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Budget Steam smash hit, Peak, is my new gaming obsession


Peak is a truly brilliant game about climbing mountains, and it's out now. We take a look.

Climbing is incredibly easy - you squeeze a trigger and push the stick and your hands steadily move you up the surface in front of you. Meanwhile, a huge lollipop I found about an hour ago gave me a burst of psychedelic stamina that allowed me to climb for quite a while before it transitioned into a period of truly brutal sleepiness. Big Walk, which is a slightly more elegant and complex proposition, promises to contain a lot of this energy too, alongside some ingenious puzzles.

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