Green Hell

I liked how the game is played, graphics, story and how you go from one task(mission) to the next. Map is very large. Once you know how to survive it is a lot of fun. The only thing that is disappointing is I could not get into the large round village. I will read up on it and see what I missed. The game is very challenging and I turned off sleep, large predators, leeches, native tribes you fight and brought decay and hunger to the lowest. I prefer to focus on getting through the game and all the 5 maps. I am considering redoing with everything on but I feel you practically only focus on sleep and food and injury most of the time. Would be nice if this can be toggled in he game as you go on since you become much better. Also would be nice to save the game from inside the game (without a sleep hut). It only crashes once so I would now and then save and quit and go back in to save all achievements so far. The first time I played Green Hell I kept dying and it is no fun but once you know what it takes it is a lot of fun. I recommend this game if you are into slower story driven games with awesome graphics and Amazon forest and water.

Need to have an auto save option, really annoying when I die by a leopard at a new point and the game didnt auto save so I have to restart from basically, the very start.

Fun to play with friends.
Surviving together makes it way better.
Can be hard, but that's part of the fun.

-{Story}-—
☐ This will replace your life
☐ Memorable
☐ Interesting
☑ Not boring
☐ Better go to sleep
☐ Where is it?

---{Graphics}-—
☐ Reality looks worse
☑ Juicy
☐ Good
☐ Acceptable
☐ Bad
☐ Is there something there?
☐ Dangerous for the eyes

---{Gameplay}-—
☑ You can do this forever
☐ Interesting
☐ Just gameplay
☐ Well, it's okay
☐ Better to just sit still
☐ It seems like the developers forgot what they were doing

---{Audio}-—
☐ Ecstasy
☑Very good
☐ Good
☐ Passable
☐ Your voice sounds better
☐ Play without sound

---{Dynamics}-—
☐ WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!
☐ Very dynamic
☑ Intense
☐ Moderate
☐ Calm
☐ You could even fall asleep
☐ Maybe it just froze?

---{Difficulty}-—
☐ Sell your soul to Satan
☐ It will be a difficult journey
☐ Just learning/becoming a master is difficult
☑ Average, a beginner won't understand everything right away
☐ Sometimes you will need to play with both hands
☐ Press “X” to win

---{PC requirements}---
☐ Wait for a quantum computer (only for top builds from 100k)
☐ Powerful (for near-top builds up to 100k)
☑ Normal (40-70k)
☐ Your first computer will do (25-35k), but if you want to push it, it's better to get something more expensive
☐ A calculator will do (< 25k)
☐ It will run even if you just plug it in (< 15k)

---{Game time}-—
☑ Infinity is not the limit!
☐ Quite long
☐ Average
☐ Short
☐ You won't have time to blink

---{Price of the base game}-—
☐ Got money to burn?
☐ Not worth the expense
☐ Wait for a discount
☑ The price is worth it
☐ Free-to-Play

---{Donations}-—
☐ Pay-to-Win
☐ Paid DLC and packs, without which part of the gameplay is missing
☐ A significant part of the game depends on it, but it's fine without it
☐ Only visual/musical design
☑ None

---{Play with a friend}-—
☐ Everything at once
☑ In pairs/squads online
☐ Only on one screen
☐ Solo, but can be played online if you figure it out
☐ Solo

---{Bugs}-—
☐ CAUTION! RESERVE! BUZZ-BUZZ-BUZZ
☐ Can be annoying
☐ Occasionally encountered
☑ Have you seen them? No, have you?
☐ There's simply nothing to bug here

Its an in-depth survival game that requires you to go slow when you're figuring it out. I'm really happy a game like this exists because it forces you to be a lot more patient. Building and managing ones health is a constant focus, at least how I play.

Green Hell doesn’t pull punches. It drops you—barefoot, underprepared, and increasingly paranoid—into the heart of the Amazon jungle and dares you to survive. There are no friendly tutorials here, no glowing markers to follow. Just you, your sanity, and a forest that wants to eat you alive.

If you’ve ever wanted a survival experience that’s less about punching trees and more about slowly unraveling in the mud—this is it.

At its core, Green Hell is a brutally realistic survival simulator. You’ll need to:
-Monitor your vitals (fat, protein, hydration, sleep, sanity)
-Forage, hunt, and cook real-world flora and fauna
-Craft weapons, shelter, fires, and even bandages
-Treat wounds (yes, you have to inspect your limbs manually)
-Maintain mental health, which deteriorates if you go too long without sleep or social interaction

Combat is sparse but terrifying—when it happens, it’s often a life-or-death scramble against wild animals or hostile humans. But the real enemy isn’t the jaguar lurking in the shadows—it’s your own body slowly falling apart because you forgot to eat a mushroom or bandage a leech wound.

Unlike many survival games, Green Hell features a surprisingly deep narrative-driven campaign. You play as Jake, an anthropologist trying to reconnect with a remote Amazonian tribe. Things quickly go sideways, and what starts as a search mission devolves into a harrowing psychological descent.

The story doesn’t just add emotional weight—it also serves as a clever tutorial for survival mechanics without holding your hand. The campaign walks a fine line between mystery, horror, and emotional drama, and it sticks the landing more often than not.

The Amazon jungle has never felt so alive—or so threatening. The visuals are lush and terrifyingly detailed: towering trees, thick underbrush, swarms of insects, rain that soaks everything. It’s beautiful, but always feels one misstep away from disaster.

Sound design is phenomenal. The rustle of leaves, distant howler monkeys, and the crack of thunder create a constant sense of tension. Every noise could be a snake, a jaguar, or nothing at all—and you’ll check anyway.

Surviving the jungle alone is brutal. Thankfully, Green Hell includes co-op multiplayer, and it’s where the game really shines. Splitting responsibilities, coordinating builds, and collectively panicking over infected wounds makes for an unforgettable shared experience.

Pros:
-Deep, punishing, and realistic survival mechanics
-Gritty and emotional story campaign
-Incredible sound and environmental detail
-Co-op adds huge replayability
-Constant updates and quality-of-life improvements

Cons:
-Steep learning curve (you will die, and then die again)
Inventory and crafting can be clunky
-Occasional bugs and AI oddities
-Not for casual survival fans—this is the real deal

Green Hell doesn’t just simulate survival—it makes you feel it. Every decision matters. Every mistake has consequences. It's not just about staying alive; it's about enduring the relentless indifference of nature and the fragility of your own mind.

If you want a survival experience that respects your intelligence, challenges your instincts, and occasionally makes you scream at a worm infection—Green Hell is a modern classic in the genre.

Recommended for hardcore survival game fans, story lovers who can handle stress, and co-op players looking for the ultimate test of teamwork under pressure.

Rating: 8/10

very good game and it makes me advance in my survival skills yayayayayayayay :D

wonderful graphics and clean gameplay.
hard at the start but once you get good it's really fun.

"Green Hell" is a captivating survival game set in a lush, open-world rainforest. The game features a beautiful environment with detailed foliage and jungle sounds. Players must gather resources, build shelter, and manage health and hunger while navigating the jungle's dangers. The crafting system is intuitive and rewarding, but controls can be tricky. The story mode adds depth and purpose beyond surviving. Overall, "Green Hell" is an engaging game with stunning visuals and challenging gameplay.

Brutal survival game but once you know how to survive it's a good game with a good story line. Game doesn't always load up properly but other than that i have no issues

I'm getting into the game. Sun, birds, trees. “Nice game!”, I say as a naive. 15 minutes later: I am full of worms under the skin, howling at a parrot and trying to boil water in a broken walnut. Life is hard in Green Hell.

My first base? A stick stuck in the ground and a leaf placed on top, so that it does not rain directly on sadness. My second base? It never got to be completed, because I got killed by a tribe of NPCs pissed off that I stole a coconut. Third base? I forgot to save.

Outstanding, captivating, emotional, unique, and sometimes hectic most underrated survival game i have ever played. will forever hold a very special place in my memory.

my friend and i had a same issue when open the game its like 50/50 percent the game can open or just make our pc stuck at desktop and can't open anything

Maybe one of the games with the best story like a movie, well-written, and the game also has fun survival mechanics

As a solo player, the atmosphere is absolutely incredible — the sounds of the jungle, the weather, and the constant sense of danger kept me on edge throughout the journey. The survival mechanics are deep but intuitive: managing nutrition, treating wounds, and staying sane in the wilderness feels raw and realistic.

The story starts slow but grows heavier the further you go. Jake’s descent into guilt and madness is haunting, and by the time I chose to spread the cure, I felt the weight of every decision I had made.

If you enjoy realistic survival games with emotional storytelling, I highly recommend Green Hell. It’s more than just surviving — it’s about loss, redemption, and facing your own mind.

Harder than the og Forest but i enjoy the skills of survival from "venomous animals" and got mauled by a leopard...crafting is hard once you figure it out its easy always use the secondary to "harvest" things and learn new ways to craft as well..learned the hard way.

Game is decent, lacking content and amount of craftables/weapons. Pretty stale.

Buggy and unstable, stuck at loading or starting game.

A fun game but the lack of dedicated servers support its a hard NO for me.

Pain in the ass, getting bitten by every species possible per 10 sec. But def worth it.

I would only recommend to buy this on sale and to play with a friend.

It is crazy how a game that is this old still has so many bugs. also not to mention the lack of free modes.
there is no way to get into a sandbox and just try out stuff and play around like building a base.

I know the devs are going for a feel that you're not a survival expert so you have to figure it out as you go style of gameplay. But the tutorial is little more than dialogue and simple WASD commands and does not really teach you anything about game mechanics. Many times in the beginning you have no idea which plants are even harvestable, so you'll break tools trying to harvest plants that have no purpose. The notebook is almost useless, stating the overtly obvious but leaving out anything useful. It may tell you "parasites are bad, you can fix them with a plant." but that's it. This reduces it to nothing more than a place to store recipes. Simple things that everyone should know (boiling water) is not in the notebook so you're left guessing. 2 Hours played, didn't figure out how to fill a coconut bowl at the river to boil it (if its even possible). Building is tedious and if something can't be built, there is no indicator as to why, so you're left guessing. The "inspection" aspect of the injury system is a great idea executed horribly. You just get a little magnifying glass icon that says something is wrong. And you've got to discover what by examing your limbs. Could be a cut.... but you don't know where. If only the tutorial gave enough back story that explained your total body nerve damage. Plus survival is HIGHLY chance based, depending on if you find the right materials in the first minutes of the game. Makes for a very frustrating beginning experience. I'm sure as things progress, it becomes less tedious but frankly the gameplay isn't worth the effort.

Very nice game.But the Voices are getting louder by the second

Amazing graphics! Realistic gameplay and great logics, though it is incredibly hard, once you get used to it, it will become an addiction!

Fantastic game. Wonderful Story. With a steep learning curve and spikes in difficulty. Survival mode and Spirits of Amazonia are a blast as well.

Only Complaint was when I did my story playthrough I got a bug where the human enemies stopped appearing, I didn't realize until 3/4s of the way through that something was wrong. I thought I'd wiped them out. By that point I was hooked though.

super great hard survival game
very unfair mechanics when you are very new
fun to play with co op

The game's story mode does a pretty piss poor job of guiding the player in any way.

I spent 90 minutes trying to figure out where I needed to be.

Maybe someone else can get sucked in but this aint doin it for me.

do NOT try and build a base in this game you will spend 5-10 hours making it and 5 minutes at most inside of it because u progress by exploring AND ENEMIES WILL PHASE THROUGH YOUR WALLS ANYWAYS. this game is sleeping bag simulator and the pacing of the story was trash, game can be finished in less than 5 hours if you just go where you are told

My honest and shortcut recommendation to anyone who is looking for a survival game with their friends, go play Sons of The Forest, Raft, Minecraft, Forest first. This game does not even come close to the mechanics of these games.

As someone who plays survival games regularly, this game is a big NO. The people in the other comments praising the game clearly have not played a good survival game.

Leech removing simulator (survival is hard for the sake of being hard):
(-) I know that it is hard in nature to survive, however, that DOES NOT MEAN THAT EVERY TIME YOU LAY DOWN, LEECHES WILL START SUCKING ON YOU. Same goes for the worm.
(-) Trying to eat different macronutrients such as carbs, protein, and fat is innovative but it becomes a burden rather than something that you can enjoy.

Story and gameplay
(-) First of all, if you know where to go, the story is just an ayahuasca drinking simulator. You can run naked and find the ayahuasca places, drink it, and watch some cinematics to finish the game. So no development or grinding, etc. needed at all.
(-) The story is not that bad but in a place that should have plenty of tribe people, there are no tribe villages full of tribe people. Sometimes they spawn nearby you and you fight them, that is all. Big disappointment on that portion.
(-) Big waste of potential to invade tribe villages or get in touch with the tribe people normally. The game mechanics are literally: Monke see you, monke attac.

Crafting:
(-) Crafting is a bit of a burden than something that you would enjoy in survival games. In some games such as Sons of The Forest, you even want to build another base at some other location, etc. In this game, it is just a pain to carry all the equipment and break your axe, etc.
(-) It had big potential to have many different crafts but the game just lacks it.

I really wanted to enjoy this game but its just not fun.
First of all there is a ring around the player that limits the render distance and makes all the graphics outside the ring look like clay, even on max graphics you can see the texture popping and you can see items disappear and reappear 10ft in front of you. There is nothing you can do to get rid of this.

The gameplay is just a management sim, you need to cut down a tree to get wood, but you cant cut down 90% of the trees in the game, so you journey out to find a tree you can, then you hit it twice and your guy collapses from exhaustion.

Then you get a worm on your arm that you have to pick out with a bone needle and a temperature for sleeping on the floor for literally 5 seconds.

Then your food and water goes down in less than a minute and you are the worlds hungriest man.

Then you finally cut down the tree, and the log lands on your head and you somehow get a cut on your leg, then you clean it and bandage it, but it gets infected anyway, so you look for maggots to eat the rotting flesh, but you keep fainting on the journey there.

Then when you finally get healed, a leopard comes to your base, destroys everything and then kills you instantly, all the while you CONSTANTLY have to pull leeches from yourself.

not to mention, most of the animals in this game aren't even from south america, and the bugs are game breaking.

There is no reward for the suffering, its just more suffering...

verdict - play the forest or dont starve instead
1.5/5

The game seems like it has some potential, but does feel very tedious.
The crafting system is atrocious, and resources to cure bites/ other injuries seem to be really hard to find.

Honestly, just go play the forest instead. If I could ask for a refund I would.
Final score: 3/10.

This game made me lose my sanity and start hearing voices. 10/10 I fucking hate centipedes.

The idea that looks good and exciting on paper was in fact poorly implemented. Maybe it was my high expectations, but Green Hell couldn't fulfill them. As it turned out, wandering through the jungle is actually more dull and frustrating than something fascinating.

First of all, let me talk about the gameplay. The hunger system that requires you to eat food with various macro elements to stay full of energy is quite interesting and unique. It encourages exploration and seeking a variety of foods, not just eating bananas. But the system of injuries became a very stuffy and tormenting one. A single injury leads to serious consequences, and you need certain resources to deal with them. If you don't have these resources, then it's a complete mess. Small and stealthy snakes and spiders will be everywhere and you will be bitten by them extremely often. If you are bitten by a snake, you will have a fever and venom poisoning. If the poisoning is quite easy to overcome, the fever should be mostly passed or treated by soup. If you don't have soup, you may faint from exhaustion and worms may crawl under your skin. They can be removed by using bones, but if you don't have them, they will stay there for a long time and will gradually worsen your mental state. If you go crazy, you will have hallucinations of tribesmen who can kill you pretty easily. The health mechanic is a very unfair and punishing part of Green Hell, making you want to quit as soon as possible.

To make it worse, the intelligence of enemies is pathetic and weak. The enemies are incredibly stupid, so it's super easy to exploit this to your advantage. Tribesmen and predators are very disappointing in their behaviour.

The technical state of the game just makes me want to cry. Crappy graphics that make me want to scratch your eyes so badly. Green Hell would be much better suited to some simple stylised graphics than photorealistic ones, The Long Dark is a great example. The rendering distance is just a joke. Objects are rendered right in front of my eyes. It just breaks the immersion. And bugs must have stuck to this game forever because each patch seems to only add more of them, not reduce them.

Irritating mechanics, poor AI, and a terrible technical condition make Green Hell impossible to enjoy. It's not a bad attempt to create a super realistic survival game, but unfortunately the development team either didn't have enough money, experience, people, or everything at once to implement their ideas well.

Terrible, becomes painfully boring after 10h of playing.

It's buggier than Ark, so I guess that in itself is an achievement to be proud of.

I will gladly come back to this game and change the review to positive, once the devs address the unaccaptable graphical issues and update the game. The draw distance of the details (regardless of the settings) causes all objects to pop up around the player every instant which totally destroys the immersion. The detail halo visible on the ground which changes the graphics completely on its border makes the game unplayable. In many far older open world games I haven't seen such problems.

Judging by the community discussions those issues are experienced by seemingly everyone playing this game. If the graphics receive a much needed update I will also update the review since I have seen and heard that the game is very unique and well designed in terms of gameplay.

the survival is kinda fun at first but becomes just a chore. The story is absolutely horrible and not fun to sit through. The amount of times they use the ayahuasca to push the narrative and whenever you see that alter you just get mad you have to sit through another farcry 3 type drug sequence.

10/10 of the story. Textbooks nowadays only say things like " colonialism causes thousands of death of natives" which sound really pale, but in this game's plot, "Civilized world" suffered same shit for the sake of their greed.

It's a great survival game that is fun to play co-op. Bit difficult to learn everything at the start but once you get the hang of it, it's a lot of fun!

Green Hell is one of those games that really makes you feel like you’re stuck in the middle of the jungle. It’s brutal, a bit stressful, but also super satisfying once you get the hang of it. Definitely not easy, but if you love survival games, it’s worth the struggle.

Very unforgiving but one of the best(if not) the best survival games out there.

its a game of epic exploration and interesting guidelines really wish there was an actual game guide that you can buy like a hard cover or soft cover with some epic front cover

Game is not chill at all, too hard to understand. Crafting is very hard to understand. Overall, if you choose normal mode it feels like you are playing hardcore.

survival game with nutritions and wounds treament focused
also leech picking off simulator

This is a really immersive survival game. If you´re looking for that kind of thing, you came to the right place. The best advice I can give you is, that you shouldn´t rush it i.e don´t try to speedrun the game, explore the world, and that you should´nt look up anything, unless you absolutely want to.

If you keep these two things in mind, you´ll have a great time.

I have to add though, that I only played the story mode, and that I did buy the game while it was on sale, which I would recommend you to do aswell, since this game seems to be on sale quit often. Also the experiences I had with the building were´nt optimal. They weren´t bad, but it´s sooo slow. It takes forever to build something cool. It´s realistic but it´s not really fun, atleast in my opinion. But maybe that´ll change the more I play the game.

Uh, it's fun. There are lots of cool things there are also capybaras

If you like dying millions of times and losing everything every time you die, this game is for you. Great storyline, fight for survival at every step you take in the jungle. You're going to run through the forest, great expect rattlesnakes, jaguars, tigers, panthers and tapirs, not to mention the Waraha Tribe. Do you want to hide in a cave? Okay, watch out for scorpions, Brazilian wandering spiders and goliath birdeater spiders. Well, everywhere is dangerous, so maybe jump into the water, it would be cool if not for the piranhas and caimans and on the shore beautiful colorful frogs, of course poisonous. Well, there's nothing left to do but build a base, but again you have to be careful, lifting branches, logs, leaves, etc. you can be bitten by a centipede. To make it easier, remember not to drink water from the river because you'll get parasites, rainwater or boiled water is a good idea. The health bar depends on what you eat and drink, you have to provide your body with fats, carbohydrates, proteins and hydration. When all are at max your health bar is also full, when not, unfortunately the problem starts with fatigue etc., what more is there to write, just play :)

Is a great game, survival realistic and fun, with story behind but so interesting, with friend or your partner could be a great experience, just enjoy this game! I did and I recommend it!

I've bought it to play with my partner and cousin. I can say;
-Nothing lead you or show you to anything about how to do/craft/use stuff.
-Tutorial was full of bugs for me as I couldn't speak on walkie talkie after day 2 by pressing T and eh got frustrated.
-Having looong and unskippable dialogues just for the sake of "story" and not having proper game introduction was big no.
-Instructions aren't clear on notebook.
-Some of the stuff gets highligh if its lootable and some not. You must try to find how to loot it by yourself.

It could have way better tutorial as you cannot find everything that easily without spending so much time, dying for a reason that you cannot solve or spend hours on discovering it. And we weren't down for spending hours, keep dying and get frustrated to find "how to play" the game. Eh searching stuff on google also kills the joy.

Overall not a player friendly game after trying it for an hour. After that first impression, not gonna try to play again most likely unless they release some better introductions which is accessible in game.

i find it messed up that it takes about 2.5hrs to do just the tutorial and by then its too late to decide if u want the game or not, cuz ur passed the 2hr limit steam stands firm with.

also the nav in the menus and how to use stuff is absolutely nonsensical and ruins the entire game for me, which is why i discovered the first issue

i bought this game for steam deck, when buying it showed supported but now show not supported and the controller is not supporting and its very hard. to steam: please ask developers to fix the controller for steam deck when it already have support for consoles.