Game Review: Timberborn (Early Access)

A lot of the time with these reviews, I have some story about how I learned about the game. Maybe I played it when I was younger, spending hours with my sister together trying to conquer the game, or I read about it in Rock Paper Shotgun, or one of my friends told me about it and said I had to play it, but Timberborn wasn't like that. I saw it in the list of Steam sale games, thought it looked interesting, and bought it. City-builders used to be huge--I spent hours as a child playing Caesar III and trying to convince the patricians to build villas so I could get that sweet tax revenue, or playing SimCity 2000 (released 1993) with disasters off and marveling at the 3D terrain--but nowadays they're incredibly niche. We need to treasure the ones we have, especially if they have such an interesting hook.

You see, Timberborn is about a city built by intelligent beavers in a post-apocalyptic world.

Humble Beginnings.

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