Market read

We modelled how players in Germany, South Korea and Brazil receive games like Trees Hate You, reading each market only against its own players. Built from the public store page and from real player voices about comparable titles. Nobody at the studio told us anything.
About the game
Hike through the worst forest full of the most horrible trees. Do not trust them. The trees will trick you. They will bully you. They will hurt you. If only you could find an axe...
From Trees Hate You's store page, as listed on 11 September 2026.
Where they agree
Each line below paraphrases a different market's players, talking about comparable titles. Nothing connects them except the store page and the shape of the thing being sold. That is the finding: the concern is not a quirk of one market, it is the frame all of them use.
Constant crashes, absolute no-go in 2026
GermanyNot fun-hard, but annoying-hard
South KoreaTroll with no sound off-camera, you die
Brazil“Rage games are my thing, and the trees-hate-you idea sounds funny at first. But if the controls aren't precise or the game doesn't explain what I can even do, the frustration stops being funny and just becomes annoying. In a game like this I need to know I'm to blame when I die, not the mechanics.”
Simulated voice, modelled from real Germany player voices
What players of comparable games said
What ends a recommendation here
The tick on each bar is the typical market.
“The idea is definitely fresh, but if they just throw you in with zero tutorialing and expect you to figure it out, I'll just refund out of frustration. This will be funny early on and then rage-inducing mid-game.”
Simulated voice, modelled from real South Korea player voices
What players of comparable games said
What ends a recommendation here
The tick on each bar is the typical market.
“From the trailer it looks like good meme material like Getting Over It, but if it's the kind of unfair where hitbox kills you without even seeing the mob, it'll get cursed to hell. BR tolerates hard rage games, but not buggy rage games.”
Simulated voice, modelled from real Brazil player voices
What players of comparable games said
What ends a recommendation here
The tick on each bar is the typical market.
Quick answers
Its store page listed a release date of 16 Nov, 2026 on 11 September 2026.
Its store page had not announced a price on 11 September 2026.
Trees Hate You is developed and published by Tykenn.
Players of comparable titles there talked most about “Controls must be precise” and “Tutorial and communication”. They received those games at −0.40 on a scale from −1 to +1, across 100 player voices. That is a record of comparable games, not a forecast for this one.
Players of comparable titles there talked most about “Unfair Difficulty” and “No Tutorialing”. They received those games at +0.18 on a scale from −1 to +1, across 100 player voices. That is a record of comparable games, not a forecast for this one.
Players of comparable titles there talked most about “Technical Unfairness” and “Forced Backtracking”. They received those games at +0.12 on a scale from −1 to +1, across 100 player voices. That is a record of comparable games, not a forecast for this one.
How this was made
Read on 11 September 2026 from public player voices about comparable titles, and from the store page. It is a read on 3 markets, using this title as the worked example.
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