A new ‘friendslop’ game called Dear Passengers is doing the rounds at the moment. Revealed on July 14th, it quickly blew up, gaining social media traction. The game has already racked up around 2,000 wishlists on Steam according to SteamDB as result of its virality. Dear Passengers also appears in Steam’s popular search suggestions, a strong signal for a game that isn’t even out yet.
What is Dear Passengers?
The game comes from indie developer and publisher FLEXUS. You and your friends play as the crew of the world’s worst airline, Budget Premium. Your job is to get passengers and cargo to their destination in one piece. Preferably. One player pilots the plane while the others manage the cabin, serve passengers, deal with emergencies and generally try to stop one small disaster from cascading into something much worse.
The chaos comes from a physics-based cabin system where turbulence throws passengers, luggage and cargo around. Dynamic weather can turn a routine flight into a disaster mid-air. Before each flight you choose which passengers and cargo to take on, with bigger payouts coming from riskier loads. Some cargo is hard to handle; some passengers are hard to please; some flights go wrong before you leave the ground. You’ll have the cabin breaking apart and in need of repair, wings to manually de-ice, and other chaos.
Much of the early attention came from indie games personality Joe, who shared a clip of it online. He hosts the Insider Gaming Indie Showcase and previously worked on Hypercharge, so he is very much in the orbit of spotting indie darlings early. It has since done 7 million views on X, which is rather big. What more could indie devs want?
It fits neatly into the current wave of co-op chaos games designed to generate funny moments and clips, sitting alongside R.E.P.O., Peak, YAPYAP and RV There Yet as games built around the comedy of things going catastrophically wrong with your friends. Most of those have sold multi-millions of copies this year alone. Dear Passengers has no confirmed release date beyond a 2026 window, but it’s worth keeping on your radar. It’s probably cheaper than a pint in your local city, so it might be a decent shout for a boys’ night in one weekend.
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