Sons of the Forest 1.0 launches with creative mode, a new ending, and an answer to one of the game's biggest mysteries

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It's another busy week for survival games. Nightingale entered early access on Tuesday, survival driving game Pacific Drive launched today, and last year's survival horror smash Sons of the Forest is back because it just hit version 1.0.

Yep. After a year in early access, you can now grab your loyal buddy Kelvin and jump back in to play the full release of Sons of the Forest. If you're wondering what's new in the 1.0 version of the terrifying survival game… well, there's kind of a lot.

Along with a new title sequence at the start of the game, there's a new choice-based ending, and more cutscenes have been added. Remember Timmy from the original The Forest? He's back and is now voiced by none other than Shawn Ashmore (Lamplighter from The Boys, Iceman from X-Men, and Jack from Quantum Break).

As for actual gameplay stuff, there's now a sickness system that comes from drinking bad water or eating spoiled food, and a couple of mutants are joining the chaos: one is named Legsy because it has a lot of legs, and the other is named Holey for reasons I don't want to speculate on. Gliders are now foldable so they can fit snugly in your tremendously massive backpack, and the world contains more paths, caves, and points of interest to discover.

I'm excited to see there's also a new creative mode that will let you play without restraint, including an inventory filled with all the items you need. You don't even have to wait for build animations in creative mode: just pop a structure down and it'll appear. The only catch is you have to unlock creative mode by finishing the game.

And one big mystery is about to be solved. Sons of the Forest updates over the past year have added pieces of an artifact for players to collect, but no one was able to finish building it. That changes today. Not only can you fully build the artifact, it apparently had more than one purpose. As the patch notes put it: «You can now *(Spoiler)* or create a *(Spoiler)* with the combined artifact.»