The Forest is a survival video game developed and published by Canadian studio Endnight Games. The game takes place on a remote, heavily forested peninsula where the player character Eric Leblanc and his son Timmy are survivors of a plane crash. The game features nonlinear gameplay in an open world environment played from a first-person perspective, with no set missions or quests, empowering the player to make their own decisions for survival. The game was released for Microsoft Windows in April 2018 following a three-year long early access beta phase, as well as for the PlayStation 4 in November 2018. The Windows version of the game had sold over five million copies by the end of 2018.
In The Forest, the player must survive on a forested peninsula after a plane crash, after which a “cannibal” is seen taking the player’s son away. The player survives by creating shelter, weapons, and other survival tools. Inhabiting the island, along with various woodland creatures, are a tribe of nocturnal, cannibalistic mutants who dwell in villages on the surface and in deep caves beneath the peninsula. While they are not necessarily always hostile to the player, their usual behavior is aggressive, especially during the night
The Forest was inspired by cult films such as The Descent and Cannibal Holocaust and video games like Don’t Starve,and was accepted as part of Steam Greenlight in 2013.Developers Endnight Games have said that Disney was an inspiration for the game, commenting that they do not want the whole game to be entirely “dark and depressing. The game is being developed to be compatible with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset
Minimum system requirements – The Forest PC
- OS: Windows 7 SP1, 32-bit
- CPU: Core 2 Duo E2200 2.4GHz / Athlon 7550 Dual Core
- RAM: 4 GB
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT / Radeon HD 4830
- HDD space: 5 GB
- GPU memory: 512 MB
Recommended system requirements – The Forest PC
- OS: Windows 7 SP1, 64-bit
- CPU: Dual Core G6950 2,80 GHz / Phenom II X2 550
- RAM: 6 GB
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti / Radeon HD 7750
- HDD space: 10 GB
- GPU memory: 1024 MB
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