Timberborn
Mechanistry · 2026 · City Builder, Colony Sim, Voxel, Sandbox, Automation
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About Timberborn
✦ AI summary
Lead a beaver colony through droughts and toxic seasons, building dams, aqueducts, and towering wooden structures to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage resources, automate production chains, and reshape terrain with advanced water physics while choosing between the nature-loving Folktails or industrious Iron Teeth factions.
Mankind turned Earth into a dry wasteland and perished, but some species adapted and evolved. Pick one of the beaver factions and see how long your colony can last.
Beaver societies
Control one of two beaver factions: the nature-friendly Folktails or the industrious Iron Teeth. Each faction has unique buildings, technology, and gameplay traits. Choose what fits your playstyle!Wet, dry, and toxic seasons
Prepare your settlement for recurring droughts and waves of toxic waste. Stockpile food and keep fields and forests alive even after rivers dry up. Rely on both natural water sources and artificial irrigation to keep the land arable and your beavers safe.Water physics and terraforming
Beavers’ engineering skills are legendary. With Timberborn’s 3D water physics and terraforming, so can be yours. Put up dams and floodgates, erect massive aqueducts, dig canals and tunnels with explosives, and reshape the terrain to your liking.Vertical architecture
Harness the game’s unique vertical architecture system. Space is limited, so stack lodges and workshops on top of each other. Construct platforms and bridges, set up an elaborate power grid, and let your beavers speed around on ziplines or through tubeways.Lumberpunk
Turn timber into sophisticated machinery – from water wheels and lumber mills to engines and mechanized pumps. Wood is the core resource in Timberborn, but the most advanced structures require metal. To find it, send your scavengers to the ruins of the old world.Automation
Automate tasks across your settlement by creating an intricate system of sensors, relays, counters, and other tools for advanced engineers. Self-controlling dams and factories are just the beginning.Bots
Supercharge your colony with mechanized beavers. Power them up, maintain them, and you'll get extra-efficient workers for almost any job. They operate 24/7, and you can send them to the most hazardous areas.Well-being
Build a sprawling city with efficient production chains and follow the lives of its inhabitants day and night. As the population grows, satisfy your evolved rodents with a balanced diet, entertainment, decorations, and end-game monuments that help restore the Earth.Map editor and mods
Play on one of the included maps or create your own and share it with the community. On top of the built-in map editor, Timberborn features official mod support. Tons of extra player-made content and quality-of-life additions are available, with more coming each day.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Great colony sim with a unique set of problems around controlling water sources. A really well done twist on a classic genre!
Timberborn is a sandbox game in the tradition of Populous, only you're directing beavers instead of lil doodz. The visual detail is really fun, and it only challenges my GPU if I try to build things when running at full speed (3x); impressive combo when the only other games as open as this one are Minecraft and its ilk. Watch out--this first version is hard! My first try has died on every board so far, and so has my second. So now I spend most of my time play the game at the low difficulty continuously improving my beaver civilizations, like train models that you don't need extra space to store. I'll give the higher difficulty another try soon...
This game is like crack for me. No paid DLC, Mods are fully embraced and encouraged by the devs, devs are still actively updating and adding to the game. They even post their early updates in experimental features so they can listen to the community feedback and/or bug squash before fully rolling new editions out. The game itself isn't revolutionary but it does everything in such a way that I am just hooked.
This game had a pleasant cycle of boom and bust. Multiple resources must be balanced and spun. It's plenty cute, and yet a ruthless city builder. By my 500th beaver the cityscape had filled the map and my computer had slowed to a crawl. God it was worth it.
I saw a beaver at work today. Made me wonder if he had contained all of his bad water sources yet... Probably not because hoomans suck, but I'm rooting for the little guy. Also this game is awesome.
One of the best games of the year to date. It's simple enough to pick up and learn quick, with a reasonable difficulty curve. Solid selection of maps, Great water physics, and just a nice presentation. It even has an in-game map editor! Has the building aspects of Satisfactory Priorities and logistics of Oxygen Not Included Camera and overall feel of Age of Empires ...but with beavers, which is just totally wonderful. Looking forward to seeing what future updates this game will have!
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