Cairn

Reaching the peak of virtual climbing

FORMAT PS5 / ETA 2025 PUB THE GAME BAKERS / DEV THE GAME BAKERS / PLAYERS 1 “YOU CAN ATTEMPT TO CLIMB ANY MOUNTAIN, ANCHORING YOURSELF TO ANYWHERE ON ITS SURFACE.” Game developers have certainly discovered climbing in recent years, their approaches varying from frustratingly realistic in Death Stranding to a more meditative style in last year’s Jusant. It’s fun to see all the different interpretations – interpretations that French studio The Game Bakers thinks it can still improve on. In Cairn, climbing is so strenuous you can almost feel it, but with that hard work comes immense satisfaction. We can only watch helplessly as protagonist Aava tumbles down the mountain face, landing in a heap of limbs made gangly by game physics. We were doing so well, right until we weren’t. In…

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