DO NOT BUY Sons of the Forest

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Sons of the Forest, and as an avid fan of

survival games, I knew I just had to play

this game. Unfortunately, so far I'm

finding it to be rather bland, boring,

uninspired, and kind of lacking in a

certain luster. So basically this game is

a first-person survival game that you can

play on your own with single player, or

you can play online with other people,

which is what I'm doing now. So the whole

idea of the game is you're in a

helicopter, you crash, and now you've to

survive, find resources and materials,

and build a camp and try not to die,

basically. It's not exactly a very

engaging story, and the concept of the

game is not exactly original either. I

feel like there's countless games like

this, such as Rust and other games on

Steam, that basically do exactly the same

thing that this does. I don't really know

what makes this game more special or stand

out more than the other games of the same

genre, but it doesn't really seem to do

anything that's that interesting or

groundbreaking. For me, I felt like this

game feels just like a realistic version

of Minecraft. You'll spend most of the

time chopping down trees with your axe.

Now I have to say, the tree physics and

the ragdolls of the tree when it falls

over is quite funny, and it does look

quite kind of cool. You also run around

picking up random objects like sticks and

stones and trying to capture animals and

kill animals, hunt them for food, and also

be able to craft certain things using

these materials by combining them

together. The inventory system is kind of

fiddly and annoying to use. So when you

press I, he'll roll out this big orange

mat has various objects on it, and you can

combine certain objects like the tape and

sticks and the knife to create a spear.

And there's a lot of different things you

can combine, but I found it very confusing

and fiddly to use at first. It's also kind

of annoying having to run all over the

place collecting materials just so you can

make something basic like a spear. I found

it kind of confusing what I'm supposed to

be doing in this game because it doesn't

really tell you what to do, and there's no

main story or missions you have to do.

You just basically do what you want. You

run around the forest and You gotta catch

stuff. Basically, you want to build stuff,

so you got to collect wood. And most of

the time you'll be chopping down trees,

collecting logs, piling them up so you can

create some kind of structure. The

building system in the game is kind of

cool, I guess you could say, because you

can chop down the trees and then cut the

logs into different shapes depending on

which angle you chop at the tree. And you

can create like a long log or smaller

logs, or you can split the trunk into

half, so you have like flat on one side

and you can build stuff using that. And

then you place it by using arrows and

stuff, and you can create kind of all

kinds of different structures like a wall,

a floor, even roofs and staircases, to the

point where you can create basically

anything really when you put your mind to

it. The building is a bit like Fortnite in

the way you place stuff down in a shape or

at an angle. The problem is I just found

myself kind of bored, not really knowing

what to do or why I'm doing this. So I

joined a multiplayer server and the guys

were just building some kind of massive

building, and I don't really know why or

what the point of doing this is. There's

no real point. You just do it for the sake

of doing it. You don't really get anything

out of it. So here I am just chopping

logs, splitting logs in half, and laying a

floor. So is everyone else. Everyone else

just doing the same thing. And I guess

there's kind of a nice social aspect to

this. It's kind of like, oh, a bunch of

guys just building stuff. Don't really

experience this in real life anymore now

that we don't actually have to build

anything in real life. We just live in a

nice apartment. But if you're saying that

this is all the game has to offer, I don't

really know if I feel happy about paying

£25 just so that I can split logs and lay

a floor and build a building and just mess

around with a bunch of other people on

some kind of server. I guess you could

find your own way of making fun and having

fun in the game if you're creative enough,

but I really don't know what I'm doing

here or why I need to be doing this. It

just feels like I'm working for no reward.

There are weapons in the game and you can

get guns and create weapons like spears

and axes. And there are enemies in the

game, they're kind of these weird mutated

zombie things, but the combat is very

glitchy and not really fun. You've got

your basic attack, you've got a block,

but that's it. There's no combos, there's

no kind of in-depth combat system that you

can actually get your teeth sunk into.

The combat is very bare-bones and you

don't really want to do it most of the

time because you just want to build stuff,

and getting attacked by these weird zombie

things is just a frustrating part of the

game, not something that's really

enjoyable. Now I know the game is still in

early access and it's not really the

finished version of the game, but still,

as the game is as it is right now, it's

very glitchy and buggy. I'm running this

game on a 17-inch Razer Blade Pro gaming

laptop with RTX 3060 graphics card and

16GB SSD RAM slot, and I

still can't really get good frame rates

out of this game. I put it onto high and

it's kind of rubbish and slow and laggy,

very glitchy when I'm panning the camera

around, so I had to put the graphics down

to low and then I got a better frame rate,

but still it's not exactly a buttery

smooth gaming experience. I don't really

feel like the game should be this

physically, graphically challenging to tax

my graphics card so hard that I have to

put the graphics down to low. The graphics

don't even look that good, maybe because

the map is supposedly very big. I don't

really know how big the map is because I

just stuck to one area where everyone else

was. I don't know how far you can go if

you just keep running and running. Maybe

the map is so massive, that's why it's

making the game feel so laggy. But I just

didn't really feel like the game feels

good to play. It feels very choppy and

laggy and not very smooth. Maybe when the

game is out of early access and it's in

its alpha stage, finished stage, it'll be

a lot better. But I don't know what else

they can do to this game to actually make

it feel like it's a fun game. I guess if

you like building random structures with

people online, then you could get some fun

out of it. But I just don't really see

much longevity or replayability in this

kind of game. Maybe they add vehicles,

maybe some PvP, maybe some battle royale

style games where you build a base and you

gotta survive against other players.

Maybe if they add that kind of stuff,

then the game could be a lot more

interesting. But right now, for £25, I

don't really feel like I can recommend it,

and I'm going to have to give it a 4.2 out

of 10. Maybe when the price comes down a

little bit, it'll be better, or maybe when

they add more features to the game, it'll

be a lot more better and worth your money.

So on the Steam store description page,

they title this game as a survival horror

game. It says this terrifying horror scary

experience, which is kind of funny because

the game's not scary at all. I don't know

how they can even call this a horror game.

Maybe because it's dark and you're in a

forest and it's kind of like Slenderman,

but not once during this game did I ever

feel like it was a horror game. Just

because it's got scary-looking zombies

doesn't really make it a horror

experience. It's kind of like one of those

games where you got to find your own fun.

Maybe if you got some friends just messing

around with it, it'll be a bit of a laugh.

But I don't really see how I could find

this kind of game enjoyable. It's a

completely open sandbox kind of game,

so you do really feel like you're left to

your own devices. But yeah, I don't feel

like this kind of game is for me. Maybe

later when it's a bit more polished,

it'll be better. But as of right now, I

don't think it's that great.