Peak

On August 25th, Journey and Sky Children of the Light developer That Game Company unveiled That Game Publisher, a full-service label focused on what it calls emotionally ambitious games.

A week later, Peak co-developer AgroCrab launched AgroCrab Presents.

Days later, Escape from Tarkov developer Battlestate Games announced Battlestate Games Publishing, looking specifically for the sort of hardcore and niche projects that other publishers might consider too risky.

They aren't the first to take this path.

Vampire survivor studio Ponkle opened a publishing label the same year.

Totally accurate battle simulator and content warning developer Landfall now operates Evil Landfall.

Landfall also had its hands in Peak, which was a co-dev effort with AgroCrab.

Phasmophobia developer Kinetic Games launched Kinetic Publishing earlier this year, while PocketPair created PocketPair Publishing in the wake of PowWorld.

I'm excited to talk about it again at the end of the year.

You can watch us play Peak on Sundays and other co-op games on twitch.tv slash HunterOGA is our new home for streams like that.

And please do that.

We are actually going to be playing Peak right now.

Like right now.

Do you guys remember that? That I asked if we were recording and then we could play? We're going to do both.

So if you don't know, the reason why this game even exists is because of a studio called Evil Landfall.

Now, if you don't know what that is, evil landfall is landfall game stockholm publishing investment label um that formalized in 2026 with seven people the ceo kirsten lee nato is hands off right basically they fund up to one million dollars what in the actual and that's not it ladies and gentlemen as they let the developers keep the ip and they focus on short cycle physics slash uh no short cycle physics slash co-op friend uh friend slot and it handles business so teams can ship now of course if you don't know the catalog of evil landfall and the investments that they made this is one particular game that you've probably heard of called peak And if you haven't heard of the game called Peak, it's another French slop game that I think is highly entertaining to watch.

And it's this game right here.

So if you've never seen this game, this is the game I'm talking about.

Once again, Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio.

But this specific game is in their investment portfolio.

And then, of course, along with Peak, that also sold 10 to 17 million plus copies, $100 million estimated as far as gross.

And of course, evil landfall also invested into content warning another video game that y'all probably heard of let me see uh content warning uh let's see video game the reason why i'm showing this is just because i want y'all to get a sense of evil landfalls like just their investment portfolio i mean it's pretty top tier honestly to have peak under your uh belt to have content warning under your belt even if you are just invested it seems like they know what and who to invest into and then of course now you have the how to fish game so of course when you look at landfall specifically it seems like they are very persuaded by friend slop type of gameplay loops.

stuff, you know?

I mean, we already spoke about Peak, that one, obviously.

What is the other

one now?

games.

So here we're seeing the pilots who are from the GNOME game.

Now we're seeing the Peak character.

And then when they throw out the Peak character, now he's going to look at the exit sign, which is the Mecha Chameleon character.

I fucking hate that bearded idiot.

Number six on the Wii News, Aggro Crab, the developers behind Peak: Another Crab's Treasure and Going Under and Crash Out Crew, are excited to announce that they are publishing the precision platformer Rebounder from developer 33.

Nail the run, deliver your line, Rebounder is a handcrafted precision platformer about a roughneck worker, uh, recruited for a hazardous job on a distant planet.

A tough but fair gauntlet set in a surreal comic book world of ink, paper, and print.

So cool

... with this announcement, Aggro Crab are ready to receive submissions from developers looking for publishing support.

Quote, "Peak success put us in a unique position.

We weren't really interested in significantly growing the size of our team, but we were interested in growing our catalog," said Cory Warning, head of publishing at Aggro Crab.

It's going to be good.

Another thing that happened in the news that would be, we don't have to talk about this as, we can just talk about what we know with this because we do all know something about it, is that there was a new update for the Friend Slop game, Peak.

A game that we love quite a lot.

It's about climbing a mountain with your friends.

Friendship has happened.

Wow.

Well, if you want to see more of us playing Peak, we're probably going to be playing it on Sundays for a little while, I would say, because I definitely want to see more of it.

So, yeah, check that out.

No, no, no. Skyrim crossed with Peek.

So in Skyrim you play as the little scout and you climb up High Hrothgar and in Peak they just make a High Hrothgar.

Subnautica and

Iron Lung.

What was that other climbing, like, co-op climbing game-

... that came out last year?

Peak.

Peak, that one.

Yeah.

Just had a big update recently, too.

I, I, uh, I wanna go back to that at some point.

Right.

You know, the obvious comparison is Peak.

Peak is a lot more goofy.

It's a lot more griefing your friends and each other and things like that.

Yeah.

This was the one I was excited about.

Kind of only one I've been excited about.

Peak has not done it for me.