“I came to learn of chocolate tier through a Game File interview (paid article link) with the Peak devs. Peak is a collaboration between the devs at Landfall Games and Aggro Crab. The latter studio happens to share office space in Seattle with Mega Crit, the dev behind the wildly successful roguelike deckbuilder Slay the Spire, sometimes to their chagrin.
“Every year they got fucking chocolates that we didn’t,” Aggro Crab co-founder Nick Kaman jokes in that interview. He was apparently pretty sure that the studio’s goofy 2024 Soulslike, Another Crab’s Treasure, had met the necessary milestone for the chocolate tier, but no chocolate had arrived. He says he emailed Valve about the no-show candy box and got an apology.
This past year, with over 11 million copies of Peak sold, Aggro Crab did finally get its chocolate. Producer Joanna Lin tells Game File that the milk chocolate salted caramel pieces are especially good.”
