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2018PEGI 18PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable95 % positive16.79 €

After a plane crash you build shelters and traps in a dense forest while tribes of cannibals stalk and attack you. Creepy mutant-filled caves and the mystery of your missing son drive the exploration, and it's best played with friends in co-op.

  • Building and crafting
  • Resources and survival
  • Dread and tension
  • Open world
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Sons of the Forest

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2024PC88 % positive28.99 €

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Stranded on a remote island, you craft, build and fight to survive while cannibals and mutants hunt you. Play solo or in co-op, delve into dark caves, and fortify a base, with AI companions helping along the way.

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Green Hell

  • Mood like The Forest

A punishing jungle survival sim set in the Amazon that tracks nutrition, infections, parasites and wounds alongside your character's fraying sanity. A dark story campaign and a co-op mode round it out.

Escape the Backrooms

  • Mood like The Forest

A co-op horror game where you wander eerily familiar, endless Backrooms levels together, solving puzzles and avoiding entities to find the exit. Each level offers its own escape route and dangers.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

  • Mood like The Forest

A claustrophobic first-person reboot of the series that traps you in the rotting Baker family estate in Louisiana, scraping by on scarce ammo while stalked by relentless hosts and solving puzzles. It trades action spectacle for intimate, grimy dread.

7 Days to Die

  • Mood like The Forest

A zombie survival sandbox built on crafting, looting, base building and skill progression, where every seventh night a massive horde tests your fortifications. Played solo or in co-op, it blends first-person shooting with tower-defense tension.

Project Zomboid

  • Mood like The Forest

An unforgiving zombie survival sandbox where you loot, build, craft and train skills until your inevitable death. Its deep simulation and highly customisable rules turn every run into a personal survival story, solo or with friends.

Resident Evil

  • Mood like The Forest

The survival horror blueprint: scarce ammo, tight inventory and interlocking puzzles in a zombie-infested mansion, with fixed camera angles building constant dread and a campy charm.

Outbreak Island

  • Mood like The Forest

An open-world survival horror sandbox on a remote island where a mysterious outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. You craft, build and defend your base to make it through.

Tormented Souls

  • Mood like The Forest

A survival horror throwback to early Resident Evil with fixed camera angles, intricate puzzles and scarce ammo. You guide Caroline through a decaying mansion full of secrets and grotesque creatures.

The Evil Within

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Shinji Mikami's brutal survival horror sends detective Sebastian Castellanos through a shifting, nightmarish world. Scarce ammo, deadly traps and grotesque monsters keep the tension constantly high.

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