A few days ago, my fiance and I started using Geforce Now to be able to play Sons of the Forest finally. Only one of my 2 computers meets the specs for it, my main desktop is sadly too old and feeble these days. Neither of us wanted to play totally solo lol. But yeah, game streaming is surprisingly really nice?? Even being in Alaska (I do live in the city), it’s worked flawlessly. I have wanted to play this game so badly, I can’t believe we didn’t give this a shot sooner. The only issues we’ve had are user error–not saving often enough, and then afking, it is understandably not tolerant of that. Not sure the difference between the tiers, we were excited and went with the $20 one. But it is very promising and makes much more financial sense right now versus getting a new laptop. I am definitely going to play some of my other newer games through streaming now, ones that chug on my computer despite technically running.
Sons of the Forest itself is pretty much exactly what I wanted–it is delightfully dreadful, graphically beautiful, just anxiety-inducing and exhilarating, with great base building, I’d say it’s a dream but it’s a little bit a nightmare, too, regardless, it is fun as hell. I know they have a ways to go development-wise, but I am not disappointed yet. Mostly the killer feature for us is the co-op, it’s a blast to play together. We played The Forest on PS4 and had all kinds of issues (still loved it tho), most of them funny and some of them really frustrating, so it is a relief the sequel’s co-op has been so smooth so far. The key words are “so far” of course, to all I’ve said, it’s really only been a few days. But I do have over 20 hours logged already lmao. I’m obsessed.