Timberborn Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-20
- Relaxing and addictive city builder
- Outstanding water physics and management
- Impressive vertical building system
- Lack of goals and direction
- Tutorial lacks depth and clarity
- Severe lag at high population
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 41,998
- Positive
- 40,24795.8%
- Negative
- 1,7514.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 3,012,721
- Estimated revenue
- $105,415,108
- Game price
- $35
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 450.50%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,228
- Estimated revenue lost
- $112,948
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 460.5% Avg playtime 1h | 400.4% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 3183.5% Avg playtime 133.4h | 8,62095.5% Avg playtime 223h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 4.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 23.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 246.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,830.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
9,024 total
Organic purchasers7,94388.0%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations1,08112.0%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
9,024 total
First impression0-2h1441.60%
Voted up: 65%
Mid game2-10h1,10112.2%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h1,07311.9%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+6,70674.3%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
95.6%
Global baseline 96.0%
68 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 41,998 total.