99 Nights in the Forest Online is an action survival game where you and players from around the world have to spend 99 nights in a forest full of haunted and often dangerous challenges. Your main goal is to survive, but in order to do that, you will need to follow prompts by keeping your campfire going, defending your safe territory, gathering resources, and foraging for food to stay alive. It’s no easy feat, and not everyone has what it takes to make it out safe.

How to Play 99 Nights in the Forest Online

Your main objective in 99 Nights in the Forest Online is to find all the resources you need over the span of a day to make it through the night. You start off in a safe space, which is your shelter and campground. Right in the center is one of the keys to survival: a roaring campfire. It’s key to keep this fire alive by chopping wood and chucking it into the fire. This will keep you warm, be a guiding light back to the safe campgrounds, and offer a much-needed energy source.

You have a small window of daylight hours to roam around the forest looking for other vital resources like food. The forest is full of plants and animals you can eat, from carrots you can harvest to fish you can catch. You can swim, so feel free to jump into the water. It’s the only way you will be able to catch fish. Steer clear of the wild boars and bears. They will attack you and deplete you of your energy, risking your chances of survival. You can run from them, but make sure you are running to safety.

Keep Your Eye on Home Base

Get to know the terrain and don’t go too far too soon. You should always know how to get back to your campsite. The views can be narrowed or zoomed out and seen from above, so you can run a straight line back to the campsite as fast as possible. You will be warned when night is about to fall. Make sure you’re back before sunset. Efficient gathering and smart planning during the day are what determine whether you survive the next wave or get overwhelmed when night falls.

When Night Falls, It’s Anybody’s Game

Your chances of survival greatly decrease if you are out of the safe area during nightfall. Visibility gets more difficult, making it hard to know how to get back to safety. More importantly, when the night comes, so do the haunted forest spirits. It’s hard, if not impossible, to outrun them, so as soon as they lay their eyes on you, you are toast. You can respawn, but you will be right back where you ended, so if you’re far from safety, it will be equally as hard to return to safety. Your job is to hold the camp, protect the campfire, and stay alive until dawn, so stay close by as much as possible.

Each night you survive brings you closer to your goal, and also gets you stronger weapons and upgraded gear. Gather resources, eat, fuel the fire, defend the campsite, and stay by the fire: rinse and repeat.

Tips

Prioritize upgrading your weapons. Once you do this, your night becomes easier. You won’t be able to get too far with just your ax.
Always defend the campfire. Some threats specifically target the fire or camp infrastructure. Make sure no damage is done to the home base.

Controls

WASD / arrow keys = move
Left-click = attack
Move mouse = look around
Mouse scroll = zoom in / out
Space = jump
Shift = toggle walk / run
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 = select inventory item
E = drop / pick / consume / interact
F = carry
K = drop inventory item
P = pause menu
C = quick chat
B = emoji
V = dancing