The Dark Forest Enhanced Edition (2025)

Cover art by Grace Porcaro (modernmom)

The Dark Forest Enhanced Edition is the native PC port of the original text-based adventure game released in 2022, out now. Running on a brand new, in house engine we call LetopaCore, we have overhauled every single aspect of the game. No line of code has been left untouched.

Features:

• Expanded replayability
  • New Difficulty System
    • We have tweaked the difficulty of the original game, making it more fair and less frustrating
    • Difficulties can now scale RNG mechanics and allow you to tweak your game experience
    • To add to this flexibility, we've introduced two new difficulty levels:
      • Story Mode
        • Take less damage and have more chances of survival. Ideal for those who want to play just for the story.
      • Original
        • The original difficulty. Unforgiving but not impossible.
  • New Game+
    • After beating the game on a save file, you can replay it
    • Features the most challenging game experience
    • Includes four exclusive and challenging boss fights
  • Replayable Boss Fights
    • After beating the game, you can replay full boss fights at any time
  • Chapter System
    • We've now split the game into four chapters
    • After beating the game you can replay any individual one
  • Multiple Save Slots
    • We've fully designed the save system, now allowing you to have up to six saves at the same time.
• Statistics Tracking
  • In any save file, you can view multiple things about your run, including:
    • Achievements collected
    • Time played
    • Number of deaths
  • Achievements
    • You'll now receive a number of achievements for progressing through the game, such as:
      • Completing chapters
      • Beating boss fights
      • Beating the game on different difficulty levels
      • Finding (new) secrets
      • Completing New Game+
• Extreme Polish
  • We've spent a long time making sure the game runs flawlessly on a technical level for everyone
  • We've fixed many bugs and crashes, to the point where one of our beta testers encountered zero issues in a full playthrough
• The Dark Cave Integration
  • The Dark Cave spin off has been seamlessly ported into the base game, meaning there's zero delay when getting into it
• Modernized Controls
  • We've redesigned how the controls system works, using the number keys for many niche interactions rather than random keys on the keyboard
• Settings UI
  • You can now tweak your save file from anywhere within the game, changing things like:
    • Difficulty
    • Toggling text scrolling
• Pause Menu
  • Pause the game by inputting p at any time to access:
    • The settings UI
    • Quit to menu/desktop
    • Checkpoint reload
• Death Screen
  • Upon dying, you can now choose to leave the game and see some other data, rather than having the game instantly close
• So much more!

We at Letopa have put an insane amount of work into this release. Without further ado, here are the supported platforms:

Supported Platforms

At this time, we have no plans to support any other platforms. This is due to current lack of resources and machines on these operating systems.

System Requirements (Minimum)

You can also test your hardware by running the Benchmark Test here.

System Requirements (Recommended)

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