Most survival games have terrifying elements, which give us inhumane appetite, will kill us if we don’t eat three course meals every five minutes. I like jokes. Forrest has become terrifying, countless humans and mutants give us stalks, and even the sequel to the story-based survival game looks surprisingly terrifying. Developers, Endnight Games have announced that they plan to release Sons of the Forest in 2021, and have shared a new trailer that will show what awaits us in the trees. I don’t like what I like.
A few things:
- Is this a friendly mutant? (I’ll be half-assed to assume the illusion, just of course horror trops.)
- I love animations and effects for crafting and building. Cocking a large part of the log for a window is a dead slick.
- I’m glad Badies still has a slow, cautious, deliberate pace. Charging is a lot more creepy than charging.
- This is also great: Fella is trying to steal one of our logs. They are trying to survive here too. The fear of dying is just horrible.
- But oh man, I don’t like it so much that one of us seems to be masquerading as one of them, uh, mask. They will have absolute fear that they will see at a very inconvenient time in disguise.
Forrest first made the entry in early 2014, finally making a full start in 2018. Our ex-John (quietly RPS) calls it “a great achievement, and an existential horror game that manages to keep these two elements surprisingly different and yet let everyone impose on each other in a very interesting way in his forest review. It was still a bit raw, but Android kept on patching, including adding VR support. Years later, we still say it’s one of the best survival games. Hey, that’s half the price in a Steam Winter Sale.
