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Peak or Die is a visual novel–style survival game where you guide a climber team up a deadly mountain. Manage oxygen, food, and morale as you face hard, morally gray decisions. Each event card reshapes your story with character-driven climbers, scarce resources, and high replayability—will you reach the summit?

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House of Morok

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Peak or Die

Peak or Die is a narrative-driven survival game about climbing a deadly mountain where every decision comes at a cost. You lead a team of adventurers step by step toward the summit, facing moral dilemmas, random events, and constant resource scarcity. Oxygen, food, and team morale are limited, and mistakes accumulate—the mountain does not forgive weakness.

Blending visual novel storytelling with resource management, the game unfolds through choice. Survival depends not only on numbers but on whom you lead and how you steer the group through peril. Each card represents an event, a choice, or a consequence. Do you help the injured climber or conserve the team's strength? Do you risk climbing faster or move cautiously and lose precious time? There are no right answers—only consequences.

Manage the lifelines that keep you alive: Oxygen drains as the climb intensifies, Food sustains stamina and sanity, and Team Morale powers or cripples progress through fear and fatigue. Balance them carefully, because the balance between them determines success or disaster at every turn.

Your expedition is built of individuals, not numbers. Each climber carries a distinct personality, strengths, and weaknesses. Relationships—from conflict to trust—shape the climb and the choices you can make. The teamwork you nurture directly influences routes, outcomes, and the overall intensity of the experience.

Every ascent tells a new story. Procedural events, varied card combinations, and branching decisions ensure a different narrative with each attempt. You might reach the final ridge, or you might fall short of the summit, but your journey leaves an ending that echoes the decisions you made and the bonds you forged.

Key features include a seamless blend of visual novel pacing and resource management, tense moral dilemmas with no guaranteed solution, and a roster of distinct, character-driven climbers. The game emphasizes high replayability and a palpable atmosphere of survival, tension, and gradual exhaustion as the peak looms ever closer. The summit is near—the question is, will you reach it before the mountain claims you?

Designed for players who crave tough calls and emotional resonance, Peak or Die invites careful planning, sharp instincts, and moments of quiet hope amid blizzards and crevasses. Each playthrough reshuffles events, rivalries, and outcomes, rewarding thoughtful leadership as the mountain tests every creed, promise, and plan.