Cairn

The award winning team behind Cairn’s music

Hello climbers,

In our latest trailer, you’ve heard the first track Toxic Avenger created for Cairn! It’s time to talk about the standout collaboration behind the game music: The Toxic Avenger (FuriRoad 96) joins forces with Martin Stig Andersen (Control, LIMBO, INSIDE) and Franco-Brazilian singer and composer Gildaa for a powerful, atmospheric soundtrack. Here’s more about that collaboration.

https://youtu.be/fZiy36vcB5Q

THE TOXIC AVENGER

The Toxic Avenger is a French DJ and electronic music producer you might have heard in Furi and in many other soundtracks like Road 96 or The Crew.

We worked with The Toxic Avenger on Furi, for which he created some of the most iconic tracks (like My Only Chance or Make this Right). We absolutely loved working with him then, and we’re super excited to have him back for Cairn.

Martin Stig Andersen

In Cairn, you can also hear the amazing work of Martin Stig Andersen, the game audio director and composer, who is well known for creating the immersive soundtracks of LIMBO, INSIDE or Control.

Martin is composing the music you hear as you climb, weaving together the work from Gildaa, The Toxic Avenger and his own creation. We’re excited for you to hear it all in the final game.

Gildaa

Last but very much not least, Gildaa wears two hats for Cairn. She is co-composing and singing in the game, but recorded all of Aava’s efforts and breathing materials to support the climbing system. She is a rising star on the French music scene, with her debut album coming later this year (listen to her single Pas Assez!). She sat for an interview with us about her role(s) in Cairn, have a watch!

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

Cairn’s demo is out now on Steam and PlayStation, and you can wishlist the game to support us!

First console announcement: the PlayStation 5

Hi everyone,

A lot of you have been asking if Cairn would be available on console, and we’re happy to confirm that Cairn will launch on PS5 and PC later this year. The game will shine on PS5 and PS5 pro, and we’re already having fun with the haptics implementation. This is the announcement trailer:

https://youtu.be/9keovn3_GOE

Of course we’d love to bring the game to other platforms like we did for our previous games. But for now our small team is 100% committed to launch on PC and PS5 at best quality.

Wishlist the game on Playstation 5 here! https://bit.ly/Cairn-PS5Store

Cairn – FAQ

Climbers,
Thank you for playing Cairn!
We have gathered most common questions and a list of known issues here.
Here’s a link to the FAQ: bit.ly/Cairn-FAQ

Enjoy the ascent, and see you on the summit.

Cairn – route competition

You can climb anything, anywhere in Cairn. This means you will create your own unique route every time you climb Tenzen’s mountain ridge! Share your route with us to enter our route contest, and get a chance to win an exclusive Cairn carabiner

Send two screenshots of your complete path using Display path, or a video of your Replay path to fanart@thegamebakers.com before December 13th at 5pm CET to enter!

We’ll pick winners for two categories:

  • Hardest route – it can include overhangs, jumps…
  • most unusual route – the route we don’t see everyday!

Winners will be announced on the 16th. May the mountain be with you

Cairn – photo mode competition

We like to celebrate you enjoying our games, and gifting you the very first piece of Cairn merch, carabiners, feels fitting!

Read below for the details and rules,

Use the in-game photo mode to capture a screenshot, anywhere in the demo. Send your screenshot to fanart@thegamebakers.com before December 10th at 5pm CET to enter.

We will announce the winners on December 11th. We can’t wait to see your pictures!

Time to climb in Cairn’s demo!

You know how they say good things come to those who wait? Well, thank you for your patience, but wait no more: go and play Cairn’s demo right NOW

In the demo, you play as Aava, attempting your first ascent before heading to mount Kami. After a warm-up in the climbing gym, you climb to the summit of mount Tenzen. You have full freedom to explore the small mountain ridge, learn how to climb, forage, and survive in a low-pressure environment. It packs many of the features of the full game.

To mark the occasion, we premiered a brand new gameplay trailer, check it out:

https://youtu.be/Q4In8-k2A-I

Cairn is on the Tokyo Game Show floor!

We’re currently showcasing Cairn at Tokyo Game Show! If you’re lucky enough to be there, you should totally come and try it. We are on the Kakehashi Games booth in hall 3, which is right by the Square Enix booth – can’t miss us!

The first gameplay impressions are rolling in, and we’re thrilled to be getting such high praise from Famitsu on twitter:

Read the full article here: https://www.famitsu.com/article/202409/18773

Cairn has won its first award!

Hi everyone,

We were at Gamescom last week – and we return with good news! Cairn won Best Game of Indie Arena Booth. Among 176 incredible indie games, that is no small feat.

It was the first time players could try Cairn, and it meant the world to us to win an award confirming that we’re really working on something special.

And would you look at that turnout? Absolutely packed!

We are pumped to share the demo with you soon and hear what you have to say!

Until then,
Lauranne

Introducing Cairn

Hi everyone!

It is finally time for us to let you in on what we’ve been cooking: our next game Cairn, a mountain ascent adventure with an intuitive climbing simulation.

Read the whole description here – also see the superstars who have joined our team to make this game!

We have created a new climbing simulation that gives you complete freedom to explore the mountain, read the rock face and decide on your route. Climbing is challenging, with difficult sections to navigate, and you will need to use your equipment and pitons wisely. Cairn’s story mode will take you on Aava’s journey, as she sets to conquer a summit no one has reached before, and you will decide what she’s ready to sacrifice to achieve the ascent.

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

We’ll share more with you soon, but in the meantime wishlist Cairn and stay tuned by:

After years of secrecy, it feels really good for the whole team to finally be sharing this with you, and we can’t wait to hear your feedback – and show you more!



Until then,
The Game Bakers

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