Lumberjack's Dynasty
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 55.3h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was August 2026. 56 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 ($1.59, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Farmer's Dynasty - Final Harvest Edition ($19.99, scores 27).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 218 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 55.3 hours; clearing it takes 160, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
62% start to 1% 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
8 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 23:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
DO NOT BUY THIS SCAM. I got this game for $4 and I still want a refund after 22hrs. If you spent any money on this game you were robbed. This is more a farming game than a lumberjack game. This game expects you to make 250k and pay off your saw mill before you can even replant trees. New plots cost about as much as you get for selling the wood off them. How do I make money to pay off the saw mill when I have to...
Dont buy this if you want a fun experience. The grind is just stupid and drains all your will to life. It is all fun until you reach chapter 2 and have to gain a lot of money.
this games is a wonderful lumberjacking experience with a interesting community there is apparently more but i cannot for the life of me get past the early game loop of selling pallets of wood to a lumber yard. the ungodly tedious and boring drive could work as a torture for gamers. there is only one truck that can haul these pallets and it only fits 7 the drive itself takes about 4 minutes so you would think its...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Lumberjack's Dynasty scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/968970/lumberjack-s-dynastyReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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