Worst Class Ever Draws 10K Players After Next Fest Demo Hit
Funcore Games' $6.99 classroom party game Worst Class Ever had 10,355 players on Steam on November 10, a day after launch, with reviews at Very Positive.
Worst Class Ever, an asymmetric online party game from developer Funcore Games, had 10,355 players online on Steam at 11:39 UTC on November 10, 2026, according to Steam's own player-count API. Steam lists the release date as November 9, and the game's launch announcement went up at 00:20 UTC on November 10.
The Steam store page sells it as “1 Teacher vs 7 Students. Hide. Prank. Survive.” for up to eight players. It costs $6.99, or $4.54 at the 35% launch discount that publisher 2P Games says runs for the first 14 days. It is Windows-only, and its user reviews read Very Positive.
The demo drew more than 600,000 players before launch
In a November 2 post, the team said the demo ranked “#1 in player count” during Steam Next Fest, with “over 600,000 players” having played it. In the launch announcement the team gave a different measure, saying the demo “has surpassed 1 million downloads” since October. Both figures come from the developer and have not been independently checked. Our Steam Next Fest October 2026 feature covers that event's demos.
The same posts trace the climb: more than 10,000 players on the demo's first day, 200,000 after seven days and 300,000 after ten.
88% of 61 reviews are positive
At 11:40 UTC on November 10, the store page showed 88% of 61 user reviews as positive, a Very Positive rating. That is a small sample one day after launch, so the score can still move.
A Version 1.0.1 patch is already out. Its notes, posted at 07:07 UTC on November 10, adjust the strength of the female teacher's skills, raise the spawn rate of certain items and fix a rare crash.
How to start: buy on Steam, pick a role, host or join a room
In the default mode, one player is the teacher and everyone else is a student. According to the launch post, students blend in among dozens of NPC classmates, sneak snacks and glances at their phones when the teacher looks away, and finish their tasks without getting caught. The teacher has to spot them and land “perfectly aimed chalk shots.” For other group picks, see our 11 best party games.
The full version adds a female homeroom teacher, 10 themed classrooms, LAN play and Steam Workshop support. The host can change about 20 settings, including player count, number of teachers and item spawn probabilities. Steam lists online and LAN play, and the game needs 64-bit Windows 10, 4 GB of RAM, a GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB (or an Intel Core i3-3240 or AMD FX-4300 processor) and 4 GB of storage. Recommended specs are an Intel Core i5-3470, 16 GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 1050 6GB.
Steam lists 18 languages and shows full audio support for Simplified Chinese only. A “Worst Banana Ever” bundle with the game BOMBANANA! is also on sale at 10% off.
What Funcore has not announced
The team has not said how many copies the game has sold, and Steam's store page shows no sales figure. The launch post promises continued updates based on community feedback, but gives no roadmap, no dates and no word on console or Mac and Linux versions. Steam lists only Windows.