Before you come at me, let me just say I love every game on this list and “friendslop” here is no insult. Instead, I’m using it affectionately. It’s an increasingly useful tongue-in-cheek term to describe a particular genreless genre: games you can pick up on the cheap, jump into without much preamble or complex tutorials, and really get bang for your buck when playing with friends near and far. These games are often only as difficult as you make them, rewarding competent teamwork and often featuring some form of janky hilarity as part of the package. Top-tier party games for the budgetarily-limited.
When you’re looking for the best friendslop games you don’t have to dig too deep. A lot of these games have been featured prominently on streaming sites and are favourites of YouTubers and Twitch gamers alike. They all share a quirkiness and an ease of access (both financially and skills-wise) that mean they’re a joy for pretty much anyone who gives them a go. If you’re playing with a smaller group, be sure to check out the best two-player co-op games list for more ideas, too.
R.E.P.O.
REPO is funny and dumb on the surface but as anyone who’s played it will know, it gets terrifying pretty quickly. Despite the cute little bug-eyed characters, and the fact that REPO is one of the funniest co-op games, some of the unexplainable threats lurking in haunted artifacts or around dark corners will make you jump out of your skin. The real skill is keeping focused on your task when something grim is in your peripheral vision.
Tasked with carefully transporting valuable objects in teams, the group has to work together to shoulder some increasingly cumbersome burdens in some very dark places. It’s a primarily physics-based game so takes very little learning, but might take hours of practice to truly finesse. There’s also semi-regular updates so there’s usually something new to try if you’ve not been online in a short while.
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Content Warning
Film your friends doing spooky things to become famous on the internet, what could possibly go wrong? Well, Content Warning has plenty of answers to that question, and once again gets surprisingly dark at times. You’re trying to go viral, so the more scares the better, but how close can you get to the line between terrifying and mortally dangerous is up to you and your friends to figure out.
Content Warning indulges that part of us that want to do deeply stupid things and get away with it, encouraging you to take horrendous risks and put your life on the line for mere entertainment. It’s fun in groups of any size up to 4 players, and doesn’t require too much in the way of tutorials–you can just get stuck straight in and fend for yourselves. If you’d rather know what you’re getting yourself into, check out our full guide to all monsters in Content Warning.
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Escape The Backrooms
The Backrooms are kind of terrifying in themselves, especially for those of us unnerved by liminal spaces, but getting the chance to look around them doesn’t do much to calm the nerves. Having your pals with you might soften the fear a little, but you never know what might be waiting for you around the corner. You’ll have to keep it quiet though, in case you alert something that shouldn’t be in there either.
Your task is to team up and explore more than 30 levels of eerie and otherworldly liminal spaces, while sticking together and staying in one piece. Eventually, you’ll find a way out, but it’s no easy feat when every member of the team has to make it for the win to count.
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PEAK
PEAK is, as the name suggests, pretty peak. Friendslop in the sense that it’s chaotic physics-based fun for any group of friends to pile into, but also one of the best PC co-op games around.
It’s a co-op climbing game where your life–and that of your round-headed companions–hangs quite literally in the balance. A careless slip could send the lot of you falling off a steep cliff to your deaths, while careful footing and a solid gameplan might see you make it to the very top. That being said, failures tend to be the funniest part.
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We Gotta Go
One of the hardest friendslop games to convince people to play due to its absolutely unhinged concept, We Gotta Go is definitely worthy of your time, so hear me out. You and your friends are racing through a haunted mansion–not just because you’re scared, but because you really, really need a poo. It’s some scary shit.
There are plenty of obstacles blocking your way, from vengeful ghosts to hallways designed to confuse you, with a few helpful items scattered around. You have to manage your bowels effectively, making healthy food choices and farting out any extra gas, making sure you don’t give in to the full movement. It’s real toilet humor but easy to get stuck into and endlessly funny with the right crowd.
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RV There Yet?
RV There Yet was a bit of a smash hit when it launched back in 2025, and has continued to capture the hearts and wanderlust of would-be adventurers with its combo of easy-to-learn gameplay and hard-to-master physics-based tomfoolery. Using any means necessary, you and your friends have to get your RV home after a camping holiday, despite some seriously dangerous terrain, wildlife, and potential allergic reactions.
You’ll each need to take a role, as someone has to drive the RV, someone has to operate the winch, you’ll need people to plot routes and push/pull the vehicle when it gets stuck… it’s really just about finding your personal skills to get out of the rocky region in one piece.
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Pratfall
If your dog goes missing in a dark cave system, obviously you’d throw yourself down there right after him, right? Pratfall sends you and your buddies on a co-op rescue mission into the depths of an uncharted cave system full of traps and unexpected hazards. You’ll get around by digging, falling, and exploding things in your way, walking the thin line between cave diving and falling to your death.
Every run is a little different, but the caves are scattered with items to make things a bit easier, like food and supplies. You can interact with pretty much all the terrain, blasting your way to new tunnels and digging with your pickaxe. There’s also ziplines and mysterious magic beans to play with. Just don’t forget to rescue your dog amidst all the chaos.
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YAPYAP
YAPYAP is a great co-op horror game that puts you and up to five pals in the robes of some magical minions doing the bidding of their wizard master. These bug-eyed little guys are doing their best to break into the wizard’s opponent’s tower using an assortment of spells to damage property and protect themselves from defensive monsters.
You can do pretty much anything you like to ruin the Archmage’s abode–from blocking his toilet to peeing on his rug–so try and create as much havoc as you can. Spells are cast using voice commands, so somehow you’ll have to control your laughter enough to enunciate properly.
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Super Battle Golf
Within two days of launch, Super Battle Golf had already sold more than 100,000 copies on Steam, so chances are your friends already have this one waiting in their libraries. It gets fairly regular updates that keep it fresh, supports up to eight players, and takes very little time to learn, so it’s perfect to keep for days when you want to get the whole squad together.
The twist in Super Battle Golf is that you’re all swinging at the same time. It’s absolute chaos, whether or not you try to coordinate your efforts. It also means you can pretty effectively sabotage the swings of those around you, if you time your shot just right.
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Among Us
Of course, the classic friendslop-before-friendslop-was-a-thing party game Among Us deserves a spot on this list for keeping us all alive during a pandemic and continuing to infiltrate pop culture to this day. It’s a fairly flawless example of the genre–a small, compact game with simple rules that supports several players at once and never gets old. Fixing (or sabotaging) equipment across the ship, and guessing which of your crewmates is the imposter still feels fresh after years, and the gameplay loop makes it friendly for almost all ages and abilities.
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Shift at Midnight
One of the most-wishlisted friendslop games for a long while has finally arrived and it’s as weird and wonderful as you’d guess by looking at it. In Shift at Midnight, you and two friends work overnights at a gas station convenience store, stocking shelves, pumping gas, and checking IDs. But you’re not trying to catch underage kids buying booze; you’re looking for monstrous doppelgangers.
You’ll need to study each customer’s ID carefully and pay close attention to the answers they give you when you grill them on things like their job, date of birth, and other details on their IDs. If they seem to be lying, they may be a doppelganger, and it’s your duty not to let them leave the store by shooting them on sight. If you screw up, your shift will end with an invasion by The Entity, a huge monster that hunts you down until one of you has killed the other. Talk about a livable wage!
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Storebound
Storebound is another three-player friendslop game, but this time, you play as customers trapped in a furniture store seemingly inspired by IKEA, except instead of Swedish meatballs, there are monsters roaming the showfloors. Well, to be fair, there are also Swedish meatballs. The characters look like Muppets, and the game’s radio system, where you sometimes need to turn yours off so your friends’ yapping doesn’t alert the creatures, is a clever wrinkle on the genre’s proximity-chat focus.
On vibes alone, Storebound is probably my favorite of them all. It’s got an awesome 1990s liminal-space audiovisual quality to it that’s highly reminiscent of both A24’s Backrooms movie, which I love, and my Instagram feed, which I’ve carefully trained to spam me with this type of stuff. If that’s your vibe, add Storebound to your shopping list.
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Happy’s Humble Burger Cult
Happy’s Humble Burger Cult (formerly “Burgatory”), or simply “Happy Burger,” if you’re my horror-obsessed daughter, is one of the more complicated games on this list. Gameplay-wise, it’s a bit like first-person Overcooked with PS1 visuals and a really grimy atmosphere. It’s almost sickening working in this haunted burger joint with three pals, trying to stay ahead of the busy workday so that you don’t summon devilish creatures that chase you around the kitchen if you’re too slow to get customers their orders.
Prepping meals took me more than just the tutorial to get the hang of it, because the menu runs quite deep and burgers are especially complicated, demanding you provide the right ingredients even when they’re loaded up with toppings and time is limited. It’s a steeper learning curve than most games like it early on, but if you and your group can work well together, you’ll be taking command of the kitchen faster than you can say, “Thank you, chef.”
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