Fullbright made Gone Home and Tacoma, and publisher Serenity Forge announced on October 7 that the studio’s next game, Springs, Eternal, launches on Steam on November 11, 2026. It is PC only, there is no price yet, and a free demo is on Steam right now. The same demo is part of Steam Next Fest, which runs October 19 to 26.
Springs, Eternal is a first-person story game set at Stillwater Springs, a hot springs retreat hidden in foggy mountains. You wander its pools, paths and caverns at night and talk to more than a dozen guests through branching conversations. What one guest tells you opens new threads with another. Along the way, you piece together memories of the relationship that brought you there. The look is lo-fi on purpose, with dithered fog and shimmering pixels that leave the darkest corners to your imagination.
The date was revealed during the Horror Game Awards’ Harvest of Terror Showcase, and that tells you the mood. Serenity Forge’s description says the dark paths are ominous, “but you can’t die… can you?” That is about as much horror as the store page will admit to.
You will want to know who is making it, because Fullbright is not the team it was. The studio had about twenty people in 2019, and staff left in waves after that. By 2023, co-founder Steve Gaynor was the only employee left, as the studio’s history on Wikipedia lays out. The rest of the old team finished Open Roads under a new name. The last release under the Fullbright name was a small 2024 game called Fullbright Presents: Toilet Spiders. Adventure Game Hotspot calls Springs, Eternal “largely a solo project by Gaynor,” drawn from Gaynor’s own time at Breitenbush Hot Springs in Oregon.
It is also short. Gematsu’s write-up of the reveal last December puts a full run at around two to three hours. That fits a game made by one person, and it fits the setting too. A night at the springs should not take forty hours.
A short, quiet game from a co-creator of Gone Home is exactly what a demo is for. Try it on the Steam page now, or wait for Next Fest on October 19 and play it alongside everything else in your queue.
