To play Scam With Your Friends, start a solo or online co-op session, take calls at the office computers, interact with fictional AI callers, and use the in-game desktop applications to turn completed tasks into earnings. Your workday revolves around the daily quota and the boss's performance review.
You can speak through a microphone or type dialogue. A microphone is therefore an input option for AI conversations, rather than a reason to assume that every silent caller requires a new headset. Broadband internet is required, and the current lobby size is one to eight players.
Start with the current Steam game
The Steam release is the Early Access game developed by JakeHub and Metater and published by Jatater Worldwide. Its Steam app number is 4954910. Use instructions for that game when comparing menus or troubleshooting behavior.
The current game supports single-player, online co-op, and public lobbies. Choose solo if you want to learn the office at your own pace, or arrange a shared session when you want to work with friends. A private session and a public lobby serve different purposes, so check the session visibility available in your current interface before hosting.
If the game warns that higher-quality voices are not ready, read the options provided. Launch fixes added a warning before hosting or joining, with choices to wait or continue. Non-English players are advised to let the Qwen3 text-to-speech download finish on the main menu for higher-quality speech. This is a recommendation, not a fixed waiting period or a guarantee that every audio problem will disappear.
Follow the workday loop
- Enter a session. Play alone or join the people sharing your workday.
- Find a workstation. The office computers provide the desktop applications used during calls.
- Answer an incoming call. Listen to the fictional caller's situation and check the information displayed on the call interface.
- Respond by voice or text. Keep track of what the game has recognized and what the caller has actually answered.
- Use the relevant in-game application. Follow the objective and fields shown by the current task instead of assuming conversation alone has completed it.
- Check the resulting earnings. Work toward the quota shown for that workday.
- Attend the performance review. The boss evaluates the team's work as the run progresses.
These steps describe the overall loop. They are not a fixed script for every caller. The game uses real-time fictional AI conversations, so a response that worked in one recording may lead somewhere different in another call.
Read the call before choosing your next action
A call is more than an audio exchange. The caller interface, the dialogue, and the desktop applications each provide different information. Watch the caller's current response rather than preparing a long series of requests that ignores what has already happened.
Gameplay shows a trust percentage and mood information above the caller. These help you read the interaction, but no universal success threshold or precise trust formula is established. A friendly response does not prove that a transaction has been accepted, and a trust change should not be treated as an earnings notification.
Likewise, money mentioned in dialogue is not necessarily the amount credited to the workday. A caller might discuss a price while the relevant application still requires an action. Check the visible objective, the fields in the application, and the actual result separately.
The game contains different desktop tools and scam scenarios. Remote access to fictional victim computers is one confirmed feature. Workdays become more chaotic and additional scams unlock as a run progresses. There is no complete verified table of every reward or unlock requirement, so follow the options available in your current run.
Speak or type to fictional callers
For spoken dialogue, say a short message and watch whether the recognized text matches your intent. If the caller answers a different question, check that text before assuming the character is deliberately refusing the task.
Typed dialogue remains available. It can help distinguish an input-recognition problem from a conversation problem: when typed input works but speech is misunderstood, the issue is different from a service status message that prevents AI responses entirely.
Recent fixes reduced speech-recognition delays and filtered additional false music captions. They also made AI failures and temporary usage restrictions display as status messages instead of fake caller dialogue. Read those messages as system information. Repeating an in-character request does not establish a way around a service restriction.
Work toward the quota displayed in your run
Check your current daily target rather than copying a dollar amount from a video. The game progresses through workdays, and a figure shown in a test build or another run is not a universal starting quota.
When playing together, agree on who is speaking to which caller so you can follow your own conversation. Nearby coworkers and office activity can make the session confusing. Keep your attention on the workstation and objective you are using, then check the team's current progress before moving on.
The boss review is part of the game's progression and comedy. Gameplay recordings show it replaying call material and commenting on the interaction. A funny or harsh response should not be turned into an undocumented rule about exact earnings, a guaranteed rating, or the next day's unlocks.
Expect office hazards and changing behavior
Scambaiters and computer viruses are confirmed parts of the game, alongside other disruptive office events. They are in-game hazards, not instructions to install real remote-control software or share real financial details.
Do not assume every device is affected identically: Hotfix 2 disabled viruses and their popups on laptops. Earlier recordings can therefore show behavior that no longer matches the current build.
The most useful first-workday goal is to understand how a caller response, a desktop action, and the earnings display connect. Once you can follow that sequence, the more specific guides can address individual applications, the quota, or a particular technical problem without mixing those tasks together.