Flood With Friends Review

Nail a Raft Together Before the Water Gets You

Flood With Friends drops up to eight players on a shrinking island with a nail gun, a scattered pile of junk, and no instructions. Chop trees, blow up rocks, and drag back planks, barrels, doors, bathtubs and the occasional piano, then weld it all into a single rigid hull using a straightforward pick-up-aim-nail loop. Welded pieces fuse into one physics object, so how a raft lists, rolls, and rights itself in the water depends entirely on what got bolted where, and a badly balanced pile of junk can capsize just as easily as a sleek, deliberate build. Once the flood arrives, the island goes under and whatever survives the nailing session is the only thing standing between the crew and the sea, while fish caught along the way double as weapons, a grappling hook here, a leaf blower or electric eel there, for fending off whatever the ocean throws back. Between runs, a home island lets players spend earnings on oars, boat gadgets, and buffs, save a favorite raft design as a shareable blueprint, and pick from eighteen playable characters that range from a shark to a sentient hot dog. Developed and published solo by Oh Baby Games, Flood With Friends launched on Steam on September 7, 2026, priced at $4.99 with drop-in co-op for one to eight players via invite, join code, or a public lobby browser, alongside a single-player mode for anyone building alone.

A Small, Unanimously Positive Launch

Flood With Friends has picked up nine reviews so far, all nine positive, giving it a clean 100% approval rating even before Steam's larger review-count tiers kick in. It's a modest sample for a $4.99 indie co-op game barely a couple of weeks old, but the reviews that do exist are consistent in what they praise, and the launch itself looks clean: a "Patch 1.0C" update arrived within days adding a requested free-aim building mode, suggesting Oh Baby Games is actively listening and iterating rather than walking away from a finished 1.0.

The Chaos of Building With (and Against) Your Friends

Every substantive review lands on the same core appeal: the shared act of building a raft is funnier and more compelling than the survival pressure around it. One reviewer calls the loop of "building bigger and bigger boats" genuinely "addictive," describing the thrill of seeing how far a design can be pushed before it falls apart, and credits playing with friends for turning that experimentation into real laughter rather than quiet tinkering. Another reviewer describes a specific, vivid session where teammates started stealing pieces mid-build and nailing them onto a raft at random, turning a tidy plan into "a pile of accumulated junk" that the reviewer ended up loving precisely because it somehow withstood every attack anyway, singling out being able to fish a drowning teammate back aboard with a rescue rod as a standout moment. A shorter review sums up the appeal even more bluntly: "Building anything that floats while the game tries to sink you is beautiful chaos." Reviewers also flag the character roster and the option to build solo or with friends as real value adds rather than afterthoughts, one calling the eighteen characters "cool and funny" and appreciating that a creative mode exists alongside the core survival loop for players who just want to build without a flood bearing down on them.

A Thin Feature Set and a Missing Save Button

The praise is consistent, but a couple of reviewers flag real gaps even inside their own positive write-ups. One reviewer states plainly that they enjoy the game but "can't figure out how to save it," calling the absence of an obvious save option "a huge downside," a legitimate complaint for a game that otherwise encourages players to spend real time refining and preserving a favorite raft design as a blueprint. Beyond that specific gap, the review pool is small enough, and skews short enough, that broader structural questions go largely unaddressed: how much variety exists in island layouts and flood events across repeated runs, whether the eight-player ceiling holds up mechanically given the developer's own recommended "sweet spot" of two to four players, and how the game holds together once the initial novelty of "beautiful chaos" wears thin are all things this launch-week pool of reviews simply hasn't had time to test. The developer's own system requirements note that whoever hosts a full eight-player lobby needs a considerably stronger CPU than the minimum spec, a detail worth flagging for anyone planning to gather the full crew rather than the sweet-spot four.

Verdict

Flood With Friends is a small, confident co-op physics game that understands exactly what it's selling: the specific joy of building something ugly and functional out of junk with friends while the ocean actively tries to undo your work. Every review currently on record backs that pitch up, praising the addictive build-bigger-and-bigger loop, the chaos of collaborative (and occasionally sabotaged) raft construction, and a character roster that leans into the game's goofy tone. At $4.99, with drop-in co-op for up to eight and a single-player mode for solo builders, it's a low-risk pickup for a couch- or Discord-call crew looking for a physics sandbox with real stakes attached. The catches are minor but real: a save system that at least one player couldn't find, and a review pool still too small and too fresh to say how the loop holds up over dozens of hours rather than one chaotic evening. Buy it for game night, not for a guaranteed hundred-hour sink.