Timberborn
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99, a BANGER if it drops to $30.79.
- Length
- 22.9h
- Value
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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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.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. 52 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $30.79. The record reaches that level 20 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Against the Storm ($29.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Stonehearth ($19.99, scores 45).
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 says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 22.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,280 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 1,038 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.
The drop-off
33% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 22.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
3,884 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I would highly recommend, great game and I always seem to come back to it. I really like how you can customize each playthrough and I also like the two different factions, the only thing I don't like is that there are only two factions. They also have MOD support which is nice, you don't have to go and try and find MODs on a sketchy website or anything, just all in all a great game.
I love the game and I would recommend it to others. Also, I wish you could make smaller maps because my PC can't handle the big maps. Please and thank you!
If you like building stuff in games this is about as good as it gets. This is easily the building game I have the most hours in. I've played it since relatively early EA and still play it frequently now. If you are even vaguely interested you should buy it and play it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Timberborn scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1062090/timberbornThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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