Whats up Scouts! Staff Peak is pleased to announce that our climbing recreation Peak is launching on PlayStation 5 October 22. Peak is a collaboration between two studios, Aggro Crab and Landfall, collectively, we make Staff Peak.
Aggro Crab is an American studio primarily based in Seattle, Washington, recognized for his or her video games One other Crab’s Treasure and Going Below. Landfall is a Swedish studio primarily based in Stockholm, recognized for video games like Content material Warning, Haste, Completely Correct Battle Simulator, Stick Battle: The Recreation, and plenty of extra.
Each studios turned mates after assembly at a recreation developer convention in 2022, immediately kicking it off. After the success of One other Crab’s Treasure and Content material Warning, the groups thought that it could possibly be cool to collaborate on a small mission collectively.
Recreation jam in South Korea
To rejoice our friendship, we initially made the sport as a one-month recreation jam in Seoul, South Korea in February of 2025. Three Aggro Crab devs and 4 Landfall devs locked themselves in a rented house, fueled by Korean BBQ and low to make one thing enjoyable collectively.
A recreation jam is a timed occasion the place people or groups create a recreation from scratch inside a strict deadline, typically following a secret or shared theme. Initially, the theme for the sport had been mentioned by the devs whereas sitting in a scorching tub in Sweden, a few months earlier than heading to South Korea for the jam.
The end result was Peak, a co-op climbing recreation the place the slightest mistake can spell your doom. You play solo or as a bunch of misplaced nature scouts, along with your solely hope of rescue from a mysterious island being to scale the mountain at its centre.
The hot button is to stay collectively, assist one another out, and to search out the perfect way to the highest earlier than starvation, hazards, or the fog will get you.
After the sport jam the staff went dwelling to their respective nations, with Landfall ending up our recreation Haste, and Aggro Crab engaged on Peak and another initiatives. We then all met again up in Sweden in June to complete the sport collectively – and to rejoice the Swedish custom of Midsummer.
Friendship & crossplay
Peak is a recreation primarily based on friendship, each in its improvement and gameplay.
Within the recreation, there’s an necessary rule: By no means abandon a pal in want. Subsequently, we’re excited that with the launch on PS5 we’ve additionally made it doable for crossplay so that you could climb with as much as three mates it doesn’t matter what platform they use.
Climb to the Peak
The Mountain Takes no Prisoners! Climb by means of 4 biomes in your way to the Peak, every with its personal life-threatening obstacles. You’ll have to scavenge for questionable meals to outlive and handle your accidents rigorously – each setback limits your stamina, making it more durable to climb.
Survive collectively
We’ve a bunch of various hazards that you’ll encounter within the completely different biomes, all the pieces from tornadoes to poison clouds, birds, and zombies. If any of these issues scare you, you can too customise your run, making it simpler or more durable relying on what your scout troop seems like.
Play Peak on PlayStation 5
We’re actually excited for PlayStation gamers to affix the climb. The PlayStation 5 model contains all content material updates, biomes, and new gadgets the sport has obtained since preliminary launch – and sure, that features having the ability to bodily kick your mates utilizing customized runs if you wish to be evil. So get your troop collectively for Peak on PlayStation 5 October 22.
