Timberman similar games & best alternatives

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Timberman

Linux, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2015

Should you play it?

Become a Timberman, chop wood and avoid the branches. Almost 30 million players could not be wrong - featured as one of the best casual games.

What works

  • Addictive and simple gameplay
  • Competitive multiplayer and leaderboards
  • Low price and good value
  • Many unlockable characters
  • Local and online multiplayer modes

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive and limited gameplay variety
  • Multiplayer matchmaking issues and cheaters
  • Can cause finger and wrist strain
  • Lack of narrative or exploration
  • Music can be irritating over time

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Timberman VS

  • One More Line

  • Surfingers

  • Roll'd

  • Risky Rescue

  • Leap up no Justu: Double

More fantastical

Games that feels like Timberman but with more imaginative fiction

  • Indie Pogo

  • The Disney Afternoon Collection

  • Fighties

  • PIXELMAN

  • Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio

  • Kaze and the Wild Masks

Less dominating

Games that feels like Timberman but with less domination over others

  • Super Mega Neo Pug

  • Turbo Pug

  • Legend of Himari

  • BEHEMOTH

  • Catch a Falling Star

  • Mega Hasan

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Timberman. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Timberman. These titles are not in What to play next.

Timberman: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Experimenting, Creativity.

Last update: 21/08/2026