Games like Forest Doesn’t Care

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The Forest
After your jet goes down, you wake up alone in a strange forest that wants you dead. Chop trees, build shelter, find food, and hold your camp through the night against cannibal mutants. It is a harsh first-person survival horror about building by day and defending by night.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Atmospheric, Scary, Tense
95% of 585,687 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8,315$19.99
Among Trees
A colorful forest sandbox where you turn a small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Fish, cook, grow food in your greenhouse, expand room by room, and adopt a fox. The woods are as dangerous as they are lovely, and there is a Zen mode if you would rather skip the danger.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Relaxing
68% of 2,086 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
A card-based survival sim set in a primordial forest where nature rules and humans are newcomers. Track beasts, brew herbal remedies, farm by the seasons and bind spirits to your soul, all through combining cards. Deep, slow and unforgiving, with a dark, atmospheric world that rewards careful planning and punishes carelessness.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Scary
76% of 1,158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$21.99
Darkwood
A top-down survival horror where daylight is for scavenging and night is for surviving. Explore a shifting forest, trade with its broken locals, board up a hideout, and listen to the dark until dawn. Slow, tense and genuinely frightening, with a story your choices reshape.
Atmospheric, Scary, Tense
94% of 22,600 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 144$19.99
Don't Starve
Don't Starve drops gentleman scientist Wilson into a strange wilderness run by a demon, where you gather, craft, farm, hunt and fight to stay alive. No guidance, no second chances: every randomly generated world wants you dead, and learning its rules is the fun.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Scary, Tense
96% of 97,332 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,030$9.99
Green Hell
Lost in the Amazon with nothing but your hands and a smartwatch, you learn to read the jungle or it takes you apart. Green Hell is a first-person survival sim with a long, strange story, deep crafting and base building, plus co-op and endless modes for when you just want to suffer together.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Atmospheric, Scary, Tense
84% of 81,282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,511$24.99
Backwoods Town
Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Relaxing
93% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Rooten
There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you. You can explore the Forest, try to get out, or even do nothing at all. The forest has always been here, and always will be. You won't change it no matter what.
Atmospheric, Scary, Tense
79% of 105 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Gold River Project
A camping trip in the Pacific Northwest goes wrong: your guide never comes back, and the nature reserve turns out to be one big experiment with you in it. Explore a huge open world, craft, build camp, and work out what is really going on, alone or with up to 4 friends. No timers, no hand-holding, just you, the forest and whatever is watching.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Atmospheric, Tense, Mysterious
62% of 670 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$24.99
KeepUp Survival
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Atmospheric, Scary, Tense
62% of 685 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Mist Survival
A virus wiped out most of the world, and you are one of the few immune. Scavenge forests, villages and a military camp, build and defend a base, and keep survivors alive. The catch: dense mist rolls in without warning, and that is when the infected come hunting. A tense single-player survival sandbox with real teeth.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Scary, Tense
75% of 13,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 99$10.99
Bootstrap Island
A realistic VR survival roguelike on a merciless 17th-century island. Crack coconuts with your own hands, build fires before dark, and hold out against beasts, storms and a watchful tribe. Every run reshuffles the island, every mistake can end you, and every failure teaches you something for the next attempt.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Scary, Tense
81% of 1,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99

Cheaper than Forest Doesn’t Care

Rooten

There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you.

$4.99

Backwoods Town

Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding…

$8.99

Don't Starve

Don't Starve drops gentleman scientist Wilson into a strange wilderness run by a demon, where you gather, craft, farm, hunt and fight to stay alive.

$9.99

Mist Survival

Scavenge, build and defend a base while the infected hunt in the fog.

$10.99

Force of Nature

Wash up on a colorful island, build a homestead, tame strange beasts and chase the pieces of a mythical gem, alone or with friends.

$7.99

The Cursed Forest

Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last.

$5.17

FEROCIOUS

Survive a deadly island of mercenaries, mechas and dinosaurs in a first-person shooter where the wildlife fights on your side.

$12.49

Vortex: The Gateway

Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight.

$7.99

SILENT BREATH

A forest that listens through your microphone. Search for missing people in the dark while the game tries to make you scream, and things hunt you…

$9.99

Green Project

Wake from cryosleep to a fungus-choked Earth, then farm, craft and plant trees at your own pace until the world around you visibly turns green again.

$5.99

Echo of the Wilds

Echo of the Wilds is a puzzly narrativy adventure, featuring randomised wilderness survival. Explore and survive this mysterious tale of wilds.

$3.84

Northern Lights

Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra.

$11.99

Hidden gems like Forest Doesn’t Care

A Game About Chopping Trees

Chop trees at your own pace, haul logs to the sawmill and spend the earnings on sharper tools, alone or with a friend online.

$7.99

Whisper of the Swallows

Survive blizzards and night creatures in a procedurally generated wilderness, building a sanctuary alone or with up to six players.

$19.99

Bootstrap Island

A realistic VR survival roguelike on a merciless 17th-century island.

$24.99

Outbreak Island

Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.

$14.99

Backwoods Town

Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding…

$8.99

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

Track beasts, brew remedies, farm with the seasons and bind spirits, one card combination at a time.

$21.99

Project: Mist

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

$17.99

SILENT BREATH

A forest that listens through your microphone. Search for missing people in the dark while the game tries to make you scream, and things hunt you…

$9.99

NUTS

NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery.

$24.99

Peregrino

Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night.

$16.99

Rooten

There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you.

$4.99

The Gold River Project

Camp, craft and explore a vast Pacific Northwest wilderness while piecing together what the reserve is hiding from you.

$24.99

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