{"id":405100,"date":"2026-02-03T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405100\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:38:09","slug":"ps5-climbing-game-cairn-is-the-first-success-story-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405100\/","title":{"rendered":"PS5 Climbing Game Cairn Is the First Success Story of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Cairn PS5\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/3416d48212094\/cairn-ps5.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/3416d48212094\/cairn-ps5.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Cairn PS5\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newly released PS5 mountaineering game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/cairn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cairn<\/a> looks to have made a strong start to life sales-wise, with developer The Game Bakers confirming it&#8217;s sold over 200,000 copies since launch last week.<\/p>\n<p>It released on 29th January 2026, meaning the milestone has been reached in just four days. &#8220;We couldn\u2019t be happier to have welcomed 200,000 climbers to the mountain over the weekend,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/thegamebakers.com\/post\/3mdt6pttzjs2f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team said on Bluesky<\/a> in celebration.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Is this the revival of Kami\u2019s golden age of tourism?<br \/>\n\u00a0We couldn\u2019t be happier to have welcomed 200,000 climbers to the mountain over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:kst7bs2gydolpc5y5xha3hjf?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Game Bakers (@thegamebakers.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:kst7bs2gydolpc5y5xha3hjf\/post\/3mdt6pttzjs2f?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026-02-01T20:37:09.165Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cairn is a great climbing simulator, one that presents you with an entire mountain and complete freedom to traverse it as you please,&#8221; we wrote in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/reviews\/ps5\/cairn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cairn PS5 review<\/a>. &#8220;Some light survival mechanics apply just enough pressure to push you forward, and the purposely slow pace encourages careful climbing and proper planning.&#8221; Unfortunately, the PS5 version does suffer from frame rate drops, so it sounds like PC is the best place to play this one.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with performance patches surely on the way, Cairn has made a strong start to life. It could be one of the indie scene&#8217;s standout titles come the end of 2026 if it carries on like this. Have you been playing Cairn? Share your first thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly released PS5 mountaineering game Cairn looks to have made a strong start to life sales-wise, with developer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76963,59,112,3965,86,76962,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-cairn","tag-gb","tag-ps5","tag-sales","tag-technology","tag-the-game-bakers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}