Cairn (2026) - How Many Pitons Do You Need?

Once again, we found ourselves with some problems at home and instead of doing something productive, we decided to climb a mountain /j. It's a good mountain though. Lots to see, caves to explore, goats to milk... Everything you need, really. Just keep track of all your limbs when climbing. In this episode: wall tent, piton problems, favourite waifu, doin it live, smelly climbing gym, free music. ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆  

We're back to finish up Heaven's Vault and honestly, I think it's kind of a big deal. We've traveled the Nebula and have been yanked in this direction and it's time to call it quits. Despite all those spots on the map we haven't seen yet, the river flows in one direction and thus we must reach the end.    in this episode: nine great ideas in a trenchcoat, broken things, the illusion of opportunity and space, the question marks of history, out of place artifacts, a magnifying glass on time, adopting a slave, wreckage all the way down, six is a worse paimon, i could be the robot queen ~shoutout zone~ Handful of Lockpicks  ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

Gris has all the beauty of a masterpiece watercolor, and all of the depth. But gosh, it it beautiful. In this episode: this game is beautiful, internal landscapes, grease, opposites, gris does not fuck, watercolors, enjoying something for the first time after a while, feminine grief, how lovely it is to see pink, it really is pretty though. ~shoutouts zone~ stingrays wheeee the ooze from fern gully is in fact Tim Curry spooky lake month wind turbines Handful of Lockpicks Wheeljam Collection ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

It's a Gary and Will week, which means we decided to play a narrative heavy game. Is it good? Not exactly. Is it fun? Maybe not that either. But I still think we had a pretty good conversation regardless! in this episode: just enough of an offbeat personality, who our protagonists are, robot personhood, motor city, robot jesus, lack of subtlety, bad games by bad people, waiting for death, choices and endings ~shoutout zone~ Race Riot of 1943 Blindspots or Negligence?: David Cage and Racism in Video Games  Star Wars Eclipse  ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

We've taken a suggestion from the people, and we're finally playing Heaven's Vault. It's a point and click adventure that's masquerading as a translation game, but it's very important that this really isn't doing the same thing any of our previous translation games have done. It's much more interested in the history of what came before in this Nebula than it is in the actual text on the screen, and we're gonna get into it. in this episode: this is not chants of sennaar, unnatural silences, the robot is kind of weird, kentucky route zero vibes, the importance of coversation, history doesnt stop, movies ~shoutouts zone~ Heaven's Vault Novels  Realis  Radiotext The WHEELJAM Collection  Handful of Lockpicks  ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

No matter what, press on beat seven. Except for all the times you shouldn't. In this episode: ite: macarons, fan levels, frost beats, a severe spoiler wall, game of the year, when it does that thing, cheap hospital settings, residency, this game has now drawn blood. ~shoutouts zone~ BIRDBRAIN (w / OK Glass) shoutouts to teto like in general you go girl give us nothing McDonald's in the Pentagon ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

Feather is gone, which means we're on our own! In an ep where we barely talk about the actual gameplay, we masquerade as a dog so we can go clubbing. Sure, maybe we stole a ring to give to a wily dealer to get a shady dog mask. And yeah, perhaps we got into a gun duel with a child. But things are fine here, we got this, okay?   in this episode: audible guffaw, smash cut into heaven, something ominous, billy the puppy, wily d ealer, lulling a dog to sleep with your rad tunes, people people, short one for a short game on short notice ~shoutout zone~  discopup    ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆  

Sanabi meets Super Meat Boy and Hotline Miami in this breakneck sidescrolling beat em up. With both slowdown and rewind mechanics, this game manages to keep pace while having little to say. We get into the weeds in a plot that probably doesn't matter when the gameplay itself remains superb, but at the end of the day I think we all agreed that this game was good!   in this episode: katana route zero, rewind mechanics, speedrunners, time period specific aesthetics, too much colored text, multiple endings, katana zero maker, devolver hate ~shoutouts zone~ katana zero speedrun  hyperdemon  rhythm doctor  beastfolk barber  hopetown  alabaster dawn  forever ago  in falsus  worming from home  ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

We did it. We found the best game. Podcast's over. Jokes aside, this one's most likely ending up on a couple GOTY-lists for us. It might go on yours, too. Just give it a try. It's only mostly obnoxious and people incapable of spelling anything correctly. In this episode: Crazy Frog, name every RPG, the most depressed sad boy of all time, BBB vs Slayers X, TVtropes is good sometimes, Airplane! is the best movie of 1980. ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆  

Hello. Papers please. What do you mean, "what papers"? Your big walk papers. You know, completion certificate, although if you have a signed BW-92 "tried big walk for a few hours but didn't like it" form, I'm legally required to accept that at well. We just need to know you aren't ruining this for yourself. What's that? You haven't finished big walk? You do know you are trying to listen to this episode, right? Can you repeat that? Yes, right into this microphone. I'm really quite sorry, I'm going to have to send you to prison. Officer, this person, right here. Yep, hands up, thank you. You might think we're overreacting, but it's for the best, really. Don't you know we're already past peak big walk? People who haven't played it yet are scarce resource! It's a matter of national security! Yes, prison, off you go. Frankly, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for someone who hasn't played it yet. I don't think those kind of people should be on the streets. I have children out there, you know.   In this episode: EXTREME SPOILER WARNINGS, language evolution, doner, tea kettle code, hanging with your friend, puzzles, geese, get your ass down here, Big Walk: San Bernardino. ~shoutouts zone~ San Bernardino National Forest ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆