zeekerss, Lethal Company blends survival horror with chaotic gameplay. Players navigate unpredictable hazards while managing tense objectives, resulting in a mix of panic, strategy, and dark humor. Its multiplayer antics make the scares as entertaining as they are frightening.

You are placed under the supervision of The Company, where you’re tasked with collecting as much loot as possible from a variety of dangerous planets. You’ll land a safe distance away from facilities crawling with creatures of all shapes, sizes, and temperaments–many of which will kill you at a moment’s notice. Work together, gather and return loot, upgrade your equipment, and do it all again.

Lethal Company, which originally launched in 2023, has seen a handful of updates that have given company employees access to new tools like trucks and teleporters. Those updates have also brought new creatures into the fray, like mischievous kidnapper foxes and protective mother birds.

REPO

• Platform: PC

REPO is all about surviving while collecting. Similar to Lethal Company, players must move quickly to meet quotas while avoiding deadly threats, making every decision crucial. Multiplayer adds an extra layer of intensity, as coordination and quick thinking can mean the difference between life and death.

You’ll play as one member of a team as you scour different locales for valuable loot. REPO adds another layer of comedy with an even more ridiculous physics system. Much of your cooperative efforts will be figuring out how to lift gigantic statues and carefully navigate them down hallways so they aren’t damaged and lose value. The majority of the time you’ll probably end up dead while trying, though.

Dead by Daylight

• Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
• Cross-play: Yes

A modern horror classic, Dead by Daylight pits one killer against four survivors in tense, asymmetrical gameplay. A gigantic roster of licensed killers and victims, including everyone from Nicolas Cage (playing himself) to the demogorgon from Stranger Things, will help you live out your wildest horror fantasies–or die trying.

Dead by Daylight may not be the first asymmetrical horror game, but it is one that undoubtedly catapulted the popularity of the genre to heights we’ve never seen before in multiplayer horror. Released in 2016, Behaviour Interactive’s creation still boasts tens of thousands of active players at any given moment on Steam. It’s proven to be a horror experience with a ton of staying power.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

• Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
• Cross-play: Yes

In this multiplayer adaptation of the iconic franchise, three players control Leatherface and his family while four others try to escape from various maps with all of their limbs intact. The game balances tense chases with destructible environments, creating a brutally immersive horror experience that captures the film’s intensity. It’s a memorable spin on asymmetrical horror gameplay, especially as it added to the lore of the films by fleshing out the iconic Sawyer family with new characters from the mind of the original film’s writer, Kim Henkel.

While no longer receiving regular updates, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre still has a hefty playerbase that can support solo queueing. It’s still best to get together with friends and play to enjoy everything the experience has to offer, though.

Left 4 Dead 2

• Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
• Cross-play: No

This co-op zombie shooter remains a benchmark for multiplayer horror, even 17 years after its predecessor set the standard. It’s often been imitated, but never duplicated. Players must work together to survive hordes of infected across sprawling levels. The AI Director dynamically adjusts the game’s difficulty, ensuring that every run feels tense and unpredictable. In Versus mode, players can even become the Special Infected themselves, giving the co-op game a PvP twist.

While it may lack the slower, quieter moments often found in traditional horror, few experiences match how engaging, adrenaline-inducing, and chaotic Left 4 Dead 2’s multiplayer gameplay can be with a team of friends.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite

• Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
• Cross-play: Yes

Aliens: Fireteam Elite pits squads of Colonial Marines against relentless Xenomorph attacks. Teamwork is critical for surviving waves of enemies, with coordinated strategy and positioning often deciding who lives or dies. The game’s intense sci-fi atmosphere amplifies the horror. Built in the vein of something like Left 4 Dead, Aliens: Fireteam Elite pits three players against waves of the iconic aliens across various missions and modes, with plenty of new guns and cosmetics to unlock–should you survive.

One thing the game absolutely gets right is capturing the look and sound of the Alien universe. From shadowy industrial corridors to sprawling, hive-like chambers, every level feels true to the franchise.

Back 4 Blood

• Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
• Cross-play: Yes

After a less-than-stellar launch, this take on Left 4 Dead zombie horde action has steadily transformed into something truly memorable. Turtle Rock Studios, which includes some of the creators of the original Left 4 Dead, has shaped Back 4 Blood into a cooperative experience that trades in the same anxiety-inducing moments that Left 4 Dead created in players nearly 20 years ago.

Back 4 Blood is a strong option for multiplayer horror fans who don’t want to return to something as old as Left 4 Dead. It builds on the cooperative zombie-slaying formula with modern systems and a faster pace. Players choose from a diverse cast of “Cleaners,” each with unique abilities that can change the flow of a match, and use a wide arsenal of weapons that range from brutal melee tools to rifles. The game’s card-based system adds a layer of strategy, letting players customize their playstyle with upgrades and modifiers that affect everything from stamina to ammo capacity.

Little Nightmares III

• Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, Nintendo Switch

While the series is best known as a single-player puzzle platformer, Little Nightmares 3 introduces cooperative elements that don’t lose the series’ touch for dread-inducing encounters with grotesque monsters.. Players must work together to solve puzzles and navigate its dark, atmospheric world, heightening every suspenseful moment.

Little Nightmares 3 is relatively short. Most playthroughs will take around five hours to finish. It’s especially good for those who haven’t played the first two games, because for seasoned players, it may feel a bit samey, but for those who haven’t tried a Little Nightmares before, it makes a great introduction to its mysterious world without relying on any prior knowledge of the storyline.

Check out our Little Nightmares III review.

Demonologist

• Platforms: PC

Similar to Phasmophobia, Demonologist turns players into paranormal investigators confronting supernatural threats. Multiplayer intensifies the suspense, as success depends on coordination, quick thinking, and sharing crucial information while confronting increasingly powerful spirits.

Rather than have ghosts live in sandbox environments like Phasmaphobia, Demonologist developer Clock Wizard Games has curated an experience where scares are somewhat telegraphed in more detailed environments that elicit plenty of scares. It’s not as well-suited for repeated playthroughs, but still a worthy entry in the growing Phasmophobia-like genre.

The Outlast Trials

• Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
• Cross-play: Yes

Set in the universe of the single-player Outlast games, Outlast Trials lets players experience survival horror in a cooperative multiplayer setting. Teams must navigate a series of deadly experiments, solve environmental puzzles, and avoid horrifying enemies that can strike at any moment, making communication and coordination essential for survival. You can’t fight back. All you can do is run.

This multiplayer approach amplifies the already nerve-wracking tension of the series, as players not only contend with the game’s terrifying threats but also rely on one another to make it through each harrowing trial. The combination of unpredictable scares, claustrophobic environments, and high-stakes teamwork creates an intense horror experience that keeps players on edge.

Even though it’s been over two years since release, The Outlast Trials is still getting new content. A PvP mode is being added to the game in October 2025.