The Forest
In the codexActionAdventureIndie

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.

DEV: Endnight Games LtdPUB: Endnight Games LtdAppID 242760
UPDATE PULSEevery ~6d·last 361d ago·6 recent on record

Is The Forest still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

95.5
Excellent

Elixir Rating

95.5% of 683,133 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 95.5. It is a finished game, so no support adjustment applies either way.

reception 95.5·support +0.0·Excellent

Computed from Steam’s own review tally and observable developer activity — never from anyone’s opinion of the game. How this is calculated

Should you look into this?

From Steam's own record

Current price

$19.99

Development

Unusually quiet

Last heard from developers

12 months ago

Usual rhythm

not yet established

Substantial updates (6 mo)

0

Current silence

cannot be judged

The codex holds only a single day of announcements for this game, so its normal rhythm cannot be established. The developers were last heard 12 months ago.

We hold a thin slice of this game's announcement history, so its normal rhythm can't be established. That is a limit of our record, not evidence about the game.

Recent Transmissions

30 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsOct 3, 2025
Unity security update

Hey Everyone,Due to a Unity engine security issue outlined here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01/remediation we’ve updated the UnityPlayer.dll file for the following titles: The Forest VR Sons of the Forest Sons of the Forest Dedica…

PC GamerDec 23, 2024
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…

PCGamesNDec 23, 2024
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 …

PCGamesNNov 4, 2024
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 violent…

PCGamesNDec 8, 2023
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 beca…

SteamDBOct 22, 2023
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.

PCGamesNFeb 20, 2023
Sons of the Forest devs stunned by ultra-quick Forest speedrun

I always feel a little bad when I see developers watching speedruns. They spend years on these games, perfecting the environments, the pacing, the balance, and here we are sprinting through, trying to break everything, and beat all their wo…

PCGamesNNov 30, 2022
The best The Forest mods

What are the best The Forest mods? The best mods will come in very handy if you're a veteran player from the initial launch in 2014 and need to change up the traditional gameplay, or if you're struggling to survive in this dense woodland en…

PCGamesNNov 30, 2022
All The Forest cheats and console commands

What are The Forest cheats and console commands? They are the best and simplest way to make your life of survival from the creepy cannibals a little easier, so here's a list of each one. Compared to the best The Forest mods, which have some…

SteamDBAug 7, 2022
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 7 August 2022

* Steam Deck; * Stray; * Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered; * Rust; * Raft; * The Forest; * ELDEN RING; * Valve Index VR Kit; * Project Zomboid; * Grand Theft Auto V; View more information and data on SteamDB

SteamDBMay 22, 2022
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 22 May 2022

* V Rising; * Steam Deck; * Arma Reforger; * ELDEN RING; * V Rising - Founder's Pack: Eldest Bloodline; * Valve Index VR Kit; * The Forest; * FIFA 22; * Titanfall® 2; * Old World; View more information and data on SteamDB

SteamDBMay 15, 2022
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 15 May 2022

* Steam Deck; * Stellaris: Overlord; * ELDEN RING; * The Forest; * We Were Here Forever; * Songs of Conquest; * Valve Index VR Kit; * MONSTER HUNTER RISE; * Red Dead Redemption 2; * Red Dead Redemption 2; View more information and data on S…

PC GamerMar 28, 2022
The Forest sequel delayed until October

nnounced back in 2019, Sons of the Forest is a sequel to the terrifying open world survival game The Forest, which is still my pick for the grossest and most discomforting tree punching sim out there. Studio Endnight Games still hasn&apos…

PCGamesNDec 2, 2021
The Forest gets a resurgence on Steam as Sons of the Forest lands a release date

Excitement might be building for the follow-up to the survival-horror game The Forest, but that doesn't mean people have forgotten about the original just yet. As per SteamDB, The Forest was hitting highs of around 7,000 concurrent players …

SteamDBApr 25, 2021
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 25 April 2021

* NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...; * It Takes Two; * Valve Index VR Kit; * Battlefield V; * Titanfall® 2; * Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Operation Broken Fang; * The Forest; * Valheim; * NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...; * OU…

SteamDBApr 18, 2021
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 18 April 2021

* It Takes Two; * Stellaris: Nemesis; * Valve Index VR Kit; * Sea of Thieves; * OUTRIDERS; * Valheim; * Monster Hunter World: Iceborne; * The Forest; * Forza Horizon 4; * Satisfactory; View more information and data on SteamDB

Rock, Paper, ShotgunDec 24, 2020
The Forest sequel coming in 2021, looking wonderfully horrible

Most survival games have an element of horror, giving us an inhuman hunger that’ll kill us if we don’t eat a three-course meal every five minutes. I like jokes. The Forest goes hard on horror, having cannibals and mutants stalk us, and the …

Rock, Paper, ShotgunDec 24, 2020
The Forest sequel coming in 2021, looking wonderfully horrible

Most survival games have an element of horror, giving us an inhuman hunger that’ll kill us if we don’t eat a three-course meal every five minutes. I like jokes. The Forest goes hard on horror, having cannibals and mutants stalk us, and the …

PC GamerDec 13, 2019
Sons of the Forest is a demon-hunting sequel to the 'terrifying' survival game The Forest

The Forest is an open-world survival game released in 2018, after a whopping four years of Early Access. The wait was apparently worthwhile, because these days it's got an awful lot of positive reviews on Steam. And now it's getti…

AnnouncementSep 12, 2019
Weekend Deal - The Forest, 45% Off

Save 45% on The Forest as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

Community AnnouncementsSep 10, 2019
V1.12 - VR

Hey everyone, This patch updates The Forest VR to include support for the new index controllers as well as fixing and improving a ton of VR specific issues. For the full list of fixes and changes, check: https://www.facebook.com/SKSgames/po…

Community AnnouncementsJan 23, 2019
v1.11

Hey Everyone, This patch fixes some small issues that have come up since the last patch release. We also added a new option for increased player versus player damage in multiplayer games. This option is off by default, but if turned on will…

PC GamerDec 19, 2018
The Forest VR is terrifying, atmospheric and clumsy all at once

The Forest VR somehow manages to be both a clumsy VR port and a brilliant example of how virtual reality can improve a game. It does some things much better than the non-VR version: I want its clever watch-based HUD in every VR game, and pl…

Community AnnouncementsDec 12, 2018
Hotfix-v1.10d

Hey everyone, Here’s a small fix for the update released yesterday, fixing an issue where the end boss could become invisible, and adding another fix for radeon series cards. Added some additional fixes: Fixed end boss vanishing if all play…

PC GamerDec 11, 2018
The Forest's free update adds hang gliders, crossbows and more monsters

I haven’t finished The Forest yet because, frankly, I’m too damn scared. I’m not particularly comfortable in regular forests at night, let alone ones containing mutated cannibals and labyrinthine cave networks full of m…

Community AnnouncementsDec 10, 2018
V1.10

Hey Everyone, This Update adds new buildables, some new caves to find those buildables in, a new weapon type, two new late game creatures, and a ton more. If you’ve completed the alternate ending you’ll also find some new decorative buildab…

Rock, Paper, ShotgunDec 5, 2018
The Forest s mutant cannibal island gets even weirder in its next update

Weird new mutants, hang-gliders and twisted effigies of a comfortable suburban life lost – The Forest is getting a bit stranger in a big update next week. After four years in early access, the sandbox survival-horror game launched in …

Community AnnouncementsDec 4, 2018
Update Trailer

Hey Everyone, Our new update for The Forest will release December 10, on both PC and PS4. We’ve put together a trailer showcasing some of the new features. Check it out below. https://youtu.be/j-MSFEqWPOw The team at Endnight

Community AnnouncementsOct 28, 2018
New update details

Hey Everyone, Our next PC patch will release early December. This patch will feature a new late game creature, some new buildables, a new weapon type, new clothing, and lots more. We’ve also been working on our multiplayer Anti-Cheat and ha…

Community AnnouncementsAug 16, 2018
v1.09

Hey Everyone, This patch focuses on performance and bug fixing. We’ve also been working on a much larger content focused update and should have news we can reveal about that soon. Save game loading has been drastically improved this patch. …