Upcoming friendslop games on Steam

Twenty-one unreleased co-op games in the Lethal Company lineage, with the release window quoted exactly as Steam prints it, whether a demo exists today, and how many people fit in a lobby. Nothing here is a rumour and nothing here is a guess.

Last checked: 24 September 2026

The list

Ordered by how soon each game claims to arrive. The window column is Steam's own Release Date string, reproduced literally — "Coming soon", "2026" and "To be announced" are three different levels of commitment and we are not going to blur them together. Where a store page never states a lobby size, the cell says so.

Scroll sideways on a phone. One thing worth noticing across the whole table: not a single coming-soon page in this set displays a price. That is normal, and it means every "$9.99 leak" you have read about any of these games was somebody's guess.

Demos you can play right now

Free, downloadable today, no key required. A demo is the only thing on a coming-soon page that cannot be faked — Valve needs a working build to host one — so these six are the games on this list with the most proof behind them.

Announced but not yet out: Kitman's demo was set for 8 October 2026, and We Are So Cooked has promised one for the October Steam Next Fest, which runs 19 to 26 October 2026. Neither was live when this page was checked.

What slipped

This is the first edition of this page, so there is no previous edition to compare against. In its place, here is what the Internet Archive says these store pages used to display. Every before-and-after below was fetched from a dated capture rather than taken from anyone's memory.

We Are So Cooked — out of 2026 entirely, two days ago

• 7 January 2026 capture: To be announced
• 20 July 2026 capture: 15 Oct, 2026
• 19 September 2026 capture: 15 Oct, 2026
• Today: Q1 2027

The developers posted "We Are So Cooked Is Taking a Little Longer" on 22 September 2026: the game "will now launch in 2027", with more maps at launch instead of after it. Three weeks' notice on a dated release is on the honest end of how this usually goes.

Backrooms Protocol — two missed dates, and the current one expires this month

• 22 August 2026 capture: 28 Aug, 2026
• 8 September 2026 capture: Aug 28, 2026
• Today: September 2026, unreleased, with six days left in the month

The reason is unusually well documented, because the developer kept posting. On 28 August: delayed two weeks, new date 11 September. On 8 September: the build is with Steam for review. On 9 September: "I'm getting a little worried because if they don't approve the build within the next 2 days, I won't be able to release the game on time." On 11 September, a post titled "Sorry": "the build has not been approved yet... I'm really sorry, especially after the previous delay." Worth reading if you have ever wondered what actually goes wrong at the end.

Drive With Friends — a whole quarter missed in silence

• 4 February 2026 capture: Q2 2026
• 15 April 2026 capture: Q2 2026
• Today: Oct 30, 2026

Q2 2026 ended on 30 June and the game did not appear. There is no announcement about it, because this developer has never posted an announcement at all — while running a public demo since February. A playable demo and no communication is an unusual combination, and it makes the 30 October date the least supported one in the table above.

Cleaner Company — a quarter that became a year

• 12 May 2025 capture: Q3 2025
• 14 November 2025 capture: Q3 2025
• 17 September 2026 capture: 2026
• Today: 2026

Q3 2025 came and went, and the window then widened back out to a bare year. In mitigation, this is one of the more visibly active teams on the list — the demo went up on 14 September 2026 and was patched repeatedly in the days after. Slipping while shipping is a different condition from slipping while silent.

Golf With Your Friends 2 — a year turned back into nothing

• 8 January 2025 capture: 2025
• Today: Coming soon

A window going from a year to "Coming soon" is a de-commitment rather than a refinement, and it is the pattern most worth watching for. Nobody announces it. The field just gets vaguer.

Announced, then quiet

Not a prediction of failure — small teams go heads-down, and posting is not developing. But if you are deciding what to wishlist, the date of the last update is a fact you are entitled to.

We have put ourselves in that table because the rule has to apply to us as well. Worst Lifeguards has a Steam page, no demo, no date and no announcements on it. If that bothers you about the other rows, it should bother you about ours.

Already out — do not let anyone sell you these as upcoming

A recurring failure of lists like this one is carrying released games forever. These have shipped, and the three 2026 releases at the top are the most useful comparison points if you want to know what this genre actually costs.

Note the two near-identical names: Friend Slop (AppID 4963130) came out in August 2026 for $2.99, while Friendslop (AppID 5019410) is still unreleased. They are different games by different people.

Also searched and not found on Steam at all, despite appearing on other lists: Cheese Grater Simulator, Bou's Revenge, Bootleg Rooms, Whack-a-Human, Peak Vertical, Death Trip.

How to check this yourself

Nothing here needs a subscription or a scraper. Open store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids= followed by the AppID. The release_date object gives you the exact window and whether it is still coming soon, the demos array tells you whether a demo exists, price_overview is absent until a price is set, and categories tells you what the game actually supports. For the history of a window, put the store URL into web.archive.org and read the Release Date field out of an old capture. That is the entire method behind this page.

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