How do players who really played Sons Of The Forest rate it? TrueGG Rating 91.8%

Release date: Feb 22, 2024 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it higher than Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks.

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Players relying on Japanese (Japanese reviews rate it lower)

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91.8%

▲ +3.3 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 17,094 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 90.0%
Steam overall: 88.5%
Japanese, all time: 72.6%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 5.8% of all reviews. Their positive share is 76.4%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (10h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	62.3%	0.0%	382
1–2 h	62.3%	—	358
2–5 h	88.1%	50.0%	2,355
5–10 h	90.0%	0.0%	3,308
10–20 h	87.3%	50.0%	5,061
20–50 h	92.2%	50.0%	7,572
50–100 h	95.9%	100.0%	3,110
100–200 h	96.9%	100.0%	1,031
200+ h	95.9%	100.0%	320

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 42% had 20+ hours and 4% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Sons Of The Forest has a TrueGG Rating of 91.8%: the positive share among 17,094 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours, close to Steam's overall 88.5%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 90.0%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 6% of the total, with 76% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

Beyond the first hours, approval is fairly even across playtime.

Negative reviews most often mention the story (less than at launch), crashes and bugs, and updates and the developers (less than at launch). Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 72.6%, 19.1 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (87.6% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on the game's design (Story, Boring / repetitive, Movement & pacing). These rarely change with updates, so the rating likely reflects the game itself. Judge by whether it suits you. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

Story22% of negative reviews (14% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch · 7 positive reviews say it improved
Crashes & bugs14% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch
Updates & developers12% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch
Boring / repetitive10% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · more than at launch
Movement & pacing9% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch · 5 positive reviews say it improved

+ What players praise

Fun & feel28% of positive reviews (19% of negative)

＋ amazing＋印象＋ best＋ love＋最高＋進化＋可能＋生活− full− didn't− waste− sense− terrible− lost− horrible− armor

Counted from 501 recent negative and 600 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	88.5%	All time, all languages · 323,314 reviews
Adjusted rating	87.6%	Weighted by trust (95% range 87.1%–88.0%), −0.9pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	68.5%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−20.1pt vs overall) · 637 reviews

Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	1%	10%
Very short text	46%	25%
Key activated outside Steam	10%	12%
Received for free	2%	2%
Owns very few games	21%	12%
Over 100 reviews written	1%	2%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.74	0.81

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 22.4 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2023-02	49,120	10,774	82.0%
2023-03	39,314	7,602	83.8%
2023-04	6,586	1,068	86.0%
2023-05	3,665	615	85.6%
2023-06	3,053	545	84.9%
2023-07	4,503	847	84.2%
2023-08	2,913	481	85.8%
2023-09	2,509	353	87.7%
2023-10	2,937	370	88.8%
2023-11	16,033	606	96.4%
2023-12	3,481	344	91.0%
2024-01	3,062	369	89.2%
2024-02	4,853	607	88.9%
2024-03	6,201	821	88.3%
2024-04	2,666	337	88.8%
2024-05	2,332	309	88.3%
2024-06	2,883	384	88.2%
2024-07	3,245	460	87.6%
2024-08	2,338	311	88.3%
2024-09	1,752	222	88.8%
2024-10	2,114	205	91.2%
2024-11	10,890	523	95.4%
2024-12	8,667	680	92.7%
2025-01	6,676	650	91.1%
2025-02	2,640	294	90.0%
2025-03	3,914	442	89.9%
2025-04	4,541	515	89.8%
2025-05	2,136	234	90.1%
2025-06	2,585	326	88.8%
2025-07	6,499	858	88.3%
2025-08	2,487	272	90.1%
2025-09	1,819	228	88.9%
2025-10	5,649	687	89.2%
2025-11	4,269	445	90.6%
2025-12	5,386	533	91.0%
2026-01	6,164	602	91.1%
2026-02	2,576	215	92.3%
2026-03	4,041	424	90.5%
2026-04	2,906	300	90.6%
2026-05	2,108	217	90.7%
2026-06	4,890	552	89.9%
2026-07	4,500	509	89.8%
2026-08	2,139	244	89.8%
2026-09	2,798	290	90.6%
2026-10	1,950	217	90.0%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-19	74	5
2026-09-20	88	6
2026-09-21	69	6
2026-09-22	63	6
2026-09-23	51	2
2026-09-24	55	9
2026-09-25	78	3
2026-09-26	72	8
2026-09-27	84	7
2026-09-28	43	3
2026-09-29	52	3
2026-09-30	51	6
2026-10-01	41	5
2026-10-02	85	9
2026-10-03	132	15
2026-10-04	149	12
2026-10-05	94	11
2026-10-06	114	17
2026-10-07	129	16
2026-10-08	151	18
2026-10-09	133	20
2026-10-10	159	17
2026-10-11	131	10
2026-10-12	94	10
2026-10-13	101	7
2026-10-14	79	9
2026-10-15	83	9
2026-10-16	94	10
2026-10-17	101	14
2026-10-18	80	8

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Recent sentiment

Period	Positive	Reviews
Last 30 days	90.9%	3,389
Last 180 days	90.2%	23,450
All time	88.5%	323,314
Japanese, last 180 days	59.3%	27

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