The Forest of Conx

The Forest of Conx

Calvin MacCaull · August 6, 2023 · Puzzle, Sandbox, 3D, Noir, Action

The Forest of Conx is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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The Forest of Conx price

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About The Forest of Conx

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The Forest of Conx is a survival horror tower defense game where you explore a mysterious forest, gather resources by day, and defend your cabin against increasingly dangerous creatures at night. Combine strategic tower placement with base upgrades and cabin power management while uncovering the secrets of the forest and the creature called Conx.


The Forest of Conx is a survival horror tower defense game, where you have came to a forest to find a mysterious creature named "Conx", unfortunately, this task isn't as easy as once planned..

Features in The Forest of Conx:
-Exploration
The vast forest provides lots of environments to explore

-foraging
Before night hits you must collect a descent amount of globs, these globs will allow you to buy towers to defend yourself

-Upgrades
The makeshift cabin you hunker in has many uninstalled upgrades that you can use to better your chances of survival

-Progressive Difficulty
The difficult of enemies increases as the days go by, make sure to not overstay your welcome in the woods..

-Towers
There are many Towers you can buy and place around your cabin, these towers will defend you from creatures once night hits..

-Challenge and Freeplay Modes
Even after you complete the main story, there are still more things to do! Such as mods, the level editor, challenge mode, or the freeplay menu.

Some other things to keep in mind:

-Your cabin has a limited power supply, make sure to recharge power via the fusebox outside.

-There's a large cave system underneath the forest, make sure to explore these tunnels thoroughly

-Be aware of flash floods and other disasters!

-Beware Conx...

The Forest of Conx — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player, Online co-op
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

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Players appreciate the game's charming concept and interesting theme, but consistently criticize its poor technical execution, including low-quality graphics, unclear mechanics, and bugs like being stuck in menus. The gameplay itself—a tower defense survival horror hybrid with jumpscares—feels underdeveloped and overly simplistic to some, though a few find it genuinely enjoyable despite its rough edges.

Not recommended Apr 19, 2026
no clue what i was supposed to do, got jumpscared and died.
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Recommended Mar 8, 2026
The game is very scuffed but it also lowkirkenuinely has a lot of charm and is kinda interesting. It is a bit expensive tho cus honestly they should be paying me to play it
Not recommended Jan 8, 2026
"The Forest of Conx" is a badly made hybrid of tower defense and survival horror (it's not really, it's just a jumpscare critter). The concept is intrigueing but the technical delivery here is laughably bad. What do you do in the game? Put down some "towers" to protect your cabin from the jumpscare, keep the power on, boring platespinning stuff that is at best an incredibly weak ripoff of FNAF. The graphics aren't great, godawfully poor quality textures slathered on a low poly backdrop that probably took 5 minutes to make in Blender. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. Even though the game looks pretty bad (and decent visuals are a minimum requirement for any game), we can be fairly sure this is not an asset flip. This is because the game assets look so bad, no self respecting asset creator would publish them. That's a fail. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget a…
Recommended Nov 14, 2025
This game made me stub my two and it hurt :(
Recommended Sep 30, 2025
Oh my gosh this is so cool! I LOVE this theme and I'm cool with everything but one thing; I entered the extras menu and clicked the monsters dictionary (Sorry I don't fully remember the term for it) but I was stuck there and I didn't see a way to exit. I've only played for about 20 minuts now but I still really enjoyed it. Also IDK how but I got the near miss acheivment and Idk what I did considering I didn't have any weapons or other things etc etc.
Recommended Aug 25, 2025
really fun would recommend

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