The Forest vs The Long Dark

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The Forest

2018 · Action

Endnight Games Ltd · Endnight Games Ltd

Reviews: 577,971
Positive: 96%
Launch price: $19.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 43.3M
Net rev: $495.0M

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The Long Dark

2017 · Adventure

Hinterland Studio Inc. · Hinterland Studio Inc.

Reviews: 110,972
Positive: 89%
Launch price: $19.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 11.1M
Net rev: $126.7M

Tag overlap

75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on The Forest, 5 only on The Long Dark.

Only The Forest

Horror Building Gore Realistic Zombies

Shared

Open World Survival Craft Survival Open World Crafting Adventure Survival Horror First-Person Action Exploration SandboxSingleplayerAtmosphericSimulationIndieEarly Access

Only The Long Dark

Post-apocalyptic Walking Simulator Strategy DifficultCo-op

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

Sales estimate

v1.0

26.0M to 60.7M

units (median: 43.3M)

≈ $297.0M to $692.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

26.0M median 60.7M

+ How is this calculated?

577,971 reviews × NB(75) = 43,347,825 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$20	0
positive_96%	+10
final NB	75

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

Sales estimate

v1.0

6.7M to 15.5M

units (median: 11.1M)

≈ $76.0M to $177.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6.7M median 15.5M

+ How is this calculated?

110,972 reviews × NB(100) = 11,097,200 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$20	0
positive_89%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	100

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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