#14
Panicore sits in a quieter part of the co-op horror spectrum. Up to five players, evasion-focused rather than investigation-focused, with a sustained tension that comes from staying undetected rather than from a sudden chase. It is a different kind of scary, more creeping dread than immediate panic, and that makes it a useful contrast pick if your LAN rotation is already heavy on loud extraction chaos. The main reason it missed the top ten is that it has not yet built the same community momentum as the genre leaders, and the technical polish is not quite there yet. Worth watching.