Peak publishers, Aggro Crab Games, just made a bold statement: they’d prefer players pirate their game than waste time on a microtransaction-heavy Roblox clone. Yep, you read that right. This drama unfolded after a blatant copycat called Cliff popped up on Roblox, mimicking Peak’s look and feel but loaded with annoying cash grabs.
So, what’s the deal? Peak is a physics-based co-op climbing game that exploded on Steam, hitting over 100,000 concurrent players in its first week and selling more than 5 million copies within a month. With success like that, knockoffs were inevitable, but this one’s got devs fuming.
tbh would rather you pirate our game than play this microtransaction-riddled @Roblox slop ripoff pic.twitter.com/ulRShLLGz2
— AGGRO CRAB 💥 (@AggroCrabGames) August 4, 2025
The copycat game, Cliff, looks suspiciously like Peak. The promo art? Almost identical. The characters? Same prepare. The mountain background? You guessed it, eerily similar. Even the game description on Roblox mirrors Peak’s Steam page, with just a few tweaks. Cliff’s devs claim it’s inspired by Peak and another game called Mountain Climbing, but the similarities go way beyond inspiration.
PC Gamer’s report points out that Cliff even copied gameplay elements like the third-person hub area and first-person climbing sections, plus details like the luggage at the spawn point and square stone columns. But here’s the thing: Cliff’s loaded with microtransactions for things like a climbing pickaxe, a parrot companion, and a golden apple. Seriously? Players are supposed to fork over cash for a parrot in a climbing game?
Meanwhile, Peak isn’t just sitting still. The game recently added a bizarre cannibalism feature in its latest update, showing the devs have their own wild ideas. So, would you pirate Peak to avoid Cliff’s microtransaction trap? Or does this kinda thing just come with the territory in the Roblox universe.
