Does PEAK save your progress?

It seems like every few months, a small indie game releases that takes Steam by storm. PEAK is the latest one of these surprise titles.

PEAK is a co-op climbing game where you and your friends must work together to scale a massive mountain at the center of the island where you have gotten lost. You can grab your friends or launch them to heights to continue your progress, but progress is easily lost.

If you fall in PEAK, you have to continue climbing from where you ended up, similar to games like Getting Over It. Naturally, this is made way easier with checkpoints or game saves, but does PEAK have such a feature?

Here’s everything there is to know about saving progress and checkpoints in PEAK.

How to save progress in PEAK

There is no way to save your progress in PEAK. Each game of PEAK must be played through to completion, because every time you start a new round, you start from the beginning. Yeah, this game’s hardcore.

The lack of a way to save progress may scare away many players, especially when you don’t have a lot of time to play. The inability to jump back in where you were is a bummer, but it’s also a big part of the appeal of a game like this.

Know that when you’re playing PEAK with friends, you need to lock in. If you lose progress or fall to the beginning, you have to start all over again, and there is no way to save a checkpoint when you reach a new height. It’s one-and-done, meaning you need to finish the game you started, or have to begin anew in another session.

Not only that, but all of the items are randomized in each session and the map itself transforms and changes every 24 hours, so no two runs will ever be the same.

Does PEAK have auto-save?

No, there is also no auto-save feature in PEAK, which means there are no checkpoints and there is no way to resume your progress after quitting the game. While some games may have a quiet or unnoticeable auto-save feature as you play, that is entirely missing in PEAK.

It’s always possible that an auto-save or checkpoint feature could be added to PEAK via an update at a later date. If that’s something you want, make sure to let the developers know in a constructive way. Otherwise, clear your schedule, grab your pals, and get ready to reach the PEAK or fail trying.