Released Apr 30, 2018 $19.99 Overwhelmingly Positive Counts toward your Steam games

The Forest

By Endnight Games Ltd

Open World Survival Craft Survival Horror Open World Crafting Adventure Building Survival Horror First-PersonActionExplorationSandbox

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Reviews 584k Overwhelmingly Positive

Players yesterday 2,892 at the busiest moment

Owners 20M–50M estimated

The Forest is a game tagged Open World Survival Craft, Survival and Horror by Endnight Games Ltd, released Apr 30, 2018. It has 583,823 Steam reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive). It has an estimated 20M–50M owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include Stranded Deep, Unhinged and Odd Woods.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

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Stranded Deep 87% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Open World
Unhinged 86% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Horror
Odd Woods 86% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Horror
Bromeliad 85% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Open World
Blockscape 84% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Open World
Vortex: The Gateway 83% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Horror
Beyond The Shadow 82% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Horror
Cube Life: Island Survival 82% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Open World
Stranded in Paradise 82% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Open World
Project Canopy 81% match · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Open World

Steam data

Everything Steam lists for The Forest · record updated 2 hours ago

Steam store

Overview

App ID242760

Release dateApr 30, 2018Early Access Jan 1, 1970

Last change number37432709

Last record update2 hours ago

App type: Game
Developer: Endnight Games Ltd
Publisher: Endnight Games Ltd
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Metacritic: 83
Website: survivetheforest.com

Language	Interface	Full audio
English	Yes	Yes
French	Yes
German	Yes
Czech	Yes
Finnish	Yes
Japanese	Yes
Korean	Yes
Polish	Yes

All 16 languages

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
Portuguese - Brazil	Yes
Russian	Yes
Simplified Chinese	Yes
Swedish	Yes
Traditional Chinese	Yes
Turkish	Yes
Italian	Yes
Spanish - Spain	Yes

Windows

Steam Deck: Playable
Controller: Partial support

Single-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline co-opLAN co-opTracked controller supportVR supportedSteam CloudFamily SharingPartial controller support

Prices

Price · US$19.99

On sale0 of 41regions right now

Lowest seen · US$19.99Oct 24, 2026

Checked17 hours agoin 41 regions

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Patches

Build	Branch	Updated
20229486	vr_beta	Oct 3, 2025
20229486	public	Oct 3, 2025

Packages & DLC

ID	Name	Games	Price (US)
28497	The Forest	1	$19.99
297407	The Forest - Commercial License	1	$19.99

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
242761	— English	Windows	5.54 GB	1.98 GB	1816573600225453267

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	20229486	Oct 3, 2025	Open
vr_beta	20229486	Oct 3, 2025	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/The Forest

Executable	Systems	Description
TheForest.exe	Windows	Launch
TheForest32.exe	All · 32-bit	The Forest 32-bit
TheForest32.exe	All	The Forest 32- bit
TheForestVR.exe	All	The Forest VR

Space per player953.7 MB

Filesup to 100

Save locations0

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Update history

Oct 25, 2026 · 11:13 #37432709
- appid removed
- common.ReleaseState added released
- common.releasestate removed
- config.launch.2.config.BetaKey added beta_testing
- config.launch.2.config.betakey removed

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The Forest

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Americas 10

Europe 5

CIS 4

Asia-Pacific 15

Middle East & Africa 7

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