Sons Of The Forest
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.8h
- Value
- $1.79/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $8.99, set in March 2026. 20 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Forest ($19.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60).
15 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 651 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 15,775 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16.8 hours. Doing everything runs 53, 3.2 times as long.
The rating rests on 318,715 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
The drop-off
89% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4,450 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Recommended 👍 Sons of the Forest is honestly a great survival game. The atmosphere is amazing, the exploration is really fun, and there's always something interesting waiting around the next corner. I really enjoyed building my base, exploring the island, finding new things, and just trying to survive. The graphics and sound design make the whole experience feel immersive, especially when playing with friends. There...
Sons of the Forest is a single-player or coop survival horror game, with emphasis on survival. You're crash landed on an island and must build shelter, source water, and gather food to live. In the meantime you'll be hunted by cannibals, and things much worse. The game has a really fun building system where you can place pre-fabricated structures to act as a blueprint for a build, or you can freely place logs to...
its preatty good beacause you can drive a kart in teh foirest and leave yoiur friend yeah its oretty good and the little naked skinwalker people are veru loud when you dont turn volume down and they throw rocks at your golfcart sp you lowkey have to kill them and give them to jarvis ir wahtever his name is like davaid or something
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Sons Of The Forest scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1326470/sons-of-the-forestThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Sep 24.
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