The Forest
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
First-person melee and improvised-weapon combat against cannibalistic mutants with heavy blood spray, alongside gory human corpses found in the world.
The story follows a father searching for his abducted son amid cannibalism, mutated infant creatures, and mutilated bodies.
Sustained survival-horror dread built on stalking enemies, dark cave systems, sparse sound, and grotesque body horror encountered underground.
Combat can sever enemy limbs and heads, and the environment is strewn with dismembered corpses and heads impaled on sticks.
The deformed mutant enemies appear as grotesque, largely unclothed bodies as part of the game's body-horror design.
Players can hunt woodland animals such as deer and rabbits for food and supplies as a standard survival mechanic.
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What it is
The Forest is a first-person survival-horror game in which you play a father who survives a plane crash on a remote peninsula and must stay alive while searching for his abducted son. You gather resources, build shelters and traps, hunt animals for food, and defend yourself against a tribe of cannibalistic mutants who stalk the woods by day and grow bolder at night. The game features frequent bloody combat, dismemberment, grotesque deformed enemies, and disturbing scenes such as corpses and impaled heads, with a strong emphasis on dread and tension inside dark cave systems. It can be played solo or in online co-op with others, which includes voice and text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as survival and self-defense against relentless predators, while deliberately leaving ambiguous whether the cannibals or the player is the true aggressor. Its horror comes from atmosphere and body-horror imagery rather than glorified killing, and the underlying story is driven by a parent's grief and desperate search for a lost child.
Details
- Developer
- Endnight Games Ltd
- Publisher
- Endnight Games Ltd
- Released
- Apr 30, 2018
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