How many people are playing The Forest right now?

6,590 people are playing The Forest on Steam right now, making it the 142nd most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 13,543 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is The Forest's all-time peak player count?

The Forest's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 109,242, reached in December 2024.

Is The Forest good? What do Steam reviews say?

95% of 584,502 Steam user reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive).

How much does The Forest cost on Steam?

The Forest costs $19.99 on Steam (US). The lowest price we've recorded is $1.99.

Does The Forest work on Steam Deck?

The Forest is Playable on Steam Deck (with small issues), according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

The Forest

by Endnight Games Ltd · Released Apr 30, 2018

Steam Deck PlayableLinux & Deck: Gold

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#142

6,590

▼ 15.4%vs 24h ago · updates every minute

Review score

95% positive

Overwhelmingly Positive584,502 reviews

Owners (est.)20M–50M

24h peak

13,543

Highest seen109,242

Dec 20241.9 years ago

Price on Steam

$19.99

Lowest ever $1.99 Dec 2024

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Players -15.4% in the last 24 hoursUpdated 12:07 UTC · tracking since 2014-05-01

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Steam Deck

Works, but may need extra effort. Results from Valve's own testing.

Steam Deck Playable

!Launcher interaction issues
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Oct 3, 2025, 5:00 PM UTC
Build 20229486the current build when we started tracking6 GB on Windows

Patch notes

Oct 3, 2025
PatchUnity security update
Hey Everyone,Due to a Unity engine security issue outlined here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01/remediation we’ve updated the UnityPlayer.dll file for the following titles: The Forest VR Sons of the Forest Sons of the Forest Dedicated Server This upda…

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Dec 23, 2024
This co-op survival horror masterpiece is just $2 in the Steam Winter Sale, which could explain why it just hit an all-time high player count of nearly 100k a decade after it launched
In 2014, survival horror game The Forest launched into early access on Steam. As part of Steam Greenlight (remember that?), the small team of developers Endnight Games delivered triple-A visuals, intricate building and crafting systems, and gut-wrenching horro…
Dec 23, 2024
After a whole decade, brutal survival game The Forest is more popular than ever
Between the new build of Project Zomboid, the freshly announced sequel for The Long Dark, and the continual success of, Rust, Valheim, and State of Decay, the survival genre is arguably stronger than ever right now. But The Forest is still The Forest . Ten yea…
Nov 4, 2024
Ten-year-old survival game The Forest is suddenly bigger on Steam than ever
It's not the frightening, dark, and dour moments that make The Forest special - it's when you find something beautiful. A survival game where you gnaw on raw meat, build crude weapons to beat cannibalistic monsters to death, and get violently ill from drinking…
Dec 8, 2023
One of the best survival games ever is less than $5
Typically, we associate videogames with fun, freedom, and escapism. But sometimes you want an experience that's entirely different, the brutal realities of life writ large and made grotesque. The best survival games make you feel alive because you're constantl…
Oct 22, 2023
The Forest peaks at 109k players
The Forest has peaked at 109,397 concurrent players on 28 December 2024 which is 7 years after release. View charts and more statistics on our website.
Feb 20, 2023
Sons of the Forest devs stunned by ultra-quick Forest speedrun
I always feel a little bad when I see developers watching speedruns. They spend years on these games, perfecting the environments, the pacing, the balance, and here we are sprinting through, trying to break everything, and beat all their work as quickly as pos…
Nov 30, 2022
The best The Forest mods
What are the best The Forest mods? The best mods will come in very handy if you're a veteran player from the initial launch in 2014 and need to change up the traditional gameplay, or if you're struggling to survive in this dense woodland environment. There's s…
Nov 30, 2022
All The Forest cheats and console commands
What are The Forest cheats and console commands? They are the best and simplest way to make your life of survival from the creepy cannibals a little easier, so here's a list of each one. Compared to the best The Forest mods , which have some wild and wacky pos…
Aug 7, 2022
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 7 August 2022
* Steam Deck ; * Stray ; * Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered ; * Rust ; * Raft ; * The Forest ; * ELDEN RING ; * Valve Index VR Kit ; * Project Zomboid ; * Grand Theft Auto V ; View more information and data on SteamDB
May 22, 2022
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 22 May 2022
* V Rising ; * Steam Deck ; * Arma Reforger ; * ELDEN RING ; * V Rising - Founder's Pack: Eldest Bloodline ; * Valve Index VR Kit ; * The Forest ; * FIFA 22 ; * Titanfall® 2 ; * Old World ; View more information and data on SteamDB
May 15, 2022
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 15 May 2022
* Steam Deck ; * Stellaris: Overlord ; * ELDEN RING ; * The Forest ; * We Were Here Forever ; * Songs of Conquest ; * Valve Index VR Kit ; * MONSTER HUNTER RISE ; * Red Dead Redemption 2 ; * Red Dead Redemption 2 ; View more information and data on SteamDB
Mar 28, 2022
The Forest sequel delayed until October
nnounced back in 2019, Sons of the Forest is a sequel to the terrifying open world survival game The Forest, which is still my pick for the grossest and most discomforting tree punching sim out there. Studio Endnight Games still hasn't released many detai…
Dec 2, 2021
The Forest gets a resurgence on Steam as Sons of the Forest lands a release date
Excitement might be building for the follow-up to the survival- horror game The Forest , but that doesn't mean people have forgotten about the original just yet. As per SteamDB , The Forest was hitting highs of around 7,000 concurrent players on Steam at the s…
Apr 25, 2021
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 25 April 2021
* NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... ; * It Takes Two ; * Valve Index VR Kit ; * Battlefield V ; * Titanfall® 2 ; * Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Operation Broken Fang ; * The Forest ; * Valheim ; * NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... ; * OUTRIDERS ; V…
Apr 18, 2021
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 18 April 2021
* It Takes Two ; * Stellaris: Nemesis ; * Valve Index VR Kit ; * Sea of Thieves ; * OUTRIDERS ; * Valheim ; * Monster Hunter World: Iceborne ; * The Forest ; * Forza Horizon 4 ; * Satisfactory ; View more information and data on SteamDB
Dec 24, 2020
The Forest sequel coming in 2021, looking wonderfully horrible
Most survival games have an element of horror, giving us an inhuman hunger that’ll kill us if we don’t eat a three-course meal every five minutes. I like jokes. The Forest goes hard on horror, having cannibals and mutants stalk us, and the story-driven surviva…
Dec 24, 2020
The Forest sequel coming in 2021, looking wonderfully horrible
Most survival games have an element of horror, giving us an inhuman hunger that’ll kill us if we don’t eat a three-course meal every five minutes. I like jokes. The Forest goes hard on horror, having cannibals and mutants stalk us, and the story-driven surviva…
Dec 13, 2019
Sons of the Forest is a demon-hunting sequel to the 'terrifying' survival game The Forest
The Forest is an open-world survival game released in 2018, after a whopping four years of Early Access. The wait was apparently worthwhile, because these days it's got an awful lot of positive reviews on Steam . And now it's getting a sequel too. It…
Sep 12, 2019
Weekend Deal - The Forest, 45% Off
Save 45% on The Forest as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

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What changed on Steam for this game since we started following it: prices and sales, builds, name, release date and review score.

Review score: 95% on 2026-11-01 → 95% today (584,502 reviews)

Nov 3, 2026Sale ended$19.99
Oct 31, 2026Sale −80%$3.99 (was $19.99)

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The Forest player count and quick facts

How many people are playing The Forest right now?: 6,590 people are playing The Forest on Steam right now, making it the 142nd most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 13,543 players. The number updates every few minutes.
What is The Forest's all-time peak player count?: The Forest's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 109,242, reached in December 2024.
Is The Forest good? What do Steam reviews say?: 95% of 584,502 Steam user reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive).
How much does The Forest cost on Steam?: The Forest costs $19.99 on Steam (US). The lowest price we've recorded is $1.99.
Does The Forest work on Steam Deck?: The Forest is Playable on Steam Deck (with small issues), according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Live data from Steam, tracked by SteamPlayerBase.

Store info

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.

Developer: Endnight Games Ltd
Publisher: Endnight Games Ltd
Release date: Apr 30, 2018
Install size: 5 GB minimum
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation · All
Steam app ID: 242760

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