Fullbright has announced its next game “Springs, Eternal”, and it will be a “lo-fi, first-person narrative exploration game set within a mysterious hot spring in the dead of night” coming next year.
The team behind the fantastic Gone Home and Tacoma says that “In a first for Fullbright, the game features interactive, branching dialogue conversations and a low-fi audiovisual evocative of late ‘90s-era PC and home console games”, and adds that: “Players will explore the dark, winding, wooded paths of Stillwater Springs – a secluded, dreamlike and eerie retreat nestled deep amongst the fog-shrouded pines.”
“As they tread and illuminate the trail, flashlight in hand”, adds the studio “players will begin to piece together the humanistic and deeply heartfelt memory of the romantic relationship that brought them here, and perhaps discover where it will lead them next.”
Here’s some of the features for Springs, Eternal:
- A short, focused, supernatural-inflected first-person narrative exploration game (around 2-3 hours to fully complete.) The dark paths you walk are ominous, but you can’t die… can you?
- Experience all that a mysterious, secluded hot springs retreat has to offer. Multiple tucked-away pools, caverns, and other odd attractions. The map gradually expands as you explore, revealing new discoveries.
- Evocative lo-fi graphics express the essence of this place through shimmering pixels and dithered fog.
- Over a dozen unique characters to encounter. Talk with them face-to-face, exploring topics via branching dialogue. Learn their stories and how they relate to your own.
- Delve into a series of memories reliving the romantic relationship that brought you to this point. Flashbacks create a portrait of two people, their life together, and who they’ll become.
- Criss-cross the paths of Stillwater Springs using what you learn in one conversation to unlock new dialogue threads and new guest interactions elsewhere. Use your powers of observation to unearth all that Springs, Eternal has in store.
Springs, Eternal is coming to PC via Steam in 2026.