Springs, Eternal

Springs, Eternal is a first-person story exploration game set at Stillwater Springs, a secluded hot springs retreat on a pine-covered mountain. You walk its dark paths, meet other visitors and piece together memories of the relationship that brought you there. The story takes around 2–3 hours to complete.

Explore Stillwater Springs

The steaming springs shroud the mountain peaks in mist. You explore forest paths, a grand lodge, a moonlit clearing, subterranean caverns, tucked-away pools and other unusual attractions. The map gradually expands as you explore, revealing new discoveries. The paths are ominous, but you cannot die—or so it seems.

The game uses lo-fi visuals inspired by the dithered, pixelated graphics of late-1990s PC and home console games, with shimmering pixels and dithered fog.

Meet the visitors

You encounter over a dozen characters, each with their own reasons for being at Stillwater Springs. They include philosophers debating, a tattooist waiting to inscribe your future, old men, a widow and young lovers. Face-to-face conversations use branching dialogue, revealing who the visitors are, how their stories connect to yours and what else the retreat may be hiding.

What you learn in one conversation can unlock new dialogue threads and interactions with guests elsewhere. You cross the paths of Stillwater Springs, using observation to uncover more of its secrets.

Recover your memories

A series of flashbacks traces the romantic relationship that brought you to the springs, from its first sparks to its dying embers. The memories build a portrait of two people, their life together and who they will become.