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The Cursed Forest

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The Cursed Forest
The Cursed Forest cover
Developers
KPy3O
Noostyche
Publishers
Noostyche
Engines
CryEngine V
Release dates
Windows June 19, 2021
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure
Themes Contemporary, Eastern Europe, Horror, Supernatural
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The Cursed Forest is a singleplayer first-person adventure game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
itch.io
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
Free demo is available from Steam (install with steam://install/972980) and itch.io.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\assets\game.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\assets\hud_settings.xml[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\assets\Libs\Config\*.xml[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/345430/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\user\savegames\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/345430/pfx/[Note 2]
One autosave slot and 5 manual save slots are available.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings
Video settings
Advanced video settings
Advanced video settings
Interface settings
Interface settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+ scaling[1]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Vertical FOV from 60° to 80°.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
High level of AF is always enabled.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
SMAA toggle only.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound, Voice
Surround sound
7.1 Surround[2]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Language selection
Language selection

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Russian
Turkish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1, 8.1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-6100
AMD FX-8350
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon HD 7850
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/345430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (345430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2021-09-27
    Tested at 2560x1080 custom resolution.
  2. Verified by User:Mastan on 2021-09-27
    Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter.