Dear Passengers Is a Co-op Airline Chaos Game Gunning for Friendslop Glory

Dear Passengers is an upcoming co-op game where players crew the world's worst airline — one passenger short of a disaster, one escaped crocodile away from total chaos. Ukrainian studio FLEXUS announced it today with a trailer that's already generating buzz.

One player pilots the plane while the rest manage the cabin: serving meals, ejecting unruly passengers through the hatch, surviving bird strikes that blow out engines, and wrangling wildlife that escapes from cargo crates. The Steam page describes it bluntly — your plane is falling apart, your cargo is illegal, and passenger safety barely makes the list. The game uses proximity chat and ragdoll physics, two features that have become near-mandatory for the friendslop genre. FLEXUS is targeting a PC release later this year, with no specific date announced yet.

FLEXUS is a mobile-first studio based in Ukraine with no prior PC releases on Steam, but it's not exactly a newcomer — its idle mobile games have reportedly racked up hundreds of millions of downloads. Co-founder Semyon Kozyura told Pocket Gamer last year that feelings matter more than metrics when building games, which is either a reassuring sign of creative intent or a very good PR line. The friendslop wave — co-op chaos games built for streaming and group play, typified by R.E.P.O. and Peak — shows no signs of dying down in 2025. RV There Yet? just hit consoles last month, and Meccha Chameleon is still climbing Steam charts while spawning knock-off modes across Roblox and Fortnite.

Whether Dear Passengers can convert trailer hype into actual staying power remains to be seen. The Steam page carries no generative AI disclaimer, which at least suggests this isn't a quick asset flip riding genre trends — but the real test comes at launch.