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Games like Cairn

Enjoyed Cairn? Here are 6 games that play in a similar way – such as Baby Steps, Die Young, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Each shows the cheapest key price from the stores we compare.

About Cairn: As pro climber Aava, you attempt Mount Kami’s never-climbed summit in this survival-climbing game. The simulation is realistic: you find holds, place hands and feet and adjust posture, balance and effort, and a careless move means falling. You can climb anywhere and plan your own route; each wall feels like a boss fight, though difficulty can be tuned. You manage pitons, chalk, tape, food, water and medicine and set up bivouacs; the makers of Furi and Haven built it, with music and sound by the team behind Limbo, Inside, Control and Cocoon and art and story by Mathieu Bablet.

Updated 12 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · similar games are picked by AI from our catalogue based on game content (play style, setting, co-op) · descriptions based on official publisher information on Steam

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Baby Steps

You play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, who one day discovers an unexpected ability: placing one foot in front of the other. The journey crosses a mist-covered world and a long climb up a mountain, which you can explore at your own pace while setting each footstep yourself through physics-based movement. The game also features a dynamic onesie soilage system, a soundtrack built from 420 beats, and hats that cannot be collected. Its story revolves around searching for meaning in a wasted life and encountering the local fauna.

Die Young

Die Young is an open-world action adventure played in first person. A young girl wakes up buried alive on a picturesque island of 12 square kilometres and, hungry and dehydrated, fights to stay alive. She jumps, climbs and uses her parkour skills to handle the dangers of wild nature, searches for items and gear, and tries to learn what happened to her friends and what lies behind the island's strange dwellers, ancient ruins and dark mines. This is not a classic survival game of building shelters: her only aim is to escape as soon as possible, since fighting is hopeless.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world game set in Neogene Africa, beginning 10 million years ago. Players cross lush jungles and golden savannah grasslands while guarding against weather, predators and other dangers. They expand their territory, bring new clan members together, form bonds and families, and use the group to intimidate predators and overcome fear of unknown places. By choosing and honing attributes — from crafting tools to evasive tactics — they pass knowledge to future generations, and must eat, drink and sleep to stay alive.

Tchia

Tchia is an open-world tropical adventure set in an archipelago. The heroine sets out to rescue her father from the cruel tyrant Meavora, ruler of the archipelago. Players climb, glide, swim and sail a boat between islands in a physics-driven sandbox. They can take control of animals and objects and play the ukulele, which triggers events in the world, such as summoning rain. Encounters with the Maano enemies, formed from pieces of wood and fabric, call for improvisation.

Grow Home

Grow Home is an indie adventure in which you control BUD (Botanical Utility Droid), a robot tasked with saving his home planet by harvesting seeds from a giant alien plant. You grow the plant and ride it upward toward higher ground, and every part of it can be climbed and used as a bridge, a safety net, or a tool for artistic expression. BUD's hands move independently thanks to procedural animation, which makes climbing free and unrestricted, but a single wrong move can mean a long fall. You explore a world of floating islands with unusual plants and animals and collect crystals that enhance BUD's abilities.

Praey for the Gods

Praey for the Gods is an open-world action adventure where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to uncover the nature of a never-ending winter. Arriving with only the clothes on your back, you must survive among the massive beasts that rule the landscape. Almost anything can be climbed, from ruins and mountains to the beasts themselves as you scale and defeat them, and you can glide through the air or swim in frigid water. Progress is non-linear — you choose the order of the fights — and cryptic paintings of an ancient civilization hint at a forgotten story.