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24 alternatives to The Forest
An open world survival horror game
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Forest launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Survival horror game guide
2025 · 99-nights-in-the-forest.com · its alternatives →
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Once Human▲199Post-apocalyptic multiplayer open-world survival game
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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zombie, survival, shelter, tactics, apocalypse, dead, forest
2019 · its alternatives →
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2015 · sisyphus.rocks · its alternatives →
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2014 · lurking-game.com · its alternatives →
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Complete Game Guide & Tips
2025 · 99nightsintheforest.online · its alternatives →
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Try to survive this horror game built completely in Notion
2022 · its alternatives →
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Campo Santo's beautiful adventure game now on Switch
2018 · its alternatives →
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Escape the wild (literally) in a new survival game
2024 · rgyani.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been building termcraft, a terminal-first 2D sandbox survival game in Rust. The idea is to take the classic early survival progression and adapt it to a side-on terminal format instead of a tile or pixel-art engine. Current build includes: - procedural Overworld, Nether, and End generation - mining, placement, crafting, furnaces, brewing, and boats - hostile and passive mobs - villages, dungeons, strongholds, Nether fortresses, and dragon progression This is still early alpha, but it’s already playable. Project: https://github.com/pagel-s/termcraft Docs:…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Silly Text Adventure about Desire
May 2026 · acaveinthewoods.com · its alternatives →
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