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The Forest Quartet cover art

The Forest Quartet

Mads & Friends · Bedtime Digital Games · 2022-12-08

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AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 08, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Dec 08, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Dec 08, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 17, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 25, 2025 (Android), Feb 25, 2025 (iOS)

The Forest Quartet is a puzzle adventure about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer. Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final farewell concert. Face their emotions, solve puzzles and fight the corruption plaguing their souls.

93%
positive of 467 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
4.32★
PlayStation Store rating (341 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)
The Forest Quartet is a 2022 video game created by Danish independent developer Mads Vadsholt under the name Mads and Friends, and published by Bedtime Digital Games. The game is a puzzle-based adventure game in which the player is a spirit tasked to reunite the members of her former band by reinvigorating life into the forest they inhabit. Players float around three stages and interact with items to complete puzzles that inspire the band members to move on, by illuminating the darkness of the forest and putting out fires. Upon release, the game received average reviews, with critics praising the game's audiovisual design and relationship between graphics and sound, whilst critiquing the challenge and complexity of its puzzle gameplay. The Forest Quartet was recognized for its audio design by winning the 'Excellence in Audio' award at the 2023 Independent Games Festival.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 32 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 27,555 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.3k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 467 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Gamesplanet$0.90-91%
Humble Store$0.99-90%
GamersGate$1.00-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.00-90%
Steam$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.75 at GamersGate (2024-12-05) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 138 of 174 observed days · $0.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720222026Week of 2022-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$100.00$0.002022-11-222026-10-122022-11-22 — best price $100.002023-03-13 — best price $6.392023-05-03 — best price $7.892023-06-23 — best price $6.592023-08-05 — best price $9.992023-09-21 — best price $0.002023-11-13 — best price $4.492023-12-21 — best price $2.992024-02-01 — best price $2.662024-03-12 — best price $7.892024-04-16 — best price $7.862024-06-13 — best price $9.992024-07-18 — best price $1.992024-09-02 — best price $1.492024-10-27 — best price $9.992024-12-09 — best price $1.992025-02-17 — best price $0.782025-04-28 — best price $7.862025-06-12 — best price $9.992025-07-26 — best price $9.992025-09-05 — best price $1.992025-10-13 — best price $0.782025-11-26 — best price $9.992025-12-31 — best price $9.992026-02-09 — best price $0.842026-03-18 — best price $1.002026-04-27 — best price $7.862026-06-10 — best price $9.992026-07-20 — best price $9.992026-08-13 — best price $1.002026-08-29 — best price $1.992026-09-13 — best price $1.002026-09-28 — best price $0.902026-10-12 — best price $1.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

14 supported languages: English, Danish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-05-22 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)47462%9
PS4 (PlayStation)18064%9
PS4 (PlayStation)13865%9
Switch (Nintendo)410%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DIndieMusicLinearPuzzleMysteryColorfulRelaxingIsometricNarration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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