Peak Is Rated for PS5 by the ESRB, Which Says Hungry Players Can Eat Teammates as Rotisserie Chicken

Peak, the $7.99 co-op climbing game that took off on Steam in 2025, has been rated for PlayStation 5 by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The developers have not announced a console version, but the ESRB listing names the platform and describes the game in detail.

What the rating says

The ESRB rated the PlayStation 5 version E10+ for Everyone 10+, with the content descriptor Fantasy Violence and the interactive element Users Interact. Its summary describes a co-op adventure in which players, stranded on a mysterious island, work together in first person to climb mountains, collect tools and survive.

Players climbing a red rock formation in a sunlit desert in Peak
Peak. Image: Team PEAK (Steam screenshot)

The listing mentions spiders that bind characters and zombies that grab players and slam them to the ground. It also notes that when a player’s hunger gets too low, they can eat other characters, who appear as rotisserie chicken, with “cartoony skeleton effects.”

An ESRB rating is not a release announcement, and the listing does not include a price or date. IGN noted that ESRB listings have historically been an accurate sign of upcoming releases. The listing covers PlayStation 5 only.

How big Peak is on Steam

Peak launched on Steam on June 16, 2025, for Windows PC, from Team PEAK with Aggro Crab and Landfall as publishers, and sells for $7.99, according to its Steam page. As of October 14, 2026:

  • Reviews: 379,508 user reviews, rated Very Positive, with 358,410 positive, or about 94%.
  • Players: 20,138 people in game at once at about 14:20 UTC, according to Steam’s public player-count data, about 16 months after launch.

IGN reported that Peak had sold more than 10 million copies as of August 2025 and that its post-launch support ended earlier in 2026, so a console release would bring the existing game rather than new content.

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