A game dev spent 40 days in the wilderness to make this new Steam survival game

I've always wondered how I'd fare in a survival situation. Lost in the woods, with no food or water, how long would I last? Would I make good choices? Could I find my way back to safety?

The answers to those questions are almost certainly "Not long, no, and definitely not," and hopefully I'll never have to actually find out. In the meantime, I try to live out my survival fantasies through films and games, and Wordless Forest, which launched on Steam today, is sorta both.

Wordless Forest is an FMV survival game solo developer Dogus Cagrici shot while hiking in the "dense forests and wilderness of four different cities across Turkey for 40 days." It's completely dialogue-free (hence the title) as the character Cagrici plays finds himself alone in the wilds, trying to find his way to safety and put his scrambled memories back together after a head injury.

As the survivor attempts to make his way t...