The open-world survival horror game The Forest hasn’t stopped evolving since it first crash-landed onto Steam Early Access nearly two years ago, and that’s probably not going to change until the game is taken out of the preview program so it can be released in full on Steam.
With the latest patch, developer Endnight Games has made finding sustenance in the eponymous forest considerably easier by “more of the world’s animals interactable and edible,” with more ways to harvest precious resources like skin, meat and bones from those innocent woodland critters. Bite-sized animals like birds and squirrels can now be eaten, should you find yourself craving a snack whilst being hunted by all those cannibal mutants.
The update also takes some of the frustration that can sometimes come with playing the game online by adding a Minecraft-inspired sleep system to the multiplayer games, and an improved dynamic blood that makes it easier to tell if the bone tomahawk that’s embedded in your friend’s stomach is life-threatening or something they can probably walk off.
No update on when The Forest will be headed to PS4, unfortunately. Stay tuned.
