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Friends vs Friends
Developer Brainwash Gang
Friends vs Friends is a 2023 deck-building first-person shooter video game developed by indie studio Brainwash Gang and published by Raw Fury. The game was released on Microsoft Windows on May 30, 2023, followed by PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on September 1, 2025. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
385 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
75
LovedLoved
203 positive · 66 negative
95% range 70–80%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 203 | 66 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 39 | 3 | 69 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
8,374 of 10,010 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 189 yes, 60 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 249 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (12,335 of 14,921 positive).
Players praise the game's style, soundtrack, and unique deck-building shooter mix. [1][2][3] Many note the low player count and lack of matchmaking make online play frustrating. [4][5][6] Some reviewers say the game is best enjoyed with friends due to balance and progression issues. [1][7][8]
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Representative posts
- [6]
Have you considered going free to play? Game is precious and holds a special place in my heart. Gameplay is unique and visual direction is on point. But it doesn't matter when the player count is so low that you wonder if the matchmaking was implemented in the first place. This game is 2 y/o as of writing this, but the numbers are just getting worse. It would be way easier to at least get my Friends™ to play if this …
- [1]
This game has tons of style, a killer soundtrack, and mixing a deck-builder with a fast-paced shooter leads to some chaotic fun. Giving your opponents giant heads or swapping their guns mid-fight is hilarious when it works. But the fun hits a wall pretty fast due to annoying progression grinds, balancing issues, and a sweaty player base. If you don’t have a full squad of friends to play with, the matchmaking will …
- [5]
Truly a really fun game. Easily one of my favorite party games. But there are.. some things really holding this game back from becoming an easy go to. Actually there's really one real issue... The online playerbase.... You see, due to the limited amount of players, matchmaking can be rough. Not just in wait times but skill gaps. You'll likely find the majority of your matches to be up against very experienced …
- [7]
A good game, but only if you have friends to play with. Only downside is that there is no one playing online so you can't queue into matches with randoms. Needs some balancing.
- [2]
incredibly fun shooter that scratches my brain in all the right places.. super stylized and honestly just FUN!!! i really love this game and wished it had more players,,,, if you ever wanna play hmu :3
Summarised from 34 of the 344 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Friends vs Friends sits at 75% positive across 269 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Hardcore Gamer said it is "quick to learn, quick to play" and fun. El Español praised the originality and art, but they said some cards are unbalanced. Although they enjoyed the lack of microtransactions, they said progress was a bit slow as a result.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 385 · most liked firstDale Donovan from the game Friends vs Friends studying some suspect photographs very diligently i like FvF, but online has no matchmaking so you always end up against impossibly strong opponents. it really is a game best played with just friends... 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →Detective Dale Donovan asked if I'd be up for some 1v1 matches. This new deck he's rocking seems extra effective on dumb dogs like me. No counterplay than to enjoy the ride it seems~ Another wolf husband to add to the collection 😮💨 (I should play Friends vs Friends more) 🎨 @berchbork.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →So uh that new update of friends vs friends is weird I played it with these three goobers, I totally owned them 😎 A commish for @velo245.bsky.social featuring @litespeedfox.bsky.social and Beatu! Inspired by the video game "Friends vs Friends" by Brainwash Gang #flattening #toon
positive · AI labelView post →SURPRISE! I am in Friends Vs Friends! You can play as me and I am even voiced by.....me! Have fun being friendly! The game is also SUPER on sale on steam right now for $2.50!
neutral · AI labelView post →Playing with friends is obscenely difficult for no reason. 5 friends, not 6? Can't start 3v3. Can't do FFA at all. Bought DLC? Can't use it until you play enough. Play longer. The VA is really obnoxious. To open a card pack, you have to connect to server every time. To save a deck, you have to connect to server. Their extremely unstable server. Meaning you can waste 10 minutes making a deck, then get "Can't save deck: unable to contact server." despite being in an active lobby with no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Style practice I did a while ago 🐻🤙 I really got hooked on Friends vs Friends, I really like the game #FvF #Furry #FurryArt
positive · AI labelView post →Have you considered going free to play? Game is precious and holds a special place in my heart. Gameplay is unique and visual direction is on point. But it doesn't matter when the player count is so low that you wonder if the matchmaking was implemented in the first place. This game is 2 y/o as of writing this, but the numbers are just getting worse. It would be way easier to at least get my Friends™ to play if this sweaty hellscape wasn't behind a paywall (I'd buy the cosmetics either way so…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Art dump! @antasy.bsky.social did this cute Friends vs. Friends card for me last year when I did a stream of the game. It's ALSO one of my favorite pieces just for the stylization. I feel like Brainwash Gang didn't put it in the art gallery cuz they knew the card idea was too good. 💅
positive · AI labelView post →all i do is wake up every day, boot up my pc, sit in queue in this game for hours on end and then go to bed. my days lately have been 3 hours long and nothing happens in them
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If Dangpa drawing porn of the Friends vs Friends characters gets folks to play that game again, then so be it 😤😤😤😤 (Play FvF it's cheap, fun, made by queer folks who hate cops, and full of cute furries!!!)
positive · AI labelView post →They added a raccoon named Cloud Rummage to Friends Vs Friends that's trying to scam the other playable characters out of their tokens by introducing a predatory gambling mechanic that features a ballgag motif Did they add ME to the game?
neutral · AI labelView post →TL;DR - Game is fun, but the devs have abandoned it. Even posted plushies and straight up asked for money. Also, if you wanted to unlock Laika, you can forget it. With how inanctive the game is, it's pretty much impossible. You can't even access the map required whilst on bots. Fun to play for a few minutes. Helps that I got it cheap on sale, but the match-making is pretty much dead. However, there are bots, but you get a 25% xp penalty for playing against them, which feels harsh, given that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nothing helps you wind down after a stressful game between friends than a "deep tissue massage" River is amazing at pressing all the right buttons~ Custom FvF Card Commissioned by @justsnowbird.bsky.social #FvF #FriendsVSFriends #FvFgame #FriendsVsFriendsart @rawfury.bsky.social #Floran #NSFW
neutral · AI labelView post →As much as I enjoy the game Sadly Only Die Hards Play online and so you can't really do anything but get lucky or get hammered hard by maxxed out crazy cards you don't have. The biggest problem is that you can't really get any cards yourself or level up or unlock much if you play Solo or with your friends..... So even though they have crossplay I'd say ONLY pick this up if you're going to be playing with friends and also don't care about getting to use the core aspect of cards, unlocking them,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: FVF is a fun, unique FPS with clever deckbuilding, but its empty servers and excessive grind make progression frustrating and unrewarding. It’s enjoyable with bots or friends, but lacks long-term appeal without more players. FVF is very fun, has some great humor, a very appealing artstyle, and the gameplay of "play a FPS while managing your cards" brings a nice twist to the average "shoot each other until one of you dies" pattern of FPS games. Pulling new cards, finding ways to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Skylar got a new katana and is reallllll excited to use it. Can't blame them, love me some melee in a game all about shooting >:) Skyler belong to @nightskyflyhighart.bsky.social #FvF #FriendsVSFriends #FvFgame #FriendsVsFriendsart @rawfury.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →the bundle includes 2 copies of each game: -MIMESIS -Killing Floor 3 -Streets of Rage 4 -We Were Here Forever -Vellum -Friends vs Friends Deluxe Edition -Storebound
neutral · AI labelView post →I wish folks played Friends vs Friends again... that game was genuinely fun, but now the matchmaking is pretty bad u_u
neutral · AI labelView post →The concept is really cool. Combining a shooter with a card game is a fun and unique idea, and experimenting with different cards and combinations makes the gameplay more interesting. The art style is great, and I really like the overall design and character designs. Overall, it's a fun game, especially when playing with friends. Definitely worth checking out if you're looking for something casual and enjoyable to play together.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →'Friends vs Friends' free Dead Game update now available. youtu.be/JyKzw-C9bWU
neutral · AI labelView post →This game has tons of style, a killer soundtrack, and mixing a deck-builder with a fast-paced shooter leads to some chaotic fun. Giving your opponents giant heads or swapping their guns mid-fight is hilarious when it works. But the fun hits a wall pretty fast due to annoying progression grinds, balancing issues, and a sweaty player base. If you don’t have a full squad of friends to play with, the matchmaking will probably just stress you out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Because fuck Unity's new rules and I want to support indie game devs, I'm giving away 20 copies of Friends Vs Friends on stream tomorrow! The only catch? You gotta play a few games with me! 🐂 See yall tomrrow morning at 10AM (CT)! ❤️
neutral · AI labelView post →Want to play with your friends? The literal entire reason this game was created? Well you can only do that if the group is 4 people or less, despite the game supporting 3v3 and FFA. Major disappointment. Game has been out for years and this isn't fixed yet.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Margarita Kala from Friends vs Friends (2023), has little to no Rule34; As requested by @palettethepainter.bsky.social; It's an interesting indie game so if you can, go and check it out
neutral · AI labelView post →In other news, my older child asked me to check out Friends vs. Friends, a game on Steam that I absolutely loved the premise for until after an hour of playing I realized is early 2000’s M:tG and if you’re not running Esper control you’re gonna have a REAL bad fucking time.
negative · AI labelView post →Friends Vs Friends is finally on PS5 and Xbox Series X! This means more people can play the game and hopefully make the game more popular!
neutral · AI labelView post →great but unbearable to play online because everyone is better than you
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh yeah, all the DLC for Friends vs Friends is just cosmetic battle-pass stuff. Just a bunch of extra challenges to do for a couple skins, card variants, etc. That $3 gets you the whole game but if you play a lot you can throw a few bones at the devs. Brainwash Gang are a hugely underrated studio.
positive · AI labelView post →Lucyfer's Personal Game(s) of the Year: To be eligible for most categories, game must have been first played this year OR have a large chunk of its playtime this year. Overall GOTY: Outer Wilds Best Game Direction: Hi-Fi Rush Best Narrative: Outer Wilds Best Art Direction: Friends vs Friends (1/4)
positive · AI labelView post →This game is absolutely peak... But the player count, Oh boy do not enough people this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Genuinely a very fun game, but essentially a complete graveyard if you're planning on playing with anyone but your personal friends. F2P could potentially save the playercount but i fear it might already be too late.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its fun but online needs to be balanced. roughly 5 minute queues to constantly getting ♥♥♥♥ on by higher levels with cards you've never even seen is not fun. makes the experience taxing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We’re excited to announce Friends vs Friends is part of the MIX Fall Game Showcase TODAY! 🔥 Tune in at 9 AM PST | 5 PM BST | 6 PM CEST for a special surprise! 👇 www.youtube.com/live/cRm_IhS... #TheMIXShowcase #indiegame #indiedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Truly a really fun game. Easily one of my favorite party games. But there are.. some things really holding this game back from becoming an easy go to. Actually there's really one real issue... The online playerbase.... You see, due to the limited amount of players, matchmaking can be rough. Not just in wait times but skill gaps. You'll likely find the majority of your matches to be up against very experienced players who are committed to the game. Making it nearly impossible for new players to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While it is fun with friends, and at its core is a solid idea, sadly, the execution is not great. First off, the game is dead. Literally like no players, so I only have experience with my buddies. Cards seem INSANELY unbalanced, with some being unbeatable and others barely helping. Certain characters have such stupid abilities it just makes for a much less fun for the other team (stupid doberman). Game has some charm, and some solid gameplay, but the card system is poor if someone has high…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have played this game since the beginning, and while it's a very On-and Off moments of gameplay, I always have a blast with my friends WHEN it works, the art direction is so vibrant and fun, the actual gunplay feels very nice, the music is great, BUT there's a massive glaring issue when it comes to this, which pains me to say "I can't recommend this to new players" that being the Lag, and the bugs, and the occasional crashes because of ANTI-CHEAT(I don't blame it for the current problems)…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game seems to have a lot of potential, but it's obvious why the player count is so low. It's because the balance is non-existent, and some cards are incredibly frustrating to fight against. Not only that, but there's plenty of instant win combinations of cards that have very little counter-play. The problem is exponentially worse when you're a new player, who will start an incredibly weak starter deck; a starter deck which cannot meaningfully answer any options players with significant…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As For the release of the Console Version of Friends Vs Friends Wanted to finally show off my love for the Game by drawing my Two Favorite Characters Thank you For making this lovely Game! @brainwashgang.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →Game is a ton of a fun, however, it has no playerbase... Sure this could be a good time playing against your friends, but outside of that the game doesn't offer much.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a fun little PvP game to play with friends and a great go to when you are not sure what to play. I enjoy the art style, the guns, the cards and the overall gameplay. Everything works together well and keeps matches feeling fresh. When Searching for a FFA with 3 other friends, we had no issues finding a 4th player, it was almost instant. I am hoping to see more maps added in the future. 8/10 Will shoot my friends again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game itself is amazing, nice artstyle, lot of possibilities for tactics, fun gameplay, and if you're playing with people of the same rank the game does feel balanced most of the time. The listed DLCs are also only adding new quest lines and unlockable cosmetics, so they're not required, all gameplay items are unlockable just by playing. Why the bad rating? If I could, I would use a "Meh" rating, the game doesn't really deserve a negative review, but because of it's current state I cannot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →incredibly fun shooter that scratches my brain in all the right places.. super stylized and honestly just FUN!!! i really love this game and wished it had more players,,,, if you ever wanna play hmu :3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I started playing Friends Vs Friends! It's a fun game and if y'all wanna play then please hit me up!
positive · AI labelView post →This game is very fun, especially with friends (who would've guessed), But after 16 hours I'm no longer able to play the game, due to for some stupid reason easy anti-cheat decides to have a meltdown or something cause when i try to play it just tells me "easy anti-cheat not installed" and refuses to open. I've tried everything, running as admin, verifying files, uninstalling and reinstalling, and even going into my windows security. Apparently this has been an issue for many players for a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is pretty fun!! But the online is horrible. There's no skill/level based matchmaking, so as a new player I got shoved into matches with people who only ever had maxed out cards. And any mode that's not 1v1, is "spam all your cards immediately" and its just obnoxious. There's no rules or limits or penalties for playing this way so almost every 2v2 and 3v3 match is the exact same. Thankfully even with the "newbie vs pro" issues with the cards, 1v1's are USUALLY still winnable off of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not bad, in fact, it's alright, I like the style and overall mood BUT - it's abandoned*, no updates for years. It could be saved by adding more bots and making them "smarter", so a player would at least have something to do, but devs seemingly abandoned the game, and a game without players without good single-player is dead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an extremely fast-paced game that I have had hundreds of hours of fun playing with my friends. It's incredibly fun, well-designed, the graphics are superb, and the card & character designs are really-well thought out. The cards are (mostly) balanced, as well as the characters, so there's not one weapon or card that's extremely OP or unbalanced compared to the others. You can play with anyone across the world, from East Asia to Europe, and Africa to the United States. You can also play…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of my favorite games, extremely lovely and unique in every way from the art, music, voice acting and character design to the extremely fun and unique feeling gunplay, movement, mechanics and strategic depth of the cards and experimenting with different combos, i've been playing this on and off since around release and the experience has been unlike any other, from extremely broken meta silliness to the next, there was a freaking point in time where bombs instakilled you doing a billion…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the concept of this game, but the balance is awfully skewed towards several meta cards. Non-meta strategies are wildly ineffectivem, which sometimes cannot even be compensated by good mechanical aim either. Also for 2vs2 and 3vs3 stacking some effects get utterly overpowered. Now that you ahve showed that the game isn't abandones yet. Maybe you can start working on making the experience enjoyable too because the amount of content was never the problem with this game. Also Anti-Cheat was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look at this :DDDD The game is Friends VS Friends #furry #furryart #fvsf
neutral · AI labelView post →Never played the game itself... but i saw this cute rat from Friends vs Friends (recently came out), and decided to doodle them~ Enjoy!
neutral · AI labelView post →Updated my linktree below; you can check out three of my releases there, including one remix of Cotton Candy from Helluva Boss, and another from the game LAIKA: Aged Through Blood by the devs of Friends vs Friends! linktr.ee/fauxless
neutral · AI labelView post →most mediocre fps ive ever played like genuinely
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good game, but only if you have friends to play with. Only downside is that there is no one playing online so you can't queue into matches with randoms. Needs some balancing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dev please make the game room capacity more than 4 players please other wise this game is just not it with when we have big friend groups
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"balanced mechanics" are apparently not important for video games
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game used to be great, but it's gotten so buggy as of late. Sometimes we just give up on playing because we all end up experiencing the same bugs independently. Matchmaking, rubberbanding with perfect internet connection, etc.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I LOVE this game! Its really fun to play. i just think its sad that its so underrated and "Flopped" nowadays. I hope somehow this game can get brought back to life
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →games actually decent, but there hasn't been an update with more than 1 balance change since early 2024 (the devs do regularly ask for money though). the community is tiny, there are times my friend and i have to queue 20+ minutes to find a duo lobby. if the game wasn't completely dead I'd change my review to positive
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun fps dueling game with good movement, satisfying weapons, and a unique card mechanic. It is a blast to play with friends (they won't be your friends for long after playing this). Unfortunately there are a few glaring issues that dampen the experience both when starting and for seasoned players. 1. This game is abandoned (for now?). It has been a long time since there has been any content dropped for this game. Especially free content. Seems that they just drop cosmetics behind dlc to…
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