# Dear Passengers

> **TL;DR.** Dear Passengers is a co-op PC game where a small crew runs the world's worst airline: one player pilots while the rest handle cabin duties, unruly passengers, illegal cargo, and physics-driven emergencies mid-flight.

- **Category:** Gaming / Indie / Co-op Simulation
- **Stage:** emergent
- **Age:** 13 days
- **Origin date:** 2026-07-14
- **First detected:** 2026-07-20
- **Canonical URL:** https://earlyterms.com/term/dear-passengers
- **Sources:** 7 primary URLs

## Definition

Dear Passengers is a co-op PC game where a small crew runs the world's worst airline: one player pilots while the rest handle cabin duties, unruly passengers, illegal cargo, and physics-driven emergencies mid-flight. It belongs to the "friendslop" genre — cheap, chaotic, proximity-chat games built for friend groups to play and clip together.

Kyiv studio [FLEXUS](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4534960/Dear_Passengers/) — previously a mobile-only developer behind Train Miner — announced Dear Passengers on July 14, 2026 as its debut premium PC title. The Steam page logged 500,000 wishlists within hours and 1 million within two days, entering Steam's top 25 most-wishlisted games with zero paid marketing spend.

## Example

FLEXUS, a Kyiv mobile studio with 300M+ downloads across titles like Train Miner, is making Dear Passengers its debut premium PC release: one pilot, several cabin crew, ragdoll physics, dynamic weather, and a trailer built to go viral rather than demo mechanics.

## Analogy

It's Lethal Company's chaos-management loop, but the horror monster is a Boeing-grade budget airline and your co-pilot.

## Why it's emerging now

FLEXUS's July 14 reveal trailer turned an unknown Kyiv mobile studio's first PC game into a friendslop phenomenon — 500K Steam wishlists in hours, 1M in two days, top-25 most-wishlisted — then drew backlash over a trailer joke widely read as an Epstein reference.

## Related terms

- *parent:* friendslop
- *competitor:* Peak
- *competitor:* Lethal Company
- *competitor:* R.E.P.O.
- *related:* FLEXUS
- *related:* proximity chat games
- *related:* Steam wishlist
- *related:* co-op physics games

## Sources

1. [Dear Passengers — Steam store page](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4534960/Dear_Passengers/)
2. [FLEXUS official announcement trailer (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEsuA_rqTxk)
3. [dev.ua: 500,000 wishlists per day for Dear Passengers](https://dev.ua/en/news/dear-passengers-1784100084)
4. [dev.ua: Dear Passengers enters Steam's top 25 most-wishlisted](https://dev.ua/en/news/1-billion-dear-passengers-1784294360)
5. [Kotaku: Dear Passengers wants to be your next viral friendslop obsession](https://kotaku.com/dear-passengers-is-peak-on-an-airplane-and-it-wants-to-be-your-next-viral-friendslop-obsession-2000715910)
6. [TheGamer: Dear Passengers faces backlash over Epstein joke](https://www.thegamer.com/dear-passengers-friendslop-backlash-epstein-jokes-generative-ai/)
7. [Tech Times: Dear Passengers logs 500K Steam wishlists in hours](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320578/20260715/ukrainian-studios-airline-co-op-dear-passengers-logs-500k-steam-wishlists-hours.htm)

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