Like many things that demand I make an effort, camping is very much Not My Bag.

(Yes, you’re right: I am indeed unbearable in Escape Rooms.)

Not so with sequel Sons of the Forest, though.

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And you will need to explore.

Maybe it was where I’d set up camp.

Maybe I just looked particularly appetising.

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I suspect, however, that your mileage will vary considerably depending on whether you team up with pals.

Beyond the blueprint-building feature, though, little else in Sons of the Forest is intuitive.

Yes, he kept me alive for those first few days.

Sons of the Forest - looking at your campsite on some grey dirt ground

And there’s still so much to discover!

So many secrets and mysteries still to solve.

Will we ever find out why someone buried the hatch that leads to a swanky subterranean bunker?

Sons of the Forest - running outside on a yellow-grass area amongst rocks

Or why the locals have thin tracks of wet, sticky blood running from their ears?

The astonishing thing is,I don’t care.

Sons of the Forest - interacting with some machines and computers

Sons of the Forest - looking at a laptop with a man in a bowtie on it

Sons of the Forest - looking at someone by a grave, holding an axe

Sons of the Forest - pitch black, a hatch in the floor illuminated by torchlight

Sons of the Forest - looking at fish hanging to dry in your forest campsite

Sons of the Forest - swimming out towards an orange object in the ocean

Sons of the Forest - looking at all your stuff on the floor in a tent

Sons of the Forest - holding a flaming torch while looking down on the landscape and sea from a mountaintop

Sons of the Forest - a very dark, spooky cave