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2025PC, Steam Deck verified84 % positive9.75 €

A co-op survival horror game where cursed rain summons mimics that perfectly copy your teammates. This breeds constant paranoia and distrust within the group.

  • Dread and tension
  • Playing together in co-op
  • Resources and survival
  • Co-op or multiplayer

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In short: Games like Mimesis

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

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Backrooms: Escape Together

95 %Match

2026PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable88 % positive9.75 €

Brings what grabs you about Mimesis: dread and tension, playing together in co-op as well as scarce resources and survival.

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.

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The Outlast Trials

Resources and survival

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.

Devour

Resources and survival

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.

Forewarned

Resources and survival

A co-op horror game for up to four players where a team of archaeologists explores ancient Egyptian ruins, recovering treasure and relics while evading a deadly evil. Teamwork, puzzles and tension drive the experience.

Phasmophobia

Co-op or multiplayer

You and your friends play ghost hunters, using EMF readers, spirit boxes and cameras to work out which kind of ghost haunts a location. Voice recognition and sudden hunts make for genuine panic and plenty of hilarious co-op moments.

Demonologist

Co-op or multiplayer

A co-op horror game for up to four players where you investigate haunted locations with ghost-hunting gear, work out what kind of demon you face, and then exorcise it. The mix of deduction and panic is the appeal.

Escape the Backrooms

Co-op or multiplayer

A co-op horror game where you wander eerily familiar, endless Backrooms levels together, solving puzzles and avoiding entities to find the exit. Each level offers its own escape route and dangers.

Damned

Co-op or multiplayer

An asymmetric online horror game for up to five players: four survivors hunt for a way out of randomized haunted locations while one player hunts them as the monster.

Friday the 13th: The Game

Resources and survival

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.

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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