The Forest
BANGER · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 77% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$4.3978% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.27/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 686,682
- Critics
- 83 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.39 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.8h
- To 100%
- 59.4h 3.8x the story
- Achievements
- 45
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 55% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2024
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,151 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
72 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 55 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Subnautica ($29.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Sons Of The Forest ($29.99, scores 67).
More about The Forest
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 13 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,996 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 26,631 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15.8 hours; clearing it takes 59, which is 3.8 times the campaign.
686,682 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
When the cannibals eat my ass I feel a relief unlike anything my physical form has felt. The taste is raw and I know they enjoyed it as deeply as I did
2 more reviews
The Forest , best survival (horror) game ever imo ... 10/10 tbh this one is way more difficult, terrifying, gripping, horrific, savage, wild, and deeply traumatizing,,, and the achievements are way way harder to complete compared to sons of the forest... SOTF is great btw, but it s nothing compared to The Forest 💀
Cozy and scary at the same time. The base building and exploration feel like the best among all the games I've played when I'm not being chased by cannibals. You will have so much fun building that you'll forget that you have a son who you're supposed to find and save. So much game for under 6 gigabytes.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Forest scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/242760/the-forestReviews 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 Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.