To the delight of all looking for a new challenge, Cairn allows players to unlock a total of 53 (or 54, including the PS5-exclusive Platinum) trophies/achievements while putting their might against the Kami.
But as you can guess from the game’s scope, many of them are either easily missable or require going off the main path. To help you truly conquer the mountain, here’s how to unlock all trophies/achievements in Cairn.
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How to Get All Trophies/Achievements In Cairn
To make hunting for the Platinum easier, we decided to divide all of Cairn‘s trophies/achievements into two categories: Missable and Story. Keep in mind that the game has multiple endings, which means you will need to play it at least twice to unlock all of the below. We also did not add any details that might hinder your experience, so don’t worry about heavy spoilers while checking it out.
All Story (Unmissable) Trophies/Achievements & How To Unlock Them
- Mandatory warm-up: By completing the Tenzen training (Prologue).
- Those who come back down: By finding your first broken Climbot.
- Moment of cool: By taking a break at the waterfall.
- Interloper on the wall: By meeting Marco.
- Everything else disappears: By witnessing the aurora borealis.
- One hell of a night: By waking up in top shape after spending the night at The Dome.
- Neither a success, nor a failure: By meeting Damas Al Fatri.
- Home: By choosing to go back with Marco.
- Upstream: By surviving the Avalanche.
- Part of a whole: By reaching the Summit of the Kami.
How To Unlock All Missable Trophies/Achievements In Cairn
- Serious training: By opening the locked box in the gear room. Complete all Advanced Training tasks to get the ability to do so.
- Bag maniac: By manually adjusting the contents of your backpack.
- Don’t stop me now: By climbing 30 meters without a piton. To easily do it, use the Rewind feature.
- Aava Porter Bridges: By delivering Rody’s letter to the shepherdess. Will also unlock the Thermos.
- In Memoriam: By placing an origami at the shelter.
- Luxurious grip: By composting coins.
- All that glitters: By acquiring the glow-in-the-dark gloves (Glowing Gloves).
- Spotted!: By using the binoculars to spot Marco.
- Your story: By reviewing your path to the summit after completing a playthrough.
- No thanks: By manually interrupting Marco’s mumbling.
- Return to Source: By catching a weird salamander and acquiring Hygrocybe Rubescens.
- Light up the sky: By shooting fireworks while at a Short Break spot.
- I did it!: By reaching the summit of the mini-Kami.
- Siesta: By sleeping outdoors with the Rest feature.
- Honest heist: By collecting wild honey from the wall.
- The Child: By climbing the first guardian and acquiring its Indestructible Piton (Troglodyte Piton)
- The Ancient: By climbing the second guardian and acquiring its Indestructible Piton. The statue is by far the hardest to find, but can be reached by heading down from The Palace of Wind.
- The Secret: By climbing the third guardian and acquiring its Indestructible Piton.
- Engineer: By crafting a total of 15 pitons during a climb.
- Love birds: By letting Rody and Johanna’s kite loose.
- Herbalist: By cooking the ultimate infusion.
- Master chocolatier: By cooking an easter egg.
- Meteorologist: By getting all three doll pieces.
- Red Rope Club: By making an alcoholic cocktail in your bivouac. Just mix Neetle and Booze to do it.
- One day, I’ll be rich!: By giving enough crystal shards to the crystal-cutter at The Palace of Wind. Doing so will also unlock the Crystal Shard keepsake and the Small Windmill.
- Doped up: By getting all stat boosts (burst, grip, extra grip, focus, and grit) in one go.
- Lick responsibly: By licking a frog for the first time (Will also net you the Frog keepsake).
- Lactic acid: By shaking your arms to recover stamina 50 times (You can do so by pressing △ mid climb).
- Grizzly woman: By surviving the bear encounter. You can trigger it by entering the cave located right above the bivouac site at The Two Hundred Steps.
- Picture for Chris: By using photo mode for the first time.
- Hungry like a wolf: By looting food from a corpse for the first time.
- Kami sashimi: By catching your first fish (Doing so will also net you the Trout keepsake).
- Bird’s eye: By pressing L1 and using Remote View for the first time.
- Nurse: By taping your fingers 20 times.
- Ain’t scared: By jumping from the ground into a wall (make sure to hold ▢ for a guaranteed landing)
- Leap of faith: By running and jumping into the abyss while tied to a Piton.
- Not even a scratch: By surviving a 15-meter fall.
- Close call: By surviving a near-deadly fall.
- Just a bit too late: By falling while planting a piton.
- Leave no trace: By composting 10 trash items (such as cans and wrappers).
- End of the Rope: By extending your rope as far as it can go while rappelling down.
- Heartbeat: By finding the Edelweiss flower. It can be found by climbing the tower located between The Needle and The Secret campsites.
- Free (PlayStation-exclusive): By unlocking all of the 53 above.
Now that you know how to unlock all the trophies/achievements in Cairn, we also highly recommend taking a look at a few other sports and racing games to be excited for in 2026. If you are curious about our thoughts on the game, our Cairn review is also currently live.
