- Puzzle, Simulator, Adventure, Indie
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.
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Grave, contemporary, bleak and earnest.
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PlayStation UniverseJohn-Paul JonesNov 20189.5/10Nerve-wrackingly terrifying, highly polished and boasting one of the cleverest takes on the survival genre in years, The Forest is one of finest survival horror titles available.
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Game InformerJavy GwaltneyMay 20189/10Whether you're building a camp on the island or searching for clues to your son's whereabouts in dark and dangerous caverns, The Forest is a fantastic horror thrill ride
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DestructoidDan RoemerMay 20189/10Jank and sometimes dumb mutant cannibals aside, what Endnight Games accomplished with The Forest with only a team of four people is simply extraordinary. It's one of the best survival games I've played in recent memory. Whether I was creeping my way through the woods alone at night or playing with friends during the day and showing the local residents who the true masters of their domain are, I haven't played anything like this that's been so fun and terrifying all-in-one in a long, long time.
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Metro GameCentralNov 20187/10A brutal, albeit familiar, survival game that's thoughtfully designed and elegantly refined, and as a result easily the best game of its type on PlayStation 4.
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PlayStation LifeStyleJarrett GreenNov 20187.5/10The survival genre is so crowded that there's little ground left to break, but The Forest has done it. Leveraging complex enemy AI and subverting expectations of the sort of terrible things waiting for you in the wild, Endlight Games creates a new sort of thriller. With some more polish, and a better emphasis on making all of the systems more coherent and intuitive, The Forest could truly be a very huge deal. That said, there's a reason it's sold 5 million copies. It's laser focus on executing specific ideas well pays off. It's worth trying to work around its shortcomings for at least a few playthroughs.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR
- Developer
- Endnight Games Ltd
- Publisher
- Endnight Games Ltd
- Released
- April 30, 2018
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- First person, Virtual Reality
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 5.5 h rushed · 17 h main story · 28 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.8/10 from 397 ratings.
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