Set up by us · 4-8 GB · 8 players · South Africa
The Forest
Survival horror on a cannibal island
- Per month
- R189
- Peak players
- 4,288
- Positive on Steam
- 96%
Set up by us
Older engine but persistence gets heavy on long worlds. Benchmarking. We build it by hand and check it before handover.
Order it like any other server. One of us sets it up, checks it, and hands over the same console, files and backups every server gets.
What it is
The Forest is a survival horror video game developed and published by Endnight Games.
Where to look things up
The Forest WikiRun by players on Fandom, not by us. Where you look up recipes, commands and server config for The Forest. Description from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Plans
Sized for The Forest.
Build by day, defend by night. Still the benchmark for co-op survival horror.
- Peak players
- 4,288Busier than 65% of the games we host. Our own reading, 4 so far.
- What players think
- 96%Of 680,571 reviews on Steam. Overwhelmingly Positive.
4 to 8GB, against every plan we sell
- 1GB5 playersR79
- 2GB5 playersR99
- 4GB10 playersR189
- 6GB10 playersR249
- 8GB20 playersR329
- 12GB20 playersR499
The solid bar is the smallest plan that runs The Forest. Faded bars run it with room to spare. Greyed plans sit outside its range. Player counts are what the plan carries, not a benchmark of this game.
How busy it is
The Forest against the other survival games.
Peak concurrent players on Steam, measured rather than estimated. Bars are to scale against each other, so a game almost nobody plays looks like one.
- Palworld173,839
- Rust125,371
- Project Zomboid91,501
- Don't Starve Together51,962
- DayZ50,689
- 7 Days to Die34,626
- ARK: Survival Ascended26,023
- The Forest4,288
Running a The Forest server
Patch notes, guides and the commands you need.
Release notes come from the developer. Everything else goes to the game's own wiki, written by the people who play it.
- 2025-10-03Unity security updateDeveloper
- 2024-12-23This co-op survival horror masterpiece is just $2 in the Steam Winter Sale, which could explain why it just hit an all-time high player count of nearly 100k a decade after it launchedPC Gamer
- 2024-12-23After a whole decade, brutal survival game The Forest is more popular than everPCGamesN
- 2024-11-04Ten-year-old survival game The Forest is suddenly bigger on Steam than everPCGamesN
Last checked 2026-08-25
What players say
The Forest, in the words of people who play it.
Three reviews from Steam, picked by how many other players found them helpful. About the game, not about us, unedited, and linked so you can check.
play this before sons of the forest or only play this game because the story is way better and its way scarier
63 hours played12 found it helpfulRead it on Steam
01/03
Get started
The Forest, private from the first minute.
Hosted in South Africa from R189 a month, with the players and the file access already in the price.