The Forest is terrifying because it mixes long-term survival stress with sudden, animalistic violence. You spend hours building a home and learning the island — and then night falls, torches flicker, and you hear chanting in the trees. The cannibals don’t behave like scripted zombies; they watch, circle, test your defenses, and attack when you’re weakest. Add pitch-black caves, scarce supplies, and grotesque mutations, and the game becomes a sustained dread machine.
This page combines editorial context, community fear data, platform availability, and store links so you can quickly judge whether The Forest fits your horror backlog.
If scare intensity, jump scares, or specific triggers matter to you, use the fear profile and warning details below before you buy or start a playthrough.
The Forest is a survival horror, open world horror game developed by Endnight Games, released in 2018. Available on PC, PlayStation 4.
Community ratings give The Forest an intensity score of 4.0 out of 5. Jump scares are rated as few. Content warnings include violence, gore, body horror, cannibalism, darkness.
Played from a first-person perspective. Single Player and Online Co-Op modes available. Average playtime is approximately 20 hours.
The Forest has few jump scares according to community ratings.
The Forest has an intensity rating of 4.0 out of 5 based on community votes.
The Forest contains the following content warnings: Violence, Gore, Body Horror, Cannibalism, Darkness.
The Forest is available on PC, PlayStation 4.
The Forest was developed by Endnight Games. Published by Endnight Games.
