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Better With A Friend

Better With A Friend is a small collection of hand drawn mini-games that you can only play with somebody else on a Steam Deck.

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Developer
Geert Verhoeff
Publisher
Sumatras Studios
Release
August 18, 2024
1 year and 349 days ago
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Positive15 reviews100.0%

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About the Game

Better With A Friend is a collection of hand drawn games specifically for the Steam Deck that you can only play with somebody else.

Better With A Friend is a homage to older games that I used to play back in the day during high school. Either on paper, some random flash game website, one of my first phones or a DOS PC that later became the Windows 95 computer. The time that it was virtually impossible to play against each other over the internet. Not counting those text based browser strategy games that my friends and I frequently visited during computer class. You basically had to be at the same place with all your friends to play games. For some games even sharing a keyboard or mouse.



There are 11 games and a quizmaster mode in Better With A Friend at the moment!

  • Dots N Boxes

  • Checkers

  • Guess the Flag

  • Snake

  • Trivia (over 1500 questions!)

  • TicTacToe

  • Tennis

  • Hangman

  • Sliding Puzzle

  • Memory

  • Game With Ball

Thank you all for checking out my little side project and I hope you enjoy it with a friend! 

- Geert

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