Cairn
Worth it · Action · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.12.
- Length
- 11.8h
- Value
- $2.54/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4096 MB), Radeon RX 570 (8192 MB), 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $22.49. It has been discounted 6 times in the 8 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. No sale on record has reached $12.12, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Driftwood ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Sledding Game ($7.99, scores 67).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,341 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 987 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
84% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
255 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cairn scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1588550/cairnReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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