This horror game provides AI friends to make up for your lack of real ones

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After what seems like an age, the popular indie game The Forest is finally getting a sequel. You will be able to play Sons of the Forest on PC from February 23, 2023. 

When The Forest was released in 2014, it got its cannibal-filled teeth into me thanks to its take on the survival genre and its great collaborative storytelling. You and your friends crash-landed on a seemingly deserted peninsula only to leave the plane and find a forest full of cannibals, dangerous animals, and monstrous mutants waiting to hunt you down. You would be racing against the clock to set up a secure base with food and water sources to help you fight off the hordes of deadly residents. 

Developer Endnight Games has massively expanded the survival experience in the sequel, introducing more customizable building techniques and polishing up the enemy AIs. The antagonistic cannibals you’ll encounter throughout the harsh island peninsula now possess more individualistic behavior, with some being timid and others calculating and aggressive in battle. 

While The Forest did have a story to complete – somewhere on this dangerous island, your missing son was waiting to be saved – the game was more fun when you ignored your parental responsibilities. My friends and I chose to expand our base, conquer the tribes of cannibals, or go exploring in the deepest caves of this peninsula instead of searching for the little boy. As long as we didn’t progress the story too far, The Forest’s island remained an open survival sandbox for us to play in. 

Sons of the Forest seems to be peddling much of the same story from the first game. You’ve crash-landed on a strange peninsula while looking for a lost billionaire, and you have to survive the creepy creatures that are