The Forest is an Open world, survival horror game that sees the player crash land on an island inhabited by cannibals. Armed with nothing except a small axe, survival book and knowledge of the land the player must find food, water, build shelter and try to find the other plane passengers, all while being stalked by a cannibalistic tribe.
Other surival games have a faster pace compared to this one but the inclusion of the extremely intimidating cannibals really gets your blood pumping. When you first get into the game you try to scavenge as many supplies as possible from the plane before the first few search parties come looking for you, and trust me, they will. Once you get your first basic supplies you will be able to look at your crafting manual in order to build simple structures to just survive the first few hours. These include simple fires and huts to shelter you from the weather. Once you get to grips with the controls you can build much more advanced structures like tree houses and log cabins. Along with this brilliant crafting system, they also have a nice range of traps, hunting materials and different types of fires that offer protection from the cannibals whose biggest fear is fire. The crafting works by the player clicking on the structure they want to build, a sort of ghost layer appears where you place the structure and it shows you what materials you need. You then start placing them until the structure is built. Along with buildings, you can also hunt animals like rabbits and birds and cook them with a spit and a fire. You just place them onto the fire and wait, wait too long and they will burn and you won’t be able to eat them. This really makes the player have to think about multiple things at once and really forces them multitask, just as you would if you were actually trying to survive. Also, The Forest has a nice multiplayer feature where you or a friend sets up a game and you join and build with them, it really allows you to half the tasks and allows you to build really spectacular camps with protective traps and also a nice hunting section. For an early access game, The Forest has a very robust and also unique blend of gameplay pace and features. These things really set it apart from other games in its genre.

The Forest performs extremely well for a game that is early access. From the days where it first got released, it has seen dramatic performance upgrades. For a game that has stunning visuals, the frame rate rarely drops below 60 FPS on high settings. Occasionally dropping a few frames when you first spawn into the game. As development carries on the development team add bigger and better updates which not only fix issues or glitches but also add in so much more gameplay wise for the player to enjoy.

The Forest is an Open world, survival horror game that sees the player crash land on an island inhabited by cannibals. Armed with nothing except a small axe, survival book and knowledge of the land the player must find food, water, build shelter and try to find the other plane passengers, all while being stalked by a cannibalistic tribe. Other surival games have a faster pace compared to this one but the inclusion of the extremely intimidating cannibals really gets your blood pumping. When you first get into the game you try to scavenge as many supplies as possible from the plane before the first few search parties come looking for you, and trust me, they will. Once you get your first basic supplies you will be able to look at your crafting manual in order to build simple structures to just survive the first few hours. These include simple fires and huts to shelter you from the weather. Once you get to grips with the controls you can build much more advanced structures like tree houses and log cabins. Along with this brilliant crafting system, they also have a nice range of traps, hunting materials and different types of fires that offer protection from the cannibals whose biggest fear is fire. The crafting works by the player clicking on the structure they want to build, a sort of ghost layer appears where you place the structure and it shows you what materials you need. You then start placing them until the structure is built. Along with buildings, you can also hunt animals like rabbits and birds and cook them with a spit and a fire. You just place them onto the fire and wait, wait too long and they will burn and you won’t be able to eat them. This really makes the player have to think about multiple things at once and really forces them multitask, just as you would if you were actually trying to survive. Also, The Forest has a nice multiplayer feature where you or a friend sets up a game and you join and build with them, it really allows you to half the tasks and allows you to build really spectacular camps with protective traps and also a nice hunting section. For an early access game, The Forest has a very robust and also unique blend of gameplay pace and features. These things really set it apart from other games in its genre. The Forest performs extremely well for a game that is early access. From the days where it first got released, it has seen dramatic performance upgrades. For a game that has stunning visuals, the frame rate rarely drops below 60 FPS on high settings. Occasionally dropping a few frames when you first spawn into the game. As development carries on the development team add bigger and better updates which not only fix issues or glitches but also add in so much more gameplay wise for the player to enjoy.