Market read

Trees Hate You · 3 markets read separately.They came back with the same objection.

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.

TykennAdventureIndieRelease 16 Nov, 20263 markets

About the game

What Trees Hate You is.

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

Players of games like Trees Hate You agree across every market we read.

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

Germany

Not fun-hard, but annoying-hard

South Korea

Troll with no sound off-camera, you die

Brazil

GermanyRage game appeal is high

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“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

−0.40
How Germany received games like Trees Hate YouFrom 100 player voices about comparable titles. A record of what happened to them, not a forecast for this game. Tested range −1.00 to −0.07.

What players of comparable games said

Controls must be preciseControls are wooden at best, ruins the fun completelyFrom a player of DAVE THE DIVER who did not recommend it
Tutorial and communicationHalf the mechanics aren't communicated by the game at allFrom a player of DAVE THE DIVER who did not recommend it
Rage game conceptIf you have no joy in life left, it's perfectFrom a player of STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ who recommended it after 29 hours
Technical stabilityConstant crashes, absolute no-go in 2026From a player of Satisfactory who did not recommend it even after 130 hours

What ends a recommendation here

Language and interface
59%
Marketing overpromise
58%
Polish and stability
69%

The tick on each bar is the typical market.

South KoreaFresh idea

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“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

+0.18
How South Korea received games like Trees Hate YouFrom 100 player voices about comparable titles. A record of what happened to them, not a forecast for this game. Tested range −0.51 to +0.51.

What players of comparable games said

Unfair DifficultyNot fun-hard, but annoying-hardFrom a player of Monster Hunter: World who did not recommend it even after 260 hours
No TutorialingZero tutorialing on basic mechanics, hit unsolvable wallsFrom a player of Baba Is You who recommended it after 2.5 hours
Novel PremiseClever and original, never seen this kind of gimmickFrom a player of Baba Is You who recommended it after 11 hours
Forced RepetitionWhy start from scratch again? Dragging it out is stressfulFrom a player of SANABI who did not recommend it, 9.5 hours in

What ends a recommendation here

Price and monetization
28%
The first session fails
54%
Language and interface
32%

The tick on each bar is the typical market.

BrazilTrailers will generate buzz through the meme factor

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“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

+0.12
How Brazil received games like Trees Hate YouFrom 100 player voices about comparable titles. A record of what happened to them, not a forecast for this game. Tested range −0.57 to +0.45.

What players of comparable games said

Technical UnfairnessTroll with no sound off-camera, you dieFrom a player of Valheim who did not recommend it even after 88 hours
Forced BacktrackingWandering back and forth for a stupid objectiveFrom a player of The Long Dark who did not recommend it
Initial Meme AppealPsychological test disguised as a game, cool concept
Poor MovementDefault Unreal movement, can't jump a simple fenceFrom a player of Deadside who did not recommend it

What ends a recommendation here

Marketing overpromise
27%
Polish and stability
44%
The first session fails
52%

The tick on each bar is the typical market.

Quick answers

Trees Hate You at a glance.

When does Trees Hate You come out?

Its store page listed a release date of 16 Nov, 2026 on 11 September 2026.

How much does Trees Hate You cost?

Its store page had not announced a price on 11 September 2026.

Who is making Trees Hate You?

Trees Hate You is developed and published by Tykenn.

What do players in Germany think of games like Trees Hate You?

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.

What do players in South Korea think of games like Trees Hate You?

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.

What do players in Brazil think of games like Trees Hate You?

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

How we read Trees Hate You. Nobody at the studio told us any of this.

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.

The record is dataEach market's number is how real players there received comparable titles, on a scale from −1 to +1. A record of what happened to those games, never a forecast for this one.
The deviation is measuredHow often a complaint ends a recommendation is computed per market against the typical market, across those with enough classified voices to compare.
The voices are simulatedThe lines under each topic paraphrase real players of comparable titles, named where the source was verified. The single voice at the head of each column is a simulation grounded in them, and it is labelled as one.
What this cannot tell youNothing here measures this game, because the read never saw it. Treat the concerns as the argument to prepare for, not a verdict.

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