Open-world survival-crafter The Forest has hit a brand new concurrent Steam participant depend report a full ten years after the sport’s unique launch in Early Entry, and it is all due to the continued Steam Winter Sale.
A fast take a look at The Forest‘s SteamDB web page exhibits that the sport is at the moment sitting at a fairly spectacular 91,370 gamers on Steam, and that its 24-hour peak participant depend is 98,323, which additionally occurs to be its all-time peak.
Curiosity within the sport has been steadily climbing because the Steam Winter Sale began final week, and it isn’t arduous to see why; you possibly can at the moment seize The Forest at a whopping 90% off. That is proper: the sport will set you again solely $2 at time of writing.
Not solely has The Forest‘s participant depend skyrocketed, however the sport has additionally attracted virtually 13,000 latest evaluations at time of writing, and they’re, after all, overwhelmingly constructive.
Admittedly, most of the evaluations are primarily one-liners or memes fairly than real assessments of the sport, however nonetheless, it is clear that The Forest has the type of endurance many indie video games can solely dream of.
Sadly, Sony would not make its PS4 participant metrics public, so we do not understand how many individuals are having fun with the sport on console proper now. Nonetheless, The Forest is not on sale on Sony’s machine, so if you wish to get pleasure from it for an absolute pittance, you are finest off on PC.
If you happen to’re questioning precisely what The Forest is, it is a horror-themed open-world survival-crafter that sees you “in a mysterious forest battling to remain alive towards a society of cannibalistic mutants”.
The sport may be loved both solo or in multiplayer co-op, and for those who’re of a squeamish persuasion, you may wish to recruit a good friend to outlive with, as a result of The Forest can get fairly scary.
The Forest is offered proper now on PC and PS4 (and PS5 by way of backwards compatibility). Sequel Sons of the Forest, which hit its 1.0 launch in February, can be out there on PC by way of Steam, and it is at the moment up for grabs at 50% off as properly.