10 Best Online Horror Games to Play with Friends

This video game is a tribute to horror films. It is one of the best multiplayer horror games that puts four survivors against one deadly killer. Players are stuck in a place whose gates get out of service. Hence, in the attempts to stay alive, they desperately try to repair generators to open the hellish gates. The game fascinates the players, especially when they see Ash from Evil Dead, Leon from Resident Evil, and Heather from Silent Hill coordinating to escape from Ghostface or Pinhead.

Deceit is one nail-biting and exciting multiplayer horror game where you are all by yourself. Can you really trust those you call your teammates? Normally, you can (unless a friendly fire is on), but Deceit leaves you looking over your shoulder, even if you're traveling with your fellow survivors. In the game, you encounter an infected beast who is hidden in the shadows and stalks your every move. You have to take down survivors one by one by taking very calculated moves.

Want to play in a team? Pacify is one of the best horror games to play with your four friends. In the game, you all work together to subdue and capture a terrifying little girl capable of immense evil. You need to search in the house, find keys, collect clues and any tools to appease the wicked evil. If you attempt to play it solo, you'd surely be left terrified by the theme. Few moments are as frightening as turning a corner only to have a furious floating little girl in your face.

It is one of the unique horror games for PC that allows a variety of ways to play the same game. This game supports up to12 players at a time. At some points, this game feels like a hybrid of PUBG and Left 4 Dead because players work with or against each other to take down monsters and secure the bounty. These monsters are sometimes zombies and, the other time, giant spiders. It is one of the most addictive games that will keep you hooked all the time.

While playing this game, you'll enjoy an exciting horror experience where up to four players have seven days to build a place, collect weapons, establish guards, work on defenses, hoard food, and then fend off a never-ending wave of the undead creatures. These frightening species come for you on the seventh day. The game requires a good deal of teamwork, smart strategy, and planning to have a strong base to survive as long as possible. You and your friends can flex your creativity and innovation skills in this survival game.

F.3.A.R., or F.E.A.R. 3, was released back in 2011. It was the first game back then in the series to allow players to experience the campaign feeling with their friends. If you have played the first two versions of the game, you can lead at the third one. With the powerful game story, the game allows having four multiplayer game modes: Fucking Run!, Contractions, Soul Survivor, and Soul King. You'll decide; either player can team up together or battle against each other as any good multiplayer should.

Phasmophobia is a recent addition to the best horror games in the market. As the name suggests, the game is about the fear of ghosts. Phasmophobia puts you and some friends in the shoes of a paranormal investigator. You'll be assigned the job of a ghost hunter. It is an advanced game with speech recognition. With technology comes smart ghosts. It means that the sound of equipment and even some keywords that players say in voice chat can be heard by ghosts.

Since the day this game was released, it has become a great hit. Friday the 13th allows you to team up to eight players. Seven out of eight are camp counselors, while the one left becomes the main protagonist. To win, you have to choose from the two end goals. One is to defeat Jason (protagonist) or escape. It belongs to the survival games genre and is very popular right now. You can fight back against villains for the game, but he also has abilities like being able to teleport anywhere on the map.

Until Dawn is the most entertaining horror game when played within a living room with friends, it is a classic b-horror camp film translated to a video game. In the game, there are eight teens trying to survive an ill-fated night at a mysterious mountain cabin. The game's main and unique feature is how you take your decisions in-game. The final results are totally dependent on the choices you make.

The Forest is a really scary game to play. It's a story of survivors who are on an abandoned island after a plane crash. Soon they realize there are some evil powers residing with them. Days pass really well. You work together to build a shelter and find supplies. You can even go hunting for clues on how to escape the island. But as the night falls and weird things start emerging from the shadows of the Forest, all you can do is survive there.