The Forest Quartet confidently hits its marks as a quality Adventure/Indie title.
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93%
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Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (93% positive from 444 reviews)
Compelling narrative and story
Rich open world to explore
Limited professional critic coverage
The Forest Quartet is a 2022 video game created by Danish independent developer Mads Vadsholt under the name Mads and Friends, and published by Bedtime Digital Games. The game is a puzzle-based adventure game in which the player is a spirit tasked to reunite the members of her former band by reinvigorating life into the forest they inhabit. Players float around three stages and interact with items to complete puzzles that inspire the band members to move on, by illuminating the darkness of the forest and putting out fires. Upon release, the game received average reviews, with critics praising the game's audiovisual design and relationship between graphics and sound, whilst critiquing the challenge and complexity of its puzzle gameplay. The Forest Quartet was recognized for its audio design by winning the 'Excellence in Audio' award at the 2023 Independent Games Festival.
Runs well on modern hardware.
What a lovely game... So relaxing and nice. The puzzles are easy and the controls are smooth. Beautiful music and setting. I wish it was a little longer, but it was super nice nonetheless. (I played for longer than it's written)
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