SONS OF THE FOREST

The Early Access survival game that gives you a friend to play with

- Chris Livingston

NEED TO KNOW

RELEASE Out now (Early Access)

DEVELOPER Endnight Games

PUBLISHER Newnight

LINK bit.ly/3memyRv

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: you’re stranded on a mysterious island… but you’re not alone. Usually that statement is meant to spark fear, but in Sons of the Forest it’s actually good news. The Early Access survival game has a killer feature: it comes packaged with a best friend.

I never played much of 2014’s The Forest – I like survival games, but I’m not a big fan of horror, and The Forest’s creepy cannibals and their deep, dark caves felt like a nightmare. “No thanks,” I thought the first time one clubbed me unconscious and dragged me into the pitch-blackness of their subterranean lair. I’ll stick with survival games where bears and wolves and stomach parasites are trying to kill me, rather than ones where weird, loin-cloth-wearing lunatics are trying to abduct me.