Sons Of The Forest Pushed Back To October
The Forest excited fans of survival horror when trailers released several years ago, as it showed realistic building options and lush woods that held scary cannibals when dusk came. You played Eric LeBlanc, a father searching for his lost son after a plane crash, surviving on a forested peninsula. It was a solid entry in the genre, with pleasing amounts of creepiness and survival options, even if the story veered off in wildly unpredictable places as you explored. But it proved to be a commercial success for its developer, selling many millions of copies. This success spawned a sequel, Sons of the Forest, which has unfortunately been delayed.
Developer Endnight Games confirmed that Sons of the Forest's launch date has been pushed back. The sequel was scheduled for a May 20th release, but this has now been moved. "Over these past few weeks, we have realised that our May 2022 release date for Sons of the Forest was overly ambitious", the Vancouver-based indie developer wrote on Twitter.
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"To be able to deliver our vision of the next step in survival games, we've decided to move our release date to October 2022".
This is not the first time Endnight Games has pushed the release date for Sons of the Forest back as it was originally set for 2021, but it's not uncommon for games to slip their schedules, especially if a relatively small team is working on something ambitious, and quality standards are to be maintained. The sequel was announced back in 2019, a year following the original game's launch. A trailer showed off upgraded visuals and improved performance back in November, which announced the May 2022 release date, which has now been updated
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