The new best boy of videogames is Kelvin in Sons of the Forest

pcgamer.com:

All gacha game boys and romanceable RPG party members, please exit the stage—there's a new best boy of gaming and he's from a survival and crafting game, of all things. Sons of the Forest's faithful companion Kelvin is now my favorite NPC.

After a helicopter crash dumped us unceremoniously on the island, I found Kelvin struggling nearby and quickly assessed that he seemed to have escaped a brain injury but had ruptured his eardrums and couldn't hear. My instinct to protect Kelvin piqued. Since he can't hear, I communicate with him by writing in a notebook, giving commands like «follow me» or «collect sticks and bring them to me.» He's a handy little worker bee whose real purpose is to assuage the boredom of those typical early survival game tasks. But Kelvin is so much more than my personal lumber-butler.

Here are some things Kelvin is good at:

Within half an hour, I became fiercely protective of Kelvin. I'll fight a cannibal that gets too close, even if they haven't noticed him. I'll walk to the other side of a river any time he's struggling to pathfind to me because otherwise he'll sprint very far away in confusion. I'll watch his little pip on my GPS when he's out of sight with the anxiety of a first-time mom. 

Kelvin is not a dog. He is not a toddler. But my friends and I have been cheering on every one of his little feats as if he were. He runs with small, fast-paced little steps. He tosses items you request exactly where he's told (what a smart boy). He smiles in a dazed, happy-to-be-here way, and look at how good he is at fishing.

And that's the best part: Kelvin really is a good AI helper. I mean sure, sometimes he does self-sabotage a little. But I hate fishing in games and he easily saves me from the dread of