The Forest | |
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Developer(s) | Endnight Games |
Publisher(s) | Endnight Games |
Director(s) | Ben Falcone |
Designer(s) | Anna Terekhova |
Programmer(s) | Guillaume Kehren |
Composer(s) | Gabe Castro |
Engine | Unity |
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Genre(s) | Survival horror, survival game |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
The Forest is a survival horror video game developed and published by Endnight Games. The game takes place on a remote heavily forested peninsula, where the player character Eric LeBlanc must fight off cannibalistic monsters, while searching for his son Timmy after 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. Following a four-year long early access beta phase releasing in 2014, the finished game was released for Windows in April 2018, and for the PlayStation 4 in November 2018. The game was a commercial success, selling over five million copies by the end of 2018. A sequel game, Sons of the Forest, was released in Early Access for Windows on February 23, 2023.[1]