Regardless of being a recreation a couple of troop of lovely climbers being subjected to a wide range of poisons, deadly climate situations, and lethal falls, Peak is impressively pleasant. In the event you assume your wobbly little scouts aren’t uncovered to a enough quantity of woe, nevertheless, let me counsel the work of modder BSMG_Steven, who’s created a technique to dynamically inject some existential horror for you and your comrades to confront in your climbs.
Over the weekend, BSMG_Steven launched Everest, a mod that populates every day’s island with the corpses of fully actual gamers whose scouts met their fully actual in-game ends. As its Thunderstore description explains, any time a participant utilizing the mod dies, the placement of their dying is saved to a server. As you play, the mod will populate the island with skeletons the place different gamers have died.
In different phrases, the mod offers Peak with its personal model of a Darkish Souls bloodstain, however with out the recorded playback that permits you to watch precisely how somebody managed to dodge roll sideways off a cliff’s edge. Or perhaps the skeletons left by resurrected WoW corpses are a greater comparability: You won’t know the way precisely somebody shuffled off this mortal coil, however you could be fairly positive it wasn’t good.
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In Peak, nevertheless, you’ll be able to safely assume gravity did it. It is often the gravity. At the least till the lava exhibits up.
As BSMG_Steven writes on Thunderstore, Everest “creates a shared expertise of failure and discovery,” which is perhaps the nicest means anybody’s ever described a bunch of anonymous skeletons. Nonetheless, it is apparently an expertise that loads of Peak gamers are blissful to share: Based on a tweet from the modder on X, over 3,000 Everest customers generated greater than 10,000 skeletons whereas climbing yesterday’s island.
I made a foolish mod for @AggroCrabGames’s PEAK that fills your recreation with the skeletons of those that got here (and died) earlier than you. Yesterday’s island noticed 10,000+ skeletons from over 3,000 totally different gamers!Obtain hyperlink within the replies. pic.twitter.com/TeDFNXbjMDJuly 7, 2025
A surprising achievement in mortality.
Everest is obtainable to obtain on Thunderstore, and Peak is playable now on Steam.