Gone Dwelling studio Fullbright has unveiled Springs, Everlasting – a lo-fi narrative journey the place misplaced souls congregate in a “half-remembered otherworld” that is coming to PC someday subsequent 12 months.
The Fullbright of 2025 is, after all, markedly totally different to the one which launched Gone Dwelling. Again in 2023, co-founder Steve Gaynor confirmed the studio was now successfully a solo outfit after his problematic office behaviour – which he acknowledged as “hurtful” – resulted in a cut up with the remainder of the group.
Since then, Gaynor has launched Bathroom Spiders as a part of an “ongoing sequence of small, unusual, lo-fi video games”, and the newly revealed Springs, Everlasting is equally lo-fi, sporting a visible type evoking the “dithered and pixelated graphics of late ’90s-era PC and residential console video games”. Nevertheless it’s not simply the 90s vibe and moody purple color palette hyperlinks it again to Gone Dwelling; it shares a narrative-driven, first-person exploratory focus too.
Springs, Everlasting unfolds within the remoted mountain retreat of Stillwater, a forest sprawl – and a “half-remembered otherworld” stuffed with “darkish, winding paths” – the place misplaced souls converge to take pleasure in its soothing waters. As for you, it is the reminiscence of a relationship that is led you right here, and you will recall extra of that in flashbacks over its two-to-three hour runtime.
And as you discover the “open-structure” world’s swimming pools, saunas, caverns, grand lodge, and different factors of curiosity, you will encounter over a dozen different characters – from “philosophers partaking in a debate that might final a lifetime” to a “tattooist ready to inscribe you together with your future” – whose tales you will uncover by means of branching dialogue. “The darkish paths you stroll are ominous”, the announcement provides, “however you’ll be able to’t die… are you able to?”
Springs, Everlasting would not have a launch date but, nevertheless it’s coming to PC – through Steam on the very least – someday subsequent 12 months.
