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The only thing that makes this game unique is that it makes use of the killer klowns from outer space ip, literally the rest of the games aspects are undercooked, not well thought out and or outright horrible.

I cannot compliment anything what this game tries to do, at its core it tries to be like F13 but is in execution worse in every way.

- The balance is awful.
- Network coding appears to be bad, high latency gameplay is extremely sluggish. Inputs are delayed by a considerable amount at <100ms, your gameplay can get affected by this to a degree that it makes it impossible to play.
- Many gameplay elements are clearly lazily put together and not well coded/thought out.
- High pricetag, for the state the game is currently in, I consider this as daylight robbery.
- The overall idea and gameplay of this game feels unfinished, this is likely true due to the fact that the game used to be in dev hell, and was picked up by another studio.
- Overpriced microtransactions for a product that does not meet expected standards.
- Combat and movement is sluggish and unresponsive.
- Map design is bad, confusing and cheeseable.
- Lacks options for prefered teams that the player whishes to play as.
- Suffers generally from bad game design decisions.
- There are no options for choosing a prefered region as the party host, so if you wanna play with friends from across the globe, its gonna suck.
- Lacks basic keybind options.
- You have to wait and stay in a match until its over, to earn xp and other progression.

And I really did try to list something positive, but everything in this game needs to be improved upon, infact, I dont even think the direction the game is going for will work.

I do not recommend this game, it is an actual insult to the asym genre.

*No spoilers*

This game is visually and mechanically super appealing. I really did enjoy the dynamic building system and all of the new gameplay features that this game has to offer, its a good sequel to the forest. Some people may not like the story, but I do, I always found the idea of being stranded on a cannibal invested island with some massive twists very interesting. Experiencing the usage of the tech, weapons, environment and threats is, to me, one of the main selling points.

But something that bothers me a lot is the sheer amount of emptiness of the map... Of course this is intentional and is something that makes this game what it is. Comparing it to the previous title however, there was just this right amount of emptiness in it, making you feel alone but also giving the map meaning, pois felt special. In sons of the forest, the map just feels meaningless. The overall story progression suffers from this too, I did not enjoy the flow of it.

But I did enjoy the rest of the game, and therefore, I recommend it.

How the ♥♥♥♥ does Gun Interactive think that the pricing is fine for the dlcs?

Its another live service game with sims 4 like marketing. Im tired boss...

The lack of respect for the consumers money and happiness is just so bad. I already have to pay 70€ to get access to all of the new content, the game has been out for 3 months . 10€ TWICE for a character at which you are sometimes unable to play him, because someone else picked it first? I really want to make it clear that 10€ for the amount of effort and reused assets that went into them is awful.

Also they fumbled the bag very badly when designing core aspects of the game such as balancing and the skill tree.

Locking perks within paths that you pick, in the skill tree, is unfun and generally just bad design. It conflicts with a perks main gimmick and that is to spice up your gameplay, making it unique and allowing the player to switch between different playstyles. Except you dont get to do that here. There is also a loadout system that is rendered useless due to the fact that you can only have ~ 1-2 active builds. You have to reset the tree in order to choose a different path, why? I have to spend minutes redoing the skill tree just to change my playstyle? Its so useless and feels like forced extended playtime. And the cherry untop of it is that some of the perks are random when you pick them, so you arent even guaranteed to get the build you want.

Now about the balancing... I cant really break every aspect of this game appart, since im no game designer but one thing is clear... Its slow paced, there is a lot of room for cinematics and is meant to be played casually. Except thats not what it does, people are very likely to treat this as a competitive experience and since there are things such as perks, abilities and exploits that are either useless, good or absolutely broken, people will use them and redefine what is game is actually meant to be. I had lots of more fun when the game was freshly released and at which nobody really had an idea on what they were doing.

My view and opinion of this game fell off so quickly. I do not recommend this game, not worth my time, money and sanity.

You there, scrolling through the reviews.
Stop what you're doing, don't look at any gameplay. Just grab your friends and buy the game. Playing this game blindly is an amazing experience.

Now the actual review:
Im extremely happy with what ive got from 10€. It exceeded my expectations. The 10€ price tag is super fair, the game WORKS and wasn't released in a broken state, the gameplay itself is very unique and fun. I like how the game flows and how the economy is handled, the ways how you can interact as a team is also very satisfying.

There really are no notable complaints. I wanna see what this game offers in the future.

Struggling to tell if im playing on a desktop or console.

It's without a doubt a good game.

But its outdated engine and other issues that vary from system to system is just making me not wanna play it. I am experiencing a very bad mouse drift while moving, its so annoying that I can't be asked to play this game. And there are very little resources on the internet to help me out. Controller plugged in? Or is it an issue related to my mouse and keyboard? I don't know and it will take too long to figure out, and stuff like that shouldn't happen in the first place.

This game man... If you even wanna call it that.

Quite frankly, this game is in need of an entire product overhaul. This game really does nothing right, all aspects are downgraded compared to their predecessors. Stealth/Loud gameplay, the skill tree, UI, gunplay, sound design, armor, the characters and everything else that this game contains is just so dry, unfinished and lacks effort/care.

Like... I look at the skill tree and genuinely feel sad due to how much it sucks. It's incredible to me how you can screw up your product design wise even though you had TWO predecessors that got their stuff done right.

This title is just a real embarrassment. I set my status to invisible whenever I launch this game now.

I really wanna enjoy this game but the queue times and the pub stomping lobbies make it nearly impossible. I do other tasks while looking for a match, like I wanna play the damn game lol. Balance is ok but it makes you feel cheated often. September 12th is coming.

What the 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌 why am I small!!!

Stop scrolling through the reviews. Go buy the game NOW.