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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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“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“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 playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:24 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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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
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
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
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
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
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Difficult · Physics · Adventure · Psychological Horror · Exploration · Platformer · Atmospheric · First-Person · Singleplayer · Historical · Philosophical · Action (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 53 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://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