The Forest
Last updated: 2026-01-09
- Masterful survival-horror blend experience
- Engaging and dynamic multiplayer gameplay
- Deep, intuitive crafting system
- Pervasive in-game bugs disrupt gameplay
- Repetitive and tedious gameplay loop
- Unintuitive, buggy base-building mechanics
Emotions
Excitement15%Frustration15%Satisfaction13%Fear13%Amusement8%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 657,234
- Positive
- 627,92995.5%
- Negative
- 29,3054.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 46,252,806
- Estimated revenue
- $924,593,592
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3420.50%
- Estimated copies lost
- 24,068
- Estimated revenue lost
- $481,119
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3450.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1,2791.9% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 2,8244.1% Avg playtime 23.8h | 63,82793.5% Avg playtime 38.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 16.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 279.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 1,278.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,240.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
68,275 total
Organic purchasers58,73586.0%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations9,54014.0%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
68,275 total
First impression0-2h2,7314.00%
Voted up: 85%
Mid game2-10h21,54131.6%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h16,26123.8%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+27,74240.6%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
84.5%
Global baseline 95.4%
110 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 657,234 total.