Hilarious with friends
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“We've spent multiple days scamming AI callers and every performance review leaves me with tears in my eyes from laughing.”
Steam review · 11.2 h played ↗
Scam With Your Friends
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Mostly Positive · 77%Mostly Positive · 77%JakeHub, Metater2026Party Game · Simulation
−10%$9.99$8.99
US Steam price, checked 3 h ago
The verdict
A hilarious AI-powered prank-call game that shines with friends, but shaky speech recognition, AI outages, repetition and privacy worries hurt it. Skip it if you play solo or in non-English.
Great for
Groups of friends who want chaotic, dark-humored laughs and accept early-access jank
Main risk
AI outages and poor speech recognition frustrate play, and the loop gets repetitive after a couple of hours
Since the last analysis (Oct 15)
Notable change
- New complaintPrivacy and security concerns (#1)
- New complaintRepetitive, gets boring fast (#2)
- New complaintLittle real co-op, depends on AI servers (#5)
- New praiseFunny boss performance reviews (#4)
- New praiseCustom characters and Workshop (#5)
- Complaint goneCrashes, lag and bad optimization
- Complaint goneRepetitive with same callers
- Complaint goneAI too strict for goofing around
- Praise goneMatches the trailers and has potential
- Praise goneDevs actively fixing issues
- Complaint movedSpeech recognition misses words: #1 → #3
- Complaint movedPoor Russian-language AI and lag: #3 → #4
- Praise movedCheap price for the fun: #4 → #3
- Steam ratingMixed · 64% → Mostly Positive · 77%
What players love
Clever, responsive AI callers
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“the conversations themselves with AI are definitely unique to their own even when the same scam victim calls you the next day they seem to have a different life story”
Steam review · 2.4 h played ↗
Cheap price for the fun
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“very fun to play with friends and its pretty cheap for a game that looks like it cost $20+”
Steam review · 11.5 h played ↗
Funny boss performance reviews
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“the performance review at the end of each day is hilarious!”
Steam review · 13.1 h played ↗
Custom characters and Workshop
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“With a Steam Workshop to download and upload created characters, each playthrough can be something COMPLETELY different each time!”
Steam review · 11.1 h played ↗
What players complain about
Privacy and security concerns
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“game collects voice recordings, ip location that other can potentially see, also sees browsing history and searches of your real pc which is stored in a folder”
Steam review · 11.8 h played ↗
Repetitive, gets boring fast
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Fun for about 2 hours, then it becomes the most repetitive boring slop you could imagine.”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗
Speech recognition misses words
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“I kept running into problems of saying stuff like "Nice to have you, Buck!" and it came out as "Mice do hate you, bug!"”
Steam review · 1.4 h played ↗
Poor Russian-language AI and lag
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“If you're a RU player, don't buy this crap, the AI thinks for ages and speaks in syllables.”
Steam review · translated · 1.5 h played ↗
Little real co-op, depends on AI servers
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Game says "with your friends" but it might as well be solo because this game requires no teamplay.”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗
AI service often unavailable
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“You have a 15-minute timer and at least 10 of it goes to 'AI temporarily unavailable'. Ridiculous.”
Steam review · translated · 8.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: UnknownController support5 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Memory3 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 1060 (6 GB) / AMD RX 580
Storage5 GB available space
OSWindows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Memory3 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 1060 (6 GB) / AMD RX 580
Storage5 GB available space
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