Whats so strange about The Forest? (2014)

An agonising deep-dive the strange game that is The Forest. Notable because it added a mystery narrative to a survival game. A genre that very rarely does that. The result is fairly unusual...

Chapters:
0:00 - The survival genre
7:10 - Subnautica introduction
20:39 - The Forest introduction
25:24 - The Forest's weird logic 1
36:12 - Effigies, camps and cannibals
43:14 - The caves
46:35 - See-saw of quality 1
52:11 - The mutants
56:22 - Comparisons to Subnautica
1:00:42 - See-saw of quality 2
1:04:41 - Rituals, Katana and skulls
1:07:55 - The problem of scale
1:21:21 - The Christians
1:29:58 - The Sacrifice Doors and Red Man.
1:35:39 - See-saw of quality is screwing up the mystery
1:50:53 - Sahara Corp
1:55:44 - The finale
2:14:42 - My wall of questions
2:29:08 - The "real" plot
2:35:12 - The realisation
3:03:12 - The importance of planning

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Special thanks to the artists: BirdyDrawsStuff, Ilsemakesstuff, NervousHawk, TwistieZ and BewBewDingo and all my clanmates, Patrons/Twitch subs for helping me these last few months.

Also special thanks to ZF Bavon for creating the ominous music that dials in occasionally.