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Backwoods Town
Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“Well, it's an okay crafting survivor sim. My only complaint is that I HAVE to use the keyboard and mouse to use this. Why don't YOU try playing this game with a keyboard and mouse when your right hand is either a trembling mess normally or as stiff as lead on a bad day? Steam…”
— a player, Steam review · 32 hrs played“I'm enjoying this, though there are minor bugs (such as occasionally needing to re-select items on your hotbar when they're not working). The general lack of tooltips is a mixed bag. One one hand, it enhances the discovery aspects and the functions of some items are more…”
— a player, Steam review · 261 hrs played“Lamentablemente este es otro de esos juegos donde el desarrollador a dejado de brindarle actualizaciones. Es un juego inacabado, tiene cosas pero algunas son inutiles como los espantapajaros. tiene misiones pero son repetitivas y muy aburridas. ir de punto A a punto B y llevar…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Stop game development
Dear friends, two months ago I was mobilized to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so I am unable to continue developing the game. I hope for the war to end as soon as possible and for everyone to return ho
Backwoods Town 0.5.0
Added a new NPC, Hunter. Will appear in the forest with boars after the blacksmith comes back to the village. Added Electric seeds extractor. Added Electric Pottery Wheel. Added wooden sign. Added bri
0.4.1
-Fixed problem with camera rotation on the map while riding horse. -Fixed invisible walls colliders on sulfur swamp. -Fixed a bug when a horse could fly into the sky when running over an obstacle. -No
Engineering Update
It is no longer in alpha. The game is stable and offers many hours of gameplay. Thank you all for your contributions — whether through bug reporting, translations, or sharing your ideas and proposals.
Alpha 0.3.0
-Added domestic animals system. -Added new area. -Added new NPC Farmer. -Added Chicken. -Added Cow. -Added Pig. -Added Horse. -Added chicken feeder. -Added henhouse. -Added cow feeder. -Added pig feed
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Building · Farming Sim · Survival · Agriculture · Atmospheric · Inventory Management · Loot · Adventure · Sandbox · Exploration · 3D Vision · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Ukrainian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch |
| Achievements | 24 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or later Processor: 2.6 GHz Quad Core or similar Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space