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 years after it first fully emerged onto PC, Endnight's pioneering building-and-brutality sim is suddenly more popular on Steam than it's ever been, and although its current resurgence can be explained by a seriously generous discount, its decade-long popularity is the result of something much more special - there's one thing that keeps The Forest on top.
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