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Scott McCrae

Peak co-dev says games like its iconic friendslop hit "wouldn't exist" if the studio tried to turn everything it makes "into the next Fortnite" with endless content updates

Screenshot from Peak's Play It Your Way update shows a player standing in front of a campfire.

After a post from the developers went viral, the co-developer of Peak, Landfall Games, says it doesn't think players are ungrateful for wanting more updates, but that just isn't how the studio works.

One of the surprise hits of 2025 was Peak, the viral co-op indie climbing game from Aggro Crab and Landfall that was made to be a fun little game jam project, and swiftly became the biggest game either developer had made. But despite the surprise, the developers adapted and have been updating the game over the last year or so, with the final biome set to arrive in 2026. Last week, in response to a user calling it a "lazy dev cycle," Landfall reminded people that "neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios," adding that "any update is a bonus not a right."

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