I have had an EF account for more than 6 years, and haven't logged into the community until now. I didn't follow updates as for some reason I thought Endless Forest game was abandoned and the only game that existed was the old original one.

I was recently going through old pictures and screenshots of my deer and was feeling a painful nostalgia. My heart hurts.

I don't play games as much anymore but when I did, this was one of my favorites. I played it a lot when I was stressed out of my mind in highschool.
It wasn't perfect, but it was peaceful, unlike the world today.

Then some things happened in my life and I temporarily forgot about the game, and then thought it was abandoned for some reason.

It's nice to know that I think it's still being worked on, just based off what what I've read from recent posts? Even with all it's issues and possibility that it might not continue. The world is changing and going downhill at a very disturbing pace, so I can understand everything can/will be affected, even this game.

I want to say thank you for keeping the game alive for as long as it has been. I haven't tried to newest version because I'm missing something from my laptop and it is prompting me to download it. I'm a bit suspicious about downloads these days so I'll wait. Also I realized I will download this game, but knowing that life will whisk me away again due to life stuff priorities- I shouldn't be playing it. At least not right now unfortunately.

Perhaps in the future if the game still persists, I would love to try it again.

But to the founders of this game who worked so hard on it... it's okay to let it go if you need to. I love this game dearly, but reading some of the comments breaks my heart. I haven't played it and I haven't followed the developments and such so I feel that I can't really have a true opinion about the matters.

I am just one person but if it helps to hear it, it's okay to let go of the game.

Lately I've been finding it really difficult with staying on top of my studies. As a result I completely botched two exams last trimester and I've found myself having to do resits, which I've never had to do before. The pass mark was already insanely low initially, but I couldn't even do that and the pass percentage has increased as a result. Anything that distracts me will have me on another tangent for an hour until I can sit myself down, only to focus for a grand total of half an hour until I get distracted again. It didn't really help that I was just sort of constantly talking with my friends on voice calls-- I found it hard to focus on them and on my content at the same time. I've tried stopping that altogether for a bit as I get ready for my last re-sit, but the issue still glares at me with things not making sense and not being able to get my act together. It makes me feel really directionless and "lazy" like what some people might call it.

I just don't really know what to do, especially with my parents. I tried to argue that I would like to take a lower load (so that I can have more time to improve my grades and not feel like a total failure), but my mum just said that I had no excuse because I didn't have a job or any other commitments outside of school. Which is, while true, really sad for my GPA; I was doing really well when I had a lower course load, which is to be expected, but feeling like I was winning at something really did help with doing things. I understand they just want me to "finish on time", but now I'm just barely scraping by for other courses again (and failed some others) and it feels really horrid. That sense of failure is really... something. Looming over you.

I don't really want to have to chase up the courses I failed, but with the way things are going and my mindset, I might have to. My last re-sit still felt really uncertain and I didn't manage to answer all the questions properly.