Thread 713608457

how good is this game? another indie game that just skyrocketed to the top of the steam charts

streamer bait fotm

>>713608457 (OP)
>le epic coop physics game where you die a lot
Refer to >>713608503

>>713608503
you guys say that about every co-op indie game

blah blah blah only good with friends yada yada friendslop FOMO bleh bleh bleh streamers haha

Speaking completely objectively with no bullshit buzzwords, its a very cute little game about climbing with your friends. Controls very simple but it goes a long way. Also pretty addictive.
Only serious flaw I can give it is that the maps are randomly generated and sometimes the maps can be brutal with where the safe places are while climbing.
For $5 you cant go wrong. I got a good 9 hours out of it so far and I'll definitely play more.

Extremely fun game that actually has fixed being applied to it
For $7 it's worth the price to climb with friends, proximity chat makes it pretty cool for finding each other
My only real complaint would be >Unity and that's it

>>713608457 (OP)
Its fun with friends in a way that is better than playing a shitty game with friends.

>>713608457 (OP)
Its better than Nightreign

>>713608457 (OP)
it's fun to play with friends and it's only $5 (maybe a bit more since it was on sale)
most of /v/ doesn't have friends to play with so, for them, it's automatically
>le epic streamer bait fotm

>>713608503
Sounds peak, I'm buying it.

>>713608457 (OP)
F U N

Its nice that the fotm coop game is just this once not pseudo spooky quirked up faggot shit

>>713608457 (OP)
It was worth it at $5 to do a run or two with friends, wait to see if it goes for that price again during the summer sale.
I like that it has a victory condition unlike most friendslop, however once you've beat it the subsequent plays aren't going to be that different even if you wait for a new map. There's also not many hazards outside of each zone's unique feature (and the ever present risk of falling)

>>713608457 (OP)
>going under 2 and another single player game by aggro crab were both shelved to push this multiplayer slop
Fucking why?

surprisingly polished friendslop with some soul. it also satisfies the primal monke urge to “see that mountain?” and “you can climb it”. there’s something inherently satisfying about scaling objects in the game
my only complaints is its somewhat unstable for some people and theres a lot of initial trial and error. I kind of wish the biome hazards were a little more varied, but they do all provide somewhat unique twists on terrain type to climb.

>>713609217
>>713611540
>>713612429
holy advertising, Batman

>>713612013
It has a monster tho

>>713612396
faggot

>>713612504
>you're not allowed to like and talk about indie games
Just fucking 'eck yourself faggot

It was fun. You need friends because there is no matchmaking and it's kind of lame asking in general chat. Took us like 3 different days (the mountain changes ever 24h) maybe 8 hours total to finish. It was $5 so like how much am I really expecting?

It's FOTM you'll enjoy with your friends for maybe a week. Consider the price of admission and it's basically a theme park ride. $10 for some stupid giggles with your m8s over a couple of days would be considered a steal if it were an attraction with rides and shit.

>>713612504
yeah go play it its fun and cheap

Really fun, mostly with friends. There isn't that much content after a couple runs, but for the price it's a good amount of fun.

>>713612396
Peak is a gamejam game, nothing has been shelved

>>713608898
If you don't have (close) friends to play it with, it's only use is to watch streamers play it. I've seen my favorite streamers play it and it was a funny goof of a game. Compare it with a multiplayer game like Helldivers and it is completely different. You can easily play it with randoms and everyone is chill cause they know what the objectives are.

>>713612858
This is one of the sadder posts Ive ever seen on this board

>>713612935
Sad but factual

>>713612858
Yo anon, I'm also friendless, who are your favorite streamers? I need something to listen to.

>>713608457 (OP)
isn't there another indie game in an extremely similar vein that's coming out soon? it was shown at geoff's shill show multiple times
did they eat their lunch?

typical friendslop that will be forgotten in a week

>>713613108
Big Walk it's vastly different from this but okay

>>713612738
>nothing has been shelved

>>713613103
I watched JP vtubers play it
No I truly don't care if you hate it
https://youtu.be/OXY_3hLu8yI?t=2m55s

>>713613359
thank god, the artstyle in this shit was so ugly

>>713613386
I'm not a fan of listening to stuff I can't understand lmao, but thanks for sharing regardless.

>>713608457 (OP)
oh look, another srteamerbait coop garbage

>>713613498
>I'm not a fan of listening to stuff I can't understand lmao
When they say Pasuporto, they mean passport. Wild stuff

>>713608457 (OP)
its like playing gmod/cs climb maps, pretty satisfying
theres only like 5 maps and they barely change on refresh so once you do it a couple times you get bored
devs also have no intention to expand the game, it was a literal side project whilst they work on something big like their previous dark souls crab clone

>>713612738
>>713613359
Yup they made a video explaining it. Their investor for Going Under 2 pulled out after creative differences with the team. They weren't sure what to direct the company towards anymore so they did a gamejam as a fun break. That jam lead to Peak and 1 other game that is yet to come out.

>>713613479
that's the joke

>>713613359
>cancelled on June 3rd
It wasnt cancelled due to Peak you retard. An investor pulled funds because the game likely makes fun of investors for being retarded

>>713613775
>ugly on purpose
yeah, okay

>>713608457 (OP)
It's funny how there's devs out there that only make these kind of games because they know it will be fun for streamers, and if it's fun for streamers their viewers will buy it. Just free marketing across the board. Good for the devs for making bank, but yeah this is typical friendslop that will be forgotten about with a week or two

>>713608503
I'll be streaming this

>>713613859
It's funny that it still works. They lost funding for their serious project, so they rush out streamerslop game in a couple months, make a few million $, can self-fund their next serious project. Good for them. They understand the market

>>713613790
>It wasnt cancelled due to Peak you retard.
No. But Peak is what they chose to develop instead. As >>713613663 said.

>>713614062
>peak is what they chose to develop instead
Because the funding for Going Under 2 was pulled......and they were entered into a gamejam

>>713613859
walking simulator but in the dark 'horror' streamerbait is the worst trend

its a nice game to play with your friends once every few days
map changes all the time
its worth the 5 bucks

>>713614301
map changes everyday but all it does is change the lumps on the mountain and some of the hazards
the mountain itself doesnt really change so its still the same overall map

>>713614301
its garbage not even worth anyone's time
I have gamer friends and we regularly play real coop games, not streamerbait garbage with no gameplay to speak of

>>713608457 (OP)
its 5 bucks. fuck 80 dollar AAA slop.

>>713614035
>make a smaller game
>make way more money compared to the time investment compared to making a big 'serious' project
>company catalog now has a gap as everyone waits for the big project to come out
Weird how devs never run into this and think 'oh let's make a bunch of small and slightly bigger titles on a semi-consistent time schedule'

>>713614731
theres more coop interactions in peak that most shit marked as co-op slop

>>713615086
keep in mind luck as A LOT to do with it doesnt matter how good or bad the game is, there are now several THOUSANDS of games released every single month, there are now literally more game releases in a month than there have been released in entire years just a decade ago

>>713612193
> however once you've beat it the subsequent plays aren't going to be that different even if you wait for a new map.
There are mutators that are added that make the run more difficult, like getting fucking murdered at night by cold or constantly being chased by the scoutmaster etc.

>Landfall
Seal of garbage. It's like a reverse Midas since everything they touch turns to mold.

>>713615297
Oh I know, I used to do hobbyist and semi-professional game dev. Most of those games coming out are noise that cannot compete in any niche, whereas there's niches for smaller professional games that are rarely being filled.
>>713615692
Oh cool, I tried (and failed) Ascent 1 but it wasn't much different. I'm glad they actually ramp it up a little bit past that

>>713615714
Example?

>>713616183
Stick Fight is quite literally unplayable online (the only reason anyone would buy it) unless you do some retarded workaround with installing a separate patch since the devs were too lazy to fix their game.

>>713615086
>picrel
I hate this kind of tone from developers. Nonetheless I guess they're good at giving people what they want. The "fell into success omg im just a smolbean" shit just makes me want them to fail

>>713617202
>make a good game
>uhhh our game is bad this is a bad game people shouldnt like it stop buying it so much
same desu

>>713612858
why do they have to be close, can you just play games with non close friends

>>713608457 (OP)
No. This feels like a shitty experience than an actual game. There's hardly any mechanics to interact with. There's no excitement or fun. All you do is just walk and climb slowly up a mountain. You don't even need friends as it's entirely possible to do it solo. Game is slow as shit, and content is non-existent. Game only rotations out maps daily so players to gaslight palyers into thinking there's a lot more, but really there's only like 3 other biomes. This is just bad friendslop that your normie friend group would play once or maybe twice. Avoid it.

>>713617918
I agree
The climbing """mechanics""" are abysmal. There is nothing mechanically interesting about the game
All you do is hold left mouse button and you climb

>>713615086
>Weird how devs never run into this and think 'oh let's make a bunch of small and slightly bigger titles on a semi-consistent time schedule'
While I do think more devs should make more smaller games.
It still needs to be considered that Peak would have likely sold nowhere near as much if they hadn't first made Another Crab's Treasure and gotten put on the map thanks to it.

>>713608457 (OP)
Trash steven universe artstyle. Nothingburger gameplay.