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A first-person open world-survival video game, that takes place on a heavily forested island where the player character and a young child are the survivors of a plane crash. The game features nonlinear gameplay, with no set missions or quests, empowering the player to make their own decisions for survival.
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The Forest was released in early 2014, and i watched many YouTube videos on the game. I recently picked it up and put several hours into the game. If you want a great survival/horror game then this is for you. It's beautiful and well polished with a few minor problems here and..
8/10 by HeyItMeSam
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developerEndnight Games
publisherEndnight Games
composerGabe Castro engineUnity
release date
NAMay 30th, 2014
user score8/10

Single PlayerFirst-PersonSurvivalOpen WorldCraftingHorrorBuildingExploration
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addedby HeyItMeSam
on November 15th, 2017 last updatedby blustrkr
on January 4th, 2023

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This co-op survival horror masterpiece is just $2 in the Steam Winter Sale, which could explain why it just hit an all-time high player count of nearly 100k a decade after it launched
In 2014, survival horror game The Forest launched into early access on Steam. As part of Steam Greenlight (remember that?), the small team of developers Endnight Games delivered triple-A visuals, intricate building and crafting systems, and gut-wrenching horror as players struggled to survive on a remote island amidst terrifying cannibalistic tribes... "Read more." After a whole decade, brutal survival game The Forest is more popular than ever
Between the new build of Project Zomboid, the freshly announced sequel for The Long Dark, and the continual success of, Rust, Valheim, and State of Decay, the survival genre is arguably stronger than ever right now. But The Forest is still The Forest. Ten years after it first fully emerged onto PC, Endnight's pioneering building-and-brutality sim is suddenly more popular on Steam than it's ever been, and although its current resurgence can be explained by a seriously generous discount, its decad... Ten-year-old survival game The Forest is suddenly bigger on Steam than ever
It's not the frightening, dark, and dour moments that make The Forest special - it's when you find something beautiful. A survival game where you gnaw on raw meat, build crude weapons to beat cannibalistic monsters to death, and get violently ill from drinking pond water, The Forest is also a celebration of life's smaller pleasures. Especially played with a friend, there's profound satisfaction in building a house together, or sitting down beneath the moonlight to barbecue the day's catch. Frost... One of the best survival games ever is less than $5
Typically, we associate videogames with fun, freedom, and escapism. But sometimes you want an experience that's entirely different, the brutal realities of life writ large and made grotesque. The best survival games make you feel alive because you're constantly skirting so close to death. Horde supplies. Build ramshackle shelters and weapons. Make tough decisions. Somewhere between horror, puzzle games, and RPGs lies the ideal survive-'em-up - if you were waiting for The Day Before, but you've f... The Forest peaks at 109k players
" " The Forest has peaked at 109,397 concurrent players on 28 December 2024 which is 7 years after release. View charts and more statistics on our website.
 
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