Cairn

Этот отзыв нельзя считать объективным, я пока наиграл только 4 часа и я уверен, что ещё не успел всё попробовать, но исходя из всего того, что я успел попробовать, мне игра зашла. Выживание, готовка, альпинизм и скалолазание, всё имба короче, а ну и ещё, я успел разок провалится под текстурки горы, было неприятно, но сохранение было не далеко так что ладно

[b]Cairn could have been an excellent game. It's a masterpiece.[/b] We play as Aava, a top-tier professional climber who has resolved to summit Mount Kami, a mythical mountain that has never been successfully climbed. We begin in medias res. Aava's story and personality reveal themselves gradually as the climb unfolds. For the ascent, she carries nothing but a climbot, her backpack, a life devoted entirely to her craft, and an unshakeable determination. The first challenge, as you'd expect, was finding gameplay that could satisfyingly simulate climbing a mountain. On that front, it's a bullseye. The developers have managed to design a climbing system that's intuitive without being simplistic, magnificently served by cel-shaded visuals that bring out the mountain's contours and let you gauge the quality of a hold at a glance. The visuals are sumptuous, the gameplay demanding and gripping, all while offering a full range of difficulty settings that suit casual players and hardcore challenge-seekers alike. On top of that comes a genuinely well-thought-out survival system. You'll manage your pack, tape your fingers, gather food, locate water sources, eat, and make camp regularly to restore your energy. Is it a strict climbing simulator? No. The developers have dreamed up believable pieces of technology that spare us some of the tedium of a real ascent: a light-staff, and above all a climbot, tasked with retrieving our pitons, composting our waste, and relaying messages from our loved ones — often much to the protagonist's annoyance. The music? Most of the time it's stripped back to the sound of the wind, our grunts of effort, the noise of nature itself. And then, suddenly, a swell of music unfurls to underscore a moment of tension. Is it a pure climbing game, then? Not that either. Little by little, an almost ethnological dimension layers itself on top — as unexpected as it is absorbing. Because in the world of Cairn, the mountain was, until recently, home to a native people who revered Mount Kami. As we climb, we uncover their architectural feats and traces of their traditional culture, along with the reasons they eventually chose to descend. These cliff-dwellers — distantly evocative of Japan, Tibet, the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms — are a welcome addition that, beyond the survival-and-performance layer, makes every stop along the way fascinating. You catch yourself fishing in a sacred pool, deciphering rock-cut inscriptions, climbing a stretch of mountainside for no reason other than to learn a little more. We are never alone against nature. Others are always present: our loved ones, the cliff-dwellers whose works command real admiration, the rare encounters — made all the more powerful by their scarcity — or Aava's own relentless drive, which we sense was forged by some buried trauma. And that's where the game truly sets itself apart and becomes exceptional. Because Cairn is, at its core, a psychological journey to the very edge of the self, one that interrogates our relationship to life and to other people — a world away from the somewhat hollow celebration of athletic feats, or the too-cool posturing so many sports games settle for. Aava is a haunted woman, whose radical life choices set her apart from ordinary people. Whether or not you grow attached to her, these grueling hours on the flanks of Mount Kami remind us that climbing at this level isn't simply a test of willpower and an athletic feat — it's also an escape, a hostage-taking of the people who love you, an extreme quest for self that often comes at others' expense. [i]Cairn holds up a mirror to ourselves: what are our goals? What are we willing to sacrifice to reach them? What meaning do we give our lives?[/i] And the climb itself — demanding total concentration, leaving your palms sweating on the controller — simultaneously interrogates our relationship to that other journey we're all on, without ever quite knowing where it ends: life.

好游戏，让我静下来

도핑은 모든걸 이겨낼수 있게 도와줍니다

本身是一场毫无意义的旅程，但旅途过程中体验过的那绝美的风景，以及自己一路上所为之付出过的努力，最后都将化成一束照亮自己的光

An absolute masterpiece, highly recommend this to everyone

Stunning to look at, at times emotionally draining to play. I've played a few climbing sims and this is definitely the best.