Games Like Fart Together You Can Play Without Downloading Anything

Every so often a game shows up with a mechanic so simple that explaining it is the whole marketing campaign. Fart Together is one of those. Your group shares a raft, everybody has a button, and pressing it blows you — and therefore the raft — in a direction you did not entirely intend.

If you have been searching for it as “farting together”, “fart together game” or “the one with the hippos on a boat”, this is what you found. This post is about what it actually is, why the idea works so well, and what to open when the download is the part standing between your friends and a game.

What Fart Together actually is

Fart Together is a physics co-op game by GamesMrkt, on Steam. Two to four players steer a shared raft through an obstacle course using fart power, with competitive modes that scale up to eight. A free demo went up on 8 October 2026 and the full release is listed as coming soon.

It is a Windows game. Their store page asks for Windows 10 64-bit, roughly a GTX 1050 Ti or RX 560, 8 GB of RAM and about 4 GB of disk space — modest by PC standards, and a real requirement all the same.

The reviews are not wrong about it. It is funny, it is well made, and if your group already plays things together on PC, buy it.

Why the mechanic is so good

Most co-op games are co-op because the scoring says so. This one is co-op because the physics say so.

Two things do the work. The first is inversion: your blast pushes outward, so the raft moves inward, away from you. Nobody's first instinct is correct, and the first thirty seconds of anyone's first run are spent steering confidently into a wall.

The second is shared consequence. There is one raft. There is no version of the round where you did well and your friend did badly. A group that was calm a moment ago is suddenly arguing about which way is left.

That combination is why a game this simple holds a room. It is not really a game about reflexes. It is a game about whether four people can agree on anything in under a second.

The part that does not fit a living room

Here is where the format fights the occasion.

Everyone needs their own PC. Not a phone, not a shared screen — a Windows machine that clears the spec, per player. A room of six is a room of six gaming PCs, which is not a room most people have.

Everyone needs to download it. Four gigabytes each, before anyone plays. If the evening started with "let's play something", you have now spent the evening watching progress bars.

Everyone needs a Steam account. Fine for people who already have one. A conversation for everyone else.

Co-op is built for two to four. The competitive modes go higher, but the shared-raft mode — the actual reason you looked the game up — is a small-group experience.

None of this is a flaw in the game. It is a mismatch between a PC game and a party. Fart Together is excellent for a group on Discord with their own machines. It is the wrong shape for seven people and one television.

The same idea, with nothing to install

Puff River is LanPlay's version of that mechanic, and it is free in a browser.

One screen — a TV, a laptop, a projector — shows a 3D river. Everyone else scans a QR code and their phone becomes a controller with exactly one button on it: PUFF. Up to eight people sit on the same raft.

The inversion is the same, and it is the point:

• You puff outward, the raft goes inward. Sit on the right and your puff shoves the raft left.
• Your seat moves. The ring of seats rotates slowly over the round, so everybody drives every position. On the side of the raft your puff steers hardest; at the front or back it is pure throttle or brake and you have no steering at all.
• Everybody puffing at once does nothing. A party puffing evenly cancels itself out exactly — the raft neither turns nor accelerates. The hard part is not pressing the button. It is working out who should let go.

Spiked mines end the round for the whole party at once. Buoys, rocks and the banks just shove you and add to a bump counter. A clean run down the river takes about 58 seconds, and nobody is ranked at the end — it is a shared win or a shared loss.

Side by side

Fart Together is the bigger game: more courses, more modes, more to come back to on a Saturday. Puff River is one river and one button, free, with no download on the screen or on anyone's phone, seating eight instead of four.

The honest split is about what kind of night you are having. If it is a planned session with people who own PCs, the download is a one-off cost and you get more game for it. If there are already people in your living room, every minute of setup is a minute of the party.

There is a full feature-by-feature breakdown on the Fart Together alternative page, including the rows where Fart Together is clearly ahead.

Three more for the same group

Puff River is a round, not an evening. If the room is enjoying the "we all lose together" format, these keep it going:

1. Tile Rush — co-op Piano Tiles for the whole room. The song is split between you, everybody gets two lanes, and the party shares one life.
2. Balance — the opposite mood. One shrinking see-saw, everybody on it, and only one of you still standing at the end.
3. Tower Tumble — slower and turn-based, for the point in the night when people want to talk as much as play.

The honest recommendation

If everyone in your group has a gaming PC and you want the full version of this idea, buy Fart Together. It deserves the attention it is getting.

If what you actually want is the bit where six people shout contradictory instructions at one raft, and you want it working in the next thirty seconds with no downloads and no accounts, open Puff River on the big screen and have everyone scan the code. The first run will end in a spike. That is the correct outcome.