World
Enter a living, breathing forest, where every tree and plant can be chopped down. Below ground explore a vast network of caves and underground lakes. Crash land alone, or with friends in up to 8 player cooperative multiplayer.
Complete player freedom
Chop down trees to build a camp, or start a fire to keep warm. Scavenge food to keep yourself from starving. Find and plant seeds to grow food.
Build a small shelter or a large ocean side fortress. decorate your home with found items. Lay traps and defenses to keep a safe perimeter.
Gameplay
Explore and build during the day. Defend your base at night. Craft weapons and tools. Bunker down during the evening or bring the fight directly to the enemy.
Fight or Hide
Use stealth to evade enemies, or engage them directly with crude weapons built from sticks and stones.
A new type of open world, survival horror experience
Defend yourself against a clan of genetic mutant enemies that have beliefs, families and morals and that appear almost human. Play by yourself, or with up to 8 friends for the ultimate survival experience.
Trailers
Updates
V1.07
Hey Everyone,
This patch fixes an issue with crashing that could occur when building tree based structures.
V1.06
Hey Everyone,
Today’s patch fixes some more issues that have come up since release.
V1.0
Hey Everyone,
Today The Forest moves from early access into a full release.
V0.73 and Release Plans
Hey Everyone,
We wanted to share our plans for moving The Forest out of early access and into a full v1.0 release.