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Developers
Endnight Games

Engines
Unity 5[Note 1]

Release dates
Window s April 30, 2018[3]

Reception
Metacritic 83 (https://w w w.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-forest)
OpenCritic 81 (https://opencritic.com/game/6029/the-forest)
IGDB 86 (https://w w w.igdb.com/games/the-forest)

Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, Horror, Zombies
Series The Forest

The Forest

The Forest 2018

Sons of the Forest 2022

Contents
Availability

General information

Official wiki (http://theforest.gamepedia.com)

Steam Community Discussions (https://steamcommunity.com/app/242760/discussions/)

Availability
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Source DRM Notes Keys OS

Humble Store (https://www.hu

mblebundle.com/store/the-fore
st?partner=pcgw)

Steam (https://store.steampow
ered.com/app/242760/?utm_so
urce=PCGamingWiki&utm_me
dium=PCGamingWiki&utm_ca
mpaign=PCGamingWiki)

All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data
Configuration file(s) location

System Location

Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SKS\TheForest\

Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/242760/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location

Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\SKS\TheForest\

Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/242760/pfx/[Note 2]

Five manual save slots available.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes

Steam Cloud

Video

Graphic settings.
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Graphics feature State WSGF Notes

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Field of view (FOV) 60-95°. Default is 75°.
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Borderless fullscreen dr/fo windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the
Enable
windowed glossary
res page).
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Anisotropic filtering (AF) Seen) the glossary page for potential work arounds.

Anti-aliasing (AA) FXAA or TAA.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

60 FPS and 120+ FPS

High dynamic range display

See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
(HDR)

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Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes

Remapping Mouse buttons cannot be bound. ↵ Enter cannot be bound to commands.

Mouse acceleration

Mouse sensitivity

Mouse input in menus

Mouse Y-axis inversion

Controller

Controller support

Full controller support Launcher requires mouse input.

Controller remapping

Controller sensitivity

Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

DualShock 4 controllers

Tracked motion controllers [Expand]

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Generic/other controllers

Additional information [Expand]

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes

Separate volume controls Sound Effects and Music

Surround sound [4]

Subtitles

Closed captions

Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes

English

Brazilian Portuguese

Russian

Network
Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes

Co-op
Local play 8 Use Nucleus Co-op (https://github.com/SplitScreen-Me/splitscreenme-nu
cleus/releases).

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LAN play

Online play 8 Co-op

Connection types

Type Native Notes

Matchmaking

Peer-to-peer

Dedicated

Self-hosting

Direct IP

VR support

3D modes Native Notes

Native 3D

Use Helix Mod: The Forest (https://helixmod.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-forest.ht

Nvidia 3D Vision
ml).

Headsets Native Notes

HTC Vive

Oculus Rift

OSVR

This game might be playable with the Revive Compatibility Layer (https://github.
Windows Mixed Reality com/LibreVR/Revive) (compatibility list (https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive/wik i/
Compatibility-list)).

Devices Native Notes

Tracked motion controllers See Input for details.

Traditional controller See Input for details.

Keyboard/Mouse

Use Tobii Game Hub (https://tobiigaming.com/getstarted/). Supports head

Tobii Eye Tracking
tracking.

Issues fixed
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Key binding screen is unresponsive

The keybinding screen may be unresponsive at lower frame rates (~40-50 fps or lower).

Decrease graphical settings to increase frame rate

Temporarily lowering graphical settings to bring frame rate up should solve the issue.

Low performance (Linux/Proton)

The game uses a version of the Unity Engine which has a critical bug if run via Proton resulting in low performance on
some system configurations.

Limit CPU cores available to the game [5]

Add as a Launch option taskset -c 0,1,2,3 nice %command% if you CPU has more than 4 cores/threads.

Other information
API

Technical specs Supported Notes

Direct3D 9, 11 Use the -force-d3d9 command line to force DX9.

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes

Windows

System requirements

Windows

Minimum Recommended

Operating system (OS) 7 7

Processor (CPU) Intel Dual Core 2.4 GHz Quad Core Processor

System memory (RAM) 4 GB 4 GB

Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB 5 GB

Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT Nvidia GeForce GTX 560

Video card (GPU)
DirectX 9.0 compatible DirectX 9.0 compatible

Notes
1. Unity engine build: 5.6.5f1[1][2]
2 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine
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2. File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine
regedit (https://wiki.winehq.org/Regedit) to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may
store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/242760/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app
ID (242760) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References
1. v0.16 - The Forest Unity 5 update! - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: The Forest (https://steamcomm
unity.com/games/242760/announcements/detail/230023830034135588)
2. Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-05-09
3. The Forest :: V1.0 (https://steamcommunity.com/games/242760/announcements/detail/1647632012691535057) -
last accessed on 2018-05-01
4. Verified by User:Rose on 2019-02-19

The sub and the rear speak ers were used.

5. ProtonDB Reports (https://www.protondb.com/app/242760) - last accessed on 2022-01-10

Categories:

Windows

No microtransactions

Singleplayer

Multiplayer

Real-time

First-person

Direct control

Survival horror

Realistic

Contemporary

Horror

Zombies

Games

Local multiplayer games

VR games

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