Forest Doesn’t Care

this game can be amazing right now the graphics atmosphere are awesome having to draw your own map and survive is amazing i give it a 4/5 MOST OF THE BAD REVIEWS ARE BEFORE THE JULY 10TH UPDATE this new update pushed it over the edge what needs to change more crafting options wet and cold cycle more ai improvements and enemy types of course they are a ton now and it's really awesome to see what you can find i love the crafting and the exploration the map needs to be bigger but i'm sure that will come in time this game is a gem if you cannot run it that's to due to pc hardware limitations and not the games fault sure it's buggy but it's also dev by a couple people i perfer this over the forest this is what the forest 2 should have been,

Rubbish game. fatal error after fatal error... managed to create a character... then that was as far as i could get. Just the character creation part was very limited. game should be free

Very interesting game, I had fun.. i only played solo. Looking forward to seeing how game progresses..

game is a complete mess. crashes, stutters, and weird artifacts

komplett Arsch das Game, im Singleplayer wirste aufm leichtesten Schwierigkeitsgrad einfach überrannt. Gegner und auch Tiere brauchen 6 Schuss mit einer Magnum. Man stirbt und landet am anderen Ende der Map um sich dann Nackt zu seinem Stuff zu Kämpfen den man dann nicht aufnehmen kann, weil das Inventar angeblich voll ist... finde den Fehler

This one is quite the hidden gem. Nice immersive and atmospheric experience. Needs a bit more polishing and bugfixing, though.

[h1]Huge NO[/h1] I [i]really[/i] wanted to like this game, but The Forest just doesn’t care about the player. There is no character creation, no proper tutorials, no onboarding of any kind. You’re dropped in and basically told: “Figure it out. Or don’t.” And the problem is, figuring it out isn’t satisfying, it’s just confusing. Most mechanics aren’t intuitive at all, and the game never explains what’s important and what isn’t. Half the time you’re guessing whether something is a feature, a bug, or just bad design. The physics are also… weird. Grass waves like it’s underwater, objects behave inconsistently, and immersion constantly breaks because things don’t react the way you’d expect in a survival game. And yes, it’s often broken. Sometimes I literally couldn’t pick up mushrooms — a basic survival resource — because the game just refused to register it. Stuff like this happens way too often to ignore. The UI doesn’t help either. It’s clunky, awkward to navigate, and feels like it’s actively fighting you when you’re already struggling to understand the systems. The game itself is somewhat atmospheric, but nothing like promised. It plays like an Early Access game, which would be fine, if I hadn’t paid for a finished product. If you enjoy games that explain nothing, break immersion regularly, and make basic actions frustrating, you might have fun. Otherwise, be prepared for a lot of unnecessary friction. [b]Not recommended — unless your idea of survival includes fighting the game itself.[/b]

Edit: no updates or even communication in half a year. The thumbs up here is mainly because of the price, performance and hope for what it can become. Aside from Nightingale, this is easily the best looking UE5 game I've played and it runs nicely at 4k/120 on a 5090 with everything maxed out except lighting or shadows which I set one notch below Cinematic. I'm really, REALLY impressed with how everything looks. I'll check back in a few months so see how it's going. Right now it's about what I wanted it to be, basically just wanted something that looked amazing on my 77in OLED and this fit the bill. Hopefully they add an update where you can drink tons of gasoline. Edit: Oh, and the ability to rebind keys. That's kind of a dealbreaker for me in terms of sticking with it for a while.

Ich habe mir natürlich die Rezensionen durchgelesen, bevor ich das Spiel gekauft habe. Ich verstehe die negativen Punkte. ABER das Spiel sieht toll aus und MIR hat es echt Spaß gemacht. Ein kleines Abenteuer in einem wirklich sehr schönen Wald. Für ein klassisches survival Game fehlt ein bisschen das Bauen und sich eine schicke Base einzurichten. Das man nicht wirklich eine Karte hat, ist nur bedingt ein Problem, sobald man kapiert hat, wie man Wegpunkte setzt. Hat bei mir etwas gedauert ^^. Die Story ist ein bisschen abgedreht, ich wollte trotzdem wissen wie es weiter geht. Ich mags