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Dead Forest

Dead Forest is a first person mystical thriller. The game take place in the protagonist’s dream. Every time the main hero has the same dream in which he sees a mysterious dark forest. But this time it's different ...

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August 3, 2018
8 years and 1 day ago
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Mostly Negative38 reviews21.1%

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About the Game

Dead Forest is a first person mystical thriller. The game take place in the protagonist’s dream. Every time the main hero has the same dream in which he sees a mysterious dark forest. But this time it's different ...

Story:
The protagonist constantly sees the same dream, in which he walks alone along a dark forest path. He begins his journey from the old abandoned church and wakes up as he reaches the end of the forest path. But this time everything is different... The only way to out of the lopped dream is to find all pieces of ancient literature and to conduct a mystical ritual.

Choose your path and explore the gloomy beauty of the dead forest. Uncover the main secret and perform a mystical ritual to break the dream loop and to wake up.