What games are included in Cosmi: Forbidden Forest & Beyond?

The bundle includes Forbidden Forest (plus a remake), Aztec Challenge, Caverns of Khafka, Chernobyl: Nuclear Power Plant Simulation, Chomp!, Delta Man, Navcom 6: The Persian Gulf Defense, Seal, and Spite & Malice, among others.

What modern features will the Commodore 64 games in the bundle support?

According to Push Square, the games will be upgraded with save states and rewind functionality.

Is there bonus content in the Cosmi: Forbidden Forest & Beyond bundle?

Yes. Beyond the games themselves, the bundle includes comic books, manuals, and other ephemera from the era.

Cosmi: Forbidden Forest & Beyond Brings 10 C64 Games to PS5

A Rare C64 Compilation Heads to PS5

Retro compilations have become a reliable fixture on PlayStation 5, but Commodore 64 representation has been conspicuously thin. That is about to change. As reported by Push Square, a new bundle called Cosmi: Forbidden Forest & Beyond is on its way to PS5, collecting ten Commodore 64 games under one roof.

The headliner is Paul Norman’s Forbidden Forest, a 1983 home computer classic that a certain generation of players will remember as genuinely unsettling for a game running on eight-bit hardware. The bundle includes both the original version and a remake sporting a refreshed visual style, so newcomers and nostalgic veterans each have a reason to load it up.

The Full Lineup

Filling out the rest of the package are eight additional titles:

Aztec Challenge
Caverns of Khafka
Chernobyl: Nuclear Power Plant Simulation
Chomp!
Delta Man
Navcom 6: The Persian Gulf Defense
Seal
Spite & Malice

It is a varied roster. Aztec Challenge was a notable early entry in the punishing reflex-test genre, while Chernobyl: Nuclear Power Plant Simulation carries an obvious and grimly specific premise. Whether that one leans educational, harrowing, or somewhere in between should make it one of the more talked-about inclusions.

Modern Conveniences for Old Games

Ziggurat, the publisher behind the release, has added the quality-of-life features that retro compilations almost require at this point. According to Push Square, the games will support save states and rewind, which is a welcome addition for anyone who remembers how mercilessly these titles could end a run with no warning.

Beyond the playable content, the bundle pads itself out with comic books, manuals, and other period ephemera. That kind of archival material has genuine appeal for people interested in the context around these games, not just the games themselves. Holding a digital scan of a 1983 software manual alongside the game it describes adds something that a bare-bones ROM collection simply cannot.

Who Is This For?

Fairly or not, this bundle will do most of its work on players who actually touched a Commodore 64 as kids, or at least grew up around one. The machine had a devoted user base in North America and especially Europe during the mid-1980s, and titles like Forbidden Forest carry genuine emotional weight for that crowd. For younger players, the appeal is more curatorial: these are artifacts from a specific moment in home computing history, and the extras included in the bundle help communicate that.

That said, the addition of save states and rewind means the games are far more approachable than they were in their original form. Aztec Challenge, for example, was a test of patience as much as reflexes. Being able to rewind a bad jump changes the experience considerably.

No release date or pricing has been announced yet, but Push Square confirmed the bundle is coming to PS5. For anyone who has been waiting on a proper C64 collection to land on modern PlayStation hardware, the wait is nearly over.