The Forest is a story-rich survival horror sandbox game that blends exploration, excavation, and cannibalism. Developer Ending Games released an early beta version of the game as early as 2014, although the game as a whole was quite simple and buggy, but with its unique gameplay and story background, it was still loved and sought after by many players. In 2018, the official version of "Forest" was released, and the game not only optimized its content, but also completed the scene design, so that players can experience a better game experience in the game.
The game tells the story of a loving father looking for a son. You are sitting on the plane with your son, enjoying a harmonious parent-child holiday. For unknown reasons, the plane suddenly fluctuated violently, broke in two from the middle and crashed on an unnamed island. In the haze, you see your son Tenmi being taken away by a naked savage. After you wake up, look at the island in front of you and start your journey to find your son.
At the beginning of the game, the player will complete the familiarization of the game according to the survival three-step survival method of survival game "making a fire, building a house, and finding food and drink". In addition to collecting natural resources such as grass, stones, and animal materials to build infrastructure, players can also find luggage dropped during plane crashes and some camps where other shipwrecked passengers lived throughout the island, and get some modern supplies such as tape, batteries, and alcohol. This design also allows players to experience the "real" meaning of survival in the game.
"Forest" is relatively rich in gameplay, and the gameplay is also diverse, you can collect clues to find your son to live the plot, and the plot is more like watching a movie. It is also possible to survive in the forest, explore various caves, collect various items, and build shelters. You can also choose to hunt wild people, because wild people are full of treasures, amputation of limbs, you can eat can be used as weapons, you can also burn into bones, make statues, skulls to make skull sticks, bone lamps, chandeliers, head bombs, of which the premise of making head bombs is that fresh heads can only be done, people who become white bones can't do it, teeth upgrade weapons damage good things, in addition to wild people, in the wild man camp resources are also very rich, the largest wild man camp cloth is not lacking, every time will be refreshed, there are many other resources, soda water, detonators, flares, Circuit board, at the same time the Savage camp has a room with an entrance to a rope downhole, which contains wine, coins, and of course a game map, which is blank at first and will only be displayed where it has been walked. Of course, many players take hunting wild people as the main gameplay of the game when playing, which also reflects the charm of sandbox games.
There are also some interesting settings in the game: wildlings and wild animals that will be hostile to the player are naturally your enemies, and hunger and thirst are also important factors that can drive you to the end of the road. However, be careful not to eat casually when eating, if you want to abandon human nature and roast the wild man to eat, it will become brain damage. There are many caves in the game, and almost every underground cave has clues or equipment related to the plot, and players must at least get a mountain pickaxe, access control cards and submersibles to complete the level, which are used on the way to the location of the final boss. You can mark the cave where these items are located, so that you can quickly collect them. The difficulty of the game increases as the number of survival days increases, and the number of wildlings increases, the amount of health becomes thicker, and the damage increases. The refresh rate of bosses will also gradually increase.
In addition to the protagonist, various animals and plants in the game, there are wild people and mutants, players need to establish shelters, collect food, water, build traps, and dodge the attacks of wild men and mutants. Because in the wild survival you must find a safe place to sleep, in addition to the harm of wild beasts and mosquitoes, the weather is also very important, if it rains at night, the temperature decreases (there will be no overcooling state when it rains during the day, because the temperature difference between day and night in this area is large), the whole body is wet, and the protagonist will appear in a state of too low temperature (water mist and frost appear around the screen) Will bleed for a long time, so the shelter is one of the essential settings in the game.
The word horror in the Forest label is not a casual word, because the horror atmosphere in the game is very well designed, and the developer is very good at playing with tension, such as you are in the middle of a strangely quiet wilderness with an ominous premonition, which is very typical, like most first-person open-world survival games. As I was on my way toward the nearest coastline, I was suddenly startled by a wild voice and prepared for defense. But a hunchbacked, cloaked creature kept chasing me, suddenly stopped, and just a few steps away from tearing my face to shreds, and then waited to see what I was doing. This overgrown alpine peninsula that turns into your home is almost idyllic and idyllic, consisting of delightful green trees and sparkling ponds. But it is also home to several wild and terrifying tribes of cannibals, who mark their territory using statues of victim skins and bones. From the moment I met the first tribe, this quiet, comforting feeling suddenly turned into a constant panic.
Summary: "The Forest" is a very distinctive work, when you play this game will make you have a very scary feeling of survival torture, the developer is very good at playing with the tension, creating a feeling of being in the real world, there are complex internal mechanisms, so that players want to solve these puzzles, but have to face the "perverted" mechanics in the game. So if you want to play free or survival horror games, Forest is definitely one of the must-do titles!