Games like Timberborn
If Timberborn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Captain of Industry, The Wandering Village and RimWorld — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beavers are cute, creative city designs and mods are great. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Timberborn is a strategy and simulation game developed by Mechanistry set in a post-human world where beavers have inherited the earth. Players design and manage beaver settlements, employing automation, resource balancing, and terrain modification to build thriving cities. The game features vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming as core systems, with beaver behavior influencing settlement development. Reviewers highlight the creative city-design possibilities and extensive mod support. Players describe the experience as relaxing and whimsical, with problem-solving and water engineering as key attractions. The game holds a 96% positive rating from over 22,000 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck. It is available at $34.99.
About Timberborn: 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.
Players who liked Timberborn also play
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Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Timberborn.
Top pick for Timberborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
The Wandering Village
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Timberborn.
Second-strongest match for Timberborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Timberborn.
Third-strongest match for Timberborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Timberborn.
Ranked #4 for Timberborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Mini Settlers
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Timberborn.
Ranked #5 for Timberborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Timberborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Timberborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Timberborn.
Ranked #8 for Timberborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Timberborn
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Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Timberborn.
Reviewers of Timberborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Timberborn.
Reviewers of Timberborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Timberborn.
Reviewers of Timberborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Timberborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Timberborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a peaceful mood with Timberborn.
Reviewers of Timberborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a relaxing mood with Timberborn.
Reviewers of Timberborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Timberborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Timberborn at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Timberborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Timberborn.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Timberborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Timberborn.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Timberborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timberborn.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Timberborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timberborn.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Timberborn on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Timberborn.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Timberborn on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Timberborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timberborn.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Timberborn.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timberborn.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timberborn.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timberborn.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timberborn.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Wandering Village
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Timberborn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Timberborn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Timberborn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timberborn.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Timberborn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Timberborn.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Frequently asked about Timberborn
- Does Timberborn run on Steam Deck?
- Timberborn is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Timberborn cost?
- Timberborn is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Timberborn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Timberborn are Captain of Industry, The Wandering Village, RimWorld.
- Who developed Timberborn?
- Timberborn was developed by Mechanistry.
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