Cairn: Mathair's Curse

I'm only 1-2 hours in, and the game starts slow (but definitely picks up!), but WOWWW is this ever a beautiful, inspired spiritual successor to Earthbound. From the map layout, music, silly and light-hearted dialogue, to many more details, this game brings me back to my childhood of infinite hours playing Earthbound and being lost in its beautiful world and story-telling. If you have any love for Earthbound, BUY THIS GAME. If you don't, you will probably still love this game, and I've really barely started! Well done, devs! This is a true love letter to one of the greatest games ever to exist, and I am so lucky to have stumbled upon it.

Really enjoying this so far. Good sense of humour, interesting story and plays well on Steamdeck. I’d happily recommend.

Great game, i'm enjoying every minute of it!

I'm in love with this game <3 Would I recommend this game? ABSOLUTELY! For what I have played of it so far, its one of the best I have played so far <3 Thank you so much for making such a beautiful game Here is to more games like this in the Future =)

Severely underbalanced. Not enough gold for healing items. The writer doesnt at all seem to understand what made Earthbound special or enjoyable, while trying desperately to imitate it. i restarted twice and kept wishing for quality of life improvements--like a speed up function. i finally quit and reclaimed my time, after chapter 1. Simply put: CAIRN is not a fun game.

I'm only 3 hours in so far but I am HOOKED. The game looks so gorgeous, evoking the SNES era really well. The spritework and character designs are gorgeous and the enemies are varied and often comical. The music tracks are delightfully chirpy when happy and evoke a synth horror vibe when necessary too. The genres perfectly compliment the setting of Albaness too. As a native Scot, this game feels made for me. The setting is so fun, the humour is top notch and you can really see the attention to detail that the dev has put into making the game accessible to everyone as well as having that distinctive Scottish flair. An easy recommendation to make.

Aye, well, the braw Scots tongue might seem a smidge imposing tae the uninitiated, but dinnie fret weans, 'cause... [i]ye cannie fling yer grannie aff a bus.[/i] [insert linguistic fist-fight between the Glaswegians, Teuchters, Hebridieans, and... *sigh* okay, fine, the Edinburgers can come play too, I guess] Despite pleas to write this entirely in Scots Gaelic and Old Scots, it was decided that having that many heads explode could, conceivably, be prejudicial to sales (and may incur a significant clean-up bill). As such, this has been largely written in *sigh* English. In truth, the tailored use of the Scots tongue in here isn't particularly dense, and so, if you use yer heed, this should be widely accessible to [i]non-natives[/i] (for the [i]natives[/i]: fàilte dhachaidh, bidh fios agad air seo gu math). Otherwise, this is a mighty cozy, homely, and funny [i]slice-of-life[/i] JRPG (man, that gate gets ye every time), and will certainly ring familiar for those of ye from these fair isles. ♭ 11/10 [Officially Certified totally objective and unbiased review. ✓]

It's scratching the Earthbound itch in a way that other, similarly inspired games have not -- because it's familiar while also being its own charming little thing. Hats off to Ross McRitchie, the love and care is extremely apparent.

Que buen juego, que gran Mother-like, en ocasiones he visto un juego espiritual muy a la imagen de Itoi, un gran mensaje el cual pide valorar más a nuestros seres queridos y como cada pequeña cosa que hacemos juntos es un regalo que si se pierde, gran parte de tu vida desaparece con ello.. Por poner pegas diré que los combates contra enemigos randoms son bastante duros y te invita a gastarte todo tú dinero en objetos para curar los puntos mágicos y de vitalidad.. cada mazmorra puede ser un dolor de huevera importante, pero luego llegas al Boss y en nada te lo ventilas. Me hubiese gustado que fuesen más exigentes pero claro, debido al camino que te tomas para llegar igual hubiese saturado bastante.. es lo contrario a cualquier RPG, paseíto matando masillas y Boss chungo, pues aquí vas listo si piensas que será igual También la duración que me ha llevado completar el juego, a mí por supuesto, de 49 horas y 30 minutos me parecen duras, se que el juego tiene 16k de líneas de diálogo y eso le pesa a favor y también en contra.. pienso que le sobran varios capítulos, no diré la cantidad por ahorrar spoilers, pero hubiese sido un juego más redondo si tuviese una duración de unas 20 horas. El propio creador asegura que son unas 30 horas de título, yo que me pierdo por cada rincón de la ciudad se me han ido a 20 más. En definitiva es un gran juego, con sus cosas, con sus virtudes también y el ser hecho por una sola persona (salvo música, testers, arte de portada..) le suma una gran calidad, porque lo bien escrito que está, sus personajes y su evolución.. y sobretodo la historia son dignas de enmarcar!! Recomendadismo a quien le guste los Mother-likes