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Today's game is The Forest. A friend gifted it to me to play a few weeks ago and i finally got around to trying it.

Within the first day i took shelter in a shipping container because my friend ran off without me. I put a fire in it hoping none of the cannibals could see it. Midway through the night though i ran out of food and water and had to go search for some.

My trip ended up taking me too a few suitcases on the beach where i found some booze. I survived off of that and a chocolate bar and ended up walking towards my friend after some cannibals cut off my route to the safety of my Shipping Container.

After the long journey, i died immediately after getting there. It turned out the plane was literally right next to the Bay where my friend built his base and his sense of direction was ass. I ended up building a tree house to live in to keep me safe as the cannibals don't understand the concept of rope. I built a second tree house but blew it up with dynamite. You can see here the cannibal that i tried to blow up.

After this i started building a wall around my treehouse to keep me safe so i could work without being disturbed. Sadly i didn't manage to get any screenshots because i kept getting besieged by Cannibals in groups of 4. i built a lift though for emergency escapes and some doors on the fence. so i can safely say i won't be caught by surprise.

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[–] ElPussyKangaroo 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

How's the overall survival experience? I love this sort of game but sometimes it gets very repetitive and boring...

[–] MyNameIsAtticus 1 points 1 day ago

i can see how it can be repetitive. I felt like the cannibal difficulty ramped up fast. From what i understand the game has story elements too, but me and my friend didn't really touch them yet so it could change

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