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Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Whiskerwood is a strategy, simulation and city builder game developed by Minakata Dynamics and published by Hooded Horse.
Released on November 06th 2025 is available only on Windows in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 2,913 reviews of which 2,711 were positive and 202 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 11.06€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Whiskerwood into these genres:

Strategy Simulation City Builder Base Building Colony Sim Grand Strategy Management Building Historical Sandbox Economy Resource Management Open World Survival Singleplayer Moddable 4X Diplomacy Replay Value Early Access

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670 (quad-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-8350 (quad-core)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX-580 (8 GB) / Intel® Arc™ A350 (4 GB)
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 10 GB available space

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Feb. 2026

Probably the most fun I've had with a worker placement/city builder game. Fans of Timberborn, Satisfactory et al would definitely get their money's worth on this one! Feedback for the devs: - The stone economy is a little weird right now. There is just way to much of it. Dumping stone into the sea kinda solves that since you're ridding yourself of your Captain Insano amounts of stone, but why not create a new resource (other than cut stone or earthworks) that makes use of it? - Rebellious Fervor needs to amount to something other than increased morale for rebellious whiskers/decreased morale for monarchist whiskers. Currently a very boring mechanic. - Allow us to build defenses, such as walls and coastal batteries, to fight against pirates/our cat overlords - Allow us to send trade missions overseas to sell excess goods - Increase the range of customization - e.g. settlement flag design, signposts with custom text, renaming whiskers, etc. - The pollution overlay should look more like the heatmap overlay so we can see pollution values at a glance - Ambitious request: I want to see my entire underground system with some kind of xray vision overlay. Doing anything underground right now is incredible clunky. Keep up the good work Minikata!

Feb. 2026

It's decent. I half-expected it to be just a Timberborn ripoff but in reality it borrows from most popular city builders and is more of an Anno + Timberborn + Dwarf Fortress + Safisfactory + Frostpunk. [B]THE GOOD:[/B] [*] Full z-axis. You can both stack buildings into skyscrappers, or settle down below to protect yourself against cannon fire. [*] Research tree that actually feels right. You're organically progressing through technological eras like in Civilization rather than "no building that yet just because". [*] Implemented heating layer, pipes, conveyor belts, trains, terraforming. [*] Implemented modding with steam workshop integration. [B]THE BAD:[/B] [*] GPU performance. I had to limit fps to 60 and amp up the fans. I believe this is because game is made on UE5. Stark constrast with any other Unity-based city builder I've used to play where you usually have to only worry about CPU. [*] Occasional random fatal errors at launch. [B]THE UGLY:[/B] [*] Currently not much of a goal long-term. Initially you're hooked up by the immersive story about industrious rodents struggling under cat's yoke, but halfway through it just becomes a standard city builder checklist of "what I didn't implement yet". [*] There's no feel that the outside world is alive. Supply ships will keep sending you small amounts of logs and dry food at steep prices, even though your colony have long progressed past that point. Smuggler will continue to pay you premium for stone blocks for whatever reason. Similar things with the Monarch and Pirates. [*] Farming is nonsense. Standard way to keep your colonists well fed involves disassembling the mountain and throwing rocks into the ocean, because that's how you get more arable land. Go figure. [*] There are several efficient tax evasion schemes that trivialize the whole tax system after a while. Screwing cats over taxes is fun and I'd like tax cheese to stay, but there should be limits to their ignorance. The game is already looking pretty good despite being in early access for just three months. While right now it's a game for a week tops, I will be keeping an eye on it's future updates.

Nov. 2025

Its good, its really good, but there are some clear fundamentals missing IMO that hold it back from being one of the best in this genre, The main issue I have is a clear lack of a main goal. The constant problem is paying taxes and pirates which once you have a simple basic understanding of the game becomes no problem at all. The game needs a harder narrative towards an end goal that demands the player to move and expand. Right now you can finish the tech tree without ever leaving your island, which really makes the game feel small. Outside of the tech tree there isnt really anything to work towards.

Nov. 2025

This game only entered Early Access a week ago, but it's off to an EXTREMELY strong start. A lot has already been written about the game's strengths and flaws, but I'd like to point out something that I find especially important: the devs are doing a phenomenal job responding to criticism. It's only been seven days and the devs have already sent out four patches. That's one every 36 hours, and they've all been substantial. I've already seen UI tweaks, quality of life features, balance changes, and a truly massive number of bugfixes. Bugs introduced in patches get stamped out hours after I discover them. I've never seen a small team like this work at such a rapid pace to improve their game. These are some of the most industrious Whiskers I've ever encountered. I've seen many promising Early Access games fail to meet their potential. I'm confident this won't be one of them. These brave Whiskers are clearly devoted to making their game the best it can be, and that outweighs every minor gripe I've had with it. Keep doing what you're doing, devs... and please remember that even the greatest of Whiskers needs some time to rest at the end of the day!

Nov. 2025

Even when the tax cat is robbing me blind I'm enjoying the game, it's damn near cyclic in nature when I look at my supplies and go "We're so back" Then I look over at the tax collection coming up tomorrow being three times what I have in monetary value and immediately switch to "it's so meowver" Bravo devs, good game.

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Whiskerwood is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

Whiskerwood is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Whiskerwood received 2,711 positive votes out of a total of 2,913 achieving a rating of 8.92.

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Whiskerwood was developed by Minakata Dynamics and published by Hooded Horse.

Whiskerwood is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Whiskerwood is not playable on MacOS.

Whiskerwood is not playable on Linux.

Whiskerwood is a single-player game.

Whiskerwood does not currently offer any DLC.

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

Whiskerwood does not support Steam Remote Play.

Whiskerwood 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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