The Forever Winter

Third-person PvE extraction shooter beneath towering war machines

Fun Dog Studios · Released Sep 24, 2024 · Early Access

Reviews: Mixed; 68% of 25K
Recent reviews: Mixed; 57% of 173 in 30 days
Playing now: 172; right now
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: 2 weeks ago; Sep 2, 2026

What is The Forever Winter?

An Early Access third-person PvE extraction shooter set in a dystopian world shaped by ecological collapse and decades of automated war. Alone or in online co-op, you play an unaffiliated scavenger, moving through battles between two military powers to loot the dead, use stealth or gunfire, and escape while enemy groups pursue their own objectives.

For you if...

+you want PvE extraction runs without hostile players
+you enjoy difficult stealth, scavenging, and third-person gunplay
+you like bleak dystopian worlds with towering war machines

Not for you if...

−you prefer relaxed shooting with forgiving combat
−you dislike run-based scavenging and extraction objectives

What players say

68% of 24,945 reviews are positive · 57% of 173 in the last 30 days

Players most often praise the bleak art direction, atmosphere, worldbuilding, and soundtrack, along with the PvE extraction premise. They commonly report major bugs, unreliable AI and pathfinding, poor performance, multiplayer crashes, and frustrating progression or quest issues, and many consider the Early Access build incomplete.

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The Forever Winter system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super (VRAM 8 GB) / Radeon RX 5700XT (8GB)
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Storage: 60 GB available space
DirectX: Version 12
Notes: SSD recommended