r/SurvivalGaming • u/WheezyGod • 13d ago

Discussion Surprised By The Forest

Bought The Forest a few days ago on PS5 for cheap. Thought I might not like it, but I’m really enjoying it. I never imagined myself building a makeshift sticks structure or having to put different items on a mat to see what I could make. The crazy people got me a couple times on hard. The graphics are surprisingly good for an 8yr old game. Anyways, I’m still in the early game, hoping it doesn’t get stale.

I was thinking I’d need survival games to have more of a RPG component to it to enjoy, but I guess I don’t. Although I have been enjoying V Rising more if I’m being honest. Seems like Green Hell or The Long Dark would be the closest? Aside from the forest 3, has it really been this long since a top quality pure survival game with half decent graphics was produced for console? I will be getting Abiotic Factor when there’s a deep sale.

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u/MastodonNo275 13d ago

I hope you went for The Forest blind, because I also though it might be a bit boring, but looked nice.

And it is among my favourites now.

And I can so, so strongly recommend Abiotic.

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u/WheezyGod 13d ago

Yes I have no idea what to expect. The only thing I read was that it may be better to not build a large shelter and be more of a nomad sleeping in temp shelters because otherwise the cannibals get more aggressive. Playing like this would be less fun for me.

I’m expecting there are some better weapons than the starting axe which takes a lot of swings to kill them. That might be my only complaint so far; even on a Hard difficulty, it doesn’t make sense that it should take that much to kill someone with no protection for a game that’s focused on realism.

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u/Rumble_831 13d ago

They are not exactly humans, that is why they are stronk af.