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Project Unknown

2025

Should you play it?

An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics. Exorcise ghosts using your special abilities and tools while surviving the supernatural onslaught

What works

  • Unique character abilities and skill trees
  • Strong cooperative gameplay
  • Immersive and suspenseful horror atmosphere
  • Active and responsive developers
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited maps and content in early access
  • Some bugs and glitches reported
  • Repetitive tasks can reduce long-term engagement
  • Small player base affecting matchmaking
  • Occasional balancing issues with difficulty and abilities

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Demonologist

  • Malum

  • Phasmophobia

  • Lethal Company

  • Spectral Scream

  • Ghost Exile

Less expressive

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

  • Paranoia Place: Escape Together

  • The Escape: Together

  • Bureau of Contacts

  • The Devourer: Hunted Souls

  • Remnant Records

  • Ghost Exorcism INC.

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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 Project Unknown. These titles are not in What to play next.

Project Unknown: 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 Thrill, Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026