2025-10-03 18:57 UTC · Community Announcements · Dishmink
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 Dedicated Server This update is around 1-2mb. The base version of The Forest and its dedicated server are not affected by this issue. If you encounter any unexpected issues, please let us know so we can forward them to Unity. the team at endnight
2024-12-23 18:36 UTC · PC Gamer · 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.
2024-12-23 15:09 UTC · PCGamesN · 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 Fo
2024-11-04 17:36 UTC · PCGamesN · 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
2023-12-08 17:15 UTC · PCGamesN · 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 sur
2023-10-22 14:00 UTC · SteamDB · SteamDB
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.
2023-02-20 15:19 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
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
2022-11-30 12:22 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
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 th
2022-11-30 12:19 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
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 cras
2022-08-07 16:00 UTC · SteamDB · SteamDB
* 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
2022-05-22 16:00 UTC · SteamDB · SteamDB
* 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
2022-05-15 16:00 UTC · SteamDB · SteamDB
* 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 SteamDB
2022-03-28 23:48 UTC · PC Gamer · 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.
2021-12-02 14:25 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
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,
2021-04-25 00:00 UTC · SteamDB · SteamDB
* 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...; * OUTRIDERS; View more information and data on SteamDB
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