10 Friendslop Games Perfect for Party Night

The friendslop video game genre is often thrown around as a half-joking label for games with low stakes, simple controls and mechanics, ragdoll physics, betrayal mechanics, inside jokes, and other similar elements. Exactly what you would expect a party game to have. Having played plenty of them myself, I can tell you that they really are just as chaotic and silly as people make them out to be.

In these games, the main goal isn't so much that you win as much as it is to make your friends lose in a humiliating way. The matches here quickly turn into a shouting, taunting, and button-mashing mess that always ends in laughter and fun. And before you know it, the party night has taken off.

10 Gang Beasts

Jello-Brawling Chaos

Gang Beasts is the blueprint for the whole friendslop aesthetic. The game's premise is simple: you and your friends fight in a variety of levels, with controls that let you do all kinds of weird and fun stuff to each other, like picking someone up, headbutting, or pushing them, which will definitely bring some memorable moments for you and your gang. The goal is to throw everyone off the platform you're all on and be the last wiggly guy standing.

Local play supports up to four players sharing one screen, and online matches support up to eight players. What's great about this game (and this genre in general) is that there are no players that can dominate everyone else. Veteran gamers can easily be owned by total newbies, and this randomness is one of the main reasons why I love the game.

9 Party Animals

Puppies, physics, punches

Some have described Party Animals as 'Gang Beasts with a budget,' and I couldn't agree more. This ridiculous game lets you and your friends control wobbly animals with a ton of hilarious cosmetic choices through three modes and 23 maps. The modes are fun and diverse enough that they can keep you occupied for hours.

It qualifies as a friendslop because the appeal of the game is identical to its spiritual predecessor: nobody is trying to master the gameplay, improve their reaction or accuracy, and is instead trying to knock their friend into a fan blade. You can play it both locally (up to four players) or online (up to eight players), making it ideal for party nights. Slicker animations and tighter hit reactions make the game easier for non-gamers to adapt to.

8 Overcooked! 2

Kitchen meltdown simulator

If you and your friends enjoy cooking but don't want to take it too seriously, then you can jump into Overcooked! 2. You will run around various creatively designed kitchens, throwing groceries at each other, burning the dishes, all while yelling at each other. Well, that's what happened in my case anyway.

As in real-life restaurant kitchens, you and your team of up to four will be going against the clock and constantly incoming orders. Even though there is a versus mode, you'll spend most of your time here cooperating with your teammates and not trying to beat them, which is why the game is also considered a good couple's game.

7 Human: Fall Flat

Ragdoll Puzzle-Platforming

Have you ever heard of the puzzle game subgenre where you're fighting off weird physics while commanding wobbly characters? Neither have I, but it seems Human: Fall Flat fits perfectly in there. In the game, you and your friend need to solve puzzles in dreamlike levels involving castles, mansions, and industrial zones while at the same time struggling with controls that seem to have been intentionally created to be terrible and difficult to manage.

The game can be played with two players locally and up to eight in an online lobby, so for a party night this game would work best as a rotation game where you switch players with each new level. There is no combat (although you can push your friends into the abyss), so its light-hearted and non-violent tone makes it accessible for almost anyone.

6 The Jackbox Party Pack

Phones As Controllers in Trivia Chaos

The Jackbox Party Pack represents a marathon of different party video games that are being released every year with fresh new challenges. One of the reasons this is my go-to for plenty of parties is that the setup is insanely simple: the host starts the game on a computer or a TV, and everybody else joins via their smartphone or a tablet. No controllers, no downloads, just an internet connection and a shareable code through which the players join the lobby.

This friendslop experience puts you and your friends in a game rotation where you compete in things like drawing, trivia, or bluffing. Even though it can sound simple and calm, the potential for chaos and laughter that can ensue from it is huge. Most mini-games here are built for up to 8 players, but that can depend on the specific game chosen.

5 Among Us

Probably the most popular game in the genre, Among Us became a hit in 2020 and still has a loyal player base. Four to fifteen players cram up on a map and try to solve tasks while one to three intruders are trying to destroy those plans and kill the team.

Betrayal, treachery, suspiciousness, and backstabbing are some of the words that come to mind when I think of its gameplay, as friends will argue, yell, and accuse each other constantly over the course of the game. Actually, I'd say this might be one of the friendslop games that includes the most yelling by far.

Even though many people play the game online, you can easily pair up over a local Wi-Fi network for a party night, host on one device, and let players on different devices such as iOS, Android, tablets, or PCs connect.

4 Golf With Your Friends

Sabotage-Friendly Mini Golf

Golf With Your Friends sounds like a simple game, but it hides many modes that can turn your quiet golf experience into a loud mess thanks to the game's many mods. If you want to play a gentleman's game and politely compete versus friends on a lot of creative maps, you can certainly do that. But what's even more fun is the crazy multiplayer that comes out of the Party Mode.

As you can assume, the Party Mode is made for a party, as it introduces many power-ups that allow you to boost yourself, sabotage others, or even shapeshift your ball. All of this makes the game ridiculously fun because your friends will start griefing after one or two successful sabotages, trust me.

3 Ultimate Chicken Horse

Build-Your-Own-Betrayal Platformer

The amusingly named Ultimate Chicken Horse is one of those games where you need both silliness and skill to play. In short, it blends cooperative level creation with competitive sabotage, forcing you to balance making a level challenging enough for others while ensuring it remains passable for you. You all start each round by installing a new item on the 2D platform and then try to complete it.

Even though the game isn't pure chaos-brawler and requires some skill, it still stays hilarious as you are all jumping around the map with your horse, chicken, chameleon, and other characters, trying to be the first to complete it. On top of everything mentioned, one of the most exciting things is that you can even edit the rules of the game by adding your own, creating even more chaos.

2 Stick Fight: The Game

Ready For a Stick-Figure Deathmatch

For me, Stick Fight: The Game is so funny and amusing that I believe I'll be coming back to it for as long as I am a gamer (forever). You and your friends control stickman characters with some ragdoll mechanics and fight each other out on a variety of maps that offer different threats, weapons, and platforms. However crazy it may sound, the environmental physics in this game will make you use your skill to simultaneously try and kill opponents and prevent yourself from killing yourself. You can easily go off a cliff or blow yourself up if you're not careful and just shoot everywhere.

What makes it the perfect party game is that it doesn't even have a single-player mode. The only mode is a two-to-four player PvP deathmatch that shines especially bright in local couch multiplayer. The rounds are very short, often ending in seconds, which keeps the tension on and the atmosphere fun and comical.

1 Moving Out

Furniture-Flinging Chaos

As you probably guessed, Moving Out is a game about moving stuff out of different apartments, but what you probably didn't guess is that among those items are going to be things like a giant stuffed giraffe, live farm animals, and wandering turtles. You can test your skill and friendship here with up to four players as you navigate physics-based puzzles.

I'd say it's a great party game because levels change and always surprise you with different hazards or difficulties, always keeping you on your toes. As in every cooperative endeavor, here too, communication will be key if you want to avoid yelling at your friends for not following along with your plan as you play the same level for the fifth time.