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2025PC91 % 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.

  • Resources and survival
  • Playing together in co-op
  • Dread and tension
  • Runs that play out differently every time
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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.

Similar in what way?

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

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Games where this is clearly part of it are left out, no matter how well the rest fits.

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Sker Ritual

91 %Match

2024USK 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable83 % positive19.99 €

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

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.

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Killing Floor

Playing together in co-op

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.

Depth

Playing together in co-op

An asymmetric underwater online multiplayer shooter in which a team of divers hunts for treasure while sharks ambush them. The appeal comes from the mix of teamwork, lurking and sudden chases.

SCP: Secret Laboratory

Co-op or multiplayer

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.

Killing Floor 2

Co-op or multiplayer

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.

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.

Level Zero: Extraction

Resources and survival

A multiplayer extraction shooter with a horror twist: teams of mercenaries scavenge a sci-fi facility while other players hunt them as alien monsters. The blend of looting, tension and asymmetric play sets it apart.

Left 4 Dead

Co-op or multiplayer

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.

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