Sons Of The Forest
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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.

DEV: Endnight Games LtdPUB: Newnight AppID 1326470
UPDATE PULSEevery ~2d·last 356d ago·18 recent on record

Is Sons Of The Forest still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

88.4
Strong

Elixir Rating

88.5% of 320,265 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 88.4. It is a finished game, so no support adjustment applies either way.

reception 88.4·support +0.0·Strong

Computed from Steam’s own review tally and observable developer activity — never from anyone’s opinion of the game. How this is calculated

Should you look into this?

From Steam's own record

Current price

$29.99

Development

Dormant

Last heard from developers

12 months ago

Usual rhythm

every ~3 days

Substantial updates (6 mo)

0

Current silence

119× normal

The developers have been silent for 356 days against a normal rhythm of about 3 — roughly 119 times longer than usual.

Recent Transmissions

30 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsOct 3, 2025
Unity security update

Hey everyone, Due to a Unity engine security issue outlined here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01/remediation we’ve updated the UnityPlayer.dll file for the following titles: Sons of the Forest Sons of the Forest Dedicated Server Th…

SteamDBJul 8, 2025
Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 1 Jul — 8 July 2025

* Steam Deck; * PEAK; * Cyberpunk 2077; * Dead by Daylight; * ELDEN RING; * Red Dead Redemption 2; * Clair Obscur: Expedition 33; * Baldur's Gate 3; * Sons Of The Forest; * Dune: Awakening; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on Ste…

PCGamesNJun 30, 2025
Brutal survival game Sons of the Forest is cheaper than ever, exploding on Steam

From its bloodthirsty cannibals to its freakish mutants, there's a lot to love about Endnight Games' Sons of the Forest . And now, there's another reason to fall for the brutal survival game. Thanks to a massive discount players are flockin…

Community AnnouncementsJan 21, 2025
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is another small hotfix for last weeks raft patch. Fixed issue where Structures built at centerpoint of raft could prevent raft from moving correctly As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the…

Community AnnouncementsJan 20, 2025
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is a small hotfix for last weeks raft patch. Fixed issue that could occur with overlapping structures being linked incorrectly causing them to be missing on clients or impossible to dismantle. As always, please continue t…

PC GamerJan 18, 2025
Sons of the Forest's first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs

Sons of The Forest's cannibal-infested woods have been quiet lately. After a wildly popular early access period, it launched in February last year, with developer Endnight Games providing frequent updates over its first four post-release mo…

PCGamesNJan 16, 2025
Big new Sons of the Forest update makes the brilliant survival game even better

The survival game genre is suitably competitive. You've got The Long Dark, DayZ, Rust - in such a packed ecosystem, only the strongest can prevail. Back in 2014, The Forest dominated the survival world thanks to its intuitive base building …

Community AnnouncementsJan 15, 2025
Rafts, Defensive Wall Blueprints, Fixes, Improvements and more

Hey Everyone, This patch adds 3 buildable rafts along with a mooring post. Additionally there are new buildable holders for the KnightV and the hang glider. We also added a procedural defensive wall placement system so you can now just draw…

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PCGamesNDec 26, 2024
Top-rated survival sim Sons of the Forest drops to its lowest-ever price

Sons of the Forest, a survival sim that traps you on a cannibal and mutant-infested island, is 50% off in Steam's Winter Sale. You'll need a strong stomach to deal with some of its horrors, but at $14.99 this 95% rated game is an absolute s…

SteamDBNov 5, 2024
Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 29 Oct — 5 November 2024

* Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6; * Dragon Age™: The Veilguard; * Monster Hunter Wilds; * Steam Deck; * Cyberpunk 2077; * Red Dead Redemption; * Sons Of The Forest; * EA SPORTS FC™ 25; * HELLDIVERS™ 2; * Factorio; * excluding free to play games…

Community AnnouncementsJun 20, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here are a few more fixes for some issues that have come up recently. Modified custom settings for health and stamina regeneration: there are now two options to control the base regeneration rate and regeneration rate when col…

Community AnnouncementsMay 23, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here are a few more fixes for some issues that have come up recently. As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub Fixes Fixed chainsaw revved audio stuck on for…

Community AnnouncementsMay 15, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is another hotfix for an issue that came up in Monday’s patch release Fixed issue where log sled could get into a bad state when holding stones As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discu…

Community AnnouncementsMay 14, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is a hotfix for some issues that came up in yesterday's patch release. Fixed a case where player could get stuck for a few seconds when placing floor planks in a structure Fixed an issue where cutting windows with axe wou…

Community AnnouncementsMay 13, 2024
Small Patch

Hey everyone, Here’s a small patch focused mostly on bug fixing. As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub Improvements Rabbits can now be electrocuted with the stun gun Ca…

Community AnnouncementsApr 18, 2024
Small Patch

Hey everyone, Here’s a small patch that adds a new skunk animal type, the ability to catch, hold and breed rabbits and some small fixes and improvements. As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions ar…

PCGamesNMar 18, 2024
Sons of the Forest overtaken by The Forest on Steam, but don't worry

Sons of the Forest has been slightly overtaken by the original The Forest on Steam, as both games go up against one another in the ongoing Spring Sale. With The Forest getting a much steeper discount, it looks like more players are taking a…

PCGamesNMar 16, 2024
10 top games to grab during the Steam Spring Sale 2024

With the Steam Spring Sale 2024 in full bloom, trying to find your next favorite game to play can be quite the daunting task. There's big discounts and deals galore, with savings on many big titles including older classic PC games and new r…

Community AnnouncementsMar 13, 2024
Small Patch

Hey everyone, This patch gives Kelvin the ability to get into golf carts, allows players to create a new armor type, and adds improvements to the auto foundation snapping system. There are also some additional fixes and improvements, listed…

Community AnnouncementsMar 4, 2024
Hotfix

Hey everyone, Here is another hotfix, fixing some issues that have come up recently. Reduced volume of bat audio Fix for locked inputs after quitting to main menu in golf cart Re-enabled AddCharacter, AddPrefab and Goto commands Fixes for s…

Community AnnouncementsFeb 29, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is a small hotfix. Fixed a visual issue that would cause screen artifacts near the landed helicopter. As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub

Community AnnouncementsFeb 28, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is a small hotfix fixing some issues that have come up recently. Fixed some new achievements not triggering correctly Fixed some additional issues with head trophies visuals not matching for late joining clients Fixed a b…

Community AnnouncementsFeb 26, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is a small hotfix fixing some issues that have come up over the last few days. Fixed issue with rope interaction breaking after using a short rope. Fixed bug with binding for new actions not working after update. Added so…

Community AnnouncementsFeb 24, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is another small hotfix. Fixed an issue where some GPU’s could get stuck on loading a new or saved game. As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub

Community AnnouncementsFeb 23, 2024
Hotfix

Hey Everyone, Here is a small hotfix for some issues that came up in yesterdays release. Fixed issue where you could get into a broken state pick up a log while entering water with specific timing Fixed Artifact UI counts not being show in …

PC GamerFeb 22, 2024
Sons of the Forest 1.0 launches with creative mode, a new ending, and an answer to one of the game's biggest mysteries

It's another busy week for survival games. Nightingale entered early access on Tuesday, survival driving game Pacific Drive launched today, and last year's survival horror smash Sons of the Forest is back because it just hit versi…

Community AnnouncementsFeb 22, 2024
v1.0

Hey Everyone, Today is our 1.0 Release of Sons Of The Forest. We are super excited for you guys to play all the new additions, changes and fixes. If you have an older save game it will still work, but we recommend starting a fresh save if y…

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PCGamesNFeb 22, 2024
The Sons of the Forest 1.0 launch is here, and an old nemesis is back

2023 saw the return of one of Steam's best survival games, as sequel Sons of the Forest made its debut in early access in February. Boasting a peak player count far eclipsing some of its biggest rivals such as Ark and Rust, and putting it i…

Gamemag.ruFeb 22, 2024
Helldivers 2 от Sony не остановить: Шутер стремительно набирает аудиторию и бьет рекорды онлайна в Steam

Helldivers 2 продается уже две недели, но не показывает ни малейших признаков замедления. Даже несмотря на проблемы с серверами, которые уже начали чинить патчами, кооперативный шутер от Arrowhead Game Studios и Sony привлекает все больше и…

PC GamerFeb 14, 2024
In case you don't have enough survival games this month, Sons of the Forest leaves early access next week (and it's getting raccoons)

I've heard of opening a can of whup-ass, but 2024 has opened up a can of survival-ass. Does that even make sense? Sorry, I've been up late every night this week playing a survival game and I can't really tell... Read more.