Peak is a climbing crew-like that took over Steam earlier this season and plays like you took a kids summer camp and crash landed it on a dangerous island in the middle of the Pacific. Whether you survive or slip and fall has to do with how much stamina you have, which can only be regained by eating food. And now other people.
“Hey guys! Totally normal update to the game. Nothing to see here,” reads the intro to Peak’s latest v1.10.a patch. Scroll down to the new feature section and you’ll see what developer Aggro Crab is talking about. “Added cannibalism,” reads the update’s only major note. How does cannibalism work in Peak, you ask?
Well, once your stamina meter fills up with enough hunger, your character will now start to see other players as rotisserie chickens like a 1940s cartoon. The effect comes and goes, like your character is hallucinating. If players hold down the eat button for long enough, the other character will turn into a skeleton, die, and lose all their stuff. Your stamina meter, on the other hand, will be completely restored.
Aggro Crab previously threatened to add cannibalism to Peak at the beginning of the month. At the time, some fans asked the team to work on bug fixes instead. The game is still in Early Access, and players encounter frequent technical issues.
The latest patch does address some of those problems. One of those is a fall damage bug where players were dying after only falling short distances, usually have repeatedly spamming the lung button. Performance is also apparently more consistent. “It was the dang wildflowers,” writes Aggro Crab. It’s still working on recreating other common problems on its end before issuing additional fixes, however.
In the meantime, cannibalism is a perfect encapsulation of why players have flocked to Peak since it launched in June. It’s not because they wanted to eat their friends per se, but cannibalism now being a thing in the game adds to the unexpected chaos and viral screams that have made it a hit social experiment so far.
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