Cairn News

Hi everyone,

We're back with a demo update, and improvements a lot of you have been requesting!

Most of the time, it's good to rely on the game's calculations to select the best limb to move next. It's smooth and efficient. But there's always this one time where you want total control. We heard you. So we are introducing New manual limb selection modes! Not one, not two, but four different control schemes to suit all playstyles!

These are the different modes to pick from: face buttons and shoulder buttons on gamepad, WASD on keyboard, and a quadrant selection on both.


After some testing, we think these are the best ways to let you manually control the limbs, but of course we'd love to hear what you think about it.

This update is also introducing Korean localization, welcome Korean players!

We have also fixed a few bugs:

• Manual limb selection: improved limb detection when selecting with the stick, added a visual helper
  
• Some fixes on the rope to avoid weird movement
  
• Fixed several low reproduction soft lock
  
• Fixed PS4 controller displaying Xbox inputs
  
• Fixed off-belay detection
  
• Fixed camera going through ground during recap path
  
• Minor LD fixes to avoid being stuck in narrow spaces
  
• Minor localization fixes and missing prompts
  

Hi everyone!

It’s our last day before we leave for the holidays, and it’s been two incredible weeks meeting all the new Cairn players. We truly enjoyed seeing your screenshots, routes, and speedruns of the demo, and we’re excited to see what you do with the full game on REDACTED, 2025. 👀

Since it is the season of gifts, we figured we could do one to all of you: keeping the demo up.

We originally planned to pull it down yesterday, and let you get lost in the Steam Winter Sale (Furi’s 70% off wink-wink), but it would feel wrong to pull the demo when you’re still playing it. So you can have it at least until the holidays are over!

Depicted: Aava enjoying the colder season

Thank you all for being a part of the community, and sharing your feedback, accomplishments and screenshots with us. Happy holidays, and see you in the next year!

Our last Cairn demo competition, certainly not the least, has ended! We saw some incredibly dedicated speedrunners play the demo and aim for the fastest runs in four categories:

• reaching the summit
  
• opening the box in the gym
  
• reaching the summit with all 9 pitons
  
• grabbing the honey
  

Do we approve every strat that was found? Probably not. We can’t approve hurting Aava. But are we impressed at the creativity to go faster? We sure are.

Congratulations to our winners, MagicScrab (summit, honey), Snoom (box) and Krwmble (all pitons)!

Here’s MagicScrab’s winning summit run! Think you can beat it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYJFQ7nhEE


note: The thumbnail is the gym's heatmap. Each dot is a player, and the color represents their stamina. In green, they're feeling good. In red... not so much!

It’s time to announce the winners of Cairn’s routes contests!

We received a lot of great entries, we have very creative climbers out there! The winner for hardest route is ruolbu. If you look closely, there’s very little red, which shows great climbing mastery.



The winner for most unusual route is Shaggy. This one was indeed, unexpected, taking its time with beautiful transversal and difficult passages.



We’ve heard a few “I don’t even know how they did it” from our level design team, so we opened a new category to celebrate that “How is that even possible?” feat. The award goes to Carutaaa! Here’s the route:

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Hello everyone, it’s finally time to reveal Cairn’s photo mode contest’s winner!
We did say we would only pick a winner, but it was just too hard to pick, so we ended up with three winners. But can you blame us when you see them?

Our winners are :

Testing the water by zloym93



Respite by oombopay



by Fs.Retro



I hope you love them as much as we do! And if you want a chance to win yourself a Cairn carabiner or some stickers, take part in our route competition or Speedrun competition :)