Can I Run The Forest?
Endnight Games Ltd released The Forest in 2018. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Being 8 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Over 577 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Metacritic places it at 83. Completionists have 45 achievements to work through. 16 languages are covered by the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Quad Core Processor |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
The Forest places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through hostile territory. 16 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. The view is from a first person view.
Why The Forest is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 5 GB. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 9. System memory expectations are modest at 4 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Forest?
The Forest targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: RAM
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Forest?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7.
How much storage does The Forest need?
The Forest needs about 5 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for The Forest?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Forest is the RAM.