-Quick Review-
I’m resisting the temptation to make the joke about how “PEAK is Peak”.
PEAK is a climbing game, it’s best experienced cooperative with friends, however you can play by yourself too… but with voice proximity chat, extra hands, extra inventory space, sharing the load, huddling together for warmth, pulling up a friend that extra couple of inches when their stamina runs out, PEAK really is more geared towards a cooperative experience where you summate the mountain together.

Review Video:
If you don't like reading, or are curious about watching gameplay check out my video here:
https://youtu.be/My1nu_XeBxc

-Detailed breakdown review-
Story: You are a scout… I mean obviously you are a scout, but I mean in the game you play as a Scout. Kinda like “Boy Scouts”, “Girl Scouts”, “Junior Woodchucks”, or “Junior Chipmunk”, go on hikes, learn how to tie square knots, camping, sit in a classroom and do underwater basket weaving… if that last example seems odd, it’s because my time in boy scouts wasn’t stellar.
Anyway, you’re all on a troop adventure and… …Oops! Looks like the plane crashed and only you and your friends survived. It’s up to You and maybe Huey, Dewey or Lewy (friends sold separately) to make it to the PEAK where some idiot lost all of the flares to summon the helicopter to escape. But to get to the Peak… ahh, that’s where the story truly is.

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Gameplay: For a game about hiking… There's a fair bit to explain about the gameplay.
First thing you should know is if you want to climb something you walk to a tree, rock, wall or something, click and hold the left mouse button to climb. General movement is with WASD, and when you’re climbing WASD translates to the wall the same way, W is up, S is down, D is right, and A is left.
After movement is figured out, the next concept which is CRITIALLY important to master is Stamina. It’s definitely a case of “Easy to Learn, Hard to Master”, at the bottom left of the screen you have a stamina bar, once this bar empties you stop climbing and start falling, if the gods of PEAK really hate you, the mountain will slope away and you’ll just fall thousands of feet to unceremoniously hit the floor and bounce once before you drift into unconsciousness.
So you want as much stamina as possible, right? Right! But it’s more complicated then that. Things eat away at your stamina bar, like poison, injuries, burning, freezing, weight from items in your pockets or backpack, and hunger too literally takes chunks out of your stamina bar.

Some food items, or cooked food, or Campfire checkouts will give you bits of a second stamina bar. This second stamina bar is “Bonus Stamina”, if you use up your normal stamina you’ll dip into these reserves which are quite literally CLUTCH. That being said, try not to use bonus stamina unless you need too, everything on peak becomes an exercise in weighing the risks vs rewards…
Do you want to use your bonus stamina to clear this part, and then drop a role for your friends? Or do you want to use a rope cannon and save your bonus stamina? Maybe you don’t have much to work with at all and you should try looking up another side of the mountain… for a potentially easier path? At the end of the day that’s where the real challenge in PEAK is, it’s planning and using your tools effectively and efficiently.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3560585795

Conclusion: PEAK is really fun! The MESA update was… frustrating. Sometimes you’ll get a generated seed which is just god-awful, and you get to quit the game sad on that day… but you can know tomorrow there’ll be a new generated seed to try out and maybe that one will be easier?
On the whole PEAK has been a fun game, I look forward to any future updates the game might have. I can easily suggest the game for anyone looking for a cooperative game to play with friends. PEAK is very unique, I haven’t played any other game like it, and it’ll sit in my list of “favorite co-op games” probably for the rest of my life.

[u][b]-Quick Review-[/b][/u] I’m resisting the temptation to make the joke about how “PEAK is Peak”. PEAK is a climbing game, it’s best experienced cooperative with friends, however you can play by yourself too… but with voice proximity chat, extra hands, extra inventory space, sharing the load, huddling together for warmth, pulling up a friend that extra couple of inches when their stamina runs out, PEAK really is more geared towards a cooperative experience where you summate the mountain together. [u][b]Review Video:[/b][/u] If you don't like reading, or are curious about watching gameplay check out my video here: https://youtu.be/My1nu_XeBxc [u][b]-Detailed breakdown review-[/b][/u] [b]Story:[/b] You are a scout… I mean obviously you are a scout, but I mean in the game you play as a Scout. Kinda like “Boy Scouts”, “Girl Scouts”, “Junior Woodchucks”, or “Junior Chipmunk”, go on hikes, learn how to tie square knots, camping, sit in a classroom and do underwater basket weaving… if that last example seems odd, it’s because my time in boy scouts wasn’t stellar. Anyway, you’re all on a troop adventure and… …Oops! Looks like the plane crashed and only you and your friends survived. It’s up to You and maybe Huey, Dewey or Lewy (friends sold separately) to make it to the PEAK where some idiot lost all of the flares to summon the helicopter to escape. But to get to the Peak… ahh, that’s where the story truly is. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3532803580 [b]Gameplay:[/b] For a game about hiking… There's a fair bit to explain about the gameplay. First thing you should know is if you want to climb something you walk to a tree, rock, wall or something, click and hold the left mouse button to climb. General movement is with WASD, and when you’re climbing WASD translates to the wall the same way, W is up, S is down, D is right, and A is left. After movement is figured out, the next concept which is CRITIALLY important to master is Stamina. It’s definitely a case of “Easy to Learn, Hard to Master”, at the bottom left of the screen you have a stamina bar, once this bar empties you stop climbing and start falling, if the gods of PEAK really hate you, the mountain will slope away and you’ll just fall thousands of feet to unceremoniously hit the floor and bounce once before you drift into unconsciousness. So you want as much stamina as possible, right? Right! But it’s more complicated then that. Things eat away at your stamina bar, like poison, injuries, burning, freezing, weight from items in your pockets or backpack, and hunger too literally takes chunks out of your stamina bar. Some food items, or cooked food, or Campfire checkouts will give you bits of a second stamina bar. This second stamina bar is “Bonus Stamina”, if you use up your normal stamina you’ll dip into these reserves which are quite literally CLUTCH. That being said, try not to use bonus stamina unless you need too, everything on peak becomes an exercise in weighing the risks vs rewards… Do you want to use your bonus stamina to clear this part, and then drop a role for your friends? Or do you want to use a rope cannon and save your bonus stamina? Maybe you don’t have much to work with at all and you should try looking up another side of the mountain… for a potentially easier path? At the end of the day that’s where the real challenge in PEAK is, it’s planning and using your tools effectively and efficiently. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3560585795 [b]Conclusion:[/b] PEAK is really fun! The MESA update was… frustrating. Sometimes you’ll get a generated seed which is just god-awful, and you get to quit the game sad on that day… but you can know tomorrow there’ll be a new generated seed to try out and maybe that one will be easier? On the whole PEAK has been a fun game, I look forward to any future updates the game might have. I can easily suggest the game for anyone looking for a cooperative game to play with friends. PEAK is very unique, I haven’t played any other game like it, and it’ll sit in my list of “favorite co-op games” probably for the rest of my life.