Rating = 7/10 Version Played = O.3 Genre = Horror
Recently I've been playing this single player kind of free-roam horror game on steam called "The Forest" and I know it's quite popular due to lots of youtubers making videos of it, so I thought I would do a lil' review for you.
The Game
Basically, the games opening cut-scene is of a man and his male child (I assume it's his child) travelling via Airplane. The plane then begins to experience wild turbulence and shortly after crashes into a mysterious forest(y) island. The main character wakes up in the crash-site and witnesses an island tribesman-of-sorts picking up his unconscious child and walking away (The screen blacks out afterwards) This then leads you out into an open sandboxy world where you can chop down trees to get logs, craft weapons, fight off attacking cannibalistic tribes during the night and most importantly in the game (For the plot I assume) finding your son.
There isn't really a plot yet, since it's in early development but I can assume you will meet up with other plane-crash survivors at some point and go on a search to find (and kill) whoever took your son.
Features
The game has a realistic motion blur, lots of crafting options and also unique AI. It's quite violent and slightly gory (You can build flaming torches made of body parts) but it is also very adventurous and fun. It's kind of like a mature version of Minecraft (I said KIND of) Many people love the game due to it's mixture of adventure and violence though, and I am one of them; it makes the game different to other horror games
The players most handy thing throughout the game is the Guide Book, which has information about basically everything in the game. It is also used to craft structures, weapons and items and teaches the player about basic survival by showing recipes and what berries are edible.
Throughout the game you will also come across various cannibal campsites where you can dismember anybody who gets in your way and then use the body parts to create effigies, these effigies ward off tribes that plan on attacking you by basically saying "If you don't want to end up like this, you should f**k (sorry for the swearing) off right now"
Review
I find the game really enjoyable and fun because of it's uniqueness, but there is quite a lot of bugs (Which I can understand because it is in progress) but I will need to put them into account. Some of the bugs include the Guidebook incorrectly stating what materials are needed to craft something which can often be really annoying and another bug is the players "House Boat" randomly sinking, which leaves you pretty vulnerable (I have froze to death multiple times due to this)
All-in-all I love the game because of how fun and different it is for an open world horror game, but it does lose a few points because of it's list of bugs (They only recently added so you could save also) although do keep in mind that the game is still early in development, I just rated the game for what it's like right now
Why not give it a try? The link to the website is here
