Through Abandoned: The Forest

Yeah I wouldn't bother with this game. Puzzles suck and so many bugs. Save your money.

Absolutely atrocious puzzle design + bugs. Yay

I had good hopes for this one, but man, did they drop the ball. After an "okay" experience on the first one, I will say this sequel NEEDS a patch. I got bugged out THREE TIMES, and I was stuck on a COMPLETED puzzle screen and had to back out of it. The art style feels WORSE, like, yes, I like hand drawn, but I can see where they drew over the lines and it no longer had that charm from the first game. And you are asking for 5 BUCKS for this? Save your money, and/or only get this game on a discount or on the bundle. This game needs bug fixes, or else you won't be able to have as a good as time... Here is on to game 3...

Loaded with bugs.

Through Abandoned: The Forest is a quiet, deliberately minimal point-and-click adventure that embraces an older style of design, focusing on atmosphere and puzzle-solving rather than narrative complexity or mechanical variety. Developed by Igor Krutov and published by Conglomerate 5, it continues the broader Through Abandoned series’ approach of placing the player in a strange, fragmented world with little direct explanation, relying instead on exploration and observation to slowly piece together meaning. It is a game that feels intentionally stripped down, almost to the point of austerity, which both defines its appeal and exposes its limitations. The gameplay is built around a static, first-person perspective where movement is handled through clicking between pre-rendered scenes. Each screen acts as a small puzzle space filled with objects to examine, items to collect, and clues to interpret. There is no free movement or real-time interaction; instead, the experience unfolds one frame at a time, giving it a slow, methodical rhythm that encourages careful attention. Progression depends on solving inventory-based puzzles, often requiring players to combine items or identify subtle…

Trees rustle like in a horror movie, every step tests your courage, and I still haven’t found a way out of the forest.