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Peak co-creator loves the term friendslop, because "what's so bad about hanging out with your friends and playing games like this?"

"I think there's a lot of beauty to them," Nick Kaman says

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Xbox lead says the "return to fun" we've seen from games like Peak makes him "hopeful" for the industry, and he "loves seeing the success" of them

Peak is truly peak, when it comes to fun

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"Complicated feelings on our end": Indie devs behind new Peak-like co-op understand you think it's friendslop, but "it's a slight bummer that the other half of the term is the 'slop'"

The term has negative and positive connotations

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Peak devs say "we have no plans to go to mobile" as fans spot another "fake" version, this time on the App Store: "They take FOREVER to get removed"

Lookalikes of the co-op climbing game are relentless

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'It's weird in the industry right now': Cult of the Lamb's devs still have faith that the indie scene will continue dishing out 'smash hits'

Massive Monster also wants to prioritise value for money.

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'We never had plans to update Peak at all': Aggro Crab reveals that it doesn't want 'to be a studio that works on one game forever'

There's a timeline where we never got that blursed bbno$ concert and cannibalism.

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Sometimes simple character designs make the most effective cosplays, and this group of Peak Scouts is the perfect example of that

Marshmallows for morale as well.

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Peak's "8 bucks is still 5 bucks" view is a genuine look "behind the curtain" at "vibes pricing" across the industry, analyst says: "70 bucks seems right. All right, we'll try that"

"Is this a $60 game?"

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Peak patch finally lets you kick other players, but be warned – scouts can't be "un-kicked"

Snowballs can be rolled around to make them bigger

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Peak will get its final biome this year and a couple of updates "that address some commonly requested features," dev confirms while teasing a brand new project "that I'm still gatekeeping"

"I don't want to tell you yet."

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Lead dev of one of 2025's best games goes on a wild ramble about pricing, but hold up, let him cook — it actually makes perfect sense, and he's right

The co-creator of the hit co-op climbing game PEAK has a theory about how players think about the prices of games, and used it to choose the title's price.

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Peak's success was a surprise because the co-op romp didn't launch with "much of what we thought was required to make a hit," but lead wants to keep its game "jam-like spirit" for future updates

"We just wanted to get it out there"

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'Don’t toil away on the things that don’t really matter': Peak creator says its rapid development cycle has 'proved that there are definitely different, but maybe better ways to make games'

Peak started as a game jam, but became a smash hit.

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'Every year they got f***ing chocolates that we didn't': Valve gives a box of sweets to Steam's biggest breadwinners every year, and Peak's devs finally got one after years of jealously watching their Slay the Spire office mates enjoy GabeN confections

It's okay, they finally got it.

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Valve sends annual chocolates to Steam devs who earn roughly $800,000, and before Peak the folks at Aggro Crab got pretty sick of looking across the hall to see the Slay the Spire team open Gaben candy every year

"Every year they got f***ing chocolates that we didn't"

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Peak is $8 because the devs wanted you to see a $5 price tag and, hey, "eight bucks is still five bucks"

Well they say all five bucks are created equal, but if you look at $5 and $8, you can see that statement is not true

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Game prices rose higher in 2025, but is AAA losing out to budget titles? I tried "voting with my wallet" — and I don't regret it

Is the $80 game a dead end? While 2025 saw big publishers hiking prices, I and many other gamers moved in the other direction.

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2025 was the year friendslop reigned, and so many low-cost ways to have fun with your pals couldn't have come at a better time

Times are hard, but friendslop is here.

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'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated

The best games of the year probably ran great on whatever PC you have lying around, and that's fantastic.

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Peak lead knows you're a friendslop "hater," but remember "these games aren't trying to be Game of the Year": "These are games that emphasize teamwork"

"But I think it's mainly just fun to be a hater, especially when a term like 'friendslop' is so juicy."

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Peak shows you don't need horror or quirky party games to be one of the best co-ops in years

Be prepared, be Peak.

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Peak is "not going to be a forever game," but the viral co-op climbing game's devs don't want to "leave anything on the table" either

Peak's studio head knows they could "milk" the game forever, but they have restraint

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Peak devs were ready to go 'into vacation mode' after releasing it, but then it sold 1M copies in the first week: 'That quickly became a pipe dream'

2025 was the year of Peak.

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Calling Steam games like Peak and REPO friendslop "devalues" the skill of the developer, industry investor says, so "let's collectively kill" the term before it's too late

"'Slop' to me means that something is sloppy, not well done and a bit junky""

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Peak put friendslop on the map in 2025, but neither of its 2 studios expected it to blow up: "We were ready to hit the launch button and go into vacation mode"

Year in Review 2025 | "We didn't launch with so so much of what we thought was required to make a hit"

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