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Valley Peaks, which released on Steam this week, is a cozy first-person platformer where you play as a frog tasked with climbing mountains and installing radio transmitters on them. It’s on sale for the first two weeks, 10% off until August 7. 

I had a delightful time in the Valley Peaks demo. It opens with your friendly frog protagonist driving his old truck down the road before getting an important message from Corporate. The frogs in the valley need your help connecting with the outside world, and you’ve got to get those transmitters up pronto. I did wonder what a bunch of happy frogs living in an idyllic valley really need with technological connection to all the hustle and bustle that’s making the rest of us crazy, but that’s neither here nor there.

Gameplay consists almost entirely of climbing, and it’s got a neat little system to let you do it. Each mouse button is connected to one of your froggy paws, and you can shimmy a little bit to the …