After 1 million copies sold, Peak continues to show what makes video games successful

Lethal Company. Content warning. Repo. What do these games have in common? They are extremely popular multiplayer experiences with a lovable role by Silly Little Guys ™. They are all charming indie games that create a unique experience and work brilliantly for groups of friends and content creators.

Now Peak is climbing up to join the top as yet another game about co-op hectic discoveries when you try to reach the top of a mountain, and its meteoric climb speaks volumes.

The game sold 100,000 copies during the first 24 hours, and now, less than a week later, the milestone has climbed to 1 million copies. In recent days, Peak Peak Peak Player crowned 100,000 players, with so much popularity for it on social media platforms as groups continue to climb – and fall – in this funny stupid experience.

So why are games like top climbing to the top while Triple-A titles slide on the ice?

Video games just need to be genuine

The games I mentioned above have all been created independently, with passion and no goals or requirements to achieve sales goals or measurement values for success. Sure, I have no doubt that Devs and the publishers hoped that things would go well – no one makes things and hope they fail – but that was never the driving point, and it wasn't for management or shareholders either. They are only fun games made with the intention that they are exactly that: fun.

This is not to say that it is the secret formula for success; There are so many independent developers working on play at Steam, with early access periods or ground marketing. Unfortunately, the majority will be buried during the colossal, ever -growing mountain of games, if not directly, then shortly after launch, no matter how much passion has been added to them. Still, it's the best way to approach a game, because that's why we have video games in the first place.

Peak's pitch is simple: It asks you to climb randomly generated terrain, which will be updated every 24 hours and manage your endurance, hunger and wellness while helping your friends to do the same. It was never intended to be anything more than that, and although it has been given the limelight and the opportunities to grow now, it is an unexpected reward for something that was such a simple, special, standalone from the gates.

Note, Triple-A Studios

I do not want Triple-A developers to overshadow the success of independent developers by adopting the same approach, especially when Indie Devs is so often the core of the industry, but it would be refreshing to see more triple-A titles created with passion. Dev's Making Games deserves the freedom to use their creative efforts, while the companies that are above should rely on them to create something special, rather than demand goals and deadlines.

If you make a game clean for monetary success, and really long -term success, it may be better to be uneven. A small, stupid little game about climbing a mountain with friends can hit 1 million sales in less than a week, so sure it proves that we do not always need millions of dollars budgets, tough deadlines, sales goals and crunch. We only need developers to make the games they want to do and then be able to give that game in a complete package, while being as excited about it as the rest of society.