Sons Of The Forest: Story Explained 

UPDATE: Due to the popularity of this video I am now working on a second video that will include the entire story from "The Forest" and will also address some additional ideas/theories for "Sons Of The Forest" THE NEW VIDEO IS OUT, WATCH IT INSTEAD OF THIS ONE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m3ugIgRJMsE.html

Clearly Timmy was at the door before you because he brought a stick.

Pretty cool that Kelvin comes out of no where right at the end and manages to survive.

In one of the first caves (I believe it's the one where we find the ropegun) we see what looks to be a caveman painting of the cube, with a golden person in it, and surrounding people outside of the cube. I believe this is an indication and supportive of the fact that the armor wasn't forged recently, but rather is an artifact found.

you are forgetting that your companions also have endings, for example if you have Virginia with you she will leave the island with you and use you as a head rest.

This is the most cohesive story breakdown of both The Forest and SOTF I've seen, fantastic work!

I think the artifact that resurrects you does so by putting alternate alive versions of yourself in your dead body.

“Silver jacket” has their name and info displayed on the computer in the 3d printer cave closest to the pistol location. Jianyu something. And then further in that same cave in the night club area there’s an email about how the sender believes Jianyu may be working for Sahara and to be careful. There’s an awful lot of dead non-mutated bodies in that location laying around, I believe Sahara and Puffcorp both had a spy working for the opposing side, and Jianyu killed a lot of puffcorp personnel. I just don’t understand why they seemingly spare you twice. Both at the start of the game they don’t kill you and they don’t kill you or Timmy seemingly when you’re knocked out by the big baby making mutant.

I think Barbara was at the banquet. I fought two bosses there and it looked like Barbara and Edward Puffton Edit: I think she was added on the recent patch

You can get another ending if you have Virginia as an companion with a gps marker! She basically becomes what appears to be a “lover” or something close of sorts as she lays her head on your shoulders and also passes out in the cube but shows up awake later at the helicopter.

Just an idea to add to that is that the radius of whatever mutates the people, is only found in the caves or somehwere very close to the cube. Since the silver jacket lady turns into almost a “super mutant”and as both the Skeletons that have been found near cave entrances and the Cannibals that live on surface are Uneffected compared to the hundreds of mutants that are underground in the caves.

There is no way I could have derived this from the game. Thanks for sharing and delivering a great story experience!

Haven't gotten to play the game yet, but based on your video I have a theory about that golden cube. Perhaps the cube has nothing to do with what happens outside of it when everyone is mutated. It appears to me that both the golden armor and the cube itself are made of that metal found on the island. It may be possible that there's a phenomenon on the island itself, and the metal is either a product of the phenomenon, reacts to it, or both. It would make sense then that the cube's construction was such that it was meant as a shield from whatever strikes the island every 8 lunar cycles. It does shield those inside it and seems to counteract effects from other artifacts as you mentioned. It may have a stabilizing property on the phenomenon, however brief that may be, and as a result you get a temporary window to another dimension while you're inside it. If I'm right, then perhaps the island is a location where the boundaries between dimensions aren't quite right. Perhaps there's some sort of borderline unfathomable movements of dimensions around or through one another and every 8 lunar cycles there's some kind of collision between 2 or more dimensions around that island. And if you get caught up in that, you have a bad time. But if you're in the cube, you're shielded from the collision and also gain a momentary doorway to whichever dimension is colliding around you. That said, I'm not sure you could ever go through that door and survive since you'd immediately be subjected to the horrific effects that everyone else outside was experiencing. Maybe the purpose of the armor then is to act like a dimensional hazmat suit, allowing you to cross over without being....mangled..

One interesting thing that is maybe good to know, when you dont progress through the story and you get past 25 Days or maybe 30 dont know exactly. Nearly every cannibal camp gets overrun by mutants and they staying there.

One thing worth noting that you missed out - in the dining hall, right as you enter, you can see the person in silver jacket, accompanied by 4 other people. They're all standing at the broken window of the dining room, diving as soon as you get relatively close. It's an event that's easy to miss, but it implies one thing - they were there for a reason. And they likely took something from there. Kind of reminds me how you could spot Matther Cross at various places in the first game. Other than that, I still find it strange how, despite "the elite" clearly getting mutated and deformed into various mutants, most of the workers and armed personel remained the same, and Virginia became partially mutated. I've seen theories that the distance from the cube is responsible, and dining hall might've been close enough to it that it caused severe mutations, but something doesn't sit right. For starters, there's a number of unmutated workers that have been killed in close proximity to the dining hall. Plus, there's a really weird disparity - some bodies we find are skeletal (some are wearing tactical helmets, indicating armed forces), which you'd believe have decayed over course of 31 weeks. But vast majority of the bodies we find are almost intact, having died rather recently. Though it could be... That those workers arrived there later on, trying to find out what happened in the dining room, or even seeking shelter, and were subsequently killed by mutants, or even rival forces (as they've been there). Chances are that not all the dead bodies we find are result of the tribals or mutants. Speaking of tribals... I find it odd that Puffton could get any work done at the island, given nearly excessive presence of the natives. The underground bunker is tremendous work to get done, he'd have to account for having to do digging work to get enough space for it. Now, the caves that have the entire bunker compound have seemingly quite alot of space, but even then, I find it hard to believe that he'd luckily stumble upon something like this by accident. But even if we give it the benefit of Pufton being lucky and finding it, he'd still need to lay down the foundations, do digging in other places, and much more. Something that would take quite possibly years to make, even with ridiculous sum of money and personnel that Puffton was able to amass. The time that'd take would likely result in more than 8 cycles to get to the point where it was. Then, there are also mining activities, as Puffton was also extracting gold-like material from the island (though that can be easily attributed to another team, dispatched specifically for that). And all that is without murderous cannibals and mutants attempting to murder you on every step of the way. Puffton, with his limitless resources would've likely disposed of them in timely manner, as they'd be more than intrusive. Unless... Unless it isn't really the "natives". As evidenced by Virginia, the artifact also messes with your brain, seeing as she's acting strangely, seemingly unable to recognise clearly sentient being at first, as well as unable of speaking. Could be that plenty of cannibals were previously Puffton workers, but they devolved due to artifact resonance. Though then, we'd still need to account for how quite a lot remained seemingly sound of mind... Feels like there are varying factors into what results in different types of mutations/mental changes. Also, Virginia herself... I find it strange how she managed to survive for this long. She's been missing for at least 31 weeks. That's 217 days. She's been living there, seemingly by herself, all alone, and amongs some of the deadliest creatures in that world... She's unarmed, and yet, she's relatively fine. No visible injuries, she walks, even sprints, she's not malnourished or dehydrated. Could be that she picked a good spot to hide that had plenty of food, like one of the bunkers, and she ran out of those just in time for us to arrive, or maybe her mother kept her secure, but she passed away, however, given that there's little to no evidence for those two, I'm hesitant to apply them. Maybe I'm imagining things, but... Feels to me like there's more to her than meets the eye. And then, cometh the golden armour. As evidenced by e-mails and paintings, Puffton was interested in whatever the cube did. We can easily assume that he was even aware that he needed to stay inside it in order to be safe, as there's an e-mail that diretly related to the cubes dangerous properties (meaning that Puffton could also be aware of mutations). And yet, despite all that, he seems to have failed - he stayed at the Gala, which likely resulted in his mutation (come to think of it... Isn't it strange that mutants were sitting on their places? On the security footage tape, we see clearly that they mutated and multiplied instantly. They wouldn't really be capable of sitting on a chair, would they? Almost as if they died instantenously as well right after transforming. Weird). He seemed to be prepared for the inevitability, had the armour made for him, and didn't went down to the depths when time came to get to the cube? Seems unlikely. And also, if he was aware of the dangers... Why would he risk both his daughter and his wife being dead, or worse yet, turning into utter monstrocities? He'd have both of them stay someplace safe, while he himself ventured to the island if he was that willing to risk his own life and safety. Plus also, he clearly endangered other visitors, be it his own workforce, or elite guests. Even if we assume he was twisted to make them into guinea pigs (which there's no evidence of), he'd still take his own precautions. Puffton actions just make no sense, and there's hardly anything to account for it. Speaking of strange things... Isn't it weird how a rescue team (consisting of 2 choppers) was sent after 31 weeks sincel ast known signal? You'd think that for someone like Puffton, who seems to be quite wealthy (have you seen the inheritance he left for Virginia?), after a single day of complete radio silence from the entire island, they'd sent a team. Not to mention that if there were still sane people after the "event", they'd likely try using devices on the island (which still work, like a 3D printer and associated computer) to send for help, as they'd witness horrors. Unless whole thing was a sabotage, but like I said - some of the electronics still operate, they'd likely contact the world and tell them about situation on the island. Now, I'll say this - throughout the island, there are various corpses of what appears to be mercenaries, in plenty of camps, so chances are, we weren't the first team. But that'd leave us with even stranger result - I mean, if you keep sending in merc teams, but they constantly go radio silent soon after arrival (and even get shot down almost instantly, as evidenced by US), you'd think someone would figure out that something ain't quite right, and contact official authorities. Military would likely get involved, unless enemy operatives (which are likely Sahara), have prohibited that from happening. But if they did, then we wouldn't be sent there in the first place to begin with. Plus, Puffton outbid Sahara for the purchase of the island, his company would still have more money to outbribe Sahara, etc. And as closing - I find it interesting that we have no idea what happened to another teammate that flew in our chopper, Fisheye. We never find his body, nor do we see him die. Everyone from team B seems to be accounted for, even if dead, and (depending on landing) we see our pilot die. Also, same can be said about Barbara Puffton - we have no idea what happened with her. Now, the game is in Early Access, so chances are we might come to know those answers later on. Hell, chances are game might be receiving serious re-writes as we speak.

was waiting for a video like this, you did an amazing job! i love how you told it through the protagonist's prospective instead of just telling us the timeline of the story. love it! i also love marshmallow! shes so cute!

Don't forget there are loads of updates coming and this is just early release, which means more story and even more ending might be be forthcoming! Great video

You can see Barbara Puffton in a security cam recording, i dont remember where it was, maybe in the facility where you find the crossbow. You can see her at the bottom of the screentalking to people or smthng, then the cube activates and similarly to timmy she pops into 5 versions before collapsing out of the camera view

Thank you so much for making this! It was very cohesive and entertaining. I like that you matched up the story you pieced together with gameplay footage. It really helped to understand things. Hope you live a long and happy life, Marshmalow!! 💓💓💓💓

Your storytelling skills are insane! Amazing video!

Good breakdown, Thanks to you I now know what happened to Mr.Puffton. After I watched the CCTV myself I made a theory that the reason Virginia is still "normal" compared to the rest is that like in the recording and like Timmy she ended up splitting however not completely and ended up "stuck" with her and another version of herself which is why she has the 3 arms and legs. But seeing how her feet are morphed into ballet shoes she could just be a lucky mutant

What if the cube is not transforming those outsite in mutants and cannibals but instead changhing them with alternate versions of themselves? From the security camera footage we can see that they are not tranforming istead glitching. Maybe those guys who are now cannibals are somewhere else in an alternate universe.

the way you tell the story into "story" is spot on. Subscribe because of it. Keep it going and cant wait to see another game lore into something like dis

This method of explaining a storyline in a game is brilliant, keep doing this!

I'd like to add a couple of things. The ones with the GPS locators belong to Team B, the other team that were coming with us. It also appears that some sort of struggle happened at the shore, in which, the guy with the gps locator succumbed to his wounds and managed to take out the guy. In general, it seems as if the entire Team B was ambushed by the Silver Jacket, somehow, managed to kill some of them. I also believe at the Banquet, that Barbara sat alone when the mutation happened. You're right about the employees, though. It seems very straight forward that he/she had something to do with the slaughtering of the employees.

I can't believe how much I missed, thanks for putting this together!

The mystery and power of the artifact is what gives the story and the game this fascinating lore, it is almost HP Lovecraft type of cosmic horror, also similar to Junji Ito's Uzumaki where he never give an explanation to the ancient spiral structures but just the consequence of its power and the people victim to it.

Incredibly well put together edit. Bravo, I haven’t seen anything like this before. Keep up the good work

There definately is some sort of range on the artifact, the farther out you are the less mutated you become. This can be seen with the closer you get to the artifact, the more mutants there are, and on the flip side, this may explain the cannibals. It is an extreme leap for a human to just start eating people, especially on an island where there is clearly plenty of food resources. Therefore, the artifact may also just "mutate" a person's mind as well, causing them to do some pretty crazy stuff, like cannibalism. However, there must be some element of chance as some humans seem it remain the same(or maybe they offed themselves knowing what they would become), and that some of the cannibalism vary quite significant- almost mutant like. So being on the island my overtime cause you to change no matter what. But this doesn't really explain Chrome Person and Virginia. Why did chrome person chase after going into the cube? Why not just leave the island, or at least not be near it so that they didn't become what they became in the end? Maybe they didn't know the true effects of the cube? But that is hard to believe given what they did in the game: The motives of Chrome person is quite unclear. Then there is Virginia, why was she not as heavily mutated? I don't 100% buy the whole Virginia alternate reality thing, I feel there must be some more indepth reason. She doesn't seem to be "all there." She kinda acts like Kelvin in a way, a limited version of herself... My best guess her mother has something to do with it, as I have a hard time believing that the father would do something bad towards his daughter, considering that she is in the will...- but that's just a hunch. Great video btw. Been seeing so many people say this game didn't have any story. Nice to know that they were wrong.

The script for the video is like a novel! Fantastic job 👏🏻

this is the best story breakdown i've seen in a good while, good job bro

This is so good and thank you. I have been wanting to see a video that explains the lore this good. Thank you 👍👍

Good explanations. This clears up a lot of confusion I had. Even with speculation it seems very accurate.

First time seeing your channel, and was just looking for a story with a bit of speculation, exactly what I got, excellent job!

This is actually really good, and where I think the story is going. Great work!

Best damn video about the Sons of the forest. This pieced together EVERYTHING so damn well, I learned more from this one video than the countless ones I watched before.

nice video man! I bet its gonna blow up!

This was a well laid out explanation, I had to watch the whole thing!

first off great video, but i'm still as confused on the story as before lol. seems like there is a lot of 'stretching' of the story in this game, making it seem a bit ridiculous. lots of holes and 'miracles'... at the end of the forest story you could go 'aha' and kind of get what was happening even if you didn't know every detail, in this one it feels like a bunch of stuff thrown together for the sake of a story but the story isn't cohesive or lead you to an 'aha' moment. idk how to feel about it right now, i'd hope that the updates will add more to the story, it felt very short and definitely lacked any sort of boss or emotional moments like there was in the forest.

Really liked this format of a video. Keep up the good work.

I appreciate this piecing together of the clues. Having played through this with a friend who also played the original game we were very confused with the ending. There are a lot of gaps, inconsistencies, unanswered questions that you mentioned at the end, which for us really outweighed any sense that it made.

Man, such a good story telling, I enjoyed your explanation. This game has fascinating lore, would love to see it on screen to be honest :D

Loved the detail you put into the vid. Looking forward to one on The Forest as well as future ones. You've earned a Sub.

i cant wait till the game is completely fleshed out. im so excited to basically re experience the fun i had in the first game. not to mention going back through after every update because sometimes they make changes you really have to look for.

Really excited for them to update the game now. I was so confused when that cutscene appeared with timmy and those other people in it.

You make ot so much more understanding man, good video dude.

This video was awesome man! Keep it up!

Hopefully Endnight use this time to update/add more into the story just like they did with the first game.

The reference to hologram is probably more of a reference to the holographic principle of string theory. And then implying that it has a link with parallel worlds and such.

Awesome work and great storytelling, I haven't watched your other videos but this is exactly what I wanted to watch!

Thanks for putting this together!

easily the best explanation ive seen with only 400 likes? crazy

Just Fantastic ! I never play the forest one so many things was obscure to me till now ! Hopefully the update will put new lore to discover .

Awesome explanation! Thanks man that answers a lot of questions. Good job.

This video was well crafted. You efficiently presented the story to us in an entertaining, yet informative fashion. I would love more content like this.

I just want to write down that Edward Pufftons will is really... Really strange. It says that Virginia gets his 500 billion dollars if she can "survive him for 30 days" or something like that. Not a clue what it means but it's definitely notable EDIT: Folks in the replies pointed out that it's standard legalese, give or take. Either way dude was friggin LOADED

So many details I missed. Thank you for the story walkthrough.

Great Video! Thanks for your hard work.

Loved the story formate, unique and cohesive!

Very well done! Enjoyed every bit of it and how you spoke as if you weren't "the protagonist" made it much more of you telling the story and not you having played the game and retelling the story.

Great video, You answered to a lot of things I didn't understand because of the clumsy way we discover the story of the game. There are just 2 things I discovered that I didn't see in this video. When I entered the cube, Virginia joined with Kelvin and just after that we came back to our dimension, she started to shake like the cube was affecting her because of her mutation. I also discovered she is affraid of the cross if you show it at her, while Kelvin is not, maybe it's linked to her mutation? I would like to see another video when you get more informations on the story of the game :)

I was so worried about poor kelvin! Was super happy to see him snoozing in the chopper at the end. 😁 This is an amazingly thought out and researched video. Bravo!

You did great man! Cool vid

Story makes a lot more sense now thanks 👍

Grat video! You were able to put together a very understandable and linear story with the chaotic Forest lore.

Great video, thank you for all that work!

Before watching this video i honestly thought SOTF's story, especially the ending, was rushed. But now it actually makes sense and isn't shit. Thanks for the video man, real good work 👍

Just finished the game and was left baffled. Your explanation does a good job stitching everything together, thanks for the video. I feel like half the game is still missing, but it is EA. So, I'm sure there's plenty more to come. Btw my cat's name is Marshmellow too!

amazing video, loved the way you explained everything

I just found your channel and loved your SotF videos! I subbed because the quality of ur videos are sooo good!! Hope ur cat Marshmallow gets many treats too :)

The range of the cube could have something to do with that strange resonating metal, because it only seems to mutate people in caves underground where that metal is located. Maybe it funcions as a relay and relays the mutation signal further and further to another relay. It could even be that the higher concentration of that strange metal the more severe or pure the mutations are as we could see with the demons. Also the metal seems to be more and more abundant closer to the cube.

Now that is a perfect video to eat your dinner and enjoy it. Personally I always found story of The Foresy very interesting. Sons of The Forest got me confused at first but thanks to this Video I understood now everything.

This is such an amazing video. Thanks man you cleared so much for me.

nice, cohesive and relaxing to watch thx for the vid.

the first felt like just a good survival game until you find certain locations and story elements, this one takes it to a other level I'm very impressed, great games! And I love the story for both

This game has so much lore with so much more for us to know with these next updates. Hopefully they add more different mutations and bring back the original Virginia mutants.

Great video! Thank you for the elaborate storytelling

Your story telling is really nice bro, keep up the good work.

Looking forward to watching this after I finally complete the game. I have a normal and hard mode game just at that point to complete the story but I don’t want it to end! I have all the items and know exactly where to go (at least where to go next) but I’m just building mega structures to delay the inevitable lol

You have to beat the game with Virginia AND Kelvin still alive to get more information. I think Timmy got there the same way Virginia and Kelvin magically do despite not following you. I also completely missed the detail that Silver Jacket had boobs when she leans over you with the gun at 1:54. Interesting villain. The ending city also reminded me of the ending to The Forest, where Timmy looks out his window at the dark night cityscape. Almost like he was seeing the city the Cube showed. I hope that like the original Forest game, they'll add more to the ending as EA progresses. Great video though.

good video really enjoyed it. hope to see updates when/if they release more content for this really amazing game!

Frickin great job put this all together so quickly. I just finished the story an hour ago, and am now letting myself watch vids like these. I had put together the broader gist of it, but your vid really helps with a lot of unanswered questions and allows me to better speculate on the remaining mysteries and interpretations....Endnight has confirmed the ending is still a WIP and lots more lore and cutscenes will be added, so we'll see where that takes it.

I appreciate the effective narration of the game's story, even if some story beats are extrapolated. It's like listening to an audiobook of sorts. Thank you so much for the experience and I'm looking forward to future videos in this style.

man great recap, i had no idea about the cross helping at the end. Used basically every bullet I had from the entire playthrough to kill all of those damn things. Also Katana go burr

Fantastic synopsis. Best I’ve seen for any game. Thanks.

Amazing content, amazing explanation you get my follow. Great job look forward to seeing the follow up video

SPOILER WARNING New update added more story stuff. Mr and Ms Puffton are now a boss that fight you as a pair of beefed-up Blind mutants so Barbara can be confirmed dead alongside her husband.

One of the best explanation.. Earned a like & a sub ❤❤

this was an amazing video!!! thank you so much!!!

Thanks for this video. I was so confused on what the hell was going on in either of the cutscenes or who the other characters were. I definitely did not piece the story together, nor connected anything to the first on my own.

It is going to be interesting to see what Endnight adds to the map and the story as updates start flowing in.

Thanks a lot for this! Great video and explanation

Nice work on the video man

Ah so that was Timmy and his father. I thought we were playing as Timmy and the guy at the end was Edward and his son that had been rescued offscreen. This makes a lot more sense.

The thing i'm really confused on is how Timmy got to the gold cube before the protagonist at the end of the game- as well as how Kelvin gets there after you (And Virginia if you get her as a companion)- Neither of them follow us into caves, and the vault entrance is a tight fit so I wouldn't have any idea how Virginia would enter. There clearly isn't any alternative entrance so how Timmy got there without a weapon or gold armor is still a mistery.

This is actually awesome and really cool! Thanks!

great explaination, SUBSCRIBED!

I hope the devs add more story set pieces to the game so it starts to make more sense, I'm honestly intrigued by the premise they are trying to make here, but hopefully they add more to it before it's full release and change the ending to a more detailed one, since it was underwhelming that we didn't get to fight a boss and get an ending with all the questions answered. BTW I thought we were playing as Timmy lol

The note with the symbols is referring to a cave painting in the cave where you get the rope gun, after blowing the slug and fighting off the two fingers and couple of regular mutants, there is a large cube painted on the wall and symbols matching the note written underneath, i havent gone back and checked what they say yet

Damn bro , you put so much effort into this.. well done man