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NEED TO KNOW
RELEASE Out now (Early Access)
DEVELOPER Endnight Games
PUBLISHER Newnight
LINK bit.ly/3memyRv
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: you’re stranded on a mysterious island… but you’re not alone. Usually that statement is meant to spark fear, but in Sons of the Forest it’s actually good news. The Early Access survival game has a killer feature: it comes packaged with a best friend.
I never played much of 2014’s The Forest – I like survival games, but I’m not a big fan of horror, and The Forest’s creepy cannibals and their deep, dark caves felt like a nightmare. “No thanks,” I thought the first time one clubbed me unconscious and dragged me into the pitch-blackness of their subterranean lair. I’ll stick with survival games where bears and wolves and stomach parasites are trying to kill me, rather than ones where weird, loin-cloth-wearing lunatics are trying to abduct me.
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