Sons of the Forest Reviews

Sons of the Forest is ranked in the 71st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
8 / 10.0
Mar 14, 2024

Sons of the Forest is an impressive survival game that suffers from several problems such as poor optimization and a poor ranged weapon model. However, elements such as building objects, exploration and any openness in solving the island puzzle are definitely positive choices made by the game's developers. I am able to fully recommend Sons of the Forest to all fans of survival games who are looking for fun for a dozen or even several dozen hours of gameplay, especially in co-op mode.

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6 / 10
Mar 8, 2024

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.

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8 / 10.0
Mar 8, 2024

Sons of the Forest can fumble with its narrative, but its survival crafting fundamentals and sandbox still warrant a look.

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10 / 10.0
Mar 4, 2024

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.

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Unscored
Mar 1, 2024

A properly transportive trip to an island full of jerks - if you look past the clunky combat and immersion-sapping progress gates.

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7 / 10.0
Mar 8, 2023

Despite having less content, Sons of the Forest in its early access state is a shinier and better version of its predecessor and I look forward to future updates.

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Unscored
Mar 7, 2023

"There's a lot of weirdness in the world that just begs for more investigation"

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IGN
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Mar 2, 2023

Even in early access, Sons of the Forest is already a strong survival crafter sequel that takes all the things The Forest did so well and does them a little bit better.

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9 / 10.0
Mar 1, 2023

Sons of the Forest is exciting, immersive, and beautiful. It is also extremely scary and absolutely packed with content. These are things you probably expect from a big game, but not a budget Early Access title. Sons of the Forest somehow manages to be all of these things simultaneously, and there is still more to come.

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Unscored
Mar 1, 2023

The highly anticipated sequel surpasses the original with fantastic AI, atmosphere, and building, but ultimately feels devoid of content so far.

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Unscored
Feb 27, 2023

Sons of the Forest is an utterly engrossing game, and in losing myself in it, hours went by as I explored. For me, the main concerns are in content density, lack of direction, and a lingering feeling of being unfinished which, to be fair, is totally understandable from an early-access title. The building is a little clunky. There are visual issues with certain animations. It’s also given way to many hilarious glitches, including a physics issue that launched my character into the sky while chopping down a tree.

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gameranx
Top Critic
Unscored
Feb 24, 2023
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