June 6, 2023 - Day 157 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 174

Game: Timberborn

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Sep 16, 2021
Library Date: Jun 5, 2023
Unplayed: 1d (1d)
Playtime: 3h55m

Timberborn is an "oh no what have I done reality" game (TIL there's not really an antonym for simulator).

Technically, Timberborn is a "lumberpunk" city-building strategy management game in a post-apocalyptic Earth devoid of humans.

In practice, Timberborn is regret*-generator that will eat up your time, until you look up from the monitor and realise you should have been in bed two hours ago. In my case, three and a half hours.

You control a colony of beavers. BEAVERS! They're adorable and whimsical, and they build stuff, and you can build more stuff, and then extend, and then plant trees, and dear me, this just made me want to keep playing.

I had this on my wishlist for a while, and then it came up on special, and then it was even cheaper on Humble, and it was worth every penny of the A$23.50 I paid for it.

Except in lost sleep.

*I regret nothing.

Timberborn is:

5: Excellent

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