Sons Of The Forest
Give it 20 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (24%); after 20h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- At least 26% of players who start reach the ending.
- 89% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 325,182 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 26.5h for positive, 23.8h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (89% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- FIGHT DEMONS Stay on the Island ≥26% −74
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (32)
story milestone ending side
- SURVIVOR Survive Day 1 100%
- WHAT COULD GO WRONG Survive Day 10 66%
- TRADESMAN Place 50 logs 60%
- CONTRACTOR Place 100 logs 52%
- PINATA Blow up a Sluggy 47%
- BLOCKBUSTER Watch all the found footage recordings 37%
- THIS PLACE ISN’T SO BAD Survive Day 25 35%
- EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE Give a GPS locator to Virginia 31%
- ARCHITECT Place 500 logs 28%
- FIGHT DEMONS Stay on the Island 26%
- BADGER Dig 100 holes 24%
- MC CRAFTY Craft all weapons 23%
- 1% Collect $1000 21%
- NEED A BIGGER BOAT Get killed by a shark 20%
- THIS CAN’T BE HEALTHY Drink 50 cans of Fi-Z 19%
- FASHIONISTA Own every piece of clothing 18%
- TRUSTED Become an admin in a multiplayer game 17%
- CITY PLANNER Place 1000 logs 17%
- FOUGHT DEMONS Leave the Island 16%
- SUCKER FOR PUNISHMENT Get kicked by a heavy cannibal 5 times 14%
- COLLECTOR Pickup 50 Drogue watches 14%
- CHIVALRY IS NOT DEAD Reach max sentiment with Virginia 14%
- DYNAMO Wear a full set of Tech Armor 14%
- KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE Complete the story with all friendly NPCs still alive 13%
- NEVER GOING HOME Survive Day 50 12%
- MAKER Print one of every item 11%
- I DREAM OF SUSHI Eat 20 raw fish 4.6%
- INTERIOR DESIGNER Find all the discoverable blueprints 3.1%
- OOOH SHINY Plate all valid weapons with Solafite 1.3%
- I LIKE BLISTERS Dig 1000 holes 1.2%
- FOODIE Eat one of each type of edible in the game 1.2%
- GUMSHOE Collect all the note pages 0.9%