{"id":1930027,"date":"2026-05-11T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1930027"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:18:26","slug":"gamble-with-your-friends-dev-celebrates-1-million-sales-says-friendslop-is-no-longer-a-derogatory-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1930027","title":{"rendered":"Gamble With Your Friends Dev Celebrates 1 Million Sales, Says ‘Friendslop’ Is No Longer a Derogatory Term"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Self-described ‘friendslop’ game Gamble With Your Friends has reached 1 million copies sold just one week after its launch on PC.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Sweden-based team at Tenstack announced the sales update on its post-launch journey with a message published on its Steam page<\/u><\/a>. It confirmed that the casino-themed party game managed to cross 1 million copies after previously rocketing past 700,000 copies sold<\/u><\/a> after just five days.<\/p>\n

“We’re soooo happy and speechless by the positive reception our game has gotten so far,” Gamble With Your Friends developer SkyBrave said in the post, “and we would like to celebrate the fact that more than 1 million gamblers have entered Jeff Booth’s Paradise since last Friday with you all!!! We’re aware of the bugs you’ve been reporting, and the team is hard at work addressing them as soon as possible!”<\/p>\n

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Gamble with Your Friends sold 1 MILLION COPIES in its first week!!! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! ALL IN!!!#indiegame<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/3HMuuOUBqg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 TENSTACK (@tenstackstudios) May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gamble With Your Friends launched for PC May 1, 2026, as an online co-op game “casino crawler” priced $7.99. Don’t worry, there isn’t any real-money gambling in-game, as Tenstack says it doesn’t condone gambling on its Steam page. Instead, 1\u20136 players share a gamified bank account as they attempt to dig themselves out of an early grave by gambling to pay back a vicious loan shark.<\/p>\n

Each day gives players the opportunity to earn additional currency, which can then be used to purchase cosmetics and even items, like a gun to blow away some of your friends’ most valuable body parts, or a time machine to undo some risky bets. It’s all part of a formula that seems to have paid off for Tenstack after it entered itself into a market packed with other bite-sized co-op experiences.<\/p>\n

Many have spent the last year or so putting these games in a category not-so-lovingly called “friendslop.” The term, which has more recently been embraced by its community of developers, gained traction after the launch of developer Zeekerss’ post-lockdown hit, Lethal Company<\/a>, in 2023 and picked up steam as titles like Peak<\/a>, R.E.P.O.<\/a>, We Gotta Go<\/a>, and Yapyap<\/a> emerged.<\/p>\n