

In the age of the AI takeover, Endnight Games thought they’d take a bite of the pie. They better get cracking on better weapons before they get knocked unconscious by Sloth from “The Goonies” with Kelvin cowering in the corner.
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The power scaling is pretty inconvenient, not even a full week in and the players already have a dude taller than them in their house knocking on the puny, human-sized door. As players sit by their campfire cooking what little food they could scrounge up, the creatures silently run at the players from behind and get the jump on themĮarly on, the only choice is to swing a multi-purpose survival ax at them until they keel over, but players can defeat them by other means later on. They hang from treetops and pop out of bushes like it’s the cold war. Players must always stay on guard.įighting the cannibals isn’t terribly easy either. They’ll sneak into houses at night and steal from resource stockpiles, as well as sending brutes to knock down doors.

These creatures spy on players, occasionally visiting their humble abode, letting them know that they are, in fact, not a welcome guest in their home.Īt first they scream and gobble gibberish, but they don’t take kindly to anyone overstaying their already chilly welcome. This remote island is inhabited by animalistic cannibals and contorted mutants. However, no survival game would be complete without something creepy monitoring the players every move, attempting to stop them from achieving their goal. It all reacts to the players movements and inputs. Dense bushes and tall grass fulfills every square inch of the map, making it look like the player is actually running through a forest untouched by city planning or 20-lane highways. Each part includes amazing models, nothing looks jank, and the most incredible part is that the game doesn’t use ray tracing at all.Įvery tree looks unique and extremely realistic. The game looks utterly insane all the way through. The difference with this came though is that the ‘good looking trailer’ part never goes away. The game looks like a good looking trailer which is meant to hype players up for a bad looking game. In Sons of the Forest, coming from the previous game, the improvement can be described with just one word: unreal. There is typically at least one aspect that everyone can either criticize or appreciate when it comes to video games: the quality. Sons of the Forest launched February 23rd, 2023. The original game brought a litany of genre-defining features, which changed the expectations that people had for future survival games, and now, the sequel has arrived. The Forest had checked in its bags, and its plane just crash landed on the Survival genre’s island. Gone were the days of palette friendly cube games, gone were the days of the countless ripoffs of palette friendly cube games. The survival genre became revolutionized on May 30th, 2014.
