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Games like The Headliners

2025PC, Steam 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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In short: Games like The Headliners

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

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Lunch Lady

85 %Match

2021PC, Steam Deck playable86 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about The Headliners: sneaking and hiding, playing together in co-op as well as dread and tension.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Murky Divers

Co-op or multiplayer

You dive with your crew into abandoned underwater labs, clean up the remains of failed experiments and try to avoid the creatures lurking in the deep. It's cooperative horror built on teamwork, tension and chaotic moments underwater.

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