The Forest Quartet
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.3h 1.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 464 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The Forest Quartet is a puzzle adventure about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer. Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final farewell concert. Face their emotions, solve puzzles and fight the corruption plaguing their souls.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 650, Nvidia GeForce GT 750M, Radeon HD5850 or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 44 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 80 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, What Never Was (free, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats The Almost Gone ($9.99, scores 49).
More about The Forest Quartet
1 of the 326 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 315 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 81 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
This is one of those games I wish I could give a neutral review, but I did enjoy my experience so I'll give it a recommendation. The art direction is very nice and the music is great. However, there's not quite enough gameplay to call it a "game" and not enough depth for it to be an interactive story. It's sort of a walking simulator with light interactions occasionally. There are "enemies" in some levels but they...
1 more review
The Forest Quartet is an indie adventure/puzzle game where you play as the spirit of a recently deceased lead singer trying to help the remaining members of her jazz band overcome grief and reunite for a final concert. The game blends gentle exploration with light puzzles as you travel through three unique stages tied to each band member's emotional journey. The experience focuses on narrative and atmosphere...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Forest Quartet scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1620720/the-forest-quartetReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.