I played The Forest for the first time last year. I loved it and also played Sons of the Forest. Even though the second game added more details, improved graphics, and cannibals that act more intelligently with better AI mechanics, I found the gameplay of the first game better and more sustainable, with a smoother learning curve that helps the player get used to the game naturally. Even at the beginning of the game, when I had nothing and was vulnerable, the cannibals were not too aggressive, the first game has a good startup mechanism, while the second game feels more complex. Overall, I like the first game experience more. After I finished both games, I came back to the first game for all the completions. I waited to write this review until I reached 100%. Positively, The Forest is the best open world survival game that I have ever played. I love the map and how everything is located. You learn about plants and animals in a fun way. There is also a building and crafting aspect that could easily be a separate game on its own. That is very creative. The graphics are also very good. I love the story. It is mysterious and engaging. I learned so much about the cannibals and how to kill or avoid them. If I have to say one negative thing about the game and this is the only one. It is how the AI was implemented for the cannibals. Okay, the developers wanted the cannibals to move unpredictably, and that is fine, but they were disappearing and appearing 5 meters away in less than a second. I do not think this is a glitch, but somehow it comes from the implementation. I am not sure it was intentional, though. Anyway, the whole game experience was fun for me. If I could erase my memory, I would want to play it again :D I saw The Forest 3 in the space mentioned online, and I simply cannot wait for it <3

The Forest
Сейчас играют
Разработчик / Издатель
Endnight Games Ltd
Дата выхода
30 апр. 2018 г.
Жанры
Экшены, Приключенческие игры, Инди, Симуляторы
Русский язык
Только текст, без озвучки
Цена
$4.19
Рекомендаций в Steam
582 574
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Ветераны
10+ ч на момент отзыва95%
положительных · отзывов: 6 150
Новички
Меньше 2 ч на момент отзыва83%
положительных · отзывов: 426
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Первые 30 дней после выхода в Steam (30 апр. 2018 г.)92%
Русские отзывы: 92% на старте → 94% сейчас
· Отзывов на старте: 699
Английские отзывы: 91% на старте → 94% сейчас
· Отзывов на старте: 2 159
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| 10–50 ч | 95% | 4 954 |
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| 2019 | 96% | 5 237 |
| 2020 | 97% | 8 554 |
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| ноябрь 2025 | 96% | 1 636 |
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Самый полезный отзыв ветерана (10+ ч на момент отзыва)A survival crafting game with almost no reason to actually engage in the base-building mechanics. Combat is easy but exceptionally janky (poor hit detection). The story is somewhat interesting but very poorly told. This game does not hold up in 2026. There are numerous other games in this genre that do everything better.
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На основе последних отзывов Steam: 9 999 · обновлено 6 окт. 2026 г.
- Русские отзывы: 5 000, с 10 июн. 2026 г. по 6 окт. 2026 г.
- Английские отзывы: 4 999, с 25 мар. 2026 г. по 6 окт. 2026 г.
- ▲ Рекомендую37 ч на момент отзывавсего 59 ч6 сент. 2026 г.
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Полезно: 95 · Забавно: 12ПроизводительностьГрафикаГеймплейСюжетЦенаИгр в библиотеке: 63 · Отзывов написано: 10В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую72 ч на момент отзывавсего 72 ч25 мая 2026 г.
I played The Forest for the first time last year. I loved it and also played Sons of the Forest. Even though the second game added more details, improved graphics, and cannibals that act more intelligently with better AI mechanics, I found the gameplay of the first game better and more sustainable, with a smoother learning curve that helps the player get used to the game naturally. Even at the beginning of the game, when I had nothing and was vulnerable, the cannibals were not too aggressive, the first game has a good startup mechanism, while the second game feels more complex. Overall, I like the first game experience more. After I finished both games, I came back to the first game for all the completions. I waited to write this review until I reached 100%. Positively, The Forest is the best open world survival game that I have ever played. I love the map and how everything is located. You learn about plants and animals in a fun way. There is also a building and crafting aspect that could easily be a separate game on its own. That is very creative. The graphics are also very good. I love the story. It is mysterious and engaging. I learned so much about the cannibals and how to kill or avoid them. If I have to say one negative thing about the game and this is the only one. It is how the AI was implemented for the cannibals. Okay, the developers wanted the cannibals to move unpredictably, and that is fine, but they were disappearing and appearing 5 meters away in less than a second. I do not think this is a glitch, but somehow it comes from the implementation. I am not sure it was intentional, though. Anyway, the whole game experience was fun for me. If I could erase my memory, I would want to play it again :D I saw The Forest 3 in the space mentioned online, and I simply cannot wait for it <3
Полезно: 62 · Забавно: 3ПроизводительностьГрафикаГеймплейСюжетИгр в библиотеке: 257 · Отзывов написано: 109В Steam - ▼ Не рекомендую24 ч на момент отзывавсего 24 ч5 июн. 2026 г.
The Forest as a game is a mystery to me - because I simply can not understand how an unfinished unoriginal game that has nothing impressive in it can go out of early access and still get this much praise. I will start with the most obvious problem: basebuilding. While the game advertises itself with “build a base at day, defend it at night”, the base in question is broken on each and every level. First, building it takes a ridiculous amount of time because of the volume of the required resources. To make things worse - cutting all those trees to make a base makes the local population more aggressive and attacks on your base more often and as a result - instead of being more safe you end up being less safe with a base. The next reason why your base sucks that much is the fact that all of the things you build can be destroyed just in a couple of hits by some monsters or in under a minute by a group of cannibals - and destroyed buildings don’t just drop their materials - they disintegrate forcing you to waste even more time on logging and building. And the last problem with the base makes the whole situation just ridiculous - you don’t even need a base, as enemies are incapable of following you into caves or onto the boat where you can sleep freely and securely. Survival elements. I will never stop hating survival systems where the food and water are abundant and extremely easy to get, but the bars run out so fast that you are constantly nagged with hunger and thirst. And just so you understand how easy the food situation is here - you can forage for berries, hunt for wildlife or eat your enemies - and each of those options can sustain you easily, not to mention that you can combine them however you like. Combat. Oh god, I haven’t seen that much jank in a while. Sure, on one hand locals behave in an interesting way, with their running, screaming from a distance and everything, but when it comes to a fight having those lunatics run in and out without doing anything while you are incapable of catching up to them becomes annoying extremely fast. It becomes even more annoying when the same exact type of enemies either dies in 2 or 20 hits. It becomes infuriating when said enemies decide to ignore the staggering effect of your attacks and stunlock you with an unending flurry of blows. It could be tolerable if said combat was rare, but sadly you can barely pass a day without some lunatic trying to kill you or ruin your base. Combat just sucks and there is no other way to put it. Content for content's sake. This game has a lot of stuff that is simply a waste of time. For example - there is a snow biome and you can waste a lot of time crafting frost protection gear. Sadly the snow biome itself has nothing in it - so all of that collecting was a waste of time. Another example - there are 4 axes in the game. Even after finishing the game I can’t really tell if they had any difference between them or was it done just to make a list of tools bigger. Basebuilding too falls into that category - there is simply no use or function for it. I assume that at least some of those things are caused by an early release with some ideas gutted - but we will never know for sure. Inventory. Sure, having all of the objects visible on a blanket is a neat way of showing what you have - if you are not holding 50 different items. Now imagine that you do - sticks, stones, spears, bows, aforementioned 4 axes, 5 types of hides, a dozen types of berries, plants and herbal mixes - and now try to find anything in this cluttered mess. Yes, with time you do memorize where your things are, at least those that you use often. Finding stuff that you use rarely becomes increasingly annoying the further you go into the game. Exploration/spelunking. I get it, there are places even IRL with vast cave systems. I get it, the caves are dark without a proper source of light. What I don’t get at all - why isn't there a proper source of light in your whole god forsaken game? Lighter gives no light and goes off every few seconds. Flashlight is so bad that I could get more light from a single LED. If said caves were some kind of side content - it would be one thing, but it is your main plot route, how come exploring this route is inconvenient? Not to mention that there are a lot of places with nothing in it - like long swimming sections that serve only as a gear check to make sure you got a required item to pass - navigating those is not fun and is, in fact, extremely boring. Zero direction. In most other games this would not be a problem. However in this one you are supposed to go through caves in a certain order - the first one has a map and a compass, the next few give you tools that are required to get through the further caves. Sadly, with zero directions, we often entered caves that we cannot finish without items that we haven’t found at that point, and just as a cherry on top - we found the first cave (the one with the map) as our last cave. If your only chance to get the correct order is to check wiki - sorry, this is a bad game design. Plot/world. On paper you have one. But the more you see the more questions you have and the less coherent the story becomes. Ancient artifact from dead space that can resurrect people? Ok, how does it explain the fact that there is an entire tribe of cannibals here? Or the fact that someone hauled hundreds of dead people into the caves? And where did those people even come from, why don’t their bodies decompose? It just feels like different bits were thrown into the game to give it a creepy vibe with a “figure it out yourself” attitude because doing so was much easier than making a believable story and world. Overall, I just can’t find even one thing in this game that was properly made. The whole experience was between boring and frustrating, I don’t think that I would even finish this game if I wasn’t playing with a friend. Don’t bother with this one and just go buy something that doesn’t suck.
Полезно: 26 · Забавно: 3ГеймплейСюжетИгр в библиотеке: 1 904 · Отзывов написано: 151В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую34 ч на момент отзывавсего 34 ч15 авг. 2026 г.
I’d rate The Forest a 9/10. I played it with my wife, and it was honestly a lot of fun playing together. The survival mechanics, creepy atmosphere, exploration, and building made every session exciting. Exploring caves and trying to survive the cannibals was even better with someone else. The story was also interesting and kept us wanting to play more. Overall, The Forest is an awesome co-op survival horror game, and I’d definitely recommend it if you want a fun and scary game to play together!
Полезно: 24 · Забавно: 1ГеймплейСюжетИгр в библиотеке: 434 · Отзывов написано: 31В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую34 ч на момент отзывавсего 85 ч6 сент. 2026 г.
---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don't look at it too long ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Masterpiece ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Watching paint dry is better ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm deaf now ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Everyone ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run Paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ High-end rig ☐ Ask NASA for a spare computer ---{ Storage Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk (< 1 GB) ☑ Small (1–10 GB) ☐ Average (10–30 GB) ☐ Big (30–80 GB) ☐ Huge (80–150 GB) ☐ Black hole (> 150 GB) ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only for leaderboards / ranks ☐ Not necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You need a second life ---{ Story }--- ☐ No story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It will replace your real life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee (< 2h) ☐ Short (2–10h) ☐ Average (10–30h) ☑ Long (30–80h) ☐ To infinity and beyond (100h+) ---{ Price / Quality }--- ☐ Free ☑ Worth full price ☑ Wait for a sale ☐ If you have spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ Just burn your money directly ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of them ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ Cyberpunk at launch ☐ The game itself is a terrarium ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 9.9 / 10 ☐ 10
Полезно: 12 · Забавно: 3ПроизводительностьГрафикаГеймплейСюжетЦенаИгр в библиотеке: 81 · Отзывов написано: 54В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую1,2 ч на момент отзывавсего 550 ч9 сент. 2026 г.
The Forest is a game that first scares you, and then makes you afraid of even your own home. After a plane crash, you find yourself on a mysterious island where your main goal is to survive and find your son. It would seem that once you’ve built a hut and gathered some food, you can relax… but the locals have very different plans. What I liked most about the game was the atmosphere. The forest looks incredibly beautiful during the day, but as soon as the sun sets behind the horizon, an ordinary walk among the logs turns into a real nightmare. You constantly feel like someone is watching you from behind the trees, and the sound of footsteps in the dark makes you check several times to make sure the door is locked. The building mechanics are also fantastic. You can construct a small hut, a massive base, or an entire fortress. There’s also cave exploration, crafting, hunting, gathering resources, and, of course, fighting off the local cannibals. I’d especially like to highlight the ability to play with friends. It’s in co-op mode that the game really comes into its own: building a base together, exploring caves, and fleeing from mutants is way more fun. And there’s always that one friend who’ll say, “Come on, let’s go into that cave—I’m sure there’s nothing scary in there,” and 30 seconds later, you’re already running out of there as fast as you can. 😂 On the downside—after dozens of hours, some activities can start to feel repetitive, and certain mechanics aren’t always obvious to newcomers. But that’s easy to forgive when the game delivers so many unforgettable moments. Bottom line: The Forest is a wonderful blend of survival, horror, exploration, and building. The atmosphere, freedom of action, and the ability to play with friends make it
Полезно: 9ПроизводительностьГеймплейИгр в библиотеке: 132 · Отзывов написано: 62В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую73 ч на момент отзывавсего 73 ч7 авг. 2026 г.
The Forest is one of those survival games that can keep you playing for hours. The game gives you a lot of freedom – you can build your own base, explore the island, gather resources, and fight its inhabitants. However, the biggest strength of the game for me is its incredible atmosphere and mystery. During my first playthrough, I constantly felt like I was discovering something I wasn't supposed to see. At first, you don't really know what is happening on the island, who its inhabitants are, or what secrets are hidden in the different locations. I especially enjoyed slowly discovering Timmy's story, the artifacts, and the events surrounding the island. The game doesn't explain everything right away, which gives you plenty of room to create your own theories and connect the different pieces of the story. The mystery also made exploration genuinely exciting. Especially during the first playthrough, every cave or unknown location could hide something new. The game could also genuinely scare me, especially when exploring dark caves where you never knew what might be waiting around the next corner. The Forest is also great in multiplayer. Playing with friends provides plenty of funny moments while building a base, exploring caves, or fighting enemies. The building system gives you a lot of freedom and allows you to create your own base exactly the way you want. Compared to Sons of the Forest, I think the first game does a much better job of maintaining its mystery. The sequel is more developed in many ways, but once you learn its story, some of that mystery disappears. In The Forest, that feeling of uncertainty and discovering something unknown was one of the biggest strengths of the entire game for me. My Rating: 10/10. The Forest is a great survival game that combines exploration, building, combat, and an interesting story. If you enjoy a mysterious atmosphere, survival games, and discovering a story piece by piece, you should definitely give this game a try.
Полезно: 9ГеймплейСюжетИгр в библиотеке: 90 · Отзывов написано: 40В Steam - ▼ Не рекомендую13 ч на момент отзывавсего 13 ч15 мая 2026 г.
A survival crafting game with almost no reason to actually engage in the base-building mechanics. Combat is easy but exceptionally janky (poor hit detection). The story is somewhat interesting but very poorly told. This game does not hold up in 2026. There are numerous other games in this genre that do everything better.
Полезно: 9ГеймплейСюжетОтзывов написано: 7В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую41 ч на момент отзывавсего 56 ч31 мар. 2026 г.
this game is just so goated i can tell the devs have given tons of effort in making it the lore was great there are different endings the quality and all the mechanics were too good to be true i definitely recommand playing this game and whenever you encounter any complexities just search it up on yt or some ♥♥♥♥ its just unbelievably goated. TRY IT NOW EVEN IF IT COSTS MONEY BUY IT ITS SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD.
Полезно: 9ГеймплейСюжетОтзывов написано: 1В Steam - ▼ Не рекомендую57 ч на момент отзывавсего 57 ч20 мая 2026 г.
I enjoyed the first few hours but then I quickly came to find the gameplay loop a little too annoying to enjoy myself any longer. I don't really understand how this has such good reviews. There were some things i like and disliked about this. The Bad: - The food and energy run out way too quickly and yet despite this there is an overabundance of food and water that is constantly respawning. It just turns it into an annoying tedious thing I have to constantly deal with. - Most of my time was spent walking around in caves which are scarry because they are filled with cannibals and eldritch horror monsters but I just can't see a thing while I'm fighting them, so again it is annoying. - There isn't really a reason to build bases other than to satisfy your creativity. The enemies just easily destroy your buildings like its nothing and you can actually accidentally hit your own building very easily if you are fighting cannibals near it. - I didn't finish the story but what i did play felt unintuitive to progress and not particularly interesting. - The combat is terrible. it is very difficult to hit enemies with your weapons and basic enemies take something like 20 spear stabs to kill. Despite this, the enemies are laughably easy to kill because you just side strafe all their attacks. - you are constantly bombarded by patrols of cannibals so you never get time to rest, explore, and build. - Exploration wasn't very rewarding, I swam out to an interesting looking island only be rewarded with absolutely nothing being there. The Good: - The crafting system is interesting because there are no crafting recipes, just you jamming a bunch of stuff together until you find out what combines into what. - The game definitely has some scary moments.
Полезно: 8ГеймплейСюжетИгр в библиотеке: 334 · Отзывов написано: 67В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую111 ч на момент отзывавсего 114 ч15 апр. 2026 г.
---{ Graphics }--- Good: 7/10 Looked good for the time. ---{ Gameplay }--- *CLICK* Nice: 8/10 This was revolutionary for the time but once you play the second one it’s hard to replay this one. ---{ Soundtrack }--- Not too bad: 6/10 I always listen to Stronghold when I’m cutting trees. ---{ Difficulty }--- Easy to learn / Hard to master: 8/10 I’m a pro by now but it was hard in the beginning. ---{ Story }--- Some lore: 6/10 Story is optional but fun to do. ---{ Game Time }--- To infinity and beyond: 9/10 I could play this game for ages if the second one didn’t come out. ---{ Bugs }--- Minor bugs There is a bug when you play multiplayer that you can’t get the gun pieces when you aren't a host. ---{ 8 / 10 }--- Love it but the second one is better.
Полезно: 8ПроизводительностьГрафикаГеймплейСюжетИгр в библиотеке: 57 · Отзывов написано: 31В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую359 ч на момент отзывавсего 367 ч26 июн. 2026 г.
I have always loved this game for the creative ability the game gives you. this is litterally the game of you want to build the most wildest crazy forts then go ham the visuals and gameplay were always ahead of there time and still it holds up.
Полезно: 7ГрафикаГеймплейИгр в библиотеке: 269 · Отзывов написано: 17В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую41 ч на момент отзывавсего 41 ч1 сент. 2026 г.
Легендарный культовый выживач в лесной породе, даже спустя время эта игра ощущается слишком хорошо, приятный сюжет и свободный геймплей где не тянут за нос и дают развиться, построить шикарную базу и раздобыть инструменты
Полезно: 5 · Забавно: 3ГеймплейСюжетОтзывов написано: 23В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую88 ч на момент отзывавсего 88 ч8 авг. 2026 г.
okay rt. one of the few games i've finished. Got most of the achievements just to get the achievements lol. So multiplayer I do wish it could be better but the authenticity of it gets ruined by either kids or modders and I do wish language was a choice because you get put into servers with people who dont speak the language. And gameplay is more demanding when people are expecting you to lead the show instead of enjoying the game. Honestly when the right group of people come together it can be a great experience but its hard to find. That's the reason I decided to solo it out in single player because I couldn't take the game seriously otherwise. Single player was great the first time but once I did the end it kind of muddied the gameplay. I'm aware there's a creative mode but I don't think there's fighting? Aside from the gameplay being tedious(for building) I do think building is a little more limited if its not automatic so i do wish there was an option so we could build some amazing things. I played without the enimies (excpet megan) for the first playthrough helped get a feel for the map and all the stuff which i think helps free up mental space to enjoy the game more when the enimes do come in. Combat takes some getting used to you will die alot. gota be smart at first then its gets crazier and crazier because tougher cannibal variants and stronger enemy stops around day 22 though the rare Worm mutant can still begin appearing after day 40. Have you seen the worm yet??
Полезно: 5ГеймплейОтзывов написано: 7В Steam - ▼ Не рекомендую18 ч на момент отзывавсего 18 ч17 сент. 2026 г.
I have over 100 reviews on Steam, and only about 5 of them are negative. Why? Because I usually seek out games that I think I’ll enjoy, and then do my best to find something to like in them once I boot them up. Unfortunately, there was very little I liked about The Forest, and I wouldn’t sincerely be able to recommend it to almost anybody. To be fully transparent and fair to the game, I played it in a group of 4 friends on a Discord call. The tension that we were supposed to feel in the opening moments- the ominous silence of the forest interrupted by the faint, cheerful tweeting of birds, and the quiet rustling of branches against the wind- was undercut by us laughing and smacking each other with rocks. But this is also largely the game’s own fault. We tried the in-game voice feature, but it was awful. The only way to talk to each other is through walkie-talkies, which distorted and muffled our voices to the point of distraction rather than immersion. There is also no proximity-based chat whatsoever, meaning you could be inches from your friend’s face and still need to pull out a walkie-talkie. There were a few exciting moments throughout our playthrough. Our first encounter with a cannibal, and with each of the mutated variants, was genuinely intense. But these moments were completely carried by the novelty of it all, as the combat in this game is incredibly underbaked. There are a handful of melee options with slightly different range and damage. Other than that, there are a few throwables and a bow. It doesn’t take long to find out that basic enemies are easily stunned when hit by almost any weapon. Any normal one-on-one encounter is trivialized by just spam-clicking until the enemy finally stops flailing its arms around and goes down. (For context, we played on normal.) Our first cave exploration was pretty exciting too. Splitting up to explore every corner of the pitch-black cave and hearing the rare echo of a cannibal cackle and howl for the first time was a great moment. However, there are way too many caves (probably almost half of our gameplay in a game called THE FOREST), and they quickly become tedious to explore. The ♥♥♥♥ lighting stops being interesting and starts being annoying when key progression items are hidden in a mountain of corpses with no environmental clues pointing to them. The “realism” defense doesn’t even work here- who the hell would go into a cave expecting to find keycards, chainsaws, climbing axes, and rebreathers? I’m not asking for yellow paint or anything, but the closest the game comes to guiding the player is a to-do list item that says “explore the wet cave” and a meaningless picture of a random tree with an X on it. You don’t even get a map unless you happen to explore the right cave. A blank map btw, as if it’s that hard to find a blank piece of paper in a sea of suitcases? As for the other mechanics, our usual resident base-builder for survival games built a shack, placed some water collectors and a garden, and called it there, so I can’t imagine he found that system all that interesting. Survival systems are not a challenge in this game, but a recurring inconvenience, as birds are magnetically attracted to your character on the surface, and granola bars are plentiful in the caves. The crafting menus are cumbersome to interact with. Hunting is boring, made worse by stupid prey AI and random creature spawning/despawning right in front of your eyes. There is also little actual story to push you forward, beyond the simple but admittedly cool premise. They try to rectify this at the end with pure twist and shock factor, but this was not enough in my opinion. On top of all that, the game is buggy as hell, and needs to be manually saved if you don’t wanna lose hours of progress. And I’m talking “phasing through a wall and being forced to quit to menu without saving” levels of buggy. If you’re a survival-craft fan looking for a new fix, there’s still a good chance you’ll like this game. Apparently I’m in the minority here anyway, and I’m not usually a fan of the genre (Though I did enjoy Subnautica and Grounded a lot). I can also see someone booting this up alone, and enjoying the tense opening hours. I really wanted to like this game, but I couldn’t. If I “played it wrong” somehow, I am genuinely curious as to what I missed. I’ll leave the comments open for that. 4/10
Полезно: 4 · Забавно: 1ПроизводительностьГеймплейСюжетИгр в библиотеке: 1 539 · Отзывов написано: 104В Steam - ▼ Не рекомендую0,6 ч на момент отзывавсего 0,6 ч5 июл. 2026 г.
В 2026 году выглядит и играется очень слабо, только если с друзьями в коопе - тогда ещё есть смысл. Но в этой игре банально очень мало механик и сам открытый мир совсем не интересно исследовать. Игра устарела, рекомендую посмотреть на The Long Dark.
Полезно: 4ГеймплейИгр в библиотеке: 695 · Отзывов написано: 107В Steam - ▼ Не рекомендую5 ч на момент отзывавсего 27 ч30 апр. 2026 г.
I died of thirst right next to a pool of water that the game won't let me drink. Building is a nightmare. Constantly trying to find food and water is a nightmare. My guy chops down 3 trees and needs something eat. At the rate he needs food he'll be on my 600lb life before getting out the forest. The combat mechanics are clunky as hell. Don't try to kill an animal close to anything you've built. You'll end up destroying it. Then when you're making a little progress some freakishly fast guys will come along and start molotoving everything.
Полезно: 4 · Забавно: 2ГеймплейОтзывов написано: 23В Steam - ▲ Рекомендую17 ч на момент отзывавсего 23 ч24 апр. 2026 г.
Good survival game with commendable mechanics and graphics. The experience is enhanced exponentially if you play it with friends.
Полезно: 4ГрафикаГеймплейИгр в библиотеке: 74 · Отзывов написано: 12В Steam - ▼ Не рекомендую34 ч на момент отзывавсего 34 ч4 сент. 2026 г.
The controls are awful, VR was put in as a half-thought, the story is boring, the ending is flat, the entire game is a series of boring confusing caves. What an absolute waste of time. 2/10
Полезно: 3 · Забавно: 3ГеймплейСюжетИгр в библиотеке: 617 · Отзывов написано: 95В Steam - ▼ Не рекомендую5,5 ч на момент отзывавсего 5,5 ч23 авг. 2026 г.
Very buggy for a game this popular At one point we lost all of our progress a few hours in and it was hard to want to keep playing after that Gameplay wasn’t that standout either, not sure how this game has such a cult following
Полезно: 3ПроизводительностьГеймплейИгр в библиотеке: 110 · Отзывов написано: 33В Steam