Timberman
BANGER · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX compatible graphics. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Become a Timberman, chop wood and avoid the branches. Almost 30 million players could not be wrong - featured as one of the best casual games.
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.30. That was December 2022. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 86 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Broforce ($14.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats PARTICLE MACE ($4.99, scores 73).
$5.76 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $0.99.
Of the 662 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 2,725 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.2 hours; clearing it takes 27, which is 8.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
62% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7 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
Perfect little time-waster that runs flawlessly on the Steam Deck. The core loop of chopping wood and dodging branches is addictive for about twenty minutes at a time. It's wonderfully simple, though it definitely gets repetitive pretty fast. Good for a quick arcade fix when you're waiting for something else to download.
Buy, Install, Cut some tree, Get achievements, Get cards, Cut some tree. Good Game
Timberman is a very simple arcade game that gets repetitive almost immediately. The core gameplay is just chopping a tree and avoiding branches, which might be fun for a few minutes, but it quickly becomes boring. There's very little variety, no real progression, and nothing that keeps you engaged for a longer time. While the pixel art style is decent and the controls are easy to understand, it doesn't make up for...
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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Timberman scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/398710/timbermanThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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