Sons of the Forest invites you to explore a huge island with underground caves and hidden bunkers. Your environment holds all kinds of dangers, but also secrets. Despite the many possibilities to build, fish and hunt, the new survival game also has its own main story. If you want to end it, get to the final cutscene and thus the end of the game, you need certain items and have to go to certain places. We have listed everything important for you in this guide. But beware: there will be spoilers here!
Right at the beginning of Sons of the Forest you get the two quests “Find Team B” and “Find Puffton Family”. Team B is your comrades with whom you came to the island by helicopter. To find them, simply follow your GPS device to the three purple dots on the map. There you will find a dead soldier who is carrying a tracking device. If you collect them, you have completed the quest.
The coordinate directly north of the horizontal river on the west of the island is the easiest to complete. The soldier is hanging from a rock face with a rope around his neck. Use your ax to loosen the rope and you’ll get the tracking device. The second point off the west coast in the sea is a bit trickier, because there you have to watch out for a shark in the water. But you also get the pistol at this location.
The purple coordinate in the northwest of the island is the most complicated. In order to get to the beacon there, you need the shovel – and it’s not that easy to get. We have already told you how to get them in our guide to the shovel. For the effort, you will also find a shotgun at the last location, which is much more powerful than the pistol.
Your mission is to find the Puffton family
What: PC Games
The Puffton family also consists of three members, as the intro tells you. This is Virginia and her two parents. You don’t have to look far for your daughter. You can find them walking around in the forest on the first day. If you behave properly towards her and don’t scare her, you can become friends with her and following a while even give her clothes, weapons and one of the trackers you found. We have already summarized everything you need to know regarding Virginia in our guide.
However, Virginia has no control over the Find the Puffton Family quest. The quest is all regarding her parents, Edward and Barbara Puffton. The two can be found in a bunker in the north of the northeastern spur of the western estuary of the beach, near the purple coordinate in the northwest of the island. To enter the bunker, you need the maintenance key card. Everything regarding the three keycards of the game can be found here on pcgames.de. When you get to the final room of the underground facility, the mission updates to “Found the Puffton Family”. Virginia’s parents crawl out of the wall as mutant monsters and attack you. Once you have defeated them, you can take a piece of mutant armor from each of them.
All Essential Items: Scuba (Blue), Rope Gun and Cross (Black), Shovel (Grey), Service Keycard (Brown), VIP Keycard (Orange), Gold Armor (Yellow)
Quelle: PC Games / Map Genie
Quests not absolutely necessary
However, the quest “Find the Puffton family” does not offer you a specific reward, nor does the quest “Find Team B”. Once you have completed the two tasks, they simply say goodbye without a word. You should therefore see them more as signposts that will help you to find important items and locations.
For example, the shovel you need to find the last purple GPS coordinate is also needed for the maintenance key card. Only with that you can get back into the bunker with Virginia’s parents. This is not only important for completing “Find the Puffton Family”, because you will also find the VIP key card there, without which you cannot enter the final bunker of the game. As part of the two quests, you will receive the items you need to complete the story, but you do not have to complete the quests themselves.
Ending the Story – Guide
If you have the VIP key card in your inventory, you now need the gold armor to complete the story. Since the latest update, you can find them in a cave in the south-eastern area of the central mountain region. To advance in it you need the scuba gear, without which you can’t get the shovel either.
In the huge cave you will not only meet mutants, but also demons. In order to master them, a classic weapon is basically sufficient. However, if you want to save on ammo, you will also find a cross in the cave with the rope gun, which you only have to hold in front of the demons’ noses to set them on fire.
With the gold armor in your luggage, you go to the final bunker on the east beach of the island, which you open with the VIP key card. At the end of the location you can finally decide whether you want to stay on the island or flee with the helicopter. For each of these two decisions you will receive a separate achievement.
If you’ve made friends with Virginia and Kelvin is still alive, you’ll also receive the “Keep your friends close” achievement. If you flee the island, they will board the helicopter with you. This is also the ‘proper’ ending to the game, following which it’s just the credits and Sons of the Forest is over. You can only continue playing the survival game if you decide to stay on the island!
