LUMBERMANCER
Roger von Biersborn · 2016 · Action, Adventure
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 20 📈 Making a comeback 85%
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About LUMBERMANCER
The core mechanic of Lumbermancer is controlling both the lumbermancing wizard and the lumbermancered logs simultaneously!
This is the Lumbermancer. He has the power to summon log minions to do his dark dark dark dark bidding, to cast spells, and to collect the resources to progress through the stages. He can't directly slay the creatures of the forest though! And he can't defend himself! For that, he relies on...
These Logs! You can summon a log, and manipulate what type of log it is on the fly. Each of the four types serves a particular purpose. The shovel log can plant seeds to fill your wood supply, powering your lumbermancing abilities. The sword log can move quickly and perform melee attacks to kill the beasts of the woods. The torch log is needed to keep your Lumbermancer's lantern lit so that you can see your way through the dark forest. The arrow log moves slow, but can perform ranged attacks to stick arrows in enemy buns.
By controlling the wizard with one hand and your log with the other, you have to navigate your way through enemies and keep your Lumbermancer alive!
There are four main areas of the woods, plus an unlockable endless forest, a secret boss, and a shop.
In the shop, you can trade souls with Death to get powerful and sometimes not-so-powerful spells! Like lazer eyes and a naked code! You perform these spells with the hand that controls the wizard, through an ancient arcane movement of the joystick/keypad. Imagine doing a Hadouken in Street Fighter, but instead of a fireball coming out, you make a pig appear. 
Even wizards with unimaginable powers aren't always on epic quests. In Lumbermancer, the stakes are pretty low. The fate of the world isn't in your hands, and there's no princess to be saved. BUT! It is lunchtime. And there's only one thing your guts desire...a sandwich. You know where to get the ingredients. Holy Toast from the Ghost King, Witch's Lettuce from the Bell Witch, Toadmatoes from the Swamp, and a slice of the Devil's Bologna. That's not to say that it won't be dangerous. These creatures won't give up their treasures easily...
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This looks like a cute little game on the surface. You control both the Lumbermancer and the logs he summons. There are 4 kinds - a shovel log which only purpose is to grow raw logs used as a consumable for summoning, a sword log that does melee damage, a torch log that’s used to rekindle Lumbermancer’s lantern (if it goes out, whole screen goes dark) but can do some damage as well, and an archer log that does ranged damage. What you need to do is to fill a sandwich shaped hole in main character’s tummy, by beating 4 areas in the woods, along with their respective bosses that drop ingredients for his lunch. Quirky and charming, right? Unfortunately under the hood it’s a complete mess. You control both the Lumbermancer and the log that is currently active. I would expect the logs to act as at least semi independent summons, but nope, it’s all manual. It’s hard enough to fight with one and avoid damage with the other, but to make the matters worse - the controls are not rebindable. Personally I would have swapped few things around to make it more comfortable if I could, but instead I was forced into someone else's clumsy preferences. Your characters move slowly and can block each ot…8 found this helpful
The game had a wonderful artistic style and fun music. But it immediately felt too grindy. The controls are meant to confuse and irritate because they are cumbersome. In some ways it's supposed to be fun because it challenges the left hand verses the right hand and multitasking, but at the end of the day- I wouldn't recogmend it to my friends because it felt too grindy. I can see what the game was trying to do though.1 found this helpful
I really want to like this game but the instructional portion at the beginning has me lost and struggling to figure out what the heck to do real cute though wish i could figure it out
Good game with hard to master controls but lots of fun and really good soundtrack/audio. Killing ennemies gets you souls that are used to buy spells, which were, for me, the most fun I got out of the game. It's too bad you had to really grind out levels you already done to get all spells. The game is really short once you get the hand of it. Cons : It's pretty damn glitchy and I had to save a lot because my character would randomly freeze until he gets damaged, and sometimes if you're unlucky enough, the game just freezes and you just have to alt+F4 What could have been a great game is a good game nonetheless, and for the price it's a fun experience
Really fun and interesting mechanics
Fun concept but can't remap controler key
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