#Timberborn new beavers full

Or maybe you find the dynamite button and flood everything. Maybe you get power up and running, getting a big, hard shaft to connect to a water wheel and bring the beavers out of the dork.

#Timberborn new beavers full

Right now, the tutorial basically just sort of gets you going and it’s up to you to get beyond a bunch of big, needy beavers that need to be kept wet and stuffed full of carrots. If you like a finicky level of detail and can deal with the kind of finicky interface, there is a ton of fun detail beneath the surface. On the other hand, I also play Dwarf Fortress and sometimes even have fun because I am a sicko, so it’s not the worst I’ve seen. Why, pray tell, is “Cut Trees” its own button? But Wood is a different category? And “Plant Trees” is somewhere else altogether? I am not sure I need an assortment of tree-themed buttons that all do slightly different things. Likewise, some of the UI decisions are kind of finicky. Once you build the flag, you have to go into a different menu and specifically mark which trees you want them to cut down. You need to build a Lumberjack Flag to attract big, strapping lumberjacks to cut down thick logs of fresh wood. Most of these games require some management and herding of your band of idiots.

And to invent staircases.Īh, yes, beavers have discovered science. So you have to tell them to go out and gather blueberries to eat. This can be kind of a bummer in the current tutorial build if you can’t figure something out and you single-handedly slaughter a bevy of beavers. They’re very nice beavers, but you kinda have to tell them to do everything or they literally die. No, they need water pumps to get that refreshing gush across their tongues. What are they, animals? You’d just have a big, wet beaver if they did that. They can’t just walk over and bury their faces in the gushing water, for example. Keeping your beaver happy is surprisingly complicated. Like most of these games, you need to manage everyone’s needs and taking care of a big, furry beaver is more complicated than it looks. The Ironteeth are more industrial beavers, all pounding pistons and metal. Call it “beaverpunk.” Currently, there are two factions: The Folktails are nice farmer beavers that love nothing more than sticking their plow deep into the moist, wet earth, driving deep, and planting seeds. The gimmick with this one is that it’s a city builder/colony management game but with a twist: humanity has fallen. There’s a lot of city builder games out there (and I won’t stop playing them because I hate myself). Who rises to take our place? What about a creature so industrious they have a saying–”busy as a”? What about a creature that loves damming? What about a big, wet, hairy beaver? Who doesn’t love a huge beaver? Particularly one that works long, hard hours, a beaver that never stops until everything is wet and sloppy from all the moisture it gets everywhere? Simply put, it's a nice space to be in.We humans have really screwed up the planet. It's simple and inoffensive, with little hints of a history to its world where beavers seem to have inherited the earth. The look and feel of it is the main draw. There are harder difficulties for those who maybe want this game to be a tale of survival rather than prosperity, but that seems a poor match for the tone. Yet Timberborn is gentler and kinder than most of its ilk, with circumstances rarely nose diving quicker than you can correct a mistake. Picking the right moment to invest in flour production or re-foresting is vital. You have to ensure there's a steady supply of wood while also making sure there's plenty of housing and storage, while also making progress towards more useful buildings.

As in the best management games, succeeding in Timberborn is all about a good juggling act. Tasked with building an ever expanding settlement for your adorable little population of beavers, the game falls into a steady rhythm of unlocking new technologies while dealing with environmental changes such as droughts.