Sons Of The Forest — Latest Updates & Patch Notes
Sons Of The Forest is currently the #99 most-played game on Steam, with a 24-hour peak of 20K concurrent players — ▲ climbing (was #182 last week).
Last official update Oct 7, 2025 (332 days ago) · 0 updates in the last 90 days · 12 tracked here.
- Steam rank
- #99 ▲
- Peak (24h)
- 20K
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, Indie
- Developer
- Endnight Games Ltd
- Released
- Feb 22, 2024
- Price
- $8.99
- Steam reviews
- 283K
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Latest updates & patch notes
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News
Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 30 Sep — 7 October 2025
* Battlefield™ 6 ; * Steam Deck ; * Digimon Story Time Stranger ; * EA SPORTS FC™ 26 ; * Megabonk ; * Cyberpunk 2077 ; * Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 ; * Sons Of The Forest ; * Baldur's Gate 3 ; * Red Dead Redemption 2 ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
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Patch
Unity security update
Hey everyone, Due to a Unity engine security issue outlined here: we’ve updated the UnityPlayer.dll file for the following titles: Sons of the Forest Sons of the Forest Dedicated Server The Forest VR This update is around 1-2mb. The base version of The Forest and its dedicated…
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News
Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 1 Jul — 8 July 2025
* Steam Deck ; * PEAK ; * Cyberpunk 2077 ; * Dead by Daylight ; * ELDEN RING ; * Red Dead Redemption 2 ; * Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ; * Baldur's Gate 3 ; * Sons Of The Forest ; * Dune: Awakening ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
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News
Brutal survival game Sons of the Forest is cheaper than ever, exploding on Steam
From its bloodthirsty cannibals to its freakish mutants, there's a lot to love about Endnight Games' Sons of the Forest . And now, there's another reason to fall for the brutal survival game. Thanks to a massive discount players are flocking to this bizarre open-world survival…
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Patch
Hotfix
Hey Everyone, Here is another small hotfix for last weeks raft patch. Fixed issue where Structures built at centerpoint of raft could prevent raft from moving correctly As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub.
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Patch
Hotfix
Hey Everyone, Here is a small hotfix for last weeks raft patch. Fixed issue that could occur with overlapping structures being linked incorrectly causing them to be missing on clients or impossible to dismantle. As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in…
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Patch
Sons of the Forest's first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs
Sons of The Forest 's cannibal-infested woods have been quiet lately. After a wildly popular early access period, it launched in February last year, with developer Endnight Games providing frequent updates over its first four post-release months. Yet the studio has been largely…
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Patch
Big new Sons of the Forest update makes the brilliant survival game even better
The survival game genre is suitably competitive. You've got The Long Dark, DayZ, Rust - in such a packed ecosystem, only the strongest can prevail. Back in 2014, The Forest dominated the survival world thanks to its intuitive base building and convincing first-person horror. In…
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News
Rafts, Defensive Wall Blueprints, Fixes, Improvements and more
Hey Everyone, This patch adds 3 buildable rafts along with a mooring post. Additionally there are new buildable holders for the KnightV and the hang glider. We also added a procedural defensive wall placement system so you can now just draw out where you want the walls and let…
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Top-rated survival sim Sons of the Forest drops to its lowest-ever price
Sons of the Forest, a survival sim that traps you on a cannibal and mutant-infested island, is 50% off in Steam's Winter Sale. You'll need a strong stomach to deal with some of its horrors, but at $14.99 this 95% rated game is an absolute steal. Read the rest of the story…
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Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 29 Oct — 5 November 2024
* Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 ; * Dragon Age™: The Veilguard ; * Monster Hunter Wilds ; * Steam Deck ; * Cyberpunk 2077 ; * Red Dead Redemption ; * Sons Of The Forest ; * EA SPORTS FC™ 25 ; * HELLDIVERS™ 2 ; * Factorio ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
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Patch
Hotfix
Hey Everyone, Here are a few more fixes for some issues that have come up recently. Modified custom settings for health and stamina regeneration: there are now two options to control the base regeneration rate and regeneration rate when cold Fix for clients cutscenes not syncing…
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About Sons Of The Forest
An entirely new experience from the makers of the ‘The Forest’ Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator. A Survival Horror Simulator Experience complete freedom to tackle the world how you want. You decide what you do, where to go and how best to survive. There are no NPC's barking orders at you or giving you missions you don't want to do. You give the orders, you choose what happens next. Fight Demons Enter a world where nowhere is safe and fight against a…
Game details
- System requirements (minimum)
- Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64-bit Windows 10 Processor: INTEL CORE I5-8400 or AMD RYZEN 3 3300X Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 20 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD (Preferred)
- Languages
- English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish * languages with full audio support
- Controller
- Full controller support
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sons Of The Forest free to play?
- Sons Of The Forest is a paid game ($8.99) on Steam.
- What is the latest Sons Of The Forest update?
- The most recent official update is "Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 30 Sep — 7 October 2025" (Oct 7, 2025), categorized as News. * Battlefield™ 6 ; * Steam Deck ; * Digimon Story Time Stranger ; * EA SPORTS FC™ 26 ; * Megabonk ; * Cyberpunk 2077 ; * Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 ; * Sons Of The Forest ; * Baldur's Gate 3 ; * Red Dead Redemption 2 ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
- How many people play Sons Of The Forest?
- Sons Of The Forest peaked at 20K concurrent players in the last 24 hours, ranking #99 on Steam's most-played chart (it was #182 the previous week).
- When was Sons Of The Forest released?
- Sons Of The Forest was released on Feb 22, 2024 by Endnight Games Ltd.
- What kind of game is Sons Of The Forest?
- Sons Of The Forest is a Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation game, featuring single-player, multi-player, co-op.
Live player counts and update notes are pulled from Steam's public data and refreshed daily (last refresh: Sep 4, 2026). Excerpts are from official announcements; follow the source links for full notes. Sons Of The Forest and all related assets are trademarks of their respective owners.