Sons of the Forest has only been out for a day and people are clearly obsessed with the survival-horror indie. Not only has the game reached huge concurrent player numbers, but those players are eager to share their love for the game. The game currently sits with over 18,000 verified reviews, and almost 90 percent of those are positive.
The folks over at GamesRadar shared all the impressive numbers that Sons of the Forest has racked up in its short lifespan. The horror title has seen a concurrent player count of over 350,000 players, an impressive feat for an indie horror game that has been out only a day. To give perspective, that is the 22nd largest player count in Steam’s history. Plus, it is the third most-popular game on the platform.
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Meanwhile, as of this writing, the game has 32,584 user reviews. Of those reviews, 84% rate the game positively. Not to mention the fact that 18,291 of those reviews are verified and 87 percent of those verified are positive. Even though the game is an Early Access title, meaning you may encounter some glitches, bugs, and whatnot, it is impressive to see how much enjoyment and positive interactions players are having with it.
In fact, players are having so much fun in Sons of the Forest that it may be slowing up Steam’s servers. Just an hour after launching on the platform, Steam suffered an outage. While there is no way to confirm if Sons of the Forest and its large player count has anything to do with that, I am not a big believer in coincidence.
Endnight Games, the folks behind Sons of the Forest, were meant to launch the title fully this month. However, in order to avoid another delay, the developer
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