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FOUNTAINS

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2024

Should you play it?

Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of an ancient, interconnected world.

What works

  • Challenging and satisfying combat
  • Intricately designed interconnected world
  • Engaging exploration and secrets
  • Atmospheric pixel art and music
  • Fair and rewarding boss fights

Things to keep in mind

  • Difficulty spike in late bosses
  • Limited fast travel and map usability
  • Some bosses have under-telegraphed attacks
  • Inventory and equipment management can be cumbersome
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Hyper Light Drifter

  • Lovecraft's Untold Stories

  • Drova - Forsaken Kin

  • In Celebration of Violence

  • Deathstate: Abyssal Edition

  • Keeper's Toll

More relaxing

Games that feels like FOUNTAINS but with a more relaxing feel

  • Catmaze

  • It Lurks Below

  • Serin Fate

  • Phoenotopia: Awakening

  • Haiku, the Robot

  • Chained Echoes

More social

Games that feels like FOUNTAINS but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Death Trash

  • Voidigo

  • Mana Spark

  • Westerado: Double Barreled

  • Tearscape

  • Caveblazers

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Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

FOUNTAINS: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Relaxation.

Last update: 04/08/2026