8 Ways You Can Accidentally Break Popular Video Games

Though combat is a big part of the experience, The Forest is primarily about survival. One of the very first things the game has you do is find something to eat, and the earliest parts of your journey will be spent simply trying to keep your character alive.

But, eventually, you're also forced to defend yourself against hordes of violent cannibals, a nice change of pace from all the base-building and resource-gathering. However, the fun combat can quickly start to feel like an annoying chore if you're unlucky enough to be consistently attacked by the island's meat-loving natives.

The cannibals are relatively easy to fend off if there's just one or two of them, but unfortunate players can find themselves being attacked by groups of five or more, which can very easily turn into a death sentence. Some players have even reported that these groups of cannibals will not leave them alone, and even if they kill a few, a few more will spawn, and even more after that, seemingly at random.

You can try moving to a different spot and keeping your head down, but there's no guarantee that this tactic will work, so, through no fault of your own, you might end up caught in an endless cycle of bloodthirsty murder - quite possibly your murder.

This makes it pretty much impossible to make any progress, since all your time will be devoted to fighting, rather than improving your base, or, y'know, eating. There's no guarantee that the cannibals will leave you be, even if you do nothing to provoke them in the first place, and the whole system feels borderline broken.