When one horror game becomes as incredibly successful as Dead by Daylight, there are sure to be others, tiptoeing in the direction of its successfully formatted tracks!
Best Games Like Dead by Daylight
Whether players prefer a co-op horror shooter or a spooky co-op hide-and-seek game, these five games will be the best for fanatical horror gamers to explore. Perfect for all gamer horror fanatics, check out our list of the best games like Dead by Daylight.
Friday the 13th: the game
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Friday the 13th: The Game features the most notorious killer known to all horror fans, Jason Voorhees. As Crystal Lake's councilors run and hide around the map, hoping to survive the player roaming the land as Jason, this third-person horror game gives players the tools to survive to a night against the unstoppable killer. Friday the 13th: The Game is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows.
Phasmophobia
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Phasmophobia is a scary new early access game that plays in standard and VR mode. This is a 4-player online cooperative psychological horror game, so if players don't feel disturbed by scary things, then they might be ready to jump on the VR set and sneak around looking for ghosts. As a ghost hunter, players are tasked with documenting evidence of legitimate paranormal activity. This is at their own risk, as the creepy things residing in the dwellings they will explore have the ability to kill themselves! Not quite like the gameplay of Dead by Daylight, but as a terribly intense horror game, Phasmophobia is a definite consideration for Android and Microsoft Windows users!
Deception
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Giving a more Saw vibe, Deceit takes place in a mysterious place and an asylum. Players wake up to hear a strange voice, a Game Master speaking, and see that they are surrounded by five other people. Upon realizing that two party members have been infected with a virus, players will struggle to escape the circumstances they find themselves in to survive. Infected players will consume blood in order to transform into their fully infected state during the blackout phase. This is when the lights go out in the asylum and allow the infected to begin hunting down innocent players. During this time, players can band together to try and build energy, but in some cases it's best to run and stay away from infected people! Available on Microsoft Windows, it's every man for himself in Deceit!
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Left 4 dead 2
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As one of the classic horror games on the list, Left 4 dead 2 gives players different options to choose how they want to play. As a survivor, players can travel to different areas, shoot monsters, or experience the game as monsters, in player versus player mode. A classic first-person shooter horror game that paved the way for games like DBD, no doubt! Left 4 Dead 2 is available on Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Macintosh operating systems.
Identity V
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Similar in design to Dead by Daylight, Identity V could be DBD's horror game twin! With four Survivors against a Hunter, the Survivors must complete objectives, before being hunted down by the Hunter, who works to slow down the survivors' escape attempts. In Identity V, survivors must decode cipher machines, which are incredibly similar to DBD generators. As an in-game hunter, players will catch survivors and attach them to Rocket Chairs. This is similar to hooking survivors in DBD. This cute horror game is available on Android, iOS and Microsoft Windows users.
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