With Sons of the Forest, the popular survival game “The Forest” receives a successor that you can play cooperatively with your friends. But how many players can experience the title together?
In Sons of the Forest, you are trapped on a remote island where mutated cannibals roam and fight for your life with a selection of melee and ranged weapons. Your goal is to rescue a billionaire. However, you are not alone in this, as you can count on your friends for support.
How many players can play together? In Sons of the Forest, you can play together with up to 8 players and fight for survival.
However, this also means that you do not necessarily have to rush into the wilderness with eight players. The survival title is also playable with two, three, or even solo – but for now, only on Steam.
How was it with the predecessor? The Forest, the predecessor of Sons of the Forest, was already playable in co-op with up to eight players and even in local couch co-op.
However, playing together online had a catch: there was a host who started the session, and all players had to wait until the host was online before they could join the game world with the progress they had already made. Dedicated servers, as announced by genre competitor Nightingale recently, did not exist.
Before you dive into your adventure in Sons of the Forest, whether alone or cooperatively with friends, MeinMMO editor Maik Schneider has 5 tips for you on how to survive the first night in the survival game.
Sons of the Forest: 5 tips on how to survive your first night
