Proximity chat. Ragdoll physics. And unruly passengers intent on ruining the flight for everyone else. Dear Passengers is an upcoming co-op adventure game in which you try to get passengers and cargo to their destinations in one piece, even if, say, a flock of birds engulfs your airliner and blows up one of the engines. The game is already pitching itself as a potential 2026 “friendslop” sensation, and the announcement trailer today is definitely getting people buzzing.
“Play in co-op as the crew of the world’s worst airline,” reads the Steam description. “Your plane is falling apart, your cargo is illegal, and passenger safety barely makes the list.” One player pilots the plane while the others take care of the cabin. That means feeding passengers meals, throwing the uncooperative ones out the hatch, and dealing with other hazards like bad weather, unexpected turbulence, and crocodiles escaping their shipping crates in the cargo hold.
Chaotic physics-based airline crew co-op game ‘Dear Passengers’ has been announced.
Launching in 2026 for PC
Steam page: https://t.co/Wd9Hb71clE pic.twitter.com/GlDhMAK3a5
— Next Indie (@nexindie) July 14, 2026
Dear Passengers is supposedly shipping on PC later this year and it’s being developed by FLEXUS. I had never heard of the studio before and it has no prior projects listed on Steam, but it turns out to be a mobile game maker based in Ukraine. The team has already launched idle games for smartphone that have reportedly been downloaded hundreds of millions of times, but Dear Passengers is the group’s first PC release.
The good news is that there is no generative AI disclaimer on the Steam page, so hopefully that means this is a legit game and not just some low-effort asset flip aimed at cashing in on algorithm-friendly genre hooks and game mechanics. “Sometimes feelings matter more than metrics,” co-founder Semyon Kozyura told Pocket Gamer last year when describing the team’s existing hit, Train Minder.
Despite “friendslop” being 2025’s gaming buzzword, the emerging category of multiplayer Steam games exemplified by the likes of R.E.P.O. and Peak hasn’t yet subsided. RV There Yet? came to console just last month, and the prop hunt–like Meccha Chameleon continues to blow up on Steam, not to mention giving rise to tons of popular knock-off modes across Roblox and Fortnite.
Dear Passengers might be the next big thing in friendslop, or it might just be benefitting from a perfectly cut game trailer. We’ll see if it can live up to the initial intrigue once it arrives.
