The developer of 2025 shock indie “friendslop” darling Peak is asking gamers to be a little extra gracious to the studio when requesting updates. In response to a tweet saying developer Landfall has a “lazy dev cycle,” Landfall’s official account clapped back: “Neither us or [co-developer] Aggro Crab are stay service studios, any replace is a bonus not a proper.”
This sparked via GamesRadar (the unique offending tweet is now not seen), which experiences that this comes in the wake of “Landfall Day,” Landfall’s annual bevy of bulletins on April 1, throughout which an exceedingly foolish April Fools’ Day function that has gamers kicking one another off mountains as a substitute of serving to them climb up was revealed. Whereas most replies are enthusiastic about this, the inciting reply was lower than thrilled: “Y’all are mad at Landfall for not releasing a recreation, I am mad at Landfall for his or her lazy dev cycle for Peak once they might be doing a lot extra with it contemplating they’re ending growth of it this yr,” they wrote.
PEAK has had sooo many updates tho! Neither us or Aggro Crab are stay service studios, any replace is a bonus not a proper.
— Landfall (@LandfallGames) April 1, 2026
In response, Landfall’s official account did not maintain again:
“PEAK has had sooo many updates tho! Neither us or Aggro Crab are stay service studios, any replace is a bonus not a proper,” they wrote in a direct response.
One other reply complained equally, “However why? Its an On-line Recreation for 10 bucks. It might be so good to get new bioms or Options. Thats how the gaming trade works nowadays.”
To which Landfall stated: “We’ve executed a lot of updates with biomes and options 🥰 and we now have no less than yet another. The trade used to be no updates – simply launch as is. We’ve gone method past that.”
For all of the complaints about a lack of biomes, updates, or regardless of the case is perhaps, Landfall has been exceedingly busy including issues to Peak. It is had three main updates, plus quite a few hotfixes, patches, and a handful of smaller updates since its launch not even a yr in the past. Two new biomes have been added since launch, and a third new one is planned for later this year. Each devs are additionally nonetheless actively patching bugs and holding Peak alive, all whereas additionally engaged on different new video games. And so they’re small groups, too. Landfall is seemingly simply round 10 of us per LinkedIn (although that quantity might be quick by a few) and Aggro Crab looks to be about the same.
Maybe additionally related is that the devs did not anticipate nor put together for Peak’s runaway success. It each reached a concurrent Steam playercount of over 100,000 folks and bought a million copies inside the first week, prompting Aggro Crab to remark, “why did this silly jam recreation promote extra copies than one other crabs treasure im gonna crash out” on socials on the time. It will definitely reached an all-time peak (heh) of over 170,000 gamers, and nonetheless persistently will get between 20,000 and 35,000 concurrent gamers at any given time. Neither Landfall nor Aggro Crab had deliberate for that degree of success — why would they’ve a stack of infinite updates in the chamber?
In a video earlier this year, Aggro Crab shared that updates on Peak can be a bit slower in 2026 than in 2025, as a result of each studios produce other plans in the works for the yr corresponding to different new video games (Crashout Crew from Aggro Crab).
As Landfall concludes in another post: “Final yr was our busiest ever, with the PEAK launch, Haste, TABS: Pocket Version, and ROUNDS ports. We labored on one thing new for this yr, however in the tip, it did not work out.
“We have stretched ourselves too skinny, and the stress to ship a new recreation yearly will be a lot on such a small staff. Regardless of this, we’re extraordinarily happy with what we delivered this yr’s Landfall Day – with Haste and Content material Warning launching on consoles!
“Don’t be concerned, we’ll nonetheless be engaged on new tasks, simply perhaps at a extra cheap tempo.”
So, be good to the one that you love indie devs — they’re working exhausting!
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Obtained a story tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.