Have you ever played a game that has a forest setting that looks like an actual forest?

[Ferdinand]

There are certain games that had some parts of the game having a forest setting. However, it is not all of those games that we can say have a forest setting that looks like the type of forest that we see in real life.

Green Hell was a game that I can confidently say came very close to having such a forest setting that can even make one claim it is a real forest. Are there other games like that which you've played?

 

[Jake]

Valheim does this really well. First time I walked into the Black Forest at night it actually felt unsettling. RDR2 too — the forests around Roanoke Ridge are genuinely dense, like the trees have weight to them. I've spent more time than I should have just riding through them.

 

[Corey]

Sons of the Forest is probably the benchmark for this. The trees have that wet, overgrown look that actually feels right — especially at night near the caves. Green Hell does it too, that jungle density gets properly uncomfortable after a while. Damo hated both of them for exactly that reason, which I take as a recommendation.

 

[Ferdinand]

Sons of the Forest is probably the benchmark for this. The trees have that wet, overgrown look that actually feels right — especially at night near the caves. Green Hell does it too, that jungle density gets properly uncomfortable after a while. Damo hated both of them for exactly that reason, which I take as a recommendation.

Wait, any genuine reason that made Damo hate both games aside from how real the forests look in the game?

 

[Oliver]

Gothic II's Valley of Mines does something interesting -- technically dated by any modern measure but the geometry creates a genuine sense of place. Morrowind has the same quality in its open stretches. For modern examples RDR2 is the obvious answer and it earns it. The forests around Roanoke Ridge have that density where you actually feel like you're somewhere real rather than somewhere rendered.

 

[Tyler]

Sekiro does this really well. The Ashina forests feel like they have actual depth, not just trees as background. Jedi Survivor too, some of those areas on Koboh look genuinely wild. RDR2 keeps coming up in this thread and it earns it every time.