A Casino Roguelike Just Sold a Million Copies in 7 Days
Gamble With Your Friends, a co-op casino roguelike from first-time studio Team Gwyf, has blown past a million sales in just seven days.
A million copies in seven days. That's what happens when you mash together co-op friendslop and gambling roguelikes, apparently. Gamble With Your Friends, a casino-themed roguelike from debut developer Team Gwyf, has crossed the milestone in its first week on sale, according to a Steam announcement from the team.
The pitch is straightforward: you and up to five friends crawl through floors of a casino, each packed with randomized gambling machines, trying to hit a cash quota within a five-minute timer before moving on. Roguelite power-ups let you gamble more effectively between runs. Like Lethal Company's quota structure filtered through a slot machine, you're not far off, and the formula is clearly resonating. I've been saying for a while now that the co-op market is starving for anything that isn't a rehashed extraction shooter, and this is more proof. Players will show up in droves for a fresh concept, especially one priced at $8 that you can drag five friends into.
What makes this particularly striking is that Team Gwyf appears to be a first-time studio, and its publisher Tenstack only started putting games out in 2024 without much fanfare. No established brand, no massive marketing budget, no early access runway. Just a clean concept, co-op hooks, and the kind of short-session gameplay loop that practically markets itself through clips on TikTok and YouTube. AAA publishers keep chasing the next live-service whale while studios nobody has heard of are printing money with $8 games built around a single good idea.
Gameble With Your Friends is available now on Steam.
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