Videogames are a great way to do stuff with your friends. In Golf With Your Friends, you could golf with your friends without going through the trouble of actually golfing with your friends.
Now, you can gamble with your friends (without having to actually gamble with your friends) thanks to one game: Gamble With Your Friends. Are you still with me? Anyway, gambling always pays, so it tracks that the game sold a million copies in a week.
It’s all about frantic co-op buffoonery and proximity voice chat, and features delightfully goofy player avatars, so I’m comfortable categorizing this is as part of the “friendslop” trend established by games like Peak, Lethal Company, and REPO. These games took 2025 by storm and they’re showing no signs of slowing down.
It’s hard to say how long they will dominate the sales charts or what’s caused their sudden surge in popularity, but it probably helps that these games run on archaic hardware and tend to come cheap. Gamble With Your Friends, for example, is just eight dollars—and as Peak creator Nick Kaman established earlier this year in a mind-blowing demonstration of economic insight, eight bucks is basically five bucks.
