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Games like The Forest
Endnight Games Ltd · 2018 · 95 % positive of 627,791
24 games that play like The Forest and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Sons Of The Forest, Woodlands and The Infected.
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At a glance
What games like The Forest have in common
- The tags they share most often with The Forest: Survival (24 of 24), Open World (19) and Open World Survival Craft (10).
- They came out between 2016 and 2025, 18 of them after The Forest (2018).
- Best rated by Steam players: Darkwood (94 % positive of 21,618).
- 5 games both play and look like The Forest, among them Sons Of The Forest, Gone: Survival and DESOLATE.
By gameplay
Plays like The Forest
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Sons Of The Forest
87 % positive of 253,546
Shared: Survival · Open World · Horror
Woodlands
29 % positive of 301
Shared: Survival · Horror · Survival Horror
The Infected
85 % positive of 6,586
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Expedition Zero
60 % positive of 183
Shared: Survival · Open World · Horror
Green Hell
85 % positive of 80,604
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Gone: Survival
42 % positive of 235
Shared: Survival · Open World · Crafting
Among Trees
68 % positive of 2,160
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Survival: Lost Way
35 % positive of 258
Shared: Survival · Horror · Crafting
Mist Survival
76 % positive of 13,456
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Withstand: Survival
68 % positive of 322
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Girl Amazon Survival
44 % positive of 246
Shared: Survival · Horror · Crafting
Urge
90 % positive of 352
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
More matches
- Survival Camp45 % positive of 216Shared: Survival · Simulation · Adventure
- Crushed54 % positive of 239Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
- Age of Survival11 % positive of 242Shared: Survival · Open World · Crafting
- Darkwood94 % positive of 21,618Shared: Survival · Open World · Horror
- DESOLATE66 % positive of 7,881Shared: Survival · Open World · Horror
- Backwoods Town94 % positive of 170Shared: Survival · Building · Exploration
- Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜54 % positive of 894Shared: Survival · Open World · Horror
- Zelter48 % positive of 1,939Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
- Vortex: The Gateway57 % positive of 395Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
- Dead District: Survival51 % positive of 407Shared: Survival · Open World · Crafting
- Shadows of Kurgansk65 % positive of 220Shared: Survival · Open World · Horror
- Night of the Dead77 % positive of 11,395Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
By look
Looks like The Forest
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Sons Of The Forest
87 % positive of 253,546
SpellMaster: The Saga
40 % positive of 458
Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn
83 % positive of 1,496
Rising World
84 % positive of 5,335
Brine
26 % positive of 383
Their Land
41 % positive of 1,904
Sign of Silence
52 % positive of 2,329
MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!
82 % positive of 721
Winter Survival
62 % positive of 474
Dead District: Survival
51 % positive of 407
Northern Journey
96 % positive of 3,098
The Black Masses
59 % positive of 1,182
More matches
- Viking Frontiers62 % positive of 249
- Daemonical64 % positive of 217
- Gone: Survival42 % positive of 235
- Green Hell VR59 % positive of 1,137
- Bootstrap Island85 % positive of 740
- Peaks of Yore97 % positive of 2,884
- Blair Witch VR67 % positive of 196
- VALHALL: Harbinger49 % positive of 394
- DESOLATE66 % positive of 7,881
- Reign Of Kings57 % positive of 14,923
- Vortex: The Gateway57 % positive of 395
- HopeLine43 % positive of 174
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.