Timberborn
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99, a BANGER if it drops to $30.82.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.53/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 42,500
- Critics
- 85 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $30.82 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 22.9h
- To 100%
- 64.2h 2.8x the story
- Finish
- <1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 54 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 December 2021
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3,828 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
35% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
54 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $30.82. The record reaches that level 22 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Laysara: Summit Kingdom ($12.49, scores 61) and Station to Station ($17.99, scores 63) both come in lower.
More about Timberborn
Critics scored it 85. Players sit 11 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 22.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,088 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 1,044 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 22.9 hours; clearing it takes 64, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Production chains... Yes Puzzle to solve... Yes Fun water dynamic... Yes End level god like powers... Yes Combat... Nope Anno had a baby with a beaver... Correct Chill... Yup
2 more reviews
I am the bone of my log. Wood is my body and water is my blood. I have created over a thousand dams. Unknown to Drought, Nor known to Badwater. Have withstood pain to craft many gears. Yet, those paws will never hold anything... So as I pray, Unlimited Timber Works!
Solid performance, nice water physics, terrain manipulation, and best of all SENTIENT BEAVERS! Of all the creatures to choose after humans leave/die from the planet. It is actually what caught my eye on this game. It does make sense in a way. Beavers alter their environment in massive ways second only to humans. You are essentially tasked with battling droughts and bad water polluting (some wells being permanent...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 950, Radeon R9 380 or similar, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Timberborn scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1062090/timberbornReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.