Cairn

10/10 Game I enjoyed every minute of playing, finding all the stuff hidden away, and all the things I need to find on my next runthrough. Finished the normal gameplay so I will try and go back and free-climb the entire mountain on 1 life. Would recommed.

Actually having climbing experience weirdly makes this game very frustrating at times. About 75% of the time its incredibly fun with the best climbing mechanics put in a game yet. However the automatic limb system, doesn't work very well and when climbing hands will sometimes lose almost all of their grips - seemingly in cracks a lot requiring you to reinsert them with manual limb selection in the second before you tumble to the ground. The game should do a better job of having the character automatically adjust in moments like these, finding the 1cm part to hold on the wall with an art style that often makes these small holds very hard to see and gauge a total pain. Furthermore rest positions are totally bonkers at times, as others have said its not surprising that seemingly trivial grade v2 rest positions just don't work but you can rest doing a full splits with hands above your head in directions that don't generate good pulling force. Chimney climbing for example is pretty relaxing at times in real life, but in Cairn its incredibly annoying to start shaking with a simple isometric hold. Story, art style and the environmental storytelling is all gorgeous albeit nothing hugely magical to elevate it to that top tier of indie games. The climbing is a diamond in the rough, but weirdly I think if you climb IRL you'll push the game to its limits more often than the average reviewer and thus have a worse time with it. The last section of the game's hardest ending really suffers from pushing the climbing system to it's limits while also providing a gauntlet that you can get sunk into 3 hours for before realizing you haven't enough supplies to finish and having to load a 3 hour old save to retry (or turn on the assist mode). This really hurt the emotional weight I should have normally felt. It's despite these frustrations, definitely worth it and is the closest a game has come to the real life feeling of pulling on a rock hold, and donning an ice axe. In all the exhilaration, frustration and grit that it entails.

As the beginning of the tutorial of this game, this game has caught my attention really that it intended for me to play this even more. I am to be glad that I have bought the 2 game bundle from the summit bundle that both of them are as worth it as intended. It caught me to my surprise that both of these mountain climbing games are as adventuring as any other story game has to offer, I'm willingly would like to play this game even more if only I had most of the time available. But until then, I'd recommend everyone to try this game, whether you buy the summit bundle, or you buy the premium/normal version of this game. a worth it discounted offer indeed

真是个好游戏！最后那段给我爬冒汗了，完全心流模式。。在雪山上的喘气像哭泣一样。。哎。。选择继续爬下去的我好残忍。。

great

excelente juego, simple pero a la vez dificil. hermoso artisticamente, buen audio. una linda experiencia jugarlo.

Loved it, very emotional