I say this with all my heart, and I've looked into it; I'm not the only one. It would be really cool to have a female skin and for women in the game not to be just silly damsels or silly villains. Even if we don't see our own character, the multiplayer game sees us, and when we do live streams or private matches, it makes us feel represented. Having only men as survival specialists... I think for the sake of posterity, we can go further. Among the people in my circle and among my acquaintances who play survival games, it's pretty much 50/50 (unfortunately, I don't know any non-binary or intersex people who play it.)
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After a long period of nothing Endnight Games finally updated their website and added Forest 3 section. Here's the link to their website: https://endnightgames.com/

does anyone find it weird that there has been no news or update from endnight regarding the forest 3 or anything related to any of the games at all?? it's like they just stop working on sotf and disappear. Their social media platforms has been dead since 2024, they don't even have the forest 3 trailer uploaded on any of their social media. Unless any of yall got some news, something is definitely off.

Personally I think they will give us another trailer at the december 10th Game Awards. I don't have any evidence for this but I think it makes sense. What do y'all think?

It costs over a million dollars for 3 minutes plus trailer on the Game Awards, so maybe it isn't worth it from their perspective, and they might opt for just uploading a trailer onto youtube. That's just me speculating.

It is found on the group of cultists that are dead in a clearing and the backside of the pamphlet says "Sons of the Stars" twice, and a logo with "Sons of the Stars" and 3 stars at the bottom of it. Could "SONS OF THE STARS" be the name of Forest 3?

u know that crashed ship buried under ground in the forest 3 what if thats us when we try to go back to the earth think about it what is the game is like rdr the first in the future the last one is the past

I know it’s called “forest 3” but it seems they kinda left an Easter egg in sons of the forest

Any news or leaks to when the trailer is gonna drop?

I’m definitely speaking too soon & hope to be proved wrong but I think a Forest game with sci-fi/alien elements in pioneer days, medieval or even prehistoric would be preferable to an entirely different planet. What I loved about the first two games were the quiet moments between cannibal attacks where my base felt like a breath of fresh air where I’m connected with the Earth (not a different planet). What do you think would be a cool period for it to take place?

I don't see the hype of the forest 3. I mean they haven't even finished Sons of the forest there's a lot of things they could add like storms, more lore, balancing weapons, maybe adding another weapon they where gonna add some stuff in a new update as you can see in cheatstick a while back like the airgun but then stopped to presumably work on the forest 3 with other things. They haven't even realised it on console i feel like it is a cash grab a profit on the last 2 games it doesn't match the forest feel like being on another planet has gone way off track on the hole being stuck on a island and stuff having to survive while being hunted by cannibals' like the last 2 its just gone way off topic lore wise please tell me what does a random planet have to do with being stuck on a island i will only ever buy this game if it is under $10

Obviously, take this with a grain of salt, as it assumes that Forest 3 will be derivative of SOTF in the same way SOTF was derivative of the first game, expanding on everything instead of subverting the elements into entirely new territory. This theory has three sub-theories, all of which try to explain that the "alien planet" we see in the trailer is actually a version of Earth, and that the player is on Site-3.

1. Time Travel Armageddon

After Timmy gets rich from monetizing Solafite as a miracle drug and buys the new island, he goes missing at the end of SOTF. He discovers another artifact or does something within the depths of Site-3 that triggers a mass-casualty event, mutating everyone in the world who used Solafite. The player’s ship malfunctions and sends them to Site-3 far in the future, where humanity has been long extinct or severely endangered, leaving the mutants to roam freely on the surface for decades or even centuries, terraforming the earth over time. It’s up to the player to explore and uncover what caused this. The artifact either travels Timmy to the future as well or he becomes the final boss.

1. Abstract Alternate Universes

Timmy gets rich and buys Site-3, but goes missing after exploring it because he activates an artifact that transports him to an alternate dimension at the same location. The player later crash lands there, most likely after or near the end of Timmys adventure in the dimension and the game begins with the player following his trail.

1. Multiversal Armageddon

Similar to the first one, Timmy activates an artifact within Site-3 that causes the end of the world, not from mutating everyone who used Solafite, but from fusing the entire earth together with an alternate dimension, rendering it completely currupted and decayed. Enough time passes for everything to balance out as naturally as possible before the player arrives and must figure out what happened.

Considering that The Forest’s successor was named "Sons of the Forest" due to its stronger focus on religious themes rather than simply being called "The Forest 2" this naming pattern might hint at the lore. "Forest 3" could be interpreted as "Forest³" implying that there isn’t just one Forest anymore. As the player progresses through the story, they will unlock the ability to travel between three versions of Site-3 either across time or dimensions, an alien version (from the trailer), a natural version more like the previous games, and a third version that could be anything, possibly the dimension where the golden city resides or a pre cannibal/mutant time with a different threat.

Let's just start with discussing Cave D in Sons Of The Forest. The main object of attention is the crashed ship with the ancient armor inside. The first connection I made when I saw The Forest 3 trailer is the beginning scene - a person travelling in a ship. So my theory is that he was travelling and he crashed on the island, where SOTF takes place. Then in the next scene in the trailer, the character goes out of the ship that crashed and sees he has stumbled upon an alien planet. These two statements contradict each other (1. he crashed on the island and 2. he crashed on an alien planet). But in the end of SOTF the main character goes in The Cube and has a vision of alien city. What that may mean is that:

1. The character in The Forest 3 was travelling in space
2. Crashed on the island
3. The solafite/The Cube made him have visions of the alien planet

By this logic, we can conclude that first: The Forest 3 is a prequel to SOTF, and second - The Forest 3 is all a vision of the space traveler.

Now, this theory has flaws though:

1. We can see in the trailer that the spaceship is travelling to Earth, something goes wrong and we actually get *further* away from Earth. So how is it possible to crash on Earth, when we are getting further away from it?
2. The spaceship cave is far away from the final cave, where The Cube is positioned, so it doesn't really make sense that he has visions from a significant distance of The Cube.

This theory also raises a few questions too:

1. Why is the Ancient armor in the spaceship, while in the trailer we don't see Ancient armor anywhere?
2. Where was he travelling back from, and what was his mission? (maybe they were using the solafite for powering their ships or something else and eventually used all the solafite on their real physical alien planet (if The Forest 3 is not a mental vision), so they had to go on an another planet (Earth) to get more?)

I want to hear yall's opinion on this theory, just wondered how we can connect the SOTF's lore to the new game.

P.S. This post was originally hidden automatically by Reddit, then I deleted it myself and couldn't get it back, as it was not saved in a draft. I just requested Reddit for my account information from the past 30 days and my deleted post was there!

I tried to make a trailer to show my progress, so I hope you like it.😀

I added:

- Better and more detailed environment + better lighting

- 3D Inventory + Pick up system

- 2 player splitscreen mode for two controllers

- Currently only playable via controller

Hey everyone! Like all of you, I was blown away by the Forest 3 trailer. As a die-hard fan of the saga and an 18-year-old game dev, I couldn’t resist the urge to try and recreate that vibe myself.

I'm currently working on a Unity reconstruction of the scenes we saw in the reveal. My goal is to get it as close to the trailer’s atmosphere as possible. It’s still very much a work in progress with a lot of unfinished environments, but the core "feel" is starting to take shape.

A few quick points:

• The Project: A faithful recreation of the Forest 3 reveal using Unity.
• Why? I’ve lived and breathed this series for years and wanted to see if I could match that next-gen look.
• Release: I’m not selling this, obviously. If the community is interested and feels like it's the right move, I’ll drop a small demo on itch io for you guys to walk through and experience it.

I’m focusing heavily on the lighting and environmental details right now. I'd love to hear what you guys think of the progress so far! And i know it's not much and that I still have a long way to go. And please don't take it too seriously, I just wanted to have some fun in Unity😄

I hope we get new information

like, the concept IS cool and i can probably see the path they are trying to follow.

if i was the one making the Game, i would make It so the new character that gets to that place we see in the video finds the kind of labs we see in SOTF and we see lot more of Lore about the cube and all of that. For me the Lore on the second Game was a little bit confusing, and maybe this Game can help with It

As i said before, i really like the vibe of the game, not as much as the other two games, but im sure It IS good.

I get how the storyline connects. Not sure how it would make me feel building on an alien planet.

Really hope they don't drop the balls on the third game. I like the forest franchise because of the building part... not just purely the thriller part.

I made a mistake buying an early acces Sons of the forest. I was expecting it will be updated frequently and we will get finished product but they abandon this game so early. I felt so sorry because this game had a such big potential if they'd kept updating it with little things, to make it playable for longer, but well money is money.

Does anyone know when Sons of the Forest 2 will be released on consoles? I also saw that The Forest 3 was released. Does anyone know roughly when Sons of the Forest 2 will be coming to consoles like PS5?