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Timberborn is a lumberpunk city-building and survival strategy game developed by the independent Warsaw-based studio Mechanistry. After a highly successful four-year Early Access run, the game reached its full 1.0 release on October 28, 2025, available on Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store. As of 2025, Timberborn has sold over one million copies and maintains an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam.

The game takes place in a distant post-apocalyptic future — humans have gone extinct, leaving behind crumbling ruins, flooded valleys, and underground reservoirs of toxic Badwater. Into this ruined world come the beavers: two rival civilizations, each with their own philosophy, architecture, and engineering traditions. Your job as the player is to guide one of these factions from a tiny starting camp into a thriving, vertically-stacked metropolis capable of outlasting any drought or pollution event the world can throw at it.

What sets Timberborn apart from other city-builders is its emphasis on water physics and river engineering. Rivers are not decorative — they are lifeblood. Damming rivers, redirecting streams, building irrigation networks, and defending against toxic Badtide floods are core gameplay loops that require real engineering thinking. Combined with a robust tech tree, a well-being system for your beaver citizens, and a completely optional but deeply rewarding Bot automation layer, Timberborn offers dozens of hours of strategic depth.

Buildings in Timberborn can be stacked up to 34 layers high, enabling some genuinely jaw-dropping vertical city layouts. Districts allow you to split your colony across multiple locations on the map, each functioning semi-independently with its own supply chains and workforce.