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DARK SECRETS: Landfall | Vintage Vibes

Ruth of Southland, with her glass eye and cardigans

The quiet life of a proud Southlander and one of New Zealand's greatest writers

Newsroom.co.nz

5 more AWESOME Xbox April indies: Take a break from getting beat up in Hades 2

Manage a bookshop or break out as a hit content creator in these newly released games brought to you by ID@Xbox.

Windows Central

Peak co-dev says games like its iconic friendslop hit "wouldn't exist" if the studio tried to turn everything it makes "into the next Fortnite" with endless content updates

But, "no, we do not think that people playing our games are 'ungrateful'" to want more

GamesRadar

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The devs behind Peak and Content Warning made a publisher to support their games and other indie developers: 'We help them with money and advice'

It's called Evil Landfall because paperwork is evil.

PC Gamer

Peak co-dev turned indie investor says "too many developers develop their game secretly for several years," and it's putting its friendslop fortune into helping devs find a better way

"If you're not finding the core of the game in a few months, don't sink five, six years into this. Don't put your life savings into it."

GamesRadar

'Any update is a bonus not a right': Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, 'Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios'

How much are you entitled to for an $8 game?

PC Gamer

"Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio

Peak has "had sooo many updates tho!"

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Peak's new update gives you the keys to the climb with a suite of custom settings, including the option to turn on 'Grapple Mode (Stupid)'

Spiders will always be turned off in this household.

PC Gamer

Peak devs were ready to go 'into vacation mode' after releasing it, but then it sold 1M copies in the first week: 'That quickly became a pipe dream'

2025 was the year of Peak.

PC Gamer

Peak put friendslop on the map in 2025, but neither of its 2 studios expected it to blow up: "We were ready to hit the launch button and go into vacation mode"

Year in Review 2025 | "We didn't launch with so so much of what we thought was required to make a hit"

GamesRadar

Samsung phones infected with 'Landfall' spyware through WhatsApp images — what you need to know

This malware can infect Samsung devices through malicious WhatsApp images and it doesn't require any user interaction.

Tom’s Guide

PlayStation Plus Just Added The Best Physics-Based Strategy Game

PlayStation Plus gets one of the strangest strategy games ever this month, with a combat simulator that's about wacky physics-based comedy as much as tactics.

Inverse

After one of 2025's biggest surprise hits, Peak devs announce a new co-op online game: "Peak is still being worked on internally but now it's time to glaze Crashout Crew"

"That means we're now publicly working on TWO GAMES!"

GamesRadar

After 5 million sales, dev of hit underwater Soulslike tells people to just pirate its new viral mounting climbing game Peak instead of wasting time and money on "microtransaction-riddled Roblox slop" ripoffs where you can buy a win

Just play Peak

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Peak releases a 'temporary solution to the fall damage bug' in the latest patch, but doesn't have any new features: 'Let us cook'

Falling from a low ledge will no longer break ankles.

PC Gamer

Bing Bong is talking to you: Peak players are getting jump-scared by what seems to be the developers possessing a little green plushie

Do not cast Bing Bong aside, it will remember.

Inverse

Steam’s Most Surprising Co-op Hit Proves One Hated Gaming Genre Actually Works

After launching out of nowhere, 'Peak' gained 2 million players in just over a week, thanks to its innovative take on a genre some players deride as "friendslop."

Destructoid

All PEAK game difficulties, explained

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Peak developers react to selling 1M copies after suffering 'a lot of burnout' from making bigger games: 'The realization that smaller projects like this can work has set our studio in a new direction'

"We want to mostly make smaller projects moving forward, with clearer scopes and shorter development times."

PC Gamer

Peak devs say the hit comedy climber was pitched in a Swedish hot tub and developed in a frantic 4-week Korean game jam: 'We brought our computers to an Airbnb in Hongdae and locked tf in for a month'

"While it was pretty intense, it was also the most fun I’ve ever had working on a game."

PC Gamer

'Why did this stupid jam game sell more': Climbing game Peak has sold 1 million copies in under a week, outperforming its developer's most popular game

Peak is one of the year's biggest surprise hits.

GamesRadar

This Sonic Frontiers-style free-running simulator is already my favorite roguelike of 2025, but it was almost a very different game: "We were like, 'maybe we'll make it into a battle royale'"

Interview | Catching up with the team behind Steam's breakout hit Haste

Player One

New on Steam: 'Haste' Is a Fast Action-Packed Game That Is Perfect for Parkour Fans

"Haste" was released on April 1, 2025, and has "Very Positive" reviews on Steam.

PC Gamer

One year after surprise launching viral hit Content Warning, Landfall does it again with lightspeed running roguelike Haste

PC Gamer

Haste: Broken Worlds finally lets me live out my childhood fantasy of running really fast and then slamming into a rock at Mach 1 and breaking all my bones

What? It's a normal dream.

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