MOD SPOTLIGHT MAJOR MODS, ANALYSED
Like the zombies that often inhabit them, Early Access survival games are a genre that just won’t die. No matter how many times players have been burned by buying a buggy, unfinished survival game, they keep coming back for more, from the early days of DayZ to the smash-hit dino-survival game Ark: Survival Evolved to 2021’s Viking adventure, Valheim.
The latest success in the genre is Sons of the Forest, the sequel to 2014’s The Forest – which also launched in Early Access and took four years to reach a full release in 2018. While it doesn’t have zombies, technically, Sons of the Forest does have plenty of mutants and cannibals, and it also comes with a nice surprise. It’s an Early Access game but it’s not really all that buggy, and is nearly feature-complete, with a main story that can be finished and lots of enjoyable base-building, cannibal-battling features.
