The Forest
Players on Steam at last update
4,657
Source: Steam Web API, as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026.
Compared with the highest reading60%
05:00 UTC reading on November 8, 2026: 4,657, 60% of the highest recorded by Statcade (7,730 on November 1, 2026, 17 readings since October 17, 2026).
- Rank by players
- #144of 309 Steam games with a player count
- Highest reading
- 7,730on November 1, 2026, 17 readings
- Copies sold
- 5.3 millionPC
- Metacritic
- 83out of 100
- Release
- Apr 30, 2018
The Forest on Statcade: players online on Steam, copies sold, facts and charts.
At a glance
| Developer | Endnight Games Ltd |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Endnight Games Ltd |
| Release | Apr 30, 2018 |
| Platform | PC (Steam) |
| Genre | Horror, Action, Adventure, Simulation, Indie |
| Players online on Steam | 4,657 (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026) |
| Players at the 05:00 UTC reading | 4,657 (November 8, 2026, taken at 05:21 UTC) |
| Copies sold | 5.3 million (PC) |
| Metacritic | 83 |
About the game
The description from Steam and the story of the game are available in Italian on the Italian page.
Steam price
Price check of November 8, 2026 on Steam Italy (euros). The lowest price is the lowest one Statcade has seen since it started tracking the game (October 17, 2026), not Steam's full price history; free-to-keep periods do not count.
Game signature
Peak at 15:00 · low at 08:00 · the peak is 2.5 times the low
The 24-hour curve as a circle: midnight at the top, the radius is the number of players in each hour (Italian time), the gold dot is the peak hour.
Speedruns
World records and best times in the main categories of The Forest on speedrun.com.
Any% (No Explosive Glitch) (Creative) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | sxczurass | 5:27,466 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | yirequ | 5:48,433 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | Cheesecake404 | 5:54,350 (new tab) |
Any% (Creative) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | sxczurass | 3:24,850 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | Cheesecake404 | 3:31 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | CrypticAurum | 5:27,733 (new tab) |
Co-op Any% (Peaceful) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | sxczurass, yirequ | 5:47,083 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | Cheesecake404, RF | 6:08,217 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | nayzenzz, Hanoxx | 7:10,083 (new tab) |
Source: speedrun.com (new tab), license CC BY-NC 4.0 (new tab); data selected and reformatted by Statcade (default category and subcategories, updated on a rotating basis). All records: Speedruns.
Italian sentiment
Share of positive Steam reviews written in Italian, compared with the share across all languages.
- In Italian94.6% positive reviews3,018 positive out of 3,190 reviews
- All languages95.5% positive reviews654,525 positive out of 685,189 reviews
In line with the rest of the world: the difference (−0.9 points) stays below the 10-point threshold.
Source: Steam, user reviews (all purchases), checked on October 18, 2026. What counts is the language the review is written in, not the reviewer's country; “all languages” includes Italian too. All games: Italian sentiment.
When to play to find the most players
Busiest: 15:00–18:00 (on average 9,448 players) Quietest: 06:00–09:00 (4,196 on average)
| Time slot | Average players | Compared with the daily average |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00–03:00 | 5,284 | 83% |
| 03:00–06:00 | 5,003 | 78% |
| 06:00–09:00 quietest | 4,196 | 66% |
| 09:00–12:00 | 4,241 | 66% |
| 12:00–15:00 | 6,557 | 103% |
| 15:00–18:00 busiest | 9,448 | 148% |
| 18:00–21:00 | 8,812 | 138% |
| 21:00–24:00 | 7,611 | 119% |
Source: Statcade hourly readings from the Steam Web API GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers, since October 18; times in Italian time (CET/CEST).
How we calculate it
Every hour we record the players online on Steam. We convert each reading to Italian time (daylight saving time included), average each hour over all days and then average each 3-hour slot (00–03, 03–06, … 21–24). Hours in which the reading is anomalous for the whole catalogue are excluded. Players come from all over the world, not just Italy: the slot shows how many people are online on Steam at that Italian time.
Data: Wikipedia (en), “The Forest (video game)”, Wikipedia, Steam.
Rivals
Lethal Company5,266 players at last updatemore players than The Forest
Resident Evil 23,860 players at last updatefewer players than The Forest
Resident Evil Village2,210 players at last updatefewer players than The Forest
Steam games with the same main genre (“Horror”) and the closest number of players online (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026). Source: Steam Web API.