It only takes a few hours to realize that while Sons of the Forest is by no means easy, it does take a lot of pain out of the usual survival faff. No punching tree trunks to get crafting resources, no scrabbling around for a sustainable food and water supply – if you’re smart about it, you can avoid death from the beginning. This leaves you free to focus on all the fun stuff: building pointlessly elaborate tree houses, poking cannibals with sharpened sticks, and running screaming from shadowy caves full of monsters you really weren’t ready to take on yet.
