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Mountain
Developer David OReilly
Mountain is a 2014 simulation video game developed by David OReilly and published by Double Fine Productions. It was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, and iOS in July 2014. Mountain features minimal gameplay elements; the only influence the player can have on the game is at its start, where the player is tasked to draw certain objects. The game is designed to be played in the background while the player… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
354 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
118 positive · 45 negative
95% range 65–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 11 | 2 | 171 |
| Steam reviews | 118 | 45 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
5,278 of 6,304 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
73% recommend · 119 yes, 43 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 162 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (14,360 of 16,291 positive).
Many players find Mountain a soothing, meditative experience. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize it as a resource-heavy idle game with little gameplay. [4][5][6] Several players note the game requires excessive idle time for achievements. [7][5][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
This is an idle game where an achievement requires you to idle for just under 1000 hours. Unlike other idle games that have some small amount of gameplay- this has absolutely nothing. I regret buying this and playing for enough time to make it so I am unable to return it on steam. The only reason I persevere is for this last $#^# achievement. Edit @ 400 hours--- I used a program that checks how far away you are from …
- [9]
Despite being sold as a game, Mountain is not one in the traditional sense. It’s more accurately described as a passive simulation — one where you are the mountain. And as you can probably guess, mountains don’t really do much. That’s the whole point. You won’t find any gameplay loops here. No objectives, no challenges, no interactivity beyond some brief input. The mountain simply exists, floats through space, and …
- [10]
I bought this game with some change i had in my steam wallet and thank God i came across this game, its so boring yet fascinating, the game is poorly made and yet feels perfect the way it is, the game lacks features and yet it feels like it has more then enough, and its tedious yet enjoyable, worrying and happy, this game is absolutely amazing, it might sound weird at first but play and resonate with mountain long …
- [1]
A beautiful and peaceful game. Mountain sings This is what you play when you're high
- [2]
When I'm unhappy in my life, I'll open this game and keep staring at my mountain, all the time, and then I'll forget all my unhappiness. Nothing is too much, nothing will always be there, just like the mountain.
Summarised from 34 of the 213 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
73% of the 162 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Mountain. The complaint that keeps coming up: high CPU usage and poor optimization. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game was generally praised by reviewers as a novel concept, though because of its limited interactivity, many players were discontent, comparing it merely to a screensaver. Zack Kotzer of Vice compared the game to the Tamagotchi toys, though lacking the constant attention to the toys' demands and instead letting the player decide when to check the mountain's progress. Others described it as a passive Katamari game, watching how the mountain accumulates stuff. Some reviewers found the game pretentious; Ben Kuchera of Polygon said it may have been a joke by OReilly, and that he did not feel the same sense of wonder that other journalists had found in the game.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 354 · most liked firstThe first build of our new game Fire on the Mountain is now available for download! Check it out here: nikkonator5000.itch.io/fire-on-the-... #furrygame #visualnovel #fotm #trg
neutral · AI labelView post →Hafthor Bjornsson, aka The Mountain from 'Game of Thrones', set a new world record by deadlifting 1,113 lbs 💪
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️WATCH: Hades II is nominated for Best Music at The Game Awards, thanks to pieces like Mountain of the Gods.🎼 Composer @darrenkorb.bsky.social teamed with @awintory.bsky.social and a huge orchestra at world-famous Abbey Road Studios to create this majestic sound! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYW...
neutral · AI labelView post →ASHTON JEANTY 75-YARD RUSHING TOUCHDOWN IN THE MOUNTAIN WEST CHAMPIONSHIP GAME 🔥 WHAT A MOMENT FOR THE HEISMAN CANDIDATE 👏
neutral · AI labelView post →It was for a video game based on Space Mountain, and the day before it was scheduled to be greenlit, Disney Interactive changed its whole business model and jettisoned the project. Which is a shame because I wrote a kickass storyline for the game.
positive · AI labelView post →The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for May includes: 🛸 Star Wars Outlaws 🐎 Red Dead Redemption 2 🌲 Bramble: The Mountain King 🕯️ The Thaumaturge …and more. The full lineup play.st/4dE6MYe
neutral · AI labelView post →"Hey, you alright? You fell asleep. Huh? Donald Trump? Elon Musk? Don't be silly! It's 2008! Let's drink some Mountain Dew Game Fuel and play Super Smash Bros. Brawl!"
neutral · AI labelView post →A little preview of the title sequence for our new game, Fire on the Mountain! Coming this summer~ #furrygame #visualnovel #fotm #trg
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Kasen Thursday! ngl I saw a trailer for a game called Ghosts of the Mountain Pass, and it looks totally rad! The game is a racing game where you compete in one-on-one races, it has Initial D vibes and looks super fun! I hope you have a wonderful day, I send love and positivity your way 💛☺️
positive · AI labelView post →Two new stages have been released in mobile party game Sonic Rumble - City Escape and Sweet Mountain #SonicNews
neutral · AI labelView post →The first build of our new game Fire on the Mountain is LIVE for patrons! Go play it now: nikkonator5000.itch.io/fire-on-the-... #furry #furrygame #visualnovel #trg #fotm
neutral · AI labelView post →They’re up there with Mountain Dew and Taco Bell as our most “how have you never done a bowl game” companies
neutral · AI labelView post →ICYMI: we were donated HALF A TON of video game magazines, and we're going to open them live on stream tomorrow. Save the date for MAILBAG MOUNTAIN -- May 20, 1pm PDT! www.youtube.com/live/T7DFDrQ...
neutral · AI labelView post →ACC champ Duke got fewer AP votes today than Mountain West title game near-participant New Mexico. ACC perfection
neutral · AI labelView post →I know there's a Touhou game for EVERYTHING but I never would have expected a multiplatform Touhou parody of famous game-book The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Gang Goes to a Mountain West Game
neutral · AI labelView post →Feels like a Mountain West game on CBSSN. Let’s gooooooooo
neutral · AI labelView post →BOISE STATE HOLDS ON! THE BRONCOS ARE HEADING BACK TO THE MOUNTAIN WEST TITLE GAME!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hawai'i playing tonight on a streaming service called "Mountain West Plus." what happened to the game I loved
neutral · AI labelView post →🎮Magic mountain residents but a game about trading 3/7 🌸 Store song: Spiral Mountain - Grant Kirkhope #hermitcraftfanart #hermitsky #mumbojumbo #mumbojumbofanart #art
neutral · AI labelView post →“Using AI, the computer has chosen Utah and TCU to play in the Mountain West championship game.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Your occasional reminder that 007 First Light is not only the best Bond game ever made (yes, including) but the best Bond story since Skyfall. And there’s a Bernese Mountain Dog.
positive · AI labelView post →It’s like a Paradox game if everyone drank too much Mountain Dew
neutral · AI labelView post →Just added to the Video Game Soda Machine Project: a glowing green vending machine from Halo Infinite, added in 2023 as part of the Critical Dewpoint map to promote Mountain Dew's Game Fuel Citrus Cherry. For the record, Critical Dewpoint is an amazing name for a Mountain Dew-themed Halo map.
positive · AI labelView post →WE JUST WON ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPLATDOWN #1 WITHOUT DROPPING A SINGLE GAME RAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
neutral · AI labelView post →Best New Mountain Dew Flavor goes to Game Fuel Citrus Blackberry!
neutral · AI labelView post →man its so over for me when they add Mountain, or the Mountain equivalent... Game is Arknights Endfield
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching this game from a plane. And THE MOUNTAIN IS OUT.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t wait for the penguin PoV Mountain of Madness game to be released.
neutral · AI labelView post →UNLV at Boise State for Mountain West title game
neutral · AI labelView post →Playing Wrath of Fire Mountain first time in a few months. I love this game so much.
positive · AI labelView post →Grouse Mountain flag was bathed in sunlight pre game
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't know who needs to know this but this game works with midi controllers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A beautiful and peaceful game. Mountain sings This is what you play when you're high
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love weird sentences. Like: "Have you heard about the high-protein Icelandic skyr product made in the US and founded by Terry Crews, the Mountain from Game of Thrones and one of the twins from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody"
neutral · AI labelView post →FUCK YEAH GOLDEN STATE VALKYRIES TAKE GAME 1!!!!! IM ALL JACKED UP ON MOUNTAIN DEW!!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →LFR20 - Game 6 - Maple Mountain - Maple Leafs 6, Avalanche 3 youtu.be/h2ZED-R7L-Q?...
neutral · AI labelView post →My entry to a video game Collab. It's a part of Team Mountain For my entry, I drew the main cast of Youkais Travelers Paradise in my style. Tsurigibe, Kyo-en, Rinsuke and Kaya. This was drawn about 2-3 months ago, so it's a bit old. #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →When I'm unhappy in my life, I'll open this game and keep staring at my mountain, all the time, and then I'll forget all my unhappiness. Nothing is too much, nothing will always be there, just like the mountain.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite being sold as a game, Mountain is not one in the traditional sense. It’s more accurately described as a passive simulation — one where you are the mountain. And as you can probably guess, mountains don’t really do much. That’s the whole point. You won’t find any gameplay loops here. No objectives, no challenges, no interactivity beyond some brief input. The mountain simply exists, floats through space, and slowly changes with time. Objects occasionally crash into it, weather shifts,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a bit boring at the first 400h or so .. but them.. Oh.. man an gal for that matter.. its staring to be fun and afte 600+ is f u ing insane so good game i cant live whitout it now!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2026–2027 Date Wishlist 🍷 Quetzal + AIRE Ancient Baths 🍸 Bar Raval + DaiLo 🥂 Oyster bar + champagne + hotel 🍽️ Ridiculously fancy tasting menu 🏀 Raptors game 🎳 Old-school bowling, yes, I’m wearing a skirt 🧖♀️ Blue Mountain + Scandinave Spa 🍾 Down Home + June Motel Beaver Valley
neutral · AI labelView post →meh, the mountain is nice to look at to see what it collects over time, and in theory it would make a nice wallpaper on a second screen & for the price you can't complain for that purpose. however, it takes up a lot of resources, it heated up my laptop a lot. it's only bearable if you're on windows 11 and use taskmanager's efficiency mode (by right clicking on the process in taskmanager) to save some resources. other than that, wouldnt bother, the amount of resources it takes up is not worth…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This thread made me laugh because i live in Seattle and a cousin on the east coast was watching the Seahawks game Sunday and texted to ask me if it was Canada in the distance in one of the overhead and Mountain silhouette shots. At least they asked ☺️
neutral · AI labelView post →As one campaign ends, another begins. I've never run Vaesen before but I am really enjoying the darkness and as one player put it, the whimsy of The Lost Mountain Saga. This is dark, perhaps on a par with Delta Green at times, but it's packaged up with fika & the ace, cosy art of Johan Egerkrans.
positive · AI labelView post →Wireframing is fun. It lets me be creative and figure things out, which makes building the UI later a bit easier. But it's also time-consuming, tedious, and a very visual reminder of just how much work I have to do. I need sleep. And more Mountain Dew. In that order. #gamedev #solodev #indiedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Mountain is technically a game. Or an experience. Or a screensaver. Or a passive-aggressive commentary on the futility of existence. I don’t even know anymore. It’s original. It’s innovative. And after thirty minutes of watching clouds drift past a rock with trees, I wanted to scream into the void. Yes, it’s beautiful in its own quiet way. Yes, it’s unique. But also: nothing happens. You don’t climb the mountain. You don’t protect it. You don’t explore it. You just watch it float through…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an idle game where an achievement requires you to idle for just under 1000 hours. Unlike other idle games that have some small amount of gameplay- this has absolutely nothing. I regret buying this and playing for enough time to make it so I am unable to return it on steam. The only reason I persevere is for this last $#^# achievement. Edit @ 400 hours--- I used a program that checks how far away you are from the achievement as per discussion boards/guides. Apparently I am only 90…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't remember which was first but in 1983 I was terrified by A) the giant spider in the video game Mountain King, B) the werewolf transformation in the music video for Thriller, and C) the robot transformation in Superman 3. The third lingers with me the most. youtu.be/dn0U5euS1ts?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just wanted to share our Halloween-y store banners! 🎃 Featuring Bramble: The Mountain King and Don't Starve Together, we thought these two games brought the perfect creepy vibes for scary season! 👻 #halloween #horrorgames #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →Good tailgate scene outside the Fargodome ahead of tonight’s game with Nevada at North Dakota State. Thr Bison want to get back into the Mountain West race after last week’s road loss at UNLV. We’ll be covering it with a report on /r/CFB!
neutral · AI labelView post →A few hours into Titanium Court. Pretty sure the genre of this game is something like “people who listen to Mountain Goats core”
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night I coded a whole feature into this game. Today, I'm about to rip the whole thing out. This is the game dev I remember. I was worried for a bit because everything was going too smoothly. Sigh. Send Mountain Dew. #gamedev #solodev #indiedev
positive · AI labelView post →I have no clue what Drew Mehringer thought his plan for this game was, but a 12 year old running on Mountain Dew would have a less disjointed one. This is malpractice. Don't blame the players when the coaching is this bad.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not rebuking it as a piece of art, or as a statement, but purely on whether there is anything to be gained from purchasing it over describing its conceit to a friend and discussing it, I just don't know about handing over time in my one trip to this planet.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dont understand the meaning
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm attempting a new approach to game dev today: work on one feature at a time until it's complete (or as complete as it can get). Given that my usual method is "do everything everywhere all at once," I feel like this is going to be fine. Just fine. Send Mountain Dew. #gamedev #solodev #indedev
neutral · AI labelView post →There is gonna be some sweaty, stinky , Brokeback Mountain sex happening now that the game is over.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey Blazer fans! Hungry for wings pre-game? Head over to Fire in the Mountain on Interstate! 20 wings for 20 bucks all day today! 20 for 25 vegan drums too! 🍗🍗🍗🌹🖤❤️🖤❤️🌹🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
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