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Peaks of Yore

Peaks of Yore

Travel around The Great Gales to climb challenging peaks in this physics-based climbing adventure set in 1887. Meet like-minded mountaineers, unlock helpful climbing gear, and become a pioneer of mountaineering.

Released Oct 26, 2023 Developer Anders Grube Jensen Publisher TraipseWare Platforms Windows DifficultPhysicsAdventurePsychological HorrorExploration
View on Steam ↗ $18.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

97.7%positive2,884 reviews
Recommended · 13 found this helpful

“absolute peak, i have still yet to beat the game. thank you spiff for making a video on this wonderful game.”

— a player, Steam review · 49 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“Quite possibly one of my favorite games, top 3. I'll start by saying that the difficulty feels steep early on but it's not one of those "rage" games that you might associate with the climbing genre. Yes it's fair, but rarely forgiving. The best part is the movement because the…”

— a player, Steam review · 213 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“Just finished the game. It's really fun. Really satisfying. The game is not too difficult overall, but there is a very dramatic difficulty spike towards the end. There's progression in your equipment and collectibles so it's pretty fun to unlock stuff. I did have somewhat…”

— a player, Steam review · 58 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:24 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

46playing at last check
5924-hour peak
467all-time peak
0 100 200 2024 2025 2026 153 avg · Nov 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

53achievements
19.0%median completion
0.5%rarest: Skyborne
84.0% of players 68.6% of players 54.9% of players 48.1% of players 47.1% of players 45.1% of players 44.4% of players 41.9% of players 41.9% of players 40.6% of players 39.9% of players 37.6% of players 33.4% of players 31.4% of players 30.3% of players 29.3% of players 27.6% of players 27.2% of players 27.0% of players 25.9% of players 24.8% of players 24.6% of players 24.4% of players 23.8% of players 20.8% of players 20.1% of players 19.0% of players 18.5% of players 17.7% of players 15.0% of players 12.4% of players 9.5% of players 6.9% of players 5.3% of players 5.1% of players 5.1% of players 4.2% of players 3.5% of players 3.4% of players 2.9% of players 2.5% of players 2.4% of players 2.4% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.6% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.5% of players 84.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
84.0%Novice Climber — Summit 5 Fundamental Peaks.
68.6%Competent Climber — Summit 10 Fundamental Peaks.
54.9%Proficient Climber — Summit 15 Fundamental Peaks.
Rarest badges of honor
0.5%Skyborne — Summit all peaks in Free Solo Mode with Avian Chaos enabled.
0.7%Death Defier — Hidden achievement
0.7%Alpine Master (Free Solo Mode) — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$18.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$18.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US18.99 USD
EU18.49 EUR
UK15.75 GBP
Australia27.95 AUD
Canada24.79 CAD
Japan2,100 JPY
Brazil57.99 BRL
China72.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$11 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$21

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Nov 18, 2025
Patch 2.1.2 - Force Zones, Invincibility Zones, and Previous Art Entries

UpdatesAdded Force Zones. You can set these to push the player when entering the zone once, or constantly while they're in the zone. For things like jump pads and whatnot, you're best off enabling the

Nov 11, 2025
Patch 2.1.1 - Minor QOL and Bugfixes

UpdatesAdded a Duplicate Offsets options to the Grid Snap menu to offset duplicated objects in X, Y, and Z, based on either Camera Relative or World Relative space.In Grid Snap options, Scale will now

Nov 07, 2025
Patch 2.1.0 - Lots of Peak Editor QOL & Bugfixes

Hey everyone.This update involves major improvements and bugfixes to the Peak Editor. Lots of user-requested features and fixes are in this patch, so be sure to give it a read. ːwalterSaluteːUpdatesAd

Oct 30, 2025
Patch 2.0.4 - Hotkey Updates and Bugfixes

Update to HotkeysYou now have the option to toggle the Keep Placing Objects feature, which replaces Keep Selection (Single/Multi)With this On, you'll place objects as normal where it keeps the button

Oct 29, 2025
Patch 2.0.3d - Crampon Hotfix, other bugfixes

Fixed a few bugs with Crampons, 6pt / 10pt Crampon Collectibles and their Removal Zones. Fixed a bug with the Generated Terrain as well as Terrain Templates not getting properly deleted.Fixed a bug wi

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie
Player tagsDifficult · Physics · Adventure · Psychological Horror · Exploration · Platformer · Atmospheric · First-Person · Singleplayer · Historical · Philosophical · Action (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
ControllerFull support
Achievements53
Estimated owners100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.peaksofyore.net/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5-5000 or AMD RYZEN 3 3300X Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 Series or AMD Radeon RX 460 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: Windows Compatible Audio Device