The Forest is a survival horror video game developed and published by Endnight Games. The game takes place on a remote heavily forested peninsula, where the player character Eric LeBlanc must fight off cannibalistic monsters, while searching for his son Timmy after a plane crash. The game features nonlinear gameplay in an open world environment played from a first-person perspective, with no set missions or quests, empowering the player to make their own decisions for survival. Wikipedia
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Thon, Jan-Noël. “Playing with Fear: The Aesthetics of Horror in Recent Indie Games.” Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 10, no. 1 (2019): 197-231.