A Walk in the Woods

A Walk in the Woods

Something Dark Studios · 2018 · Free to Play, Horror, Multiplayer, Indie, Adventure

PC
Mixed42% · 550
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About A Walk in the Woods

✦ AI summary

You and three friends must survive a nightmarish forest filled with a malevolent creature and its inhuman offspring, searching for each other while evading capture in a procedurally generated world. Work together in online co-op multiplayer to uncover the mystery of the missing children and find your way back to reality before becoming trapped forever.

Find Your Friends!

Over the years, dozens of children go missing in the forest. They disappear without a trace. Where did they go? What happened to them?

You and three other friends venture out into the forest on an adventurous camping trip. But what you find in those woods is more terrifying than anything you could have possibly imagined.

Run, hide, and search for your missing friends. A malevolent creature and its inhuman children are trying to keep you trapped in their ever-changing woods forever. The only way to leave this nightmare is to find each other and escape back to your world.

Key Features



Co-Op Online Multiplayer – Join up with three other players online and work together to escape the woods.

Randomly Generated Forest
– Every time you play the game, the forest changes, creating a different level to get lost in.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jun 3, 2026
Find your friends - or be lost forever.
5 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 3, 2026
The ever-changing woods and malevolent creature make for a tense, high-stakes survival game that never feels the same twice. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a spooky, cooperative nightmare with a group.
5 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 4, 2026
immersive firepit
Not recommended Mar 3, 2026
This is a rather poor attempt at making a co-op survival horror game where you and nobody else (because nobody plays this) take on the roles of cartoony low quality camper assets and run around a possibly asset flipped forest waiting to get jumpscared and die. The objective, loosely defined as it is, is to find your friends (nobody plays this) and escape the monsters. This kind of thing might work if implemented with AAA quality, but the delivery here is a clunky, unpolished, unoptimised dogs breakfast, and the visuals are laughably bad. This is a dead multiplayer game. Why did "A Walk in the Woods" fail? Time for a video game autopsy. [i]Almost every multiplayer exclusive game on Steam fails.[/i] Only a tiny proportion of them "go viral". This game failed for many of the same reasons those others fail. The chief of which is the developer thinking that their game will "go viral" without actually creating any reason for it do so. Multiplayer games face extreme competition, multiplayer gamers have plenty to choose from and they gravitate to where all the other players are. This game didn't offer anything to peel those players away from the games they're already invested in. It h…
Not recommended Feb 14, 2026
Was trying to play this with some friends. Had issues from the start screen. Got stuck at the start screen got stuck at the character selection, couldn't get everyone one and couldn't even get the game to start. It being free is the only saving grace.
Recommended Dec 15, 2025
this game sucks

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