Part 1

Begin your journey in The Forest with Part 1 of our comprehensive walkthrough. Learn essential survival tips, explore the initial crash site, and prepare for your first day.

This is mainly meant as a walkthrough to the single player campaign (on Normal difficulty), taking you from the very start of the game to the very end, following a linear, efficient path, while also allowing you to discover everything else in the game on the way past, should you wish to.

By following my walkthrough, you will get to see and collect everything of significance, find every secret, accomplish all objectives, visit every area, and complete the game. Furthermore, you will do all of this with a minimum of backtracking or time wasting, since the guide takes you from one Cave to another, working from south-east to north-west, equips you to enter the Chasm and Sinkhole Caves with no need to come back, and ultimately lets you confront the final boss fight with a full loadout.

Firstly, while I've tried to be thorough, this is not a guide for completionists. There are other websites which tell you about every single item and secret in the game, and how to score all the Steam achievements - this walkthrough is not quite so detailed.

It's also not really a strategy guide, since I spend almost no time on telling you how to fight the enemies or how to build impenetrable bases. The less time you spend fighting in this game, the better, so instead I concentrate on exploration and inventory management. As I mention at various points in the walkthrough, fighting is always the poorest option: it's usually better to run away or otherwise disable the enemies, unless you need to farm materials from their corpses. Also note that there is no levelling up your character in this game, so fighting is even more unattractive.

It's not a database, or some sort of amalgamation of lots of other The Forest resources from the internet. I'm quite proud of not having a single stat in the whole guide (probably); and apart from getting help with the final boss, with finding Cache 6 and the Log Coaster Page, and with learning what Creepy Armour actually did, it's otherwise based on my own experiences in playing the game, which means mistakes and omissions are my own fault!

Finally, it has absolutely nothing to say about the multiplayer mode. I have no idea what it's like to play online, and I doubt I ever will.