Month: July 2025

Hi everyone,

We’re coming back with an update to the demo! We are introducing a few new features and fixing quite a few bugs. Have a read for details!

New features:

• You can now heal your fingers in the bivouac using climbing tape
• Your Climbot can now compost trash and items, and produce some very useful chalk!
• You can now remap the controls to accommodate your play style
• You can now jump rappel and slide rappel
• You can now browse all the letters and papers you find in your backpack

Fixes and improvements:

• Our Climbot friend should find its way even better now
• Saving: new a load menu and possibility to load save from pause menu
• Camera: new special camera when entering bivouac
• Audio: new barks, several audio improvements
• Tutorials: new tutorial on how to use the light on the staff
• Settings: new gameplay settings (save reminder, hold feedback..)
• Dualsense: improvement to haptic / trigger effect / speaker…
• Fix: No more rope between Aava and Climbot if no piton planted
• Changes to rope swinging
• Optimization for performance
• Multiple bug fixes

All of this is available in version 1.0.94_945.

We hope you’ll enjoy these changes, as usual, let us know your thoughts here in the comments or on our Discord.

Thank you for playing the demo and getting ready for the ascent of Mount Kami in a few months now!

Hi everyone,

The demo has been played by over 500,000 players now. We’re glad all of you are training to ascent Mount Kami in a few months now. We’re incredibly thankful that you’re enjoying the demo, and want to celebrate with you. How about a chance to win some Cairn merch?

Screenshot by Fs.Retro

Use the in-game photo mode to capture a screenshot, anywhere in the demo, an send your screenshot to fanart@thegamebakers.com before July 29 at 5pm CEST to enter. We can’t wait to see your pictures!

The merch to win: Cairn stickers and carabiners!

Note: Merch can ship to everywhere but Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Syria, Crimea, Sevastopol, Yemen, Haiti.