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Recess Squads: PEAK

Summit as a squad — fall, rise, repeat.

Squads
Organized by Christopher

Hosted by 3 expert guides

Reminder: PEAK is not compatible with Apple/Mac computers.

This Squad requires access to an account on Steam. Please have this before joining (or ask us for help)

Conquer ever‑shifting heights together in PEAK, a cooperative climbing game where strategy, stamina, and communication make the difference between ascending or slipping away. Every day brings a newly generated mountain full of surprises—and every session brings a chance to climb together.

This squad is only available for those that have a WINDOWS Operating System. Unfortunately PEAK is not playable on Apple devices.

What You'll Do

  • Play PEAK’s daily randomized climbing challenges with your squad.
  • Coordinate climbs, share items, and help each other scale difficult terrain
  • Use ropes, pitons, altars, and backpacks strategically to survive and climb
  • Reflect on each run and brainstorm strategies in short debriefs
  • Shape the squad’s play style and goals through feedback and collaboration

What You'll Learn

  • Team Coordination: Synchronize your stamina, resources, and timing to help each other succeed
  • Strategic Planning: Decide when to place ropes or use pitons, manage your gear, and plan routes under pressure
  • Resilience Through Play: Bounce back from setbacks and reinforce teamwork in tense moments
  • Digital Leadership: Guide the group through decision-making, resource sharing, and encouragement
  • Creative Problem-Solving: Adapt to unpredictable maps and changing challenges each day

What You'll Need

  • A working camera and microphone
  • Your own copy of PEAK on PC (Steam)
  • Access to the Recess Virtual Universe (Gather) for staging and debrief purposes

Meet the guides

Expert guides leading this course

Recess Community Director, Ask me about my dog, or give me a baby name suggestion! - PfP credit: Theo P
I love games (Elden Ring, Minecraft, Marvel Rivals) Aspiring game dev Star Wars fan Lego enthusiast I love collecting things!
Avid gamer and baker

Course updates

Updates from guides of this course

2 days ago

Hello! Today’s Friday - ***** ***** started off pretty smoothly and the moment we all got in, we quickly discussed the goal for the session: to make it to the top of the third biome! 

The first part went well, aside from having to backtrack once, and it took us almost ** minutes...

Oct 27 @ 10:34 PM

Hello! ***** ***** aka. ***** ******** decided to go for a slightly different goal today along with a familiar one. With **** knowing the route slightly, we decided to speedrun and try our best to get to the **** (the very last mountain) along with the side goal of getting ***** ...

Nov 24 @ 11:54 PM

Hello! Today’s squad had a little less people, but we still had a blast! The goal was to make it till the end of the session without dying. We all managed to get past the Shore without any deaths, but the Roots were very harsh on us. 

One fall ended ****, who was a skeleton, whi...

Nov 17 @ 11:51 PM

***** ******** made ************** progress this session! We got started early and breezed through the first peak however, some of us did not get revived because the statue was used too early so we really need to make sure not to touch the statue until everyone has made it to the...

Sep 29 @ 11:36 PM

My Group (Chaos Climbers): 
We welcomed a new member today, ***! After some fooling around in the lobby, shooting hoops, throwing chess pieces, and finally, a group photo in the photo booth! 

We managed to make it past the second peak and about a quarter of the way up the snow p...

Oct 13 @ 11:18 PM

Hello! Today was an amazing day of PEAK! The Chaos and the Cozy Squad aka. ********** Squad had the same goal today: make it to the top of the Tropics. However, the Cozy Squad had an extra goal to get some achievements.

Here's what followed:

Chaos Squad had some nice and wonder...

Oct 7 @ 9:42 PM

Today was fantastic! We kicked things off with suggestions for a new squad name; because we can’t be “***** Squad - Tuesdays” forever. So far, ***** Soup Squad is in the lead, thanks to *****’s impressive lobbying efforts and the poem he read to all of us. Keep the name ideas com...

Oct 6 @ 11:22 PM

Today was a blast! We welcomed ***** to his first playthrough of PEAK and to his first time joining the Cozy Squad aka. ***** and ***** aka. D&D 😁. It was a lot of fun teaching him the ropes. We learned: 

- Safe foods (some mushrooms look alike but are poisonous)
- Sea Urchins ...

Sep 22 @ 11:27 PM

Great day for another session of PEAK! Today we welcomed *****’s and ******’s first time joining the Chaos Climbers!

With the group being so large, we had a great discussion about splitting the groups into two: one being the Chaos Climbers (hail the chaos!) and the second group ...

Dec 9 @ 12:01 AM

Today’s Dead-Inside Squad did awesome, I’m so proud of everyone for what we managed to accomplish! 😁 I started off the session by suggesting that we play on ********* (easiest difficulty) from now on since that’s what the other group has been doing and maybe by playing on a slig...

Dec 23 @ 5:20 AM

The chaos climbers earned their title today with a mashup of bugs, snowball fights, and insane gameplay.

Today the climbers opened up breezing through the first peak. Some of us got separated early on, but, eventually we regrouped at the fireplace and moved onto the next area. T...

Nov 10 @ 11:54 PM

Hello! Today both squads stepped foot into the new Roots biome. This is *****’s most recent update and it features lots of mushrooms, spiders, zombies, and much more! 

Along with the update, we ran into some technical issues. The mod that allows more than four players to join a ...

Oct 14 @ 10:11 PM

Hello! Today, since I’m taking over for ****** briefly, I temporarily joined what is now known as the Duck Soup Squad! I thought it was such a nice sounding and yummy name, but I was actually told no ducks were harmed in the making of the soup and its meaning is about a duck swim...

Dec 16 @ 12:55 AM

Hello! Today’s session for both squads started off differently. Instead of meeting up in Gather, we met up in Recess Rooms today which is a lot better because it’s less intensive on your device and if the hour ends, the kids can continue to stay inside and chat. 

So once the hou...

Dec 26 @ 10:55 PM

Hello! Today it was just **** and I, so after a brief show and tell of the awesome chest **** got for Christmas, we went straight to discussing goals. Since last Friday’s session went really well and we sped through each biome, the goal for today was to speedrun and see how far w...

Sep 8 @ 11:54 PM

We started off today by welcoming three awesome new members: ****, ******, and ******! After a quick intro, we decided to split into two groups to test out different strategies.

🧗 ******’s Crew
Made it all the way to the second peak!

- They naturally paired into groups of two ...

Sep 1 @ 10:53 PM

⛰️ ********: ***** ***** - ***** ********** ***** ⛰️

****, the ***** **** of *** ***** ***** was… *****.

It was ****** to see **** *** faces back at ******, introduce **** of ** ******* ***** to **** other, and then launch into the most chaotic game of ***** I’ve ever played. A...

Oct 20 @ 11:04 PM

**************************************************. We opened up resolving some audio issues before heading into the game but, once we got in we were rolling! We scaled the first peak with ease, gathering a bunch of loot that would help us with the tropics. The second peak is whe...

6 days ago

Hello! Today’s ********* ***** had full attendance, meaning we started off our climb with much more people. After handling some technical issues, I debriefed everyone on the plan of beating ****** **. It's definitely going to take multiple tries considering how the difficulty lev...

Sep 15 @ 11:43 PM

Today was another climb for the books, and we got to welcome ***** to the squad. Huge welcome!

The Cozy Climbers took a steady and thoughtful approach with *****:
🌄 Made it to the first peak after working through some tech hiccups
💪 ***** jumped right in, helping ***** after f...

Oct 22 @ 1:22 AM

************************************************************! We opened ****************** figuring out some audio issues for a few members, after some troubleshooting we decided to stick to gather audio for this session as to not waste too much time. The first peak was a bit cha...

Dec 2 @ 12:44 AM

***** ******** had such an incredible session today!

First things first, today we welcomed the newest member of the ***** ******** today, ******! After getting everyone situated we dove straight in, breezing through the first peak with no deaths. The smaller groups we split off ...

Nov 30 @ 11:29 PM

**** **** **** had a rough start to our peak progression but ended up turning the session around into something productive!

We opened up this week jumping right in, everyone was situated relatively fast so we wasted no time getting started! We found ourselves having trouble with...

Dec 3 @ 11:23 PM

**** **** **** had such a unique **** session this week!

We opened up this week discussing what we wanted our goal to be while stacking **** ***** on the the ******** **** in ****. The more we discussed the crazier this stack became and we decided we wanted to try to get all o...

Sep 30 @ 10:16 PM

Today's session was such a blast! We started off with some technical difficulties, introducing each other to one another, and finally, we dove right in! 

We made it to the second peak today, which was huge considering the time frame we had! It was amazing seeing everyone coopera...

Dec 20 @ 1:36 AM

Hello! Today was the very first session of PEAK for Friday’s PEAK Squad (we’re going to have to find a new squad name 🤔). It went awesome! We all entered into the lobby with little to no tech issues and took a picture at the photo booth as a morale boost for our squad’s first cl...

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