Mountain on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Existential Nature Simulation

Mountain is a simulation, indie and casual game developed and published by David OReilly.
Released on August 18th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 3 languages: English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 16,241 reviews of which 14,321 were positive and 1,920 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 0.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Mountain into these genres:

Simulation Indie Casual Relaxing Singleplayer Great Soundtrack God Game Experimental Beautiful Nature Space Procedural Generation Music Ambient Idler Realistic Philosophical Funny RPG Puzzle

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
Processor: 1.7+ GHz or better
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 200 MB available space
Sound Card: 100% DirectX9.0c compatible sound card and drivers

MacOS

OS: Lion (OSX 10.7.X)
Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: Not recommended for Intel GMA Graphics or Mac Minis or early-generation MacBooks

Linux

Processor: 1.7+ GHz or better
Graphics: Radeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher
Storage: 200 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

This review for the low-priced casual game Mountain covers two periods of play, with a year's gap between them... I first played Mountain over a year ago, and I thought it was a clever and wonderfully imaginative casual game, with its pithy thoughts, the changing weather, the passing days & seasons, the array of unlikely objects falling from space, and the even more unlikely range of cosmic threats to Mountain's existence! Within three days I had all of the achievements except for the two duration-related ones: "You are Mountain" and the even longer "You are God". At that time both of these were related to the number of in-game "days" that Mountain had continuously lived for (so protecting it from cosmic destruction was imperative), but no-one knew how the game decided the "days" targets for each player, which seemed to vary wildly. In my case I obtained "You are Mountain" when my Mountain reached about 44,000 "days" old (which seemed to be much higher than most players reported). Then I waited for "You are God" to trigger - and waited - well, you get the point. When my Mountain got to 600,000 "days" of age, I gave up and uninstalled the game, Skip a year, and I accidentally came across Mountain again. I looked at the game's discussions and found that the developer had changed the criteria for "You are God" from in-game "days" to 987 actual playtime hours. More than that, the hours were cumulative across multiple mountains - losing a mountain no longer reset the counter. So I started to play again and, after a total of 987 hours of play (creating new mountains as old ones were destroyed), I got the final achievement at last; note that 160 hours of my original playtime didn't count towards the new criteria. The change to the "You are God" achievement was welcome and made it more friendly and predictable, but it couldn't quite remove the frustration of all of that wasted game-play a year before, and has left me permanently wary of any "long playtime duration" achievements!

Feb. 2025

Basically animated wallpaper. It doesn’t do much. Just watch it rotate forever and ever… Just leave it spinning there while focusing on something else

Jan. 2025

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!!!

Aug. 2024

For a grand total of eighty whole British pence, you too can have an experience more soothing and relaxing than most meditation apps. Just admire the mountain. Magnificent.

April 2024

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 enough, and you will be much happier.

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0.99€

8.6

14,321

1,920

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Developer

David OReilly

Publisher

David OReilly

Release 18 Aug 2014

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