How many copies has The Forest sold?

indielist estimates The Forest has sold between 26,008,695 and 60,686,955 units (median 43,347,825), derived from its 577,971 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published The Forest?

The Forest was published by Endnight Games Ltd, developed by Endnight Games Ltd. See Endnight Games Ltd's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Forest released?

The Forest was released in 2018.

How many reviews does The Forest have on Steam?

The Forest has 577,971 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is The Forest worth playing?

Steam players rate The Forest 96% positive across 577,971 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

The Forest

Apr 30, 2018 Action $19.99

Developer Endnight Games Ltd Publisher Endnight Games Ltd

Profile updated May 2026

Action-adventure simulation The Forest, released in 2018, has garnered 569,907 Steam reviews. This indie title focuses on survival gameplay.

The Forest is a 2018 Action game developed by Endnight Games Ltd and published by Endnight Games Ltd. On Steam it has gathered 577,971 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Endnight Games Ltd with publisher Endnight Games Ltd is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 26.0 million to 60.7 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Forest can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

577,971

Positive

96%

Steam appid

242760

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

5,391

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 15:05 UTC · 24h peak 5,867

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.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Forest at roughly 26.0 million to 60.7 million copies, with a median around 43.3 million, derived from its 577,971 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $495.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $4.39

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.39 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $4.39 on 2026-06-05.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Forest sold?: indielist estimates The Forest has sold between 26,008,695 and 60,686,955 units (median 43,347,825), derived from its 577,971 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Forest?: The Forest was developed by Endnight Games Ltd and published by Endnight Games Ltd.
Who published The Forest?: The Forest was published by Endnight Games Ltd, developed by Endnight Games Ltd. See Endnight Games Ltd's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Forest released?: The Forest was released in 2018.
How many reviews does The Forest have on Steam?: The Forest has 577,971 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is The Forest worth playing?: Steam players rate The Forest 96% positive across 577,971 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like The Forest can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Mist Survival, Voidtrain, Stranded Deep, Breathedge, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Endnight Games Ltd's other releases and Endnight Games Ltd's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Forest sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Forest page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.