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Action-adventure simulation The Forest, released in 2018, has garnered 569,907 Steam reviews. This indie title focuses on survival gameplay.
Overview
The Forest is a 2018 Action game developed by Endnight Games Ltd and published by Endnight Games Ltd. On Steam it has gathered 571,186 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Endnight Games Ltd with publisher Endnight Games Ltd is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 25.7 million to 60.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Forest can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
571,186
Positive
96%
Steam appid
242760
Engine
n/a
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)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Forest at roughly 25.7 million to 60.0 million copies, with a median around 42.8 million, derived from its 571,186 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $489.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.04Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.04 to $19.99, averaging $18.20 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.04 on 2026-05-15.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldHorrorCraftingAdventureBuildingSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonActionExplorationSandboxSingleplayerAtmosphericSimulationGoreRealisticIndieZombiesEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Forest sold?
- indielist estimates The Forest has sold between 25,703,370 and 59,974,530 units (median 42,838,950), derived from its 571,186 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Forest?
- The Forest was developed by Endnight Games Ltd and published by Endnight Games Ltd.
- When was The Forest released?
- The Forest was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does The Forest have on Steam?
- The Forest has 571,186 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Forest sold?
- indielist estimates The Forest has sold between 25,703,370 and 59,974,530 units (median 42,838,950), derived from its 571,186 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Forest?
- The Forest was developed by Endnight Games Ltd and published by Endnight Games Ltd.
- When was The Forest released?
- The Forest was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does The Forest have on Steam?
- The Forest has 571,186 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Forest within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Endnight Games Ltd's other releases and Endnight Games Ltd's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Forest sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Forest page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.