Sons of the Forest: Walkthrough & Boss Guide

Sons of the Forest (Endnight Games / Newnight) entered early access on 23 February 2023 on Steam for Windows; Wikipedia gives the 1.0 release as 22 February 2024. This outline covers the companions, the key progression items and the endings, checked against Wikipedia and the Sons of the Forest wiki on 12 October 2026. Earlier text about bunker keycard orders, 3D-printer builds and cave coordinates was not verifiable and has been removed or corrected.

You play Jack Holt, a journalist sent to an island called Site 2 to find the missing PuffCorp CEO Edward Puffton, his wife Barbara and his daughter Virginia. The island holds cannibal tribes, underground mutants, caves, bunkers and ancient structures. Many relics are made of a golden ore called Solafite. The game supports solo or up to eight-player co-op.

Kelvin is deaf and mute after a helicopter crash. You give him orders by writing them on the notepad: Follow Me, Get (berries, fish, sticks, rocks, stones, arrows or logs), Build (a fire, shelter or structure), Stay, Take a break, Maintain base (added in Patch 15) and Clear (trees within 5, 10 or 20 metres). He does not fight; he points out nearby enemies and retreats during combat.

Virginia is a three-legged, three-armed woman who became a mutant but kept her humanity. She starts wary; non-threatening actions and gifts earn her trust, while scaring her off, ignoring her or killing her removes her from your save. Once befriended she brings gifts, can wear outfits and, when armed with a pistol or shotgun, attacks enemies threatening you, firing two ranged weapons at once without consuming ammo.

The Rope Gun is in the Rope Gun Cave (cave B-0), near the end of the cave close to a zipline; a Sluggy blocks part of the route and must be cleared. The Rebreather is deep in the Rebreather Cave (cave A-0), in a flooded chamber with a shark; it needs Air Tanks as fuel (about 400 seconds of underwater air per tank) and no progression item is required to reach it. The Shovel is in the Shovel Cave beside a deceased worker near the far end, after crossing a zipline gap and swimming through flooded passages; it uncovers the buried entrances of the Maintenance A, B and C bunkers. The Maintenance Keycard is in the Maintenance A bunker and opens the Entertainment Bunker and further restricted areas.

The Katana is in the Residential Bunker on the island's eastern side and needs a Maintenance Keycard. The Golden Armor is in the Ancient Armor Cave (cave D-0), inside a spacecraft toward the end of the Golden Armor cave. Upgrading it at an Armor Plater with Solafite gives it the golden look and is needed to unlock the Golden Door in the Luxury bunker. It works as an outfit, reduces most damage by a flat 30% and demon damage by 70%, but does not reduce indirect damage such as falls, starvation or sickness; drowning kills instantly.

Per Wikipedia, the Cube can travel between dimensions and activates every eight lunar cycles. If you retrieve your backpack or wait, Jack stays on the island and the LeBlancs leave without him. If you board the helicopter, Jack leaves with the LeBlancs. If Kelvin and Virginia survive, they join Jack in the Cube; Virginia is cured and Kelvin becomes Jack's close friend.