8 Games Like R.E.P.O. to Play With Friends in 2026
The valuable object is almost at the extraction point. Everyone is being careful. Someone says, “I’ve got this.”
Then you hear something break.
If you enjoy R.E.P.O., you’ll know that getting the loot home can be just as difficult as surviving the monsters. Its combination of physics, proximity voice chat and fragile cargo makes teamwork a source of both tension and comedy.
But what should your group play next?
These eight games like R.E.P.O. offer different combinations of dangerous expeditions, scavenging, cooperative survival and unpredictable multiplayer moments.
Our quick picks: Try Hazard Levels for physics-driven ingredient recovery and experimental brewing, Lethal Company for quota-based scavenging, or Murky Divers for underwater recovery missions with a larger crew.
How We Selected These R.E.P.O. Alternatives
R.E.P.O. gives players a particular challenge: locate valuable objects, physically transport them and extract while surviving dangerous creatures. Its grabbing tool and careful cargo handling are central to the experience. Explore R.E.P.O. on Steam.
For this guide, we considered four features:
Recovering something valuable: Loot, ingredients, evidence or footage worth bringing home.
Cooperative pressure: Shared objectives that require communication and coordination.
Unpredictable encounters: Creatures, hazards or player decisions that disrupt the plan.
A meaningful difference: A reason to choose each game beyond its resemblance to R.E.P.O.
Not every recommendation recreates R.E.P.O.’s physics-based cargo handling. We explain those differences so you can choose according to what your group enjoys most.
At Wales Interactive, our horror games include Maid of Sker, Sker Ritual and Hazard Levels. We’ve featured our own game, Hazard Levels, first and identified it clearly. This selection is an editorial comparison of documented features, rather than a ranking based on independent hands-on testing.
Games Like R.E.P.O. at a Glance
Game | Players | Why consider it? |
Hazard Levels | 1–4 | Physics-driven looting and experimental brewing |
Lethal Company | Up to 4 | Scrap recovery, quotas and risky expeditions |
Murky Divers | Up to 8 | Underwater recovery and submarine teamwork |
Content Warning | 2–4 | Dangerous filming expeditions and replayable mishaps |
Sketchy’s Contract | 1–8 | Planetary looting, contracts and character progression |
KLETKA | Up to 6 | Scavenging to keep a hungry elevator alive |
The Headliners | 1–8 | Photographing monsters and escaping with the results |
Nuclear Nightmare | Online co-op | Arctic extraction and infection management |
1. Hazard Levels — Our Featured Pick for Physics-Driven Looting
Best for: Groups who enjoy using physics tools, recovering unusual loot and adapting when an expedition goes wrong.
Your next assignment starts beneath a British pub.
In Hazard Levels, our co-op survival horror game for one to four players, a secret research division called The Family sends recruits into unstable interdimensional rifts.
The job is to recover bizarre ingredients and survive the return journey. The Gravity Gauntlet lets you grab, carry and throw multiple objects, while procedural rifts introduce shifting layouts and dangerous creatures.
Why R.E.P.O. Players Might Enjoy It
Both games make recovering objects part of the danger. You need to think about what you’re carrying, what’s nearby and whether your teammates are still within shouting distance.
Hazard Levels also features proximity voice chat, so staying together has practical advantages. A useful warning becomes considerably less useful when the person giving it is somewhere else entirely. See the official Hazard Levels features.
What’s Different?
Your haul feeds into the brewery beneath The Fox Hole Arms.
Between expeditions, recovered ingredients can be used to research recipes, fulfil orders and create experimental cocktails. Some provide useful effects. Others give your group another reason to question its decisions.
That brewing system gives your recovery missions a different purpose from R.E.P.O.’s valuable-cargo extraction.
Hazard Levels is currently available in Steam Early Access. Its full release is scheduled for 12 November 2026 on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with demos available ahead of launch. Read the release announcement.
2. Lethal Company — For Scavenging Under Pressure
Players: Up to four.
Best for: Groups who enjoy collecting valuables and deciding whether one more trip is worth the risk.
Lethal Company sends contracted workers to abandoned moons to collect scrap and meet the Company’s profit quota.
The attraction for R.E.P.O. players is the familiar pressure of entering somewhere dangerous, finding something worth recovering and getting out before the expedition falls apart.
Every extra item offers a reason to keep exploring. Every unfamiliar noise offers a reason to leave.
What’s Different?
Lethal Company centres on scrap collection and quota management. It places less emphasis on R.E.P.O.’s careful transportation of awkward, fragile cargo.
Choose it if your favourite part of R.E.P.O. is the expedition itself: exploring, making risky decisions and hoping everyone returns with something useful.
3. Murky Divers — For Underwater Recovery With a Bigger Crew
Players: Up to eight.
Best for: Teams who want dangerous recovery missions and more friends involved.
In Murky Divers, your employer needs evidence removed from abandoned underwater laboratories.
Unfortunately, the evidence includes bodies. And the laboratories contain things that would happily add your team to the collection.
You recover the remains, transport them back to your submarine and destroy them to earn credits. Limited oxygen and lurking creatures make efficient teamwork essential.
What’s Different?
The submarine adds another shared responsibility. Your crew must coordinate navigation between expeditions, using sonar and onboard stations to find its way.
It’s a useful option if you enjoy R.E.P.O.’s recovery objectives but want an underwater setting and support for up to eight players.
4. Content Warning — For Horror You Can Watch Back
Players: Two to four.
Best for: Groups who enjoy the funny moments as much as completing the mission.
What if the most valuable thing you brought home was a recording of everything going wrong?
Content Warning sends your team into the Old World with a camera. Film frightening encounters, return to the surface and upload the footage to your in-game SpöökTube channel.
Successful videos earn revenue for equipment, helping you attempt another expedition.
What’s Different?
You’re recovering footage rather than transporting valuables. Camera battery and oxygen shape how long you can keep filming.
It’s a good fit for R.E.P.O. groups who love unpredictable encounters and want to relive the moment their friend abandoned the plan.
Preferably from a safe distance.
5. Sketchy’s Contract — For Looting and Longer-Term Progression
Players: One to eight.
Best for: Groups who want contracts, upgrades and more ways to gather resources.
Sketchy’s Contract takes cooperative horror looting to an asteroid belt, where players visit planets to recover loot, gather materials and fight creatures.
Completing contracts supports progression, including suit improvements that change attributes such as health, attack power and stamina.
What’s Different?
The appeal extends beyond carrying valuables to safety. Gathering, combat and character development give your group more activities to pursue.
There’s also the Night Shift: stay on a planet for better loot and face deadlier enemies, or leave before your team loses everything.
Choose it if R.E.P.O.’s recovery loop leaves you wanting broader progression between missions.
6. KLETKA — For Scavenging With an Unusual Purpose
Players: Up to six.
Best for: Groups who enjoy resource pressure and a deeply questionable escape route.
Your elevator is alive.
It is also hungry.
KLETKA challenges your team to descend through the Gigastructure, exploring dangerous floors while maintaining the living elevator that carries you.
Scavenging matters because your transport needs feeding. Neglect that responsibility and it may find an alternative meal.
What’s Different?
You’re collecting resources to sustain the journey, rather than extracting valuables for payment.
The elevator is both a responsibility and a refuge. When the deadly Samosbor anomaly approaches, reaching it becomes urgent.
It’s worth considering if your group enjoys R.E.P.O.’s shared pressure but wants a stranger survival objective.
7. The Headliners — For Teams Who Would Rather Photograph the Danger
Players: One to eight.
Best for: Larger groups who enjoy risky objectives and competing ideas about what counts as a good plan.
New York is under attack by mysterious creatures. Your team has cameras.
Apparently, that makes this a work assignment.
The Headliners challenges players to explore dangerous streets and buildings, capture spectacular photographs and escape with images worth publishing.
What’s Different?
The valuable result is a photograph. You don’t need to manoeuvre a piano through a doorway, but you may need to get closer to a monster than anyone would sensibly recommend.
Each expedition consumes a press card. Earning more depends on producing headline-worthy results, giving your team a reason to keep taking risks.
8. Nuclear Nightmare — For a More Survival-Focused Extraction Mission
Players: Online co-op.
Best for: Groups who want extraction objectives alongside infection risks and open-world exploration.
Nuclear Nightmare sends a team into the Arctic to recover classified materials and escape before a nuclear strike contains a spreading infection.
Gather supplies, locate the information and arrange evacuation while dealing with creatures and the black goo virus.
What’s Different?
This is a broader survival experience, with vehicles, weapons and infection testing.
The connection to R.E.P.O. is the pressure to recover something important and get everyone out. Careful handling of fragile valuables gives way to managing supplies, checking infections and beating the clock.
Choose it if your group wants its next extraction mission to feel more like a survival operation.
Which R.E.P.O. Alternative Should You Choose?
Start with the part of R.E.P.O. your group talks about afterwards.
The physics and looting? Hazard Levels combines a Gravity Gauntlet with ingredient recovery and brewing.
The pressure to bring something home? Lethal Company offers scrap quotas, while Murky Divers takes recovery underwater.
The multiplayer disasters? Content Warning lets you watch the evidence afterwards.
The progression between expeditions? Sketchy’s Contract offers suit improvements, gathering and contracts.
The unusual setting? KLETKA gives your team an elevator it needs to keep alive.
The larger group? Murky Divers, Sketchy’s Contract and The Headliners support up to eight players.
The survival challenge? Nuclear Nightmare adds infection management and Arctic extraction.
Frequently Asked Questions
What games are similar to R.E.P.O.?
Hazard Levels, Lethal Company and Murky Divers share elements of cooperative recovery and dangerous expeditions. Content Warning and The Headliners offer similar pressure to return with something valuable, using footage and photographs instead of physical loot.
Is Hazard Levels like R.E.P.O.?
Both feature physics-driven object handling, cooperative survival and proximity voice chat. Hazard Levels introduces procedural dimensional rifts, ingredient recovery and experimental brewing beneath The Fox Hole Arms.
Which games like R.E.P.O. support larger groups?
Murky Divers, Sketchy’s Contract and The Headliners support up to eight players. KLETKA supports up to six.
Do all these games have R.E.P.O.’s physics-based loot handling?
No. Hazard Levels is especially relevant for its physics-driven Gravity Gauntlet. Other recommendations share recovery objectives, teamwork or risky expeditions while using different mechanics.
Can I try Hazard Levels before buying?
Yes. Wales Interactive has announced demos on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S ahead of the full release on 12 November 2026.
Your Next Expedition Starts at The Fox Hole Arms
Prefer scrap runs and quota pressure? Our games like Lethal Company guide compares more scavenging-focused alternatives.
You can also explore our wider selection of best co-op horror games, or find out how communication changes a session in our guide to horror games with proximity chat.
If your group enjoys recovering strange loot, experimenting with physics and trying to keep an expedition together, Hazard Levels has an assignment waiting.
Enter the rifts. Bring back the ingredients. Find out what the brewery can make from them.
Just make it back before last orders.
About this guide
Prepared for Wales Interactive. Selections reflect documented gameplay features and their relevance to R.E.P.O. players. Wales Interactive develops and publishes Hazard Levels, our featured title.
Game information checked on 14 October 2026. Player counts refer to the official listings linked above; Nuclear Nightmare’s maximum lobby size is left unspecified.
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