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Games like Species: Unknown
WanadevStudio · 2025 · Windows
Steam: 94 % positive of 11,578 reviews, as of Oct 18
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
24 games that play like Species: Unknown and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Lethal Company, Dead by Daylight and GTFO.
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Plays and looks like Species: Unknown
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Species: Unknown
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Lethal Company
97 % positive of 487,160
Dead by Daylight
79 % positive of 797,216
GTFO
84 % positive of 62,097
Unfortunate Spacemen
86 % positive of 7,494
Escape the Backrooms
91 % positive of 102,529
Zort
92 % positive of 7,828
SCP: Secret Laboratory
91 % positive of 214,309
EXOME
79 % positive of 277
Killing Floor
94 % positive of 67,472
Nuclear Nightmare
82 % positive of 11,504
PANICORE
80 % positive of 10,547
BIGFOOT
82 % positive of 20,866
More matches
- Unsafe Express57 % positive of 281
- The Outlast Trials93 % positive of 66,956
- Dark Hours84 % positive of 2,477
- DESOLATE66 % positive of 7,881
- Deceit79 % positive of 93,027
- Forsake: Urban horror80 % positive of 215
- Nemesis: Distress53 % positive of 334
- Backrooms: Escape Together87 % positive of 22,769
- Dread Hunger60 % positive of 46,185
- DEATH IN UNISON96 % positive of 498
- MIMESIS84 % positive of 10,586
- Ghost Exile87 % positive of 3,870
By look
Looks like Species: Unknown
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
GTFO
84 % positive of 62,097
System Shock
91 % positive of 10,729
Marathon
76 % positive of 64,764
Dead Space
90 % positive of 51,259
Splitgate
91 % positive of 111,740
PRAGMATA
96 % positive of 54,724
The Entropy Centre
90 % positive of 3,679
Jump Space
85 % positive of 13,369
Deadzone: Rogue
82 % positive of 4,204
Severed Steel
95 % positive of 7,113
Prodeus
92 % positive of 7,556
SPRAWL
87 % positive of 2,059
More matches
- Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition68 % positive of 2,392
- Viscera Cleanup Detail92 % positive of 22,290
- Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon87 % positive of 17,734
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker89 % positive of 20,422
- Trepang293 % positive of 13,976
- The Persistence68 % positive of 160
- Selaco91 % positive of 4,436
- Turbo Overkill94 % positive of 6,486
- Crysis 3 Remastered88 % positive of 5,793
- The Ascent73 % positive of 22,884
- Breathedge82 % positive of 15,320
- Together: Moon Escape90 % positive of 1,018
At a glance
What games like Species: Unknown have in common
- They came out between 2009 and 2025, none of them after Species: Unknown (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Lethal Company (97 % positive of 487,160).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.