I'm not equipped for survival.

Is Mr. Wheel trying to tell me something? This is now the 3rd new game straight he's given me that starts with the letter P. Planet Coaster 2, PowerWash Simulator 2, and now PEAK. I mean it's not like I have that many games that start with P... but it's not my job to question Mr. Wheel's choices.

When I hop in, it's not what I expect. I am dumped into an airport of all things with a passport. This game also has an avatar editor so of course I take advantage and create the most handsome PEAK player ever! Before headed to my gate, I try out the photo booth and play around with all the toys inside of it! I take my pictures and then I board my flight. I don't know where I am going but I'm sure it's a very nice tropical resort! It'll be a nice, simple, easy... annnd we crash landed... of course I chose the cheapest airline. Shocking. Welp I'm stuck here. Might as well make sure I stay healthy here for who knows how long I'll be here. Around the island is a backpack for storage and a survival book. Also known as a book telling me how not to fucking die. One of the suitcases holds a water bottle and a flare. The remains of the plane also has useful stuff like a lantern and compass. Another suitcase holds a rope cannon and baggy of trail mix. And with a full inventory, it's time to head off. That mountain ahead of me sure looks big. Is my goal to reach the top of that? Or is that only part of the process? We'll find out in due time! There's a lot of... small stone tower like structures that surround me as I march forward... quite ominous if I say so myself. I find another suitcase that has another trail mix bag and a lollipop. A giant one at that. The lollipop gives me a brief moment of infinite stamina... though after that... my sleepiness bar fills up very quickly. Man sugar crashes only get more and more powerful. Another suitcase has a roll of bandages and another flare. After making it to a bridge, I hop off and find yet ANOTHER suitcase. Filled with more bandages, trail mix, and a granola bar... oddly... opened? There's another bridge above me. And while I find a platform to stand on that is higher than it... there's no way I can jump off that and onto said bridge is there? Suppose I'll never know if we don't try. But I go for the leap of faith and... holy shit I made it. It's actually possible. I'll be damned! Seems like this trip is going to be an easy one!... ah I'm sure a rising fog is nothing to worry about. I can still see just fine! Just don't touch the urchins. Trust me I found out first hand what happens if you do. It's not pretty.

It's a very tight squeeze through this mountain. Grassy patches are safe spaces to stand on. Elsewhere you have to hold on for dear life. But sometimes even when you do, you'll just end up like me and fall to your death anyway. And you definitely don't want that. When you die... you go back... all the way to the fucking airport... damn that's brutal. I guess it's a motivator to help you try to live longer. So here we go again. This time I pick up some scout cookies, trail mix, rope spool, lantern, flare, and make my way onward. Sometimes you'll have to be careful with what you take with you. You only get one bar. It's your stamina. But weight, hunger, sleepiness, poison, and health loss can fill up that same bar, giving you less stamina. Thankfully it seems like at most times, at least to start, you still get a good chunk of your bar for stamina. After one of my feet weirdly getting stuck under one of the bridges, I do end up making it further than I did before... but... oh boy now I'm in a pickle. See I said the fog wasn't bad before... now it's bad. As on the edge of the mountain I am on, it's definitely hard to see things... and something definitely feels off even with where I'm going. It almost feels like there's an invisible wall or something. I mean just trying to climb a simple small stone pillar feels like a challenge. It feels like something is pushing me as I climb it. I thought a lantern would maybe help... it didn't. I don't even know how i managed to find a way up. Thankfully things did start to clear up by then so maybe it was just that small area. Although my choices of where to go from here were... well there was really no convenient spots to go. I'm surprised I made it as far as I did... before I ended up falling to my death again. Welp... back to the airport. Yay? This time on my next run, I pick up a drink, lantern, flare, lollipop... and that's all I take with me here. I find some red crispberries in a bush and when it comes time to eat them, they help my hunger... the tiniest of bits... I get past the foggy area a lot faster this time. But the celebration is very short lived, I essentially die in the same fucking place in the same fucking way. It's like I learned nothing! That or maybe I just really like the airport. Either one. On my next run here, I pick up a couple coconuts, break them in half, and shove them into my backpack.

I pick up a lantern, flare, and... whatever the fuck a piton is... I'll never really get to know because I used it as soon as I picked it up... I guess it latches on to where you put it so you can swing across? I'll never get to truly use it though. Once you place it down, you can't pick it back up. I found that out the hard way. I won't make the same mistake with the balloon I pick up. Those coconuts fill up your hunger quite nicely! I make it past the bridges, the fog area, but this time when I go up, I try a path to the right. And that actually seems to work better than going to the left. There were a lot more safe places and this just seemed like a better way to go. But my time had run out at this point and I needed to end the stream. I'm sure this game like other rage games such as... Getting Over It or Jump King has a save when you exit mechanic. After all who wants to play this game for 10 hours straight in one sitting? Not me. Of course I do what is right and just check to make sure the game does save. So I quit out and load back in and... uhhhhhhh... oh... no... I'm back at the airport? Well... well maybe I'll be back to where I was if I board the plane... NOPE I'm back on the deserted island... alright... cool... this game has no fucking save mechanic. All of a sudden I fucking hate PEAK with every being of my fucking body. Throw whatever dev who made this in jail for thinking it was a good idea to not have saves. Good grief...

But hey... at least I didn't make the same mistake with the balloon!