The Dark Forest Calls

The Dark Forest Calls is a story-driven first-person survival horror game set on Psara, an island beyond a black sea that slips from maps and memory. When Elias Whitmore dreams of a dead lighthouse and shores speaking in his voice, he follows a route to the island. Its abandoned streets seem to have been waiting for him. You explore Psara, manage scarce supplies, reconfigure its failing power network and investigate why the island was forgotten.

Explore Psara

You search the harbor, fog-bound settlements, power facilities, mountain passages and underground tunnels. Journals, maintenance reports, clinical records and voice recordings give conflicting accounts of the island’s final days, each from a different point of view. No single document tells the whole truth, and neither does Elias.

Psara’s zombies are not the result of an ordinary outbreak. Their names and identities have disappeared, leaving old duties, fears, hunger and fragments of ritual to shape what remains. Some carry light; others endlessly guard a door or machine, or awaken bodies that should have stayed still. Learning what a creature is repeating can help you decide whether to fight it.

Manage light and sound

Light, sound and memory form a threat system. Darkness conceals your movement but also limits your sight. Restoring a generator can power doors and machinery and open new routes, but running engines, open flames and loud sounds send pulses through an unseen network beneath the island. Power can grant access while also drawing danger, so you must judge when to use the light and when to extinguish it.

Creatures react to light and sound. Running, firing a weapon, knocking something over or activating a machine at the wrong moment can reveal your position. You read each space, identify exits and manage silence alongside your ammunition.

Choose your fights

Melee weapons and firearms can help you survive, but encounters have a cost: ammunition and healing supplies are limited. You choose your targets, control the distance and time your attacks. Sometimes survival means leaving a fight unfinished.

Manage your supplies

Inventory space is limited, so you decide how to divide it among weapons, ammunition, fuel, medical supplies, keys and objects tied to the story. You use the power network and tools you find to reach sealed areas, while choosing what to leave behind without knowing what the next path will require.

Decide what to remember

The evidence you find, the accounts you trust and the memories you choose to preserve change the meaning of your final decision.