The Forest
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Released: May 2014. Added to this library 13 days ago, last updated 12 days ago.
Overview
Forest is a survival horror game where you are the only passenger to live after a plane crash. You explore a mysterious forest to find food, shelter and safety but soon have to battle strange cannibalistic people.
Although some will like the jump scares and creepy horror vibe, it's really the living, breathing world that is the most appealing. Every tree and every plant can be chopped down. You can build a camp, start a fire to keep warm, scavenge for food, construct a small shelter or large ocean-side fortress. As well as lay traps and defences to keep a safe perimeter.
What's unusual about the enemies in the game is how their programmed intelligence means they don't always attack. Sometimes they keep their distance, or follow you, or lure you into traps they have made. The game works to question whether it is you or them that are perpetrating violence. In combat, they regularly protect one another from injury, remove torches, surround the player, hide behind cover, drag wounded tribesmen to safety, keep their distance, use tactical decisions, not overextend into unknown territory, and occasionally surrender out of fear.
The game is open to how you want to play, although if you wish you can follow missions that lead to a conclusion of sorts with two different possible endings. The game features a day and night cycle along with varied terrain and locations. If you die in the game you are sent back to your shelter save point. To avoid dying you must manage your health, energy, stamina, hunger, and thirst levels.
This game is good if you want to take on a mountainous challenge, control how the story ends or survive the night.
Commitment
Players: You can play this with 4 players online. You can play online together with other people which enables you to construct more ambitious camps and have more resources to survive.
Costs
You will need PlayStation Plus to play online with PlayStation 4.
Ratings
ESRB MATURE 17+ for Intense Violence, Blood and Gore and Partial Nudity.
Users Interact: The game enables players to interact and communicate with each other, so may expose players to language usually associated with older rated games.
Accessibility
System settings: Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators. PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping)... read more.
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In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to The Forest in the following lists:
Branching Stories With Multiple Endings
Setting aside games that evolve through simulation, or games where once you die it's game over, these branching narrative games tell a story that ends in a certain way because of the choices you made.
Attempt The Impossible
This might be grappling with the flying mechanics in Rocket League, getting endlessly lost trying to find the next guardian in Shadow of the Collosus or coming up with the right tactic to get enough money for the ship you need in Elite. Of course, some of these games can be made easier, but to play them at their best is to ramp up the difficulty to max (crushing on The Last Of Us for example) and let them give you all they've got.
Survive The Night
Whether this is as simple as closing the door to keep the zombies out in Minecraft or as complex as crafting food, clothing and medicine to cope with the freezing blackness of The Long Dark these games are exhilarating as they pose a strategic puzzle with personal consequences.
Many of these games offer an open world in which to survive, which opens up more ways of preparing for and then making it through the night time. This, of course, leads to another day where you need to spend time and resources wisely while exploring your surroundings.
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