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Sons Of 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.

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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.A Survival Horror Simulator Experience complete freedom to tackle the world how you want. You decide what you do, where to go and how best to survive. There are no NPC's barking orders at you or giving you missions you don't want to do. You give the orders, you choose what happens next.Fight Demons Enter a world where nowhere is safe and fight against a range of mutated creatures, some who are almost human like, and others who are like nothing you have ever seen before. Armed with pistols, axes, stun batons and more, protect yourself and those you care for.Build and Craft Feel every interaction; Break sticks to make fires. Use an axe to cut out windows and floors. Build a small cabin, or a sea-side compound, the choice is yours.Changing Seasons…

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88%positive · Very Positive

119.1K Steam reviews · Oct 28, 2026

“Early Access Review My biggest complaint is getting rid of the log sled. Please please please bring it back. That was one of the most essential items of the forest”

mcl0cky

38.3h played · 4.4K helpful

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“Early Access Review The game is pretty good, i can't lie... But the decision to leave the log sled out of the game is beyond me.”

Akira

23.6h played · 1.5K helpful

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“Early Access Review Day 1: I will never eat these tiny adorable animals, I want nothing more than to build a comfortable home in this beautiful forest, I will gather plants and become a humble farmer, I will attack nothing that doesn't attack me first for every creature is a potential friend no matter how c…”

fairysad.exe

56.5h played · 1.3K helpful

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“Early Access Review I was starving, luckily Virginia brought me a fish. As soon as she dropped it on the ground a bird stole my fish and flew away. 10/10”

Darkemule

52.6h played · 692 helpful

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