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Sons of the Forest
Released On: Feb 22, 2024
86
7.5
All Platforms
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
86
65% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
86
65% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Sons of the Forest is an incredibly unique, immersive, and terrifying horror survival game that pits you against the mutated inhabitants of an island far away from civilization. The story is incredibly interesting and forces you out of your comfort zone as you delve deep underground and brave the horrors of the island while seeking answers.
Great survival game with beautiful graphics, excellent crafting, and a tense, mysterious atmosphere. Sons of the Forest is also an accessible game that is not unfriendly to newcomers in the genre. Highly recommended.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 54 User Ratings
7.5
61% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
26% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
13% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 54 User Ratings
7.5
61% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
26% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
13% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
For me it is the perfect open world horror game. They don't force the story on you, you can do and build almost anything you want, and the gore/horror is really effective. I loved it already in the beta, but it has gotten so much better and less empty since then. Love the unique style of "showing, not telling" also. The graphics are beautiful and the cannibals are so unpredictable and realistic, as well as scary. Such an upgrade from the first game, can't wait for more, and still being updated as of now.
Would recommend this game to anyone who wants a horror game to play with their friends, since it is also incredibly cheap.
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I played this game with a friend, the graphics are REALLY good, not compared to other games but also cool, the cannibals and Virginia AI are very well made, making the cannibals not attacking you at first. The story could be better and there could be more artifacts, also building can be boring and cannibal attacks can be annoying, but thats the fun part of the game, surviving, and it can be very easy at certain point so i would do it harder, and add new types of enemies and mutants, and wild animals that attack you, like bears.
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Sons of the Forest is a great horror game and survival craft em up that balances a strong atmosphere and terrifying moments with player freedom. Whether you want to build a better tree house, or survive the story, there's something here for you.
Immersive survival horror in a lively island idyll, whose half-baked story presentation doesn't keep up with its other qualities.
After this analysis of Sons of The Forest, we cannot do anything other than completely recommend this title to you. The story, survival and the feeling of being in constant danger make Sons of The Forest a must-have for lovers of survival and horror games, as it surpasses and improves everything seen in the previous title.
Sons of the Forest can fumble with its narrative, but its survival crafting fundamentals and sandbox still warrant a look.
Unfortunately, Sons of the Forest doesn’t quite manage to bring all of its elements together in a tidy package. While the building, crafting, and survival elements are neat, they’re not intertwined with the story, with both feeling like they’re completely separate ideas. Even the story seems unsure of what it wants to be, with odd pacing and poor audio design. I feel that fans of the original Forest game will relish the experience on offer here, but for everyone else, there are far better survival games out there.
I played the original and once I heard about this I was hyped. One of few games that lived up to the hype for me, I have played since early access launch. Pretty much lived up to all my expectations AND then some with all the features they have added since the initial early access release in 2023.
I started over for 1.0 and I am glad I did as a few things changed. The way the game plays out is brilliant I think and how the story unfolds. It really is pretty unsettling once you start to put all the pieces together of what actually went down on the island prior to the protagonists arrival.
The caves although a little more linear than the ones in The Forest, the ones in this game are much more detailed and have better layouts. Cave mutants are actually quite scary I think and that's great! I love the variety of mutants in Sons of the Forest now with 1.0, so many. The fast one gave me goosebumps for real! The way they move and react is pretty well done. Probably the best enemy Ai I have dealt with.
I'm not a big crafter but I do like to setup a base, build a house on a cliff, make a wall and setup traps and watch raiding cannibals get ground up and chopped by the new powered traps. I highly recommend exploring everything to find these as they are great! The building in this game is fun for me, pretty simple but the way you can click stuff together is like playing lego to me. Some say its too limiting but it really isn't for the type of game it is, there is plenty of flexibility in the new building system if you take the time to find all the other ways to make some things work.
The graphics are top notch, the forest is so incredibly dense and realistic. Performance is also great, I play at 4k60 with settings maxed out on a 4080.
I really can't think of anything to complain about with this game. I guess if I had to complain about something it would be that the game lacks Ray Tracing support. This game would look even better with RTX on.
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Why is it so hard to collect arrows from a corpse, why can you craft ANYTHING that you can't carry, and why, the hell, bother to give a second chance when it's possible to die immediately after cutting yourself down?! You're just elongating the annoyance of dying and having to reload. Not to mention a useless 3min, UNSKIPPABLE, cut scene before a boss. It's fun, just not perfect. Hopefully, it does well enough to see the sequel fix the annoyances of this game (but add more, just like this one)
Also, one last note, the **** blueprints, maybe make them somewhat useful so you're incentivised to make them rather than totally useless junk, except one real **** important one...
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Esta bien, pero es muy tediosa la construcción. El nivel general es bueno, y tiene cosas que molan, pero se hace muy pesado construir. Si te gusta la construcción de bases y el farmeo de recursos este juego no es para ti. Tiene mas de aventura que de supervivencia. No es mal juego en si, pero si vienes buscando algo mas de construcción y supervivencia este no es para ti. La construcción se mantiene al mínimo y los enemigos son demasiados y muy cansinos. Me gusta tomarme mi tiempo y este juego no te deja, te asedian tanto y tantas veces que simplemente no puedes permitirte tomarte tu tiempo.
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bastante meh,después de unas horas se vuelve bastante repetitivo. La construcción es bastante lenta, y se vuelve aún más lenta por el hecho de que cada un par de minutos llegan oleadas de enemigos. En solitario se vuelve bastante difícil sobrevivir y en multijugador es lo contrario.
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Borderline a scam product: empty so called openworld with repetative activities and enemies. no real narrative material except some pretentious environmental storytelling. clearly a bloated game beyond the dev's capabilities and capacity but labled to be "ambitious".
This is not ambitious, this is lying.
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Summary An entirely new experience from the makers of the 'The Forest'. Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator. Experience complete freedom to tackle the wor...
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Feb 22, 2024
Developer:
- Endnight Studios
Publisher: Newnight
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