Why The Forest Is So Awesome
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- The Forest is one of the most revolutionary survival games ever made. It is a game that helped to pioneer the survival game genre and it is absolutely AWESOME!
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On this channel, I like to cover games that have failed, games that have died, nostalgic stuff, and games that are awesome. In today's video, I review The Forest and talk about why it is such a good game.
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Sons of the forest will be better. it will be the best game ever i think
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It is the best game ever
How do people watch this 🤡
The thing that makes the cannibals so captivating is the Ai. EndNight did an amazing job utilizing the Ai in interesting ways. They can get scared and run off the get more reinforcements, climb up trees to watch you from a distance, build strange effigies outside your base in an attempt to run you off, they can hit each other and more. Not to mention the fact that as you get further and further into the game, different types of cannibals come out that make your job a LOT harder.
In SOTF apparently they have upped the Ai a ton. Cannot wait.
Yes truly amazing AI they flank you effectively while you are fighting one of them. Other games have tried this but none like The Forest, the AI runs from you and does a circle before attacking from the rear.
Playing the forest alone is scary while me and my friend made it our goal to collect every animal head in the game and put it on that huge tree on the shore where we had our base. That's the The Forest co op experience in a nutshell and it's just as funny as it sounds
I did the same thing but I also included the mutant heads as well
@@Adrian-oz3lf Yeah we did that too eventually
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I started playing all happy and didnt massage to keep on playing I was too scared to leave the beach.
The whole scenary with the boat the atmospher just made me sick.. and like paralysed of going in the forest so I stopped playing.
Came back a year ago and put 100h on the game and I still always skip the nights and go overprepared in caves.
I think the forest is far from an ugly game. When my friends from the desert or from the Low Countries in Europe ask me what the forests around me look like, I always ask “have you played The forest?” They did such an amazing job portraying North American eastern coast forests. Of course I’m from Appalachia so some differences in terrain but, walking through the woods in this game is almost photorealistic at times, and it almost makes me feel at home, like a kid again exploring the creeks and woods around where I live. Until the shout of a local off in the distance reminds me I’m not alone…then that comforting cloak of the forest smothers you…
The Forests actually look the same here in Europe lol.
Yes it is very realistic especially the sounds. That's what makes the cannibals even scarier
I was born and raised in Northern Virginia. My friends and I would play in forests when I was growing up. I agree ! The sound from this game was amazing. The sound where you walk in the forest and hear the leaves crunchy is exactly like it is in the game, as well as the birds and other stuff.
The game is just really ugly though. Hard to look at. I thought I would like the forest setting, but it just looked so oversaturated and hurt my eyes.
This is the only game that actually freaks me out about dying.
Im always so paranoid about death for some reason especially when playing alone.
I never beat the game, but I did plat a lot of it. And I can tell you, it scared me more than most modern horror games. The first scare legit got me to close the game because of how unexpected it was. I was exploring the world and came across a cannibal base, and being the moron I was, I decided to take on the group, and, of course, got myself killed. Now I expected to spawn back at the plane, however, instead I spawned inside a cave. I had no torches or anything to light up the area, but I tried pressing on. I ended up falling into a pool of water, and that's when I heard it. Growls and screeching that got my heart racing. I couldn't find my way out, so I just quit the game and restarted the next time I played.
Just climb up the rope behind you when you spawn in the cave.
Honestly a glitchy game but a really enjoyable experience with friends
That game offers so much possibilities that no human being can completely test it in a hundred years. And the game is very enjoyable alone, which is the way that game is intended to be played. Multiplayer was really just an afterthought.
@@gokudomatic It was an afterthought but a very good one. I played this alone and in multiplayer a lot and honestly, the multiplayer aspect is the only reason I still play it. The story is really good for singleplayer but playing it again is also such a great experience to do in multiplayer.
As long as your friends play the game properly and don’t want to just dop logs. I played for a long time and was building a big base over time just to have a friend join me and start glitching logs in. I deleted that would and have not played the forest since. It honestly killed the game for me. The fact that people have gone nuts on glitches I am honestly slowly losing interest in playing games with other people now. Let alone playing them at all.
@@KingDarkOne1996 Yeah I played with a friend on multiplayer twice and we pretty much did everything in the game, but recently we both tried The Forest VR and that felt like a whole new game.
@@KingDarkOne1996 sounds too me like you're just a killjoy tbh
Me and my friend started playing this 2 years ago and the first time we played was a horror movie we got so scared we took a 2 hour break. It’s one of the best survival games I’ve played and I can’t wait for sons of the forest.
Its on sale on ps4 right now. $8. Seems totally worth it right?
Highly underrated game, that doesn’t get the love it deserves. Can’t wait for the 2nd one to come out. 😄 The Forest is a simple, yet complicated game. That really immerses you in the game. It can be clunky, but is still overall a fantastic game. And hopefully the 2nd one can live up to its hype. 😅
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underrated? theres almost half the earth population that knows and plays this game... Markiplier, speed and other big TH-camrs
@@Amiruny and it still deserves more
Underrated yet sold over 1 million copies.
THE FOREST? Underrated? Stop trolling.
Spoilers!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Timmy didn't kill the audience in the talkshow, in the new cutscene you see him recover from the seizure without mutating.
That's true
OP should really check what he says 🙄
I feel timmy got some type of antigen from the alien device so I think he's stronger and faster than the normal person.
@@timetwin7301 well, i'm not sure but i think we will play as Timmy in the new Forest, so I'm not so sure about that. (Also, other kids that were under the effect of the artifact are/were the mutants in-game (Armsy, virginia, cowman...), so i highly doubt that he'd the the only case with good result)
He didn't.
I'm sure it has already been said, but Timmy didn't kill anyone. He was able to gain control of himself which is why in the next game he'll probably still be continuing to deal with controlling the monster inside of him
Apparently there was an original ending where he did kill people at the late night show, but they updated it so that he didn't do that. That's what I've heard at least...
One of the most underrated games of all time.🌳
Gotta love how you end up in the [ENDING SPOILER] wearing bones and skin of mutants. You really do become what you once feared and even felt bad about killing so brutally.
He who fights with monsters...
i started playing this game again about 2 hours ago after not playing for like 2 years and then you upload this, crazy timing lol
😂 3:50
"Stamina of a small toddler"
Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids
the forest is pretty buggy and i wish the VR support was better but the game is really good still and the art direction especially in the caved and on the mutants designs are awesome and creepy as hell. The cave with the corpses praying to a painting of a black object gives me chills in VR
@#facts pretty scary until you realise you just wiggle your wrist violently and even the scariest of genetic monstrosities fall. Caves still make me shit bricks though.
The Forest is one of the best games I’ve ever played and I mean that 100%
14:45 He didn't kill anyone on the show. After it cuts to black, it immediately shows the player character caressing Timmy to stop his seizures.
south, in the bottom of the map, there is a tiny island, next to the beach with the boat. you can connect the shores with a zipline, which also transports logs, so you can buld a completly cut off islandbase which is 100% protected against the big mutants from all sides. helped me a lot.
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One of the few games that me and my girlfriend completed in coop. Going to the caves to get some gear while evading a Virginia and some creepy looking hoping babies... Really unique experience.
At the end of the story, there's actually a choice that not many know about. You can also shut the whole thing down at a terminal to the right of the Big Red Button. Doing so will allow you to continue playing on the island if you wish to do so for whatever reason whereas using the device will end the play through.
14:44 That isn't true, Timmy stops convulsing after you pick him up and hold him closely. That part of the cutscene was left out of the video.
Yes, this part caught me off guard. Very disappointed with Robokast. It's either deliberately misleading or shoddy research.
I dig how authentic genuine this review felt. you didnt put the game on a pedastol or went completely overkill in regards to the praise you gave or the criticism you dished out like so many other youtubers seem to. good stuff!
0:12 "BTW Guys this video was sponsored by valheim"
Here's a tip, if you build a TREEHOUSE, you basically safe lol Because they don't climb the treehouse lol They may smash your walls, and everything in your base, but they don't touch your treehouse, for some reason lol That's been my experience lol
So if you come across too many mutants, just run back to your treehouse lol If they manage to follow you, they'll eventually go away.
I've played over 120 hours and still have only seen like.... 3 of the cave systems. And I've never come close to beating it or making it to the bottom of the sinkhole. I still loved it!
You can literally jump down to bottom of sink hole if you time it right a stick to sides
Me and my friend bought the forest and are having a blast playing it. We spent around 12 hours building a huge base, walls, traps, 2 huge houses, zip lines to a treehouse. Then, a fatty and some weird looking spider thing along with 400 cannibals attacked. After we dealt with them, our whole base was destroyed. So we moved north to the snow area, and figured out we could make a water base which we did and it is so cool. It’s a buggy mess but still really fun
Playing the Forest with 2 of my close friends was the best experience I have ever had playing video games. The screams that us grown men let out in those caves, were screams of higher pitch than a bunch of little girls. THIS GAME IS A BLAST! I know a large portion of the fan base likes this game for the survival and building, and I do not like that because it paints the WRONG picture of this game. It is a horror game where you have to discover secrets, clues and lore. My favorite part of the game is getting lost in the caves and experiencing (what I can only describe as) blissful terror. And don't get me started on the story! The way this game tells the lore/ story through finding books, magazines, letters, images, videos, is SO FUN. I love getting little bits and pieces of the story as I play, and I especially loved the ending to the game and I love how big of a twist it is. This game makes you want to learn more about what is going on on this island and you want to keep exploring constantly because you never know when the next tidbit of information will appear.
TLDR: IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THIS YET, GET A COUPLE FRIENDS AND PLAY!!!! Do not look anything up, do not build houses, do not watch youtube videos on this game. Just play it raw and experience the terror! I love this game and I cannot express how fun it is if you just play with the goal of exploration and finding Timmy!!!
PS: If my comment makes you play the game, please come back and reply to me and let me know if you enjoyed it! One of my favorite games ever!
I am like you and although I did build a little, my main mission was finding weapons and Timmy. What I would do is build tons of small cabins (along side drying racks and fire pits) in strategic locations across the map so I can save. I never built any crazy bases because chopping down trees takes so damn long. I was like "I don't have time to collect 86 logs for a cabin, are you kidding me ?". I think people are using mods to build crazy bases, one dude on TH-cam even created a mansion. That would take so damn long and it would be tedious. Yeah, just build small cabins/drying racks/fire pits all throughout the map, find badass weapons, and then go save Timmy. That's what I did.
Everyday is a different experience. Playing with randoms is fun and different, sometimes you meet cool people and or trolls. Spear throwing, sword swinging, guns bows etc. duping. Awesome traps
3:55 I nearly choked on my iced tea...
The ease with which that cannibal runs through that goldfish pond into your base 🤣🤣🤣
14:44 THAT'S NOT FUCKING TRUE. If you play through the full release of the game, you'll see that Timmy didn't kill anyone and didn't turn into a mutant, he was just shaking.
Calm down, sperg.
@@yungskolking1470 sperg? What does sperg mean?
The Forest is the only game where I feel like at home so much, knowing every small item's location, all cannibal spawning points & where they will walk. Counting days... At least I will have a game to play again for many years except for csgo siege and rust.
I hunger for the forest 2. The trailer looks soooo good.
I got it.. it needs a LOT of work.. the controls are kinda janky... screen stutter. thats all i noticed in the firest 60 seconds.. then I quite playing it... crossed my mind to get a refund... which is sad.
@@ericdraven7185 bro. You didn't even play it for shit. Wha-
@@ericdraven7185 1.0 released and it fixed 99% of the bugs
@@Slimpicken He's right. It's not good.
@MattC78 a year later I personally have/had fun. plus a year ago there was this magical thing called 'early access'.
I was 15 when the early access started...now I am 23...turning 24 in a few months...man time flies by. I will buy Sons Of The Forest right when it comes out. Cannot wait
Tummy doesn't kill anyone on the talk show, he just spazzes out
Just finished the game, was pretty fun and scary. Definitely think SotF will be MUCH better. Didn't quite compare to Subnautica (I was playing this to scratch my survival crafting itch that I got from Subnautica years ago), but it's definitely a classic, like you said. I'm also looking forward to Forever Skies and am keeping tabs on Planet Crafter, both of which are more like Subnautica.
this game was one of the best VR experiences i ever played. Highly recommended!
I liked how he turned around with the bow 😂😂😂
I found The Forest after having played Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero for a long time. Now I am getting close to the hours I played those two with The Forest. Really love the game :)
oh my god, I remember back in the day on the ps4 me and my friends made a server on this game, people really need to hear about this game more, it’s honestly so fun especially with friends, so if you can please play it, it’s so worth the cheap price
In terms of Survival games that stand out, I think Planet Crafter is doing an interesting job. I am also a bit of a geography nerd, so seeing those sorts of things is neat to me, but having essentially shorter slices of different themes of gameplay over the course of a single game is a really neat idea to me
I just started this game on console ,… I can’t wait till I get back on with friends again. As a 22 year old looking for a hobby and something fun, This is it. Something this simple.
That was a really funny way of saying ‘establish dominance over the local cannibals by eating their chief and absorbing his powers.’
As someone who watched this game develop, starting in public alpha 0.01, I couldn't be happier to see you cover this game :)
unrelated, but seeing you use the spear as an actual weapon instead of throwing it was genuinely disheartening for some reason
I play the Forest VR on my old Oculus Quest 1 headset. Still lots of fun.
14:47 Timmy didnt kill anyone. Eric rushed to his aid and he stopped spazzing out
I don't recommend building tree houses as one of the enemies can easily destroy them by running into the tree.
You can also use his attacks for your purpose by leading him towards trees and using him as a personal lumber jack while blocking with a high-block weapon (turtle shell or rusty axe).
Because of said enemy we usually built our bases on the goose lake, very far inside so the creepy mutants can't reach it.
Can't wait for it's sequel
The fact that the chainsaw in this game is a vintage MC culloch 10-10 is amazing
Just got this for 5 dollars on the PS store. Can't wait to try it out
This game is beyond fantastic. So so fun; and scary as hell. The cannibals are pretty freaky and cool, but the mutants.... First time i saw those, i was mind blown. Being a horror and survival game buff, this game quickly became one of my most favorite games ever. Especially knowing it came out in 2014. Yeah, the team that created this game is a team of champions. Lol
Fr I started out sleeping in caves while building houseboat, soon made my base in seashore near yacht since cannibals and mutants can't get through deep water
Timmy doesn’t kill the crowd of the show his dad runs up and comforts him
Bro I'm doing a playthrough with my dad (who is 50) and this is almost the only game he likes. he has like 200+ hours on our SINGLE playthrough and its only been like 2 months!
Back playing the Forest in 2024 and it's still as amazing as it was originally. I'm enjoying the re-play more than I did the Son's of the Forest, actually. The custom building in this game is so much fun and having the intermittent attacks from the cannibals keeps things from being boring. Such a great game.
The best bit about the Forest is its long tearm lastability and the scare factor that always has you on the edge of madness..its better in VR.
In VR??? I would literally die from a heart attack when a cannibal runs at me in the dark. Do you even fear ANYTHING?
Now we need, Why sons of the forest Will be great.
The Forest is one of the only games I've played that actually has a great VR port/implementation
This is my favorite game right now. Played it years ago but I think I was just young and need that action (cod) now that I'm older (37) these chill rpg games are the best
I just did my first cave exploring tonight, absolutely scary, alien isolation level scary !
I heard the rumor about the Forest 2 was about finding the lost daughter not about the cure and I think you just missed that part where Timmy stop his seizure when his father hug him.
SPOILERS
What makes you think Timmy kills everyone in the studio? How would he be able to grow up and own an apartment if he morphed into a monster? Surely the authorities would have killed him, right?
I remember 1st time playing the forest. night time and cannibals are watching me from the dark and placing markers outside my base.
Always nice seeing you posted
just finished the last day of our server wipe on rust and ima check this out. from rust to the forest is crazy work, def looking forward to ts
You really should consider making a podcast that would so so cool
Never thought I'd check out a video game from a sponsored segment, but ngl that looks cool.
As far as I know Timmy didn´t kill everyone at the talkshow, never heard of such a theory
I haven’t beat the game do to the challenge it is but I still play it every day it is an amazing game I love it I am close to beating it.
dude, I feel you
in coop I'm too always running around screeming and no much help lol
good to know I'm not the only one😂
its shocking that this game is made on unity, first build released in 2014.
the graphics are phenomenal for an indie game
The island is actually a peninsula
I've played the game multiple times i never fully understood the story thank u for this
Ugly?! It's beautiful and was made by 4 people!
Also: build at least one base on an island. You're welcome.
This is indeed one of the best survival game and also my most favorite 👍
just finished building the main part of my base. now i need 200 logs 28 rope 14 rocks 300 sticks and more to get my defenses up. may god help me
I really didn’t enjoy the forest the first time i tried it. Now having replayed it, it’s up there as one of my faves! Cant wait for the sons of the forest 🙌🏼
For some reason indie games are like that for me. The first 30 minutes I'm like "What am I supposed to do ? Where am I supposed to go ? This sucks, I'm bored. I can't believe I've spent $20 on this" and then if I keep playing, I start really liking the game. I felt the same way with a game called Visage and What Remains of Edith Fitch. For some reason I don't get that feeling with AAA games though. Indie games have to grow on you for an hour or so for you to like them a lot.
Hello. The casual player obviously has his fun in this game. Something that is a big problem is that normally when a game is fun to speedrun it’s not fun to actually play and the other way around. But I can safely say that, as a speedrunner, this game is not only fun as a casual player, but also fun as a speedrunner.
RoboKast I think you should try out a top down pov survival horror game called Darkwood. It's incredible and uses its atmosphere and music to scare you instead of cheap jumpscares.
Every new world I start I give myself a new goal
Play with friends: Luagh at the locals
Play alone: The locals laugh at you
Yeeeh, geese lake! Best place on the map to build a base, hands down
How dare you disrespect that most reliable lighter ever created 😂
never runs out of fuel
No one told him about the infinite tree glitch.
So its worth the $7 its going for right now...
Is this a game I can play solo or will that make it exponentially more difficult? And how driven is the gameplay by the story... can I chill out in a chapter for a while and just live in that world?
Yeah it’ll be harder solo but you can just chill too lol there’s an achievement for not progressing for 100 days
Bro you can play with us we bought it for 2 usd
Started playing this recently and absolutely love it! Can't wait for Sons of the forest!
no way that you only found out about this insanely awesome game just recently
the forest has been around for many years.
Raft, The Forest, Grounded, some of the best ones out there
Great video 😊
What was the game in the start when the deer got headshot ? 0:05
*Builds huge fortress*
*Cannibals approach*
*Disable building destruction*
aaahh
Ive been playing on ps5 w 2 save slots. 1 for the full experience. The other a peaceful save without mutants. Its nice to not have to watch out for them every 30 seconds. I can still die from not eating or from boar and crocs. I havent seen any sharks.
SOTF has been a great experience but this game was something special and it still is. Imo the caves in this game were just far superior-- case in point the sinkhole-- but as well as the collectibles and the story feeling more personal to the MC.
12:42 That black dude is one of the character models you can play as, just not the same hair.
I wish that people in multiplayer could not pick up your arrows after you shot the cannibals. They can't pick up anything else you throw on the ground or when you open the boxes, so why? People tend to steal my arrows away from me in multiplayer, I think everyone should only be able to pick up their own arrows, but noone else's. If you want to give someone arrows, you can still do that out of your inventory.
Game is really alot of fun, completed it twice and id love to play it again but with someone since doing it alone again sounds boring
I've done it 6 times because
I'm buying it tonight UK time for playstation 5 dunno what you play on or weather or not it's cross-play
“the forest is my favourite coop survival game on the market”
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How can you save a coop game ?
My son and myself played and when he restarts the server all my stuff is gone and I can't start where we finished??
You make good videos dude. Just wanted to share
Grounded was an absolute blast till you beat it. I mean you could probably get a couple dozen more hours out of building after beating the story. Loved that game, played it with my girlfriend and a buddy of mine and enjoyed it all the way through. Valheim was and will always be an absolute gem and i cant wait for that game to be fully complete. Even though Ashlands was ridiculous. You could venture at all without getting swarmed with dozen of mobs practically every minute or 2.
So you say that there is a mission to find a boy? I've spent hundred of hours just building stuff and enjoying it. But I didn't know that there's a storyline that I needed to follow.