Dead Forest Reviews

WOW this game! What an absolute masterpiece! I'll try to keep this as free from spoilers as possible, but I just finished getting 100% on this game, and it was worth every moment and every cent. I wasn't expecting this game to be as wonderful as it was. For a game I'd never heard of before (and seems to have no online presence or fandom) this DELIVERED. This game has four routes, but you have to complete three to unlock the fourth. When I realized this, I was kind of dreading it, as I usually only want to do one or two routes in VNs, but this game? Absolutely worth it. All of the routes have thought and care and distinct personality to them, nothing feels rushed or half-hearted, and the final payoff is worth it. There is an excellent balance between lore and romance, and being able to recognize threads between the different routes and start to put together puzzle pieces makes the experience all the more engaging. My ONLY complaint would be that I did end up having to check the guide at a couple points, since some endings rely on VERY specific choices with no room for error. Honestly, this wasn't a huge set-back for me, and I would recommend no one let that deter them. I just feel like it's helpful to know going in. If an ending isn't popping for you, the game isn't glitched, I promise. Overall, the art is beautiful, the atmosphere is captivating, the chemistry and storytelling are wonderful, the characters have depth, and the world itself is super interesting! This game is all-around fantastic, has good replayability, and deserves more love! Honestly, I'm keeping my fingers crossed there might be a sequel somewhere in the future, whether with these characters or different ones...But PLEASE if you're not sure, give this game a try, it's worth it.

Very nice game, I stayed up all night to get all of the good endings. The story was dark, interesting and fairly easy to follow along with. But the main selling point for me are the characters. I love Laki, he is a very curious and cautious but overly trusting lynx. I didn't find him to be annoying like most main characters. Each of the romance routes revealed more about him and explained different things that were going on in the story. The romance routes were all nice but Ramiro's route was definitely my favourite, the relationship between him and Laki felt natural and their relationship developed nicely, the two have amazing chemistry. But Claude's route is a close second. I recommend doing the routes in a certain order, so you don't spoil things for yourself. Yong Hen, Yun Ming, Ramiro and then Claude.

This is a REALLY good BL, I have played through 2 of the routes so far and I am super impressed. The stories each of the characters have are really intriguing and captivated me more than I thought they would, and the 18+ sections always feel so natural and not forced like other BL's I have played. If you enjoy BL's or just want a well written, interesting visual novel to play I highly recommend this game!

I actually liked this Yaoi VN as they have a nice-sounding music with does fill in the kind of feeling during different scenes. The stories is also quite interesting as the events happens it also linked with the other characters stories as you progress forward with different character after understanding the whole timline.

very cool game with interesting story and characters in a nice compact way.

I actually really do enjoy the story lines. As, for the "adult" part i wouldn't say there is a lot of it but i feel like this game is absolutely worth the purchase and play.

Do you see the ears and a little bit of the tail poking out in those images of the characters? That was a good enough reason for me to play the game. Now let's not do this whole thing called "psychology" to analyze exactly WHY I like what I like... You wont figure it out that easily. First of all... This game reads better in Russian. Yes. You see... The Russian language can switch formation of words in sentences AND it has things like these... "Utro vechera mudrenee" -> "The morning is wiser than the evening". While it translates from Russian... Native American speakers have to look that up... There are many others too and the whole time I feel like I am reading in Russian and my brain is translating every word into English... Without changing the sentence structure lol. Hold up though! YOU WILL understand what the story is about. I read it in English... Primarily because my Russian skills are *cough*... Oh there is no need to go there. Okay. Cool. CGs are awesome. I like the ears and the... Uhh...! I meant the characters and how cute some of them look! Music is peaceful and at times serenely spooky. The names for some characters sound Chinese. Some just have one name. Culture mix right there. Did I like the story? I felt like I was missing out on many good parts by reading it in English. This is why I read it one way and THEN I would want to read it in Russian later on to make a comparison. So I can't say either way, because I got the gist of it, but... I feel it could give me more. Lewd scenes: Yes. I rarely find one character to be far more charming above others, but it does happen. In this one I like the Mink Assassin. I was so used to his blindfold, that I was like "who's that?!" when his blindfold was off... His lewd scenes USES the blindfold and that was interesting to experience. Alright! Time to party with beast men! Oh they hate humans? They don't hate me! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Thank yousss! >:3

This game was super cute and fun to play through (but keep in mind it also has it's tragic/dark moments) I 100% recommend it and the art is so gorgeous as well. AND THE STORY! My god, you just want to keep on finding out more, that you end up playing this whole game straight until you’re done with it, lol. Now, for some information: The story is split up between the different RO paths you take, so you do in fact need to play all of them to fully understand what’s going on in this game. And there is an unlock order for the ROs. You actually have to play all of their GOOD ENDINGS, before you can unlock Claude’s GE route. To summarize: You basically follow the MC named Laki, a lynx beast-man, who is journeying to the Dead Forest on behalf of his village elder in search of unearthing truths/mysteries about himself and those he meets along the way. Now, there are some light triggers revolving around: [spoiler]Blood, Gore, Death, Violence, suggestive suicide I believe in one of the ROs stories, what looks like toxic friendships/relationships at times in some of the stories between side characters/and-or the MC and others, Manipulation and lastly the NSFW scene with Yun Ming may or may not be considered dubious consent-wise to some, since both parties have become affected by the scents of aphrodisiacs (but they do both consent to sex, so to each their own on how you guys view this scene and if that’s a trigger for you or not), and that’s about it as far as I can think of when it comes to triggers.[/spoiler] Lastly here are some game facts in case anyone is interested: -Gameplay for me was 22hrs -Art CGs/BGs are gorgeous -1 NSFW CG set with each RO. So four total 18+ scenes -There are some English translation errors in my opinion that don’t always explain things well, plus some grammar mistakes -4 ROs (Yun Ming, Ramiro, Yong Hen, and Claude) *Yun Ming: Bottom NSFW CG/story wise *Yong Hen: more versatile NSFW CG/story wise (they 69 it) *Ramiro: more versatile NSFW CG/story wise (they grind it up) *Claude: Top NSFW CG/story wise -The game has a guide provided in the guides section of steam which really helps if you're looking to do all routes/endings -You do need to play through every character's good ending, before the game lets you play Claude's good ending. -The ROs and MCs beast forms: *Claude = Spider *Yun Ming = Red Panda *Ramiro = Bird *Yong Hen = Mink *Laki = Lynx