Sons Of The Forest

Open-world survival horror with base building and cooperative exploration

Endnight Games Ltd · Published by Newnight · Released Feb 22, 2024

Reviews: Very Positive; 88% of 321K
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 90% of 3,114 in 30 days
Playing now: 3,791; peak 24h 4,859
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: 11 months ago; Oct 3, 2025

What is Sons Of The Forest?

A first-person, open-world survival horror game set on a remote island inhabited by cannibals and mutated creatures. While searching for a missing billionaire, you gather food and materials, craft equipment, build shelters and defenses, and explore above and below ground alone or with friends.

For you if...

+you enjoy open-ended survival, crafting, and base building
+you want horror exploration playable alone or cooperatively
+you like companions who gather resources and defend bases

Not for you if...

−you want a tightly paced, guided survival-horror campaign
−you dislike resource gathering, long travel, and repeated combat
−you want a compact map filled with distinct discoveries

What players say

88% of 320,606 reviews are positive · 90% of 3,114 in the last 30 days

Players praise the building system, cooperative play, AI companions, and unpredictable enemies. The most common complaints are a large but sparsely populated map, long travel, and an unclear, rushed story and ending; players also report multiplayer bugs, companion pathfinding problems, and poor performance on lower-end PCs.

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Sons Of The Forest system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: 64-bit Windows 10
Processor: INTEL CORE I5-8400 or AMD RYZEN 3 3300X
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Storage: 20 GB available space
DirectX: Version 11
Notes: SSD (Preferred)

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 32
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Graphics settings cannot be configured to run well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish.