The Forest (video game)

The Forest drops you out of the sky and onto an island, where it wonders out-loud if you could live that Robinson Crusoe life. Then things get weird.

For a long time survival horror was a term used to define any scary game. Somehow, the struggle to survive — which is present in any game with combat — was tied to the designation of horror games. Then Minecraft came out.

Survival was suddenly a genre in and of itself, and the creeping sort of horror that sets in when a person realises they’re out of options meant that in a way, the games that share its genre are survival horror too.