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Sons Of The Forest

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Immersive survival horror atmosphere
  • Detailed and flexible building system
  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer
  • Large open world with exploration
  • Strong ai and challenging combat

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and technical issues
  • Story can feel incomplete or confusing
  • Grinding and slow pacing at times
  • Inventory and building mechanics have learning curve
  • Solo play can feel slower or less engaging

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Forest

  • MISERY

  • KLETKA

  • MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!

  • Knights End

  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Breakpoint

Less intimate

Games that feels like Sons Of The Forest but with less focus on close relationships

  • Human Host

  • Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG

  • Golden Light

  • Dawn of Defiance

  • Night of the Dead

  • ASKA

More relaxing

Games that feels like Sons Of The Forest but with a more relaxing feel

  • Valheim

  • Enshrouded

  • Monster Hunter: World

  • Smalland: Survive the Wilds

  • Into the Radius 2

  • Chernobylite Complete Edition

Less fantastical

Games that feels like Sons Of The Forest but with less imaginative fiction

  • The Last Plague: Blight

  • Green Hell

  • Subsistence

  • Medieval Dynasty

  • Stranded Deep

  • ICARUS

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Sons Of The Forest. These titles are not in What to play next.

Sons Of The Forest: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026