8. The Forest – 5,552,274 Players
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The Forest was released in Early Access all the way back in 2014, and since then it’s accrued a massive amount of players leading up to its full release in April 2018. The open-world survival-horror title has you playing as Eric Leblanc, who’s traveling with his sone via airplane when the plane crashes on a mysterious uncharted island. A tribe of cannibals takes Eric’s son away, and you have to survive against the elements and explore the strange cave system underneath the island.
The Forest is fraught with tense moments and features elements of base building and crafting. With that trifecta, it’s little wonder the streaming community as well as Steam players have taken to it so.
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