The Forest vs The Long Dark
Reviews on Steam
The Forest
5.2× more reviews
Critical reception
The Forest
6.5pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
The Forest
3.9× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
The Forest
1 years apart
The Forest
2018 · Action
Endnight Games Ltd · Endnight Games Ltd
- Reviews
- 571,186
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 42.8M
- Net rev
- $489.1M
The Long Dark
2017 · Adventure
Hinterland Studio Inc. · Hinterland Studio Inc.
- Reviews
- 110,207
- Positive
- 89%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 11.0M
- Net rev
- $125.8M
Tag overlap
75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on The Forest, 5 only on The Long Dark.
Only The Forest
HorrorBuildingGoreRealisticZombies
Shared
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldCraftingAdventureSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonActionExplorationSandboxSingleplayerAtmosphericSimulationIndieEarly Access
Only The Long Dark
Post-apocalypticWalking SimulatorStrategyDifficultCo-op
Sales estimates
Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.
Sales estimate
vv1.025.7M to 60.0M
units (median: 42.8M)
≈ $293.5M to $684.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.06.6M to 15.4M
units (median: 11.0M)
≈ $75.5M to $176.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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