The Forest Early Access review

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What's the scariest thing an enemy can do in a survival horror game? Turns out the answer is "just stand there". That's likely to be what your first glimpse of The Forest's cannibalistic mutants will be: a sudden double take, a human figure among the trees, standing, watching, waiting. It's genuinely terrifying.
The game opens with you aboard a plane. The glow of the seat-back screen, a small child next to you - your son? - and a sudden, violent crash into a remote forest. You come to, briefly, just in time to see the unconscious child carried away by a sinister, savage figure. Next time you wake up, you're completely alone and it's up to you to survive what awaits outside the wreckage.
Food is an immediate concern, but luckily the plane fuselage is full of uneaten in-flight meals as well as miniature bottles of booze and soda cans. An emergency axe is conveniently placed at the ragged hole that acts as your exit. Drop down and there are more rich pickings in the form of suitcases strewn across the crash site. You quickly learn not to linger for long - those cannibals will be back to investigate soon.
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