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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

by Christopher Livingston

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

by editor@pcgamesn.com

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 decade-long popularity is the result of something much more special - there's one thing that keeps The Forest on top. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ten-year-old survival game The Forest is suddenly bigger on Steam than ever All The Forest cheats and console commands One of the best survival games ever is less than $5

Ten-year-old survival game The Forest is suddenly bigger on Steam than ever

by editor@pcgamesn.com

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. Frostpunk has the politics, RimWorld the mechanical complexity, and Valheim the Norse aesthetic, but The Forest - which, if you take it from the earliest alpha build, is now ten years old - remains one of the PC's greatest survival games. And now it's more popular on Steam than ever before. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: One of the best survival games ever is less than $5 All The Forest cheats and console commands The best The Forest mods

One of the best survival games ever is less than $5

by editor@pcgamesn.com

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 found yourself underwhelmed by its eventual early access release, one of the greatest multiplayer survival games ever is now yours for less than the price of lunch. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: All The Forest cheats and console commands The best The Forest mods Sons of the Forest devs stunned by ultra-quick Forest speedrun

The Forest peaks at 109k players

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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.

Sons of the Forest devs stunned by ultra-quick Forest speedrun

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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 work as quickly as possible. Developers from Endnight, however, creator of the upcoming horror game and Steam wishlist darling Sons of the Forest, are verifiably "stoked" by an ultra-rapid speedrun of the original Forest, which clears the survival sim in just over 20 minutes. As we get closer to the Sons of the Forest release date, Endnight reflects on some of the ideas and tech underlying the breakout Steam hit. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Sons of the Forest release date, gameplay, and trailers Sons of the Forest cheats and console commands Is Sons of the Forest multiplayer?

The best The Forest mods

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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 environment. There's still a dedicated community for this survival game, so the best mods are continuously supported and updated. Sifting through all the content on offer takes a while though, which is why we're here with the best The Forest mods on PC. Keeping those pesky cannibals away is imperative to getting anywhere in The Forest, so we can help you do that with things like God Mode, a bigger backpack, a map to show you where they all are, and more. Before we get into the list of the best The Forest mods, make sure you read the description for each of them on their download page. If there are any special requirements or install instructions, they'll be noted there. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Forest cheats and console commands...

All The Forest cheats and console commands

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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 wild and wacky possibilities like altering the tides and respawning trees, these console commands are more straightforward. While you need to take some steps to enable The Forest cheats and console commands, which we've outlined at the bottom of this guide, once you know how to do it everything is quite simple. You can skip the initial The Forest plane crash sequence, teleport to any coordinates of your choosing, kill animals at the push of a button, and even enable god mode. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: After a whole decade, brutal survival game The Forest is more popular than ever Ten-year-old survival game The Forest is suddenly bigger on Steam than ever One of the best survival games ever is less than $5

The Forest sequel delayed until October

by Shaun Prescott

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't released many details on the sequel, though based on early gameplay footage it's looking like a more narrative-driven affair than its predecessor, which itself was a more narrative-driven affair than most survival games... Read more.

The Forest gets a resurgence on Steam as Sons of the Forest lands a release date

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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 on Steam at the start of October before leaping to a peak of 40,000 concurrent players by the end of the month. Since then, the first-person survival-horror simulator has steadily reached the heights of 30,000 players at peak depending on the day. The Forest has benefited from attention from streamers for a while, with the survival game hitting a peak of 64,879 players eight months ago. Last month, though, Félix 'xQc' Lengyel was playing the game, too, which has certainly helped. Attention is also starting to shift to Sons of the Forest, which is its follow-up game. We hadn't seen anything from the game for a while, though developer Endnight Games has now released a spooky new teaser. Alongside some eerie footage, we have learnt that the Sons of the ...