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ActionAdventureIndieSimulationOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalHorrorOpen WorldCrafting

The Forest

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Developer
Endnight Games Ltd
Publisher
Endnight Games Ltd
Franchise
Release date
Apr 30, 2018
Store page updated
Nov 7, 2023
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

87.5/ 100

Based on 392 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 94% of 3,017
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 682,708
“taught me two things and run faster when something screams”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.36
Freedom +3.33
“freedom to build and explore, forgetting main quest” (26)
Прилетел на остров. Сына украли. Построил виллу с видом на пляж. Напали аборигены - виллы нет. Спасение сына, как побочный квест. Уже на 10 день забыл, что был какой-то ребенок. Игра 10/10.

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Story & World
+2.50
World +3.68
“genuinely terrifying atmosphere that keeps you playing despite horror” (71)

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Content Volume
+1.76
Volume +3.19

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Visuals & Sound
+2.96
Visuals +2.48
“графика супер, отличный ландшафтный дизайн” (17)
Графика: Супер Геймплей: Первые 20 минут: «О боже, авиакатастрофа! Я должен спасти своего сына! Тимми, папа идет!» Спустя 50 часов: «Так, если я поставлю здесь забор из корок и добавлю люстру из голов, будет смотреться фэншуйно. Сын? Какой сын? А, тот пацан из заставки... Ну, он уже большой мальчик, подождет, у меня тут фундамент криво лег». Плюсы: • Лучший симулятор ландшафтного дизайна с использованием костей и черепов. • Можно кататься на черепашьем панцире с горы. Это важнее, чем сюжет. • Ваши новые соседи очень общительные: приходят без приглашения, кричат под окнами в 3 часа ночи и всегд

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Multiplayer
+2.14
Playing together +3.68
“playing with best friend in caves, killing enemies and bosses together” (102)
играл с лучшим друном, залезли в пещеру, убили толпу аборигенов, взорвали динамитом мутанта, убили 5 женщин. Пришли домой и скачали игру The forest. 10 аборигенов в пещерах из 10

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Fairness
-1.34

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +1.88

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Tech & Ops
-1.40
Stability -1.96
“bugs sometimes make physics stop making sense completely” (29)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
May 2014Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,932 reviews, peak 210/day
0250500
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 387 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English22%
  • Russian20%
  • Portuguese14%
  • Spanish12%
  • Chinese10%
  • Turkish6%
  • Other16%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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