ActionAdventureIndieSimulation≤8 playersmoddableWindows via Winesingle-threadAs the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
By Endnight Games Ltd · Released Apr 30, 2018 · Metacritic 83
Host it here
≈ $10/mo
playing ~12 h/week on the metered plan, billed only while the server is actually up. Always-on is $29.99/mo · about $7.50 each split between 4 players, 1 core dedicated, never shared.
8-player co-op; light server.
Get the game
You buy The Forest once from Steam. It is $4.39 there, a one-off purchase. NecroHost rents you the server it runs on, which is the monthly figure above.