In a shock announcement at The Recreation Awards, indie horror studio Endnight Video games has revealed Forest 3, a follow-up to The Forest and Sons of the Forest. In a serious departure from the sequence’ regular mutant-infested islands, Forest 3 appears to be taking the protagonist to a different planet, with its trailer displaying a malfunctioning spaceship crash-landing on an unknown (however nonetheless mutant-infested) world.
The trailer begins with a comfortable spaceship inside, setting a scene you’ll by no means guess was associated to The Forest or its follow-up, Sons of the Forest. The spaceship quickly malfunctions and crashes right into a swamp on an unknown planet, slowly build up the horror of its setting because the trailer progresses.
Whereas Sons of the Forest hinted at an alien origin to its central thriller, it is nonetheless a shock that the following sport within the sequence will take gamers to a distinct planet. There are nonetheless only a few particulars about Forest 3 out there, together with the place and even when the sport is about. Whereas Sons of the Forest passed off a number of years after the unique sport, it is unclear if Forest 3 may even be inside an analogous timeline, or set within the far future.
Particulars on gameplay have additionally but to be introduced. Whereas The Forest was a single-player sport, Sons of the Forest may very well be performed cooperatively with as much as eight players–a function it appears probably Forest 3 will retain.
The new trailer was revealed as part of The Recreation Awards 2025, which as regular centered way more on sport bulletins than it did on the titular awards. Take a look at all the largest bulletins from the awards present, in addition to all of the winners from this 12 months’s awards.
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