Steam reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

96% of 669,447 reviews

Critic scores

Metacritic

Generally favorable

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THE FOREST

The Forest has 3,706 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 5,939 and its all-time peak is 19,072. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Endnight Games Ltd2018

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.

Up 29% in the last 24h. Something brought players back.
Currently at 19% of the all-time peak of 19,072 players.
Last updated 14 months ago: Unity security update.

Playing now

3,706

24h peak

5,939

24h change

▲ 29.3%

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

3.71K

24h peak

5.94K

All-time

19.1K

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