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Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Timberborn is a city builder, voxel and colony sim game developed and published by Mechanistry.
Released on September 15th 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS in 15 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, Thai, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 31,678 reviews of which 30,266 were positive and 1,412 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 17.17€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Timberborn into these genres:

City Builder Voxel Colony Sim Nature Sandbox Building Automation Management Survival Base-Building Science Physics Farming Sim Strategy 3D Post-apocalyptic Simulation Early Access Stylized Level Editor

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 or newer
  • Processor: 4-core 1.7 GHz or better
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GTX 950, Radeon R9 380 or similar
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS 11.0 or newer
  • Processor: 4-core 1.7 GHz or better
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Radeon Pro 560X or better
  • Storage: 3 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
The devs have been updating the game diligently for years, never shying away from making big drastic changes to it and then polishing them to perfection. This game is one of the best supported early access titles and it's still receiving huge updates despite not feeling like EA for quite a time now. It is a fantastic and very charming game that just keeps getting better and the devs deserve a lot of praise and love for it. In terms of actual gameplay, it is a very chill and cozy city builder with a focus on terrain and water manipulation. It can be challenging at first and you might lose a settlement or two before figuring out what to do but generally speaking it's more about building creative functional beaver cities in a creative way. If I had one wish for it it'd be that it had a somewhat bigger focus on production chains and some more complex industries down the line, considering all the advanced mechanics for transportation and logistics that they added I feel like it'd be a good fit since we could really put them to a good use then.
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May 2025
This game has a clear soul and is very wholesome. Beavers are cute and interesting. Too bad i lost 80% of them in the great famine of cycle 6.
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Jan. 2025
After nearly 20 hours of playing in the last few days, I think it's safe to say I like this game. Not because it's a colony sim. I've played my fair share of citybuilders and logistics management games and, while Timberborn does a perfectly competent job at that, it isn't what makes the game truly special (at least not for me). Because what do beavers do? They build dams. So what would super-intelligent beavers in a post-apocalyptic future do? Why, they'd build massive water engineering projects, of course. That, for me, is the main selling point of the game and what really sets it apart from similar colony builders: your survival depends on managing water, which means building dams and floodgates and levees and sluices to direct and control its flow. You use water to keep your farmland irrigated, keep your drinking tanks filled, and to power your industry. Water is your lifeblood, it is your everything - so manage it well. Oh - and just to check, you've got an alternate flow solution for the upcoming Badtide, right? Don't get *too* comfortable just cuz you got your irrigation sorted out. Timberborn lives on its beautiful modelling of water flow, so much so that it made me read up on fluid dynamics to really understand the nitty gritty of how water speed, volume and pressure all interact with each other. If you want to play a game that indirectly teaches you how Bernoulli's principle works, get Timberborn. (I'll just add that to the list of 'sentences I never thought I'd type'.)
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Sept. 2024
I love this game! I have never played another game like it. It is the most easy to grasp but hard to master city builder I have ever played! If you like city building survival games, with cute little beavers, that gets constant love from its players. This is the game for you! I have played more than 1,000 hours, just get the game...
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June 2024
been playing this beauty since my pc could handle about 200 beavers. now my pc can handle 600 beavers and i havent upgraded the pc. love to see devs care about improving their work, love to see Devs take suggestions from the community and implement them
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Frequently Asked Questions

Timberborn is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.

Timberborn is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 33.99€ on Steam.

Timberborn received 30,266 positive votes out of a total of 31,678 achieving an impressive rating of 9.35.
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Timberborn was developed and published by Mechanistry.

Timberborn is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Timberborn is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Timberborn is not playable on Linux.

Timberborn is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Timberborn. Explore additional content available for Timberborn on Steam.

Timberborn is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Timberborn does not support Steam Remote Play.

Timberborn is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Timberborn
33.99€ -50% 33.99€ 17.17€ -42% 33.99€ 19.73€
9.4
30,266
1,412
Game modes
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Online players
4,142
Developer
Mechanistry
Publisher
Mechanistry
Release 15 Sep 2021
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