Cairn, the indie mountain climbing game from French developer The Game Bakers, has sold 200,000 copies on PC and PS5. The game launched on PC (via Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG) and PS5 on January 29.

In November, I wrote a shouty opinion piece crying out to the masses of budding indie developers: “For God's sake, don't make an MMO for your first indie game!” It is worth a read on its own, but in ...