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PANICORE

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.

What works

  • Fun and tense cooperative gameplay
  • Innovative proximity voice chat mechanic
  • Good value for price
  • Strong social and community experience
  • Atmospheric maps and sound design

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited number of maps and monsters
  • Some bugs and ai inconsistencies
  • Voice chat issues reported
  • Repetitive gameplay after extended play
  • Large maps can be confusing or tedious

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Occult

  • Spectral Scream

  • Ghost Janitors

  • Lethal Company

  • Malum

  • KLETKA

Less expressive

Games that feels like PANICORE but with less self-expression and customization

  • Emissary Zero

  • USAC: Code Breach

  • Backrooms: Escape Together

  • Paranoia Place: Escape Together

  • Granny: Escape Together

  • Obscure

More competitive

Games that feels like PANICORE but with more competition against others

  • Deceit

  • Contagion

  • In Silence

  • Zombie Panic! Source

  • Blood Typers

  • The Outlast Trials

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with PANICORE. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with PANICORE. These titles are not in What to play next.

PANICORE: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026