The Forest Quartet
Mads & Friends · 2022 · Indie, Puzzle, Story Rich, Singleplayer, Music
PC
Very Positive94% · 385
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About The Forest Quartet
The Forest Quartet is a puzzle adventure about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer.
Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final concert.
Face their emotions, solve puzzles and fight the corruption plaguing their souls.
- Something strange has taken over the once green and lush nature that Kirk would draw his inspiration from. The fungus slowly creeps and turns growth into decay.
Use the power of your voice to restore the forest.
- The forest has become an abyss of darkness.
Creatures have awoken from the depths of the underground, swarming JB's house.
Find the light that once existed to reignite JB's musical spark.
- A volcano has erupted, spitting lava out into the nearby forest causing fires and destruction.
Find your way as a swarm of butterflies through a maze of pipes in order to reestablish a system of water in the deep underground.
- Sing to interact with objects, create light with your fingertips. Glide, float, and transform into butterflies to explore the band members' psyches.
- Environments and objects add unique layers to the soundtrack. Whether it be crackling forest fires or the cold winds from the deep caverns.
- Live through heartbreak and loss. Recover from grief and restore the band’s musical spark.
- No written descriptions or instructions, progressively gain powers for your travels.
- Short and sweet. Can be played in one evening or picked up for a little while every night of the week.
Note from the developer:
The Forest Quartet is a personal and family made project. The original jazz score is composed by Mads' father (Kaspar Vadsholt), Nina is voiced by his sister (Nina Vadsholt, artist name: NV-4), the soundtrack is performed by select musicians from The Danish Radio Big Band based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This is one of those games I wish I could give a neutral review, but I did enjoy my experience so I’ll give it a recommendation. The art direction is very nice and the music is great. However, there’s not quite enough gameplay to call it a “game” and not enough depth for it to be an interactive story. It’s sort of a walking simulator with light interactions occasionally. There are “enemies” in some levels but they can’t actually hurt you. For each level, you follow a fairly linear path through a portion of the forest, meaning to represent each of the living band members. Puzzles are pretty easy. There were a couple that weren’t immediately intuitive for me, but they weren’t especially hard to figure out. There’s a visual theme to each level which I think is meant to represent their particular struggle/ feelings, but I don’t think that was communicated especially well. The story is where it fell the shortest for me. A puzzle-ish adventure about a band mourning the loss of a member sounds great on paper. However, it was an extremely short introduction to the premise and it didn’t do much to establish how close the group was or meaningfully address how each living member was impa…4 found this helpful
This is short and simple but very relaxed and enjoyable. This is the first time that Bedtime Digital Games published a game that they didn't develop. It definitely feels in line with their other releases from a creative standpoint.
Short little adventure with beautiful scenes, music and touching storyline.
What a lovely game... So relaxing and nice. The puzzles are easy and the controls are smooth. Beautiful music and setting. I wish it was a little longer, but it was super nice nonetheless. (I played for longer than it's written)
Beauty song and peace in my heart.
I got the game for super cheap. It is a pretty short experience with really basic puzzles. The main appeal is the wonderful music and sound design. The game doesn't outstay its welcome and while I wish the game was a bit longer, I can't complain with it being $2 when I bought it.
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