The Forest 1.12 on Mac

The Forest runs on Apple Silicon Macs — the tested machine is a Mac mini 2024 M4 with macOS Tahoe. The game is a Wineskin build (version 1.12), so it works without an emulator layer for Intel. If you've got an M1, M2, M3 or M4 Mac, you're good to go.

First, survive the crash

You wake up in the wreckage of a passenger plane on a mysterious peninsula. Your immediate jobs: find food, fresh water and a place to sleep before night falls. The forest is full of cannibals and mutant creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

Then, build and explore

During the day you chop trees, craft tools and build a base — walls, traps, a fire. You can dig, climb and swim to explore caves and abandoned camps. The story has multiple endings, so what you find underground matters.

Fight or hide

Combat is frantic and messy. You can craft weapons from sticks and rocks, set up traps, or just run and hide in bushes. There's a cooperative mode if you want to survive with friends instead of alone.

Logs that roll and other survival details

A few details make the difference between a quick death and a long night. You can drag bodies away from your base — useful if you've killed a cannibal near your campfire and don't want to attract more. Logs roll downhill when you cut a tree on a slope, so you can collect them at the bottom instead of carrying each one. The game also lets you place custom markers on the map, which helps when you find a cave entrance you want to come back to later.

Building a fire is not just about light. The smoke from your campfire rises above the trees, and cannibals patrol towards it if they spot it. You can build a smaller, smokeless fire for cooking when you want to stay hidden.

Scenario: a weekend co-op run

A friend and I start a cooperative game with the same goal: explore every cave on the peninsula without using a guide. I handle food and shelter while she gathers logs and rocks. After two nights of getting swarmed near a river camp, we move to a cliffside spot — cannibals struggle to climb up to us, and we can see patrol routes from above. The map markers become essential: we tag cave entrances, water sources and a spot with lots of berry bushes. By the fourth session we've found a few story items, but we keep getting lost in the caves. The forest for Mac torrent enables multiplayer sessions on separate MacBooks without additional configuration.

• Version labeled 1.12 [Wineskin]
• Release date: 2018-04-30

• macOS ?
• Architecture: Apple Silicon

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