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Unlike many similar titles, you can’t make everything you need in Sons of the Forest. Instead, you’ll have to explore — scattered across the island, hiding in caves, or buried beneath the ground are myriad tools and equipment that you…

Survival crafting games are all about staying alive — and there are plenty of enemies in Sons of the Forest trying their best to prevent you from doing so. Because of this, collecting all the weapons you can is generally…

Ah, the shovel. Such a simple tool, yet one that is required to enter some of Sons of the Forest’s most important locations. You’d think you could use your hands to dig 6 inches into the ground, but no. Getting…

Much like its predecessor The Forest, Sons of the Forest is very light on tutorials. Besides a few basic suggestions about looking at your inventory and guidebook, the game doesn’t give you any short term goals, or any real direction…

Sons of the Forest’s island is not a friendly place, and so you’ll want to get your hands on as many weapons as possible, as soon as possible. One relatively easy to acquire weapon is the Stun Gun — while…

Useful and interesting tools and equipment are scattered across the island in Sons of the Forest. One such piece of equipment is the rebreather. Found in a cave on the northern side of the island, the rebreather allows you to…

As is to be expected in a survival crafting title, survival is a key aspect of Sons of the Forest. Whether its finding food and water, creating shelter, or simply getting some rest, you’ll have to know how to take…

Anyone who has played games with multiple items and weapons you can equip has probably learned to press the number keys (or the d-pad, or the top face button) when they want to switch weapons — and now that hotkeys…

“You are hungry” is a message you’ll be seeing a lot of when you first start playing Sons of the Forest. That energy bar you found at the crash site isn’t much of a breakfast, and it can be hard…

Death is always around the corner in Sons of the Forest, often in the form of the game’s myriad enemies. These foes are made more threatening by the fact that defending yourself isn’t always easy in SotF — sticks and…