The Forest goes from nature to nightmare in new gif series

Upcoming horror adventure The Forest seems to have an appropriately complex relationship with the natural world.

seems to have an appropriately complex relationship with the natural world. A new series of gifs released by developer Endnight Games shows us gentle sea turtles, bounding rabbits, and the horrific plane crash that brought you to the forest. It's a tease, but an effective and story-driven one in advance of the game's releasethrough Steam Early Access May 30.

Previous trailers for the first-person survival game have shown us fort building, spear fishing, and burning effigies made of skulls and twisted limbs. We've also had a peak at beautiful and glimmering cavesfull of rotting corpses strung up like frozen meat, making the game's Steam description sound profoundly true to the developer's concept: "Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator."

There's a dissonance here that reminds me of being a kid, sneaking through the dark woods behind my house in rural Washington state, never quite sure what was over the next ridge. Lots of times I kept going, but more often than not I turned back. The irrationality of plane crash anxietyaside, it's the kind of deep-seated fear I recalled when I first came across The Forest through Steam Greenlightnearly a year ago. This time, I'm looking forward to the not-knowing of green trees and dark places this game wants to explore.

You can check out the entire gif sequence below.

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Images via survivetheforest.com