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Mechanistry · 2026 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 95 % positive of 31,678 reviews, as of Oct 18

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

24 games that play like Timberborn and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Settlement Survival, The Wandering Village and Against the Storm.

Player tags

  • City Builder
  • Voxel
  • Colony Sim
  • Nature
  • Sandbox
  • Building
  • Automation
  • Management
Map region: Factories & City Builders
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Plays and looks like Timberborn

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Timberborn

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Farthest Frontier86 % positive of 19,504Shared: City Builder · Building · Management
  2. Dwarf Fortress94 % positive of 28,579Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
  3. Cliff Empire87 % positive of 4,264Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
  4. Urbek City Builder90 % positive of 1,573Shared: City Builder · Voxel · Sandbox
  5. Of Life and Land87 % positive of 263Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
  6. Ostriv95 % positive of 6,626Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
  7. New Cycle80 % positive of 2,398Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
  8. Synergy83 % positive of 560Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Nature
  9. Sapiens84 % positive of 2,010Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
  10. Dawn of Man86 % positive of 17,097Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
  11. Banished90 % positive of 42,246Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
  12. Surviving the Aftermath70 % positive of 4,363Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building

By look

Looks like Timberborn

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Clanfolk91 % positive of 3,108
  2. Whiskerwood92 % positive of 3,948
  3. Diplomacy is Not an Option84 % positive of 9,673
  4. Songs of Syx96 % positive of 5,822
  5. Kubifaktorium80 % positive of 760
  6. Going Medieval89 % positive of 18,506
  7. Farlanders93 % positive of 524
  8. Outpath94 % positive of 2,572
  9. Modulus: Factory Automation91 % positive of 885
  10. Surviving Mars84 % positive of 26,570
  11. Ark of Charon79 % positive of 344
  12. Oxygen: First Breath89 % positive of 1,594

At a glance

What games like Timberborn have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Timberborn: City Builder (22 of 24), Colony Sim (19) and Sandbox (17).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, none of them after Timberborn (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: RimWorld (97 % positive of 210,517).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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