Sons Of The Forest
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 69% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$9.2969% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews▼
- 89% of 324,390
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.29 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 18.7h
- To 100%
- 55.2h 3.0x the story
- Achievements
- 32
Price and sales
- Sales
- 22 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $8.39 October 2026
- Sale every
- 52d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10,038 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
22 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 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).
More about Sons Of The Forest
15 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 15,797 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 18.7 hours. Doing everything runs 55, 3.0 times as long.
The rating rests on 324,390 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $8.39 (72% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Wasn't a big fan of the 1st one but I had a Survival itch and this game was on sale. After maybe like 3 hours in - I was pretty hooked. The world looks awesome with very bright sunsets and THE DARKEST caves and nights lmao. The building feels really good, pretty much a straight rip from the 1st but more responsive and can be dove into to make more complex in a way. I went for t5he 100% and its not too bad, just...
2 more reviews
do NOT play this game even REMOTELY stoned you will think you are ACTUALLY CAVING in the pits of the wet earth surrounded by mutated humans in every dark corner that want to JUMP you (i am a huge horror fan as well as a huge survival sandbox fan, this is one of my dream games and it CAN be yours too)
Awesome game. Grate graphics and gameplay. Has a good story to follow. Best played with friends.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sons Of The Forest scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1326470/sons-of-the-forestReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.