Gather your pals, prove the lights and ensure you’re totally armed as we take a look at the most effective Xbox One multiplayer horror video games!
There’s such all kinds of darkish, gory horror experiences on Xbox One that may be skilled alongside – and even towards – pals and strangers.
From sci-fi team-ups towards Xenomorphs and amoral companies, to fights towards city zombie hordes and onto backwoods disguise and search video games towards lethal, all highly effective killers, it appears like there’s a flavour of multiplayer horror on the market for all tastes.
As lengthy as you don’t thoughts copious quantities of gore or leap scares in fact. Then once more, when you did – properly, you wouldn’t be studying this checklist, would you?
So when you’re able to get scared – let’s check out the most effective Xbox One multiplayer horror video games!
10. Aliens: Fireteam Elite (2021)
As I’m an enormous, just about lifelong fan of the Alien franchise, this title actually is one which ticks all of the packing containers for me.
Though much less outright horror than most different video games on this checklist, Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a Left 4 Dead-inspired wave shooter with baggage of environment and a few genuinely sensible, deep minimize references to Aliens lore.
The sport additionally options an excellent soundtrack by Austin Wintory that feels genuine with out counting on current Aliens franchise themes.
Players staff up in squads of Colonial Marines, making use of various lessons to go well with their playstyle. Taking down waves of hideous, typically mutated, Xenomorphs and different relentless enemies is ridiculously compelling.
Even although the principle marketing campaign is just a little brief, there are quite a few modes and challenges – in addition to some fairly powerful issue ranges – to blast your manner via alongside different gamers.
9. Dying Light (2015)
With the ever current menace of zombies, the open world parkour motion in Dying Light is an exciting, typically terrifying expertise.
Helping you to even the percentages a bit is which you can play via the marketing campaign with a buddy in co-op mode – so you’ll be able to tackle the zombie hordes collectively!
Not the sociable sort? How about attempting the sport’s ‘Be the Zombie’ mode, in which you’ll be able to tackle the function of a badass ‘Night Hunter’ zombie and assault different gamers as they try to take down zombie nests?
Whether working with or towards different gamers, Dying Light is a enjoyable, tense and infrequently scary first individual expertise that’s properly value attempting out!
8. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (2019)
Supermassive Games created The Dark Pictures Anthology titles as comparatively temporary, episodic horror experiences – with every sport filled with agonising choices, break up second fast time occasions and branching storylines.
Each sport is designed to assist extra than simply solo gamers, with native and on-line modes accessible. Players can take cost of a personality every within the native multiplayer, Movie Night mode or as a number of characters within the on-line Shared Story mode.
Man of Medan itself is a ghost story with loads of leap scares and spooky moments; it’s fully doable for the entire participant characters to die earlier than the tip of the story too…so tread rigorously!
You’ll additionally discover Man of Medan on our checklist of the finest PS4 horror video games.
7. Resident Evil 5 (2016)
Though it initially arrived in 2009, the Xbox One model of Resident Evil 5 wasn’t launched till 2016.
Definitely not one of the crucial fashionable Resident Evil video games, Resident Evil 5 is extra motion than horror-oriented, however undoubtedly has its scary moments.
The multiplayer choices are wonderful too. two gamers in a position to deal with your entire marketing campaign collectively in co-op mode or towards one another in Versus mode.
Versus mode incorporates two methods to play too: both competing for the excessive rating towards different gamers and taking up the senseless hordes of enemies, or by looking one another within the second multiplayer variant!
6. The Blackout Club (2019)
There’s a particular Stranger Things vibe to The Blackout Club – a survival horror sport wherein gamers co-operate as teenagers investigating horrific goings-on in a suburban setting.
Adults are constructing tunnels beneath the city of their sleep, utterly unaware of what they’re doing in the course of the night time.
Teenagers – like your self – are waking up lined in mud and scratches, with no reminiscence of what’s occurred.
Just don’t alert The Shape – a creature who can solely be detected by closing your eyes – to your whereabouts while you’re taking up a randomly generated mission with your pals.
If The Shape catches you, you’ll be become one of many shambling sleepers too!
One of the most effective options in The Blackout Club is the Enhanced Horror System – if enabled, the sport will document your audible reactions and even respiratory, to be shared in sport with different gamers.
Not solely that, however enabling the Enhanced Horror System may additionally see the builders contacting you in-game to speak to you as one of many evil Gods behind the terrifying state of affairs befalling the city.
It’s a really creepy sport – and one which’s finest skilled with pals!
5. Evil Dead: The Game (2022)
Once thought of one of many goriest and most terrifying films ever made, Sam Raimi’s first Evil Dead film was even banned for various years on residence video within the UK!
Yet when the sequence moved to its second and third instalments – in addition to the TV sequence that adopted far more just lately – it turned extra like a slapstick comedy; albeit a slapstick comedy with leap scares and buckets of gore.
It’s not the primary time the sequence has featured on one among our ‘best of’ lists both – take a look at our finest zombie video games on PS2 checklist, which options Evil Dead: Regeneration.
Evil Dead: The Game is an uneven multiplayer sport, which may see gamers within the roles of people attempting to outlive demonic assaults – or the demons themselves.
When I say demons plural I imply it. As the evil participant, you’re in command of your entire Army of Darkness.
It’s genuinely thrilling and has its justifiable share of scares while you play Evil Dead: The Game as a human – and it actually places you on edge. There’s loads of demons and traps to come across, in addition to highly effective and relentless bosses.
As the Army of Darkness participant, all of these threats are beneath your management – giving the sport a really completely different really feel on either side of the nice/evil divide!
4. Friday the thirteenth: The Game (2017)
Another asymmetrical multiplayer sport, Friday the thirteenth both casts gamers as Counselors on the cursed Camp Crystal Lake (critically, how does this place keep open?) or the relentless, extremely highly effective, hockey-masked killer: Jason Voorhees.
Like Evil Dead: The Game, being one of many human survivors is a tense and terrifying expertise, however when you play as the large dangerous Jason, it’s an exciting sport of cat and mouse.
While survivors can combat again towards Jason, he’s considerably extra highly effective than the pesky little people he’s looking and killing.
Jason’s varied skins are impressively recreated from films within the franchise (most individuals don’t do not forget that Jason wasn’t even the killer within the first film. Nor that he wore a burlap sack as a masks within the second movie – solely getting maintain of the long-lasting hockey masks in Friday the thirteenth Part III!) and there are many nods to the considerably convoluted lore of the movies.
Ever wished to play disguise and search whereas a terrifying, weapon-wielding killer hunts you down? Here’s your likelihood!
3. Zombie Army 4: Dead War (2020)
World War 2 and zombies appears to be a really potent mixture – who doesn’t wish to take out hordes of undead monstrosities who additionally occur to be Nazis?
If ever there was the proper online game dangerous man to tackle and never really feel any regret over mercilessly killing (in usually hilariously gory sluggish movement), Nazi zombies must be close to the highest of the checklist.
Zombie Army 4: Dead War has just a few selections for gamers eager to tackle zombies collectively. Options embody a co-op mode, wherein as much as 4 gamers can tackle your entire marketing campaign or a horde mode, with gamers taking up relentless waves of the undead.
Plenty of gore and sniping of undead Nazi inside organs are the order of the day right here. Though that’s pretty gross and unusually satisfying when you’re alone, having pals alongside to benefit from the campy, B-movie fashion enjoyable is even higher. Naturally, this title additionally seems on our Best Xbox One zombie video games checklist too!
2. Back 4 Blood (2021)
A non secular sequel to Xbox 360 classics Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, the co-op primarily based Back 4 Blood was massively anticipated and lengthy overdue.
Just just like the Left 4 Dead video games (additionally by Turtle Rock Studios), Back 4 Blood pits groups of as much as 4 gamers towards overwhelming waves of zombies.
Again, similar to Left 4 Dead, there are particular, terrifyingly highly effective forms of zombie that you simply’ll encounter too, which have distinctive particular talents.
Back 4 Blood isn’t only a Left 4 Dead best hits package deal although – it brings loads of new concepts to the desk. One of its largest new options is the card-based perk system, permitting you to construct a deck of energy ups and particular talents.
In phrases of multiplayer, Back 4 Blood is constructed across the co-operative marketing campaign.
there’s additionally a ‘Swarm’ mode, which sees gamers teaming up as people to defeat player-controlled zombies, earlier than switching sides and enjoying because the zombies themselves!
1. Dead by Daylight (2016)
The best choice for our greatest Xbox multiplayer horror video games checklist is Dead by Daylight, which began life as a fairly fundamental asymmetrical sport alongside related strains to Friday the thirteenth: The Game.
However, within the years since launch, it’s been supported by an awesome quantity of additional content material, together with an astonishing variety of new killers to obtain – with so most of the highest villains in horror film (and online game) historical past represented.
There’s even Silent Hill and Resident Evil packs alongside Leatherface, Freddie Krueger, Halloween, Saw and even authentic creations. Along with these, there are various different DLC packs to maintain the sport recent and thrilling – Dead by Daylight actually does have an terrible lot content material to maintain gamers engaged.
Somewhat oddly – given the existence of the aforementioned Evil Dead: The Game – there’s even an Ash vs Evil Dead DLC pack!
Despite the choice to populate the sport with such all kinds of characters and backdrops, the motion in Dead by Daylight is easy, simple and compelling: 4 gamers – as survivors – want to energy up various turbines and escape the clutches of a lethal killer.
The killer – this being an asymmetrical multiplayer sport – is in fact one other participant, with their activity being to search out and kidnap the survivors.
Activating turbines with much less gamers accessible to take action turns into an extremely tough activity with the killer on the market and in pursuit; the agonising selection is whether or not or to not danger rescuing your staff mates or proceed attempting to flee. It’s an excellent, tense and really scary sport of cat and mouse.
Without a doubt, Dead by Daylight is the most effective multiplayer horror sport for Xbox One – and top-of-the-line multiplayer video games on Xbox general.
Jason – who lives within the UK – has had a lifelong curiosity in video video games, which all began when he found Space Invaders within the early 80s. The first sport he ever accomplished was Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the Sega Master System – which stays one among his proudest gaming achievements. Jason is a passionate author – and has been writing about gaming because the late 90s. He at the moment runs popular culture weblog midlifegamergeek.com, which he updates every day (and has written greater than 700 articles on the weblog alone!).
Outside of video video games, Jason is a eager tabletop gamer, movie buff and comedian guide fan.
