Cairn Is a Climbing Game for the Real Ones

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Climbing games have become a trend over the past few years, ranging from the AAA mountains of Death Stranding to the indie polygonal crags of Peak. But no climbing game has been as loyal to the actual physical experience of ascending cold, hard rock as Cairn. The guys report on their time on the cliffs. Plus, Plante shares his feelings about the brilliant adventure game, Perfect Tides: Station to Station. You can hear more about that game in Plante’s recent interview with its creator, Meredith Gran.

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0:00.0	I'll tell you the problem for me.
0:01.9	And it is honestly, sort of a deal breaker because I don't like a lot of mess, you know?
0:09.3	You're a clean boy.
0:11.1	Yeah, I don't like having stuff on me, right?
0:14.4	And so all the chalk while playing cairn, it's getting all over my raw guy L IX.
0:20.3	It's getting all over my pants. It's getting all over my couch. It's getting freaking everywhere. I don't know why the game comes with a big bag of chalk and says you have to do, you have to have this on while you play it. Yeah. I also didn't appreciate that it came in like writing chalk for it. It didn't come powder. It didn't come like lebron james you've got to squish
0:38.7	it up yourself exactly it's like why do it that way why do it why even do it at all i think i know what
0:45.6	went wrong here you you so you're you're actually only supposed to use the chalk on your hands
0:53.2	you're not supposed to fully disrobe and cover your entire body in chalk. Okay, see, that's the... Okay, so that's the... I've never climbed a rock before, guys. I'm I supposed to know. I know. I think I was watching, just recently, I was watching the live. Free climbing... What is his name name Alex Harnold was climbing
1:10.9	Connold
1:11.5	was climbing the
1:12.7	mountain
1:13.1	and and
1:14.6	or the building
1:15.5	not a mountain
1:16.0	the building
1:16.5	so you didn't watch
1:18.4	this at all
1:18.9	I want to be
1:19.7	really clear
1:21.0	I was watching it
1:22.2	and he used his
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