Green Hell

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.

Was very interested in this game. Seemed like a hardcore-est version of "The Forest". Then I decided to get it (only $2 w/discount) and play with my friend for 3 hours. Well, that's all I needed to understand this game is going to go nowhere. Yes, it is difficult, no, there is no way/ shape/ fashion/ or form it should be impossible. Where are the rocks in a canyon? Where are dry leaves when it doesn't rain for a few in game days? Why do I walk through the woods just to watch a snake spawn under my feet and bite me? I understand some of these issues are bugs and be fixed. But the rest of the Co-Op experience was horrible. We never found each other, we never survived more than 10 minutes, the spawn rates are horrible, the map is confusing at times, and you are forced to turn your brightness up when it becomes night or you cant see anything at all. I am used to hardcore games, but this isn't even a game at this point. I highly recommend AGAINST this product.

The games looks OK until you move, and then you realise that there is some sort of 'aura/bubble/circle' around you and that, as you move, everything around it 'pops' in: detail textures, shadows, you name it. There's nothing you can do about this regardless of settings or configuration.

If this doesn't bother you, maybe you'll be OK?

apparently there has been an issue where the game crashes after the tutorial and it hasnt been fixed for 4 years. it now will not let me play the game anymore at all. how is it possible no one has fixed this issue??

3/10
+ story
+ voice acting
+ music
- tons of bugs in a 6 year old game
- awful crafting system
got if for 3.05$
refunding to spend on a better game

super buggy mess and the devs obviously only care about console/vr players even tough they make the most sales on pc

Die over and over again. In order to save your progress you have to quit to the main menu, which is pretty bad design. I started getting pretty interested in the story, but staying alive is so difficult and you restart the game from the beginning if you die, unless you Choose the 'save and quit' option. Unfortunately, you better be sure your guy isn't sick before you save, otherwise you just saved an endless death-loop. Maybe I haven't put in Enough time to make a fair review, Unfortunately The crafting just ended up being too tedious And the let down of having to restart from the very beginning three times turned me off. I may give it another go in the future but right now I can't recommend.

Tried to play with a friend. He joined my server but he couldn't use the keys that show the map, watch or anything else. All he could do it pick things up. And, as we were in the same server, he could see my in game chats but i couldn't see his as well as the fact we couldn't see each other in the game either.

Green Hell is my favorite survival-focused game of all time. No other game in this genre that I've ever played matches its deep focus on survival mechanics. In a way, it has ruined other survival games for me in making them seem shallow in comparison.

PROS:
+ Every aspect of survival feels rewarding, even when you have mastered the rules of the game (big ups to the food system which requires you have a balanced diet consisting of different macronutrients)
+ The visuals and audio are pretty damn good at immersing you in a jungle environment
+ The game is still fun with no hostile human mobs, as the survival mechanics stand on their own (this is good for people like me who want to RP a Primitive Technology or Alone-type scenario)
+ The story mode is well made, and is a good complement to the freeplay mode
+ Building strikes a nice balance of being tedious (because at the end of the day, you're supposed to be just one person) but allowing you to get some cool structures made

NEUTRALS (i.e. pro or con depending on your preferences)

* Learning curve is steep at first, and can be annoying; maybe you won't be dying a lot, but you WILL starve, get sick, get injured, etc. as you learn the rules of the world
* I think there are no more updates; the game is "complete" at this point
* Only one map (plus an expansion area), and it's not super huge, but it is handcrafted

CONS:
- Eventually, you will understand most spawns of resources and enemies on the map, resulting in a post-scarcity level of mastery, which removes most sense of danger; at this point the game becomes a wilderness simulator where you just chill and do whatever you want

Game is very difficult at first, a lot of things to learn and understand but once you get the grasp of things it starts to become much enjoyable. Highly recommend to play with friends.

My wife and I really tried to enjoy this game but there is far too many bugs in multiplayer. Anytime me or my wife would save the game and leave, it would never actually bring us to the right spot when we loaded back in. I just loaded up after we left off in the third offering area and my wife went to load in, I loaded back way before I "saved and quit" so only saving the game at those save points seem to be the only thing that matters AND my wife CONSTANTLY spawns in at random ass locations all over the map?? We spawned with the grappling hook on us, but we were placed back before the ritual had begun and we no longer had any of the mission objectives available. Grinding hard to adapt to the game and survive just to have all your progress constantly reset because of bugs, just isn't worth it at all.

TLDR: It could be fun even with all of the learning curves but its too buggy to be worth playing as all your hard work is likely to be completely undone with shitty saving mechanics (in multiplayer, haven't played single player)

This game is exactly what it sounds like. A Green Hell until you know what you are doing. Once you have things figured out though it is so much fun.

It amazes me, but Creepy Jar is still keeping an eye on this game! Coming from The Forest and Sons of the Forest, I actually had way more fun with this one. Survival wise, this one is much more demanding. I'd consider it hard compared to the Forest franchise that was very easy regardless of the difficulty settings and standards. In here, you really need to know your stuff when heading into the jungle—dying is just part of the experience, at least for the first few hours.
You could spoil some of the fun by reading the wiki, but for the most part, common sense goes a long way. Think getting burned in the jungle can be treated with honey and some leaves? You’d be right! A lot of things in this game work exactly how you’d expect them to.
That said, there are a few weird bugs, like cloning items or meat. And yeah, some things never spoil if you manage them properly—but honestly, these little imperfections are easy to overlook. Forget about them and move on, don't abuse them. Play the game. As for the story, I’d recommend not rushing through it too quickly. And don’t forget—there’s built-in DLC to complete after the main story!

There's a lot of bugs but and its a bit annoying that the jaguars are literally programmed to spawn on you when you're 0 energy about to pass out and u cant even walk let alone attack but still quite enjoyable with friends, chill atmosphere

really, really buggy. story is mediocre at best, ground leaches???

The crafting system is a chore, to the point that drinking dirty water and using random mushrooms to get rid of the parasites is just a better deal than looking for a way to have clean water. The constant moving around (at least in story mode) means that creating a base is just not worth it.

in conclusion, It's similar but significantly worst than the forest.

This game is an instant craft survival classic. Part of the dev team comes from Dying Light 1 so you can expect a great polished game. Mechanics work great here in every aspect, the experience of being in that jungle scenario and ambience is tense and very rewarding when you succeed on what you're trying to achieve. Story also is interesting, both for the base game and dlc. Recommend it right away if you like hardcore craft survival.

A truly immersive survival experience with extreme attention to detail. It's a game so yes, there are bugs and decent learning curves at first exposure however-

For those who play survival games for the survival factors this game raises the bar with pushing the player to master their environment by identifying various plants, hunting, self doctoring and evading or defending against opposing tribes as well as a constant fight for ones own mind in a battle for not only survival but comfort. It offers wide space for creativity after a comfortable ground is achieved. Ontop of that there's a story to unravel to add to the adventure. This games pretty great, it earns it's name! you will struggle at first and on and off at times, However perseverance is rewarded and for anyone looking for that hardcore semi realistic survival experience, this game delivers.

My biggest advice? Be creative! There's a lot of early on things a player can craft that isn't straight forwardly told, for example a fire bow does not require discovery to make if you understand the components that go into making it. Apply logic and experiment!

My biggest warning?? This game runs pretty toasty so turn those shadows down if you love your hardware, and patience is a necessity to get comfortable in this Green Hell.

It is more fun trying to survive in the jungle from my recliner in air conditioning than in the actual jungle. I am addicted.

It's a blast especially with friends. Its challenging but fun especailly when you hear all your friends screaming in terror lol

5 hours in. The game is beautiful but also you're in a jungle so all you can see are leaves in your face. Really really nice looking leaves. It is way too hard for me. You can customize the difficulty but even the easiest difficulty is hard and making it easier means turning off dangers. I'm not sure why I can't have dangers on but a bit more forgiving. The story is a bit sparse but it's been okay so far. The map has no marker showing where you are but you do have a watch with coordinates so you can take your own notes as you find things. It's a lot of running around and backtracking and eating snails. Respect for those that are good at this game but this is the end of my jungle journey.

This Game goes hard. storyline is mad not to mention the adrenaline rush when your casually building something then turn around to see a hungry cannibal or leopard trying to eat you. Would highly recommend people play this game especially if your a fan of games like ARK, and The Forest

it's a pretty fun game, but
there are so many bugs in this game
that it's hard to play anymore.

Green Hell sits squarely in the "also known as" portion of the dictionary for "hardcore survival". It doesn't do anything spectacular given the AI limitations, the underwhelming building system, and the total lack of direction for survival. As frustrating as it can be, it's still a great game, even for a few hours. It'll scratch that survival itch until you finally complete your base and then wonder what to even do next, which will inevitably be watching a lone tribesman demolish your 40 hours of grinding for four walls and roof in precisely 2.3 seconds.

Still fun though.

The game is very hard at first because you will not understand what the game mechanics are. You will see symbols on the HUD screen and you will have no idea what they are, you health will keep draining, your stamina will deplete, and soon you will succumb to the environment. However, after 20+ deaths you will start to understand the game mechanics. This game is addictive and fun to play, but only after you get the hang of it. Initially, I considered quitting the game because I got bored of dying over and over again, but once you understand the game mechanics the game becomes enjoyable.

Spawn in, bit by snake, died.
Respawn, attacked by hostiles, died.
Respawn again, scorpion, died.
.....Respawned.... again.... get lost, for what felt like hours, in the same section of jungle and can't figure out where to go. Finally figure out a new path, get tossed across the map due to some bug in the terrain. Managed to survive that somehow. Frustrating at times yet still fun, but only if you have someone else to play with. Don't do this shit alone. The buddy system makes for a "double the misery, double the fun" sort of scenario. :)

the story pace of this game is kinda slow at first but once you've reach mid game the story finally get interesting. this is one of the hardest survival game i've played so far but also one of the best game i ever played.

If you love losing your sanity and killing nonexistent indians and it always raining so no fire to cook anything than this is the game for you.

Great story, hard game till you get the hang of it's fun playing with a few friends makes it a little easier.

World Corrupted after 10h of gameplay.
So many visual and gameplay bugs.

cannot recommend until you fix this game

Green Hell is a hardcore yet captivating survival simulator from Creepy Jar that throws the player into the harsh conditions of the Amazon jungle. There are no zombies, mutants, or fantastical creatures here—just you, the wild nature, and deadly dangers at every turn. The game will test your attentiveness, patience, and strategic thinking. If you enjoy hardcore challenges and are ready to face the true hardships of the wilderness, then Green Hell is for you. Tough, but insanely exciting!

Unplayable with friends as entirely random DC's completely delete all progress.
Everyone so far has experience a disconnect with server/players IN ONE SESSION which completely deletes everything on your person. A friend had also DC'd his first time in single player and lost everything. We've had 6 people in our group report this issue so I have no idea how anyone has left a positive review when the game is poor to begin with.
The game is in an broken state and they are not going to fix it. This game has been out for 2 years and it's been an issue for 2 years. Do not buy this game.

first 8 hours is good.
but after than game becomes very repetitive and unrewarding.
poor ai and ai scenario.
no dedicated server option.
no pvp.
lots of physics and networking bugs.
this game can be the best of its kind but devs are abandoned the game i think.

there is nothing this game cant make you feel,

STRESS for when you're being attacked by a tiger

JOY for when you kill the tiger

HORNY because tribes woman boba and penar

DEPRESSION for when woman with big boba dont smash you

I started the game...

Day 1:
I found a village
I went to find materials to build a base
I found a lovely snek
Snek bit me
I died
I started over again
I found Bananas...
Stepped on a snek
I Died

10/10 would recommend!

Hard survival mode, incomplete instructions, some problems often occur, it is recommended to play in multiplayer mode.

There's a lot to criticise about Green Hell. It's buggy, it's janky. It's brutally difficult, especially when starting out, and it lacks ways of figuring things out ingame, without looking up external info.

But worse than all of these is the complete lack of autosave features. Forgot to save for a few hours, then you die in a silly way? You just lost all of it. Completely inexcusable. I could have been able to enjoy this game otherwise despite all its flaws, but there are better ways to spend my time than losing literally all my progress over and over again, just because i get so immersed in what i'm doing and don't remember to save the game.

EDIT:
Found a mod that adds automatic autosaves. That honestly changes a lot, and would recommend installing it if you do want to play Green Hell.

That said, it doesn't change the other issues the game has. It took me like 20 or 30h to get over the difficulty bump of having to learn a lot, with very lacking guidance from the game. I also caved and finally looked up a few things on the wiki. The frustrating thing is that the game acts like you should figure things out by yourself....the big issue with that approach is that this is still just a video game. You can only do what the developers decided to include. So even if you are being smart, and think of a way to achieve something, or make a certain type of tool...there is no guarantee your idea will work. The game really could use more ingame hints, for example for showing you crafting recipes.

I still have not figured out how to do pottery either, and i don't even know yet if it's because you need to find something to unlock that, or if you're just supposed to figure something out by yourself that i haven't.

I also wish that for recipes where you can use either wood or bamboo, you were able to mix them when building one structure instead of having to commit to making it 100% out of either one from the start. If both materials are good enough, and you literally put them in the exact same spots, why shouldn't you be able to mix them?

There are also other frustrating things, like enemies just spawning in your base and destroying some buildings before you can kill them (because they do focus on destroying things, even if you attack them) which means spending another half an hour just rebuilding - that's not fun gameplay, it's just annoying and a waste of time.

The difficulty only exists in extremes. Either the game is brutal, in particular when you start out and need to figure out so much, and you will just die a couple of times at the very least. Or when you start figuring out some specific things, like how to make better bandages, or what good sources of food are, the game suddenly becomes trivially easy (unless you do something stupid). It's just not very well balanced, and comes back to how the game could really guide the player a little more.

Still, after some more time, and without the annoyance of lack of autosaves, there is definitely something to like here too. There can be a lot of ways to tackle specific issues, like getting safe to drink water. And while some of the recipes are between frustrating or near impossible to figure out on your own, for those recipes where it does work out and you figure out a crafting recipe by yourself, that can be pretty rewarding. And it is pretty rewarding to generally learn how to play the game over time, going from "oh god how can i possibly survive this" to "heh, this is easy".

So, Green Hell won't get a glowing recommendation. It still has some questionable gameplay decisions, a fair amount of bug and jank. But with a mod to add autosaves, and if you don't mind a brutal difficulty cliff early on, then Green Hell can also be enjoyable. Few "survival" games truly make you struggle so much to just survive, and offer you the array of tools Green Hell does. But it is a rough experience overall, and so it only gets a conditional recommendation at best.

Luckily I bought this on Sale. After 2.9 hours of Gameplay I realised I wasn't having fun but as sadly was past the refund window. I did persevere a bit longer but just couldn't get into it. Having played The Forest, Sons of the Forest, 7 days to Die, The Long Dark and Valheim I am not some total noob at survival games. However this reminds me of the old `annnnd its Dawn meme` except for this game its `annnd its Dark`. I am all for truncated Day/Night Cycles in games but Sheesh. I literally made 2 axes and got half a leaf save shelter built and BLAM its night.
Personally I would say get it on sale and set a timer.

Fantastic survival game with environmental hazards, nutritional system, food decay, building and gorgeous looking environments. It's definitely toughest in the beginning as you're learning and figuring things out. Could use a little more in game help. I used wiki's more than once to find out what should have been more obvious in game. Also loved the Story in story mode. Original and with some interesting twists. I didn't rush through, but spent 40+ hours in story mode alone, so well worth the purchase. Recommended.

It's been out for how long and it's still in this condition!?? You're picking things off you or out of you every twenty minutes, you get leeches anywhere you go, mostly on land, ya that makes sense, you would be walking around then all of a sudden you get a worm in your arm, like WHAT THE FUCK!!??? Your energy depletes insanely fast so you have to sleep every five minutes, that's real time not game time, so most of the time you are sleeping, and this is all on normal, I didn't even bother with the hardest mode. Real half assed game, and doesn't seem like it will get any better either. Definitely not worth 30 dollars.

Green Hell is a gorgeous, immersive survival game that really wants you dead. And if the jungle doesn’t get you, the crashes might—because at least 40% of my attempts to play this game end before I even make it past the loading screen.

When it does work, the gameplay is a solid mix of rewarding and punishing. I actually enjoy the grind—crafting, building, and figuring out how not to die is satisfying—but after a while, it starts to feel like I'm stuck in a never-ending loop of gathering sticks, eating mystery mushrooms, and aggressively removing leeches from my body. Seriously, so many leeches. I get it, it’s the jungle, but at this point, I’m convinced my character has the world's worst circulation.

Speaking of the jungle, even on “Welcome to the Jungle” difficulty (which is supposed to be the easier one), everything wants to kill me. Jaguars, snakes, infections, random fever dreams—it’s like Mother Nature took personal offense to my presence. A little balance tweaking would go a long way.

I want to love this game, I really do. But between the crashes, the repetitive grind, and my newfound paranoia about unseen parasites, I can only give it 3/5 stars. It has potential, but it needs some serious polish.

I just cannot enjoy and get into this game because it's just too much hassle. It's not fun to play and I would just recommend playing something else.

The first problem you'll encounter is that the interface is a constant chore and klunky. The backpack mechanic is just like a constant interruption whenever you want to get anything done and again the book is just too much to have to keep going through.

You then have things like a fall from 1 to 2 feet inflicts fall damage and in this game that is a major hassle you want to avoid. That is not enjoyable. It should be reasonable possible for the player to avoid bother. You should only be punished for actual mistakes you make not for jumping off a ledge one or two feet high.

It's not fun to play a game where you want to just get started and to build but you're constantly side swiped with stuff like this. It's one of those games that just doesn't let you actually play the game. It's like having a baby and having to keep going to it when it cries only far worse. Don't waste your money on this kind of game until they show some respect to their players and fix issues like this so that it's actually an enjoyable experience and not just a burden.

This game is not fun at all. It's just a chore to play. To get anything done it imposes pointless time wasting mechanics.

Fun game if you play with friends, and for 7 euro's it's worth the money!

great game .. but tbh just play survival .. the story is good but not nearly as fun as a sandbox jungle of hell

While very interesting at the start, the design of survival vs. story telling just didn't work out in practice. Base building felt useless when the story keeps pushing you into farther sections of the map and the survival aspects didn't push us to needing a base to begin with.

Also ran into a major bug that other people have also mentioned, where natives simply stop spawning. Finished the story in 7 hours of and I just don't have any urge to continue playing.

Major bugs
-Natives can be stuck in T-Pose same for animals they can be stuck aswell
-invisible Items in the Backpack, reload fixes this but it happens often
-You can be stuck and the only way to fix this is die, but if you reload your save youre stuck again, cause it only works in the multiplayer.

and all of this happend to me after 16.4 hours so I cannot finish the game cause my save is unplayable. After researching the third bug seems to be in the game for more than 4 years already.

This is above basic surviving, this game is way more in depth than any other survival game I've seen. You don't just need to eat, you need a balanced diet. You don't just have HP, your health is literally dependant on how healthy your diet is and what ailments you're afflicted with. On top of that, you don't just take damage, you get different wounds that need tending to in different ways. And speaking of ailments, there are so many different ones you'll be encountering, such as leeches, insomnia, insanity, food poisoning, parasites, infection, worms, venom poison, rash, and the various types of wounds. Every ailment has it's own remedy which you have to figure out, or simply avoid ever having them to begin with. It is so extremely deep and has so much for you to learn. You don't know what flora and fauna are safe or dangerous, you don't know where dangers are hiding, you really are just forced into a very uninhabitable environment and given the task of finding a way to survive.
This game really pushes the idea of a survival game to a new level, and it makes for a very enjoyable and incredibly immersive challenge learning how to survive and thrive in this world.

Green Hell is one of my favorite survival games ever, in the begining it can be challenging and unforgiving but later on it becomes much easier to adapt and very addictive, I just can't stop building stuff and finding more things to do because it has so much content!

Also, it scares me more than The Forest...

I have yet to encounter any bugs but its a really fun survival game with wild animals that will attack you, crazy cannibalistic tribes, and good graphics.
- If you don't like swearing everytime a tool breaks he will bleep
(I don't like it)

I wanted to buy this game for so long and dare I say I regret buying it.
Save files are almost non-existent and you can't manually load anything. When you start the game you have no idea of how the game works and what is for what but suddenly you have about 20+ reasons to die. Yes, you have notebook of the items you discover but its not much helpful- you still have to figure out things on your own. The most irritating thing is that whenever you die- more than a 60% of your loot disappears including the every tool you use to fight off animals and tribal members.
Last night I've died from a dead jaguar. So basically he attacked me from behind, I turned around and killed him (and got left with like 40% health) and then I've got close to him literally 5 seconds later to 'harvest' him and all of the sudden I died which resulted in losing more than a half of my loot I crafted. Yes I had wounds that would kill me in time if not treated but I've survived the attack and then died.

I love survival games and I loved the idea of this one but it is almost unplayable. Gives nothing to help but does everything to kill you and lose all the progress. I do not recommend it.

Being amnesiac and alone in the amazon isn't for everyone. It's actually, surprisingly, pretty unpleasant. This game recreates that at first, but if you don't give up you'll learn and adapt and develop a real sense of pride at overcoming obstacles and surviving. The tutorial/story mode is way more narratively deep than I was expecting and really takes you on a journey. And then, once you're good at the game and have experienced the whole storymode, you can chill and play all the additional sandbox areas or timed challenges. And that's not even including the free Amazonia DLC which is like 300% as big with new mechanics! This game is such a little powerhouse, it's incredibly impressive all the work and free updates and content the team has put into it for *years* to support the community, and I can't thank them enough. I don't know if that sounds like I'm a shill or something, but it's true.