The Forest Watches

The Forest Watches is a short first-person psychological horror experience about rituals, obedience, and being observed. You arrive at a secluded forest compound as the newest member of a quiet, watchful cult. Your days are simple: complete the tasks they give you, follow the routine, and avoid drawing attention.

The game is designed to be completed in around 30 minutes, making it a compact, tense horror experience. Each morning brings a new assignment—clean the shrine, gather offerings, light the ceremonial braziers. The cult insists these chores are harmless traditions… but the forest feels aware, and the cameras never stop tracking your every step.

Your cabin is small and sparsely furnished—a bed, a flickering TV looping indoctrination messages, a few personal items. Even in this tiny space, you can feel the weight of the forest and the cult’s watchful eyes. As you carry out your rituals, distant chanting rises through the trees.

The tasks become heavier, stranger, more demanding—yet disobedience is not an option. The Forest Watches is designed as an immersive, tightly focused horror experience that can be completed in about 30 minutes . No crafting.

No combat. Just you, the cult, and the feeling that the forest remembers everything you do. FEATURES • Ritual Tasks That Escalate Perform daily duties for the cult: gather offerings, tend to the shrine, light ritual fires, and obey the routine.

• Oppressive Forest Atmosphere A dense woodland filled with shrines, cameras, and ritual sites that feel increasingly alive as the days pass. • Psychological Horror Through Observation Fear built through surveillance, ritual pressure, and the sense that the forest itself is watching you. • Short, Focused Experience A concise 30-minute narrative horror journey designed for a single sitting.

All voice lines in the indoctrination video (also used in the trailer) are generated using AI. Content Warning: This is a psychological horror experience. It contains mild violence, creepy ritual themes, and unsettling imagery.