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Lumberjack's Dynasty
Developer UMEO Studios
A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come. From the Steam store page
169 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Sep 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
53
Mixed
89 positive · 80 negative
95% range 45–60%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
1,997 of 2,823 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 169 · most liked firstMy son passed away on January 14th and this game has been a life-saver for me. It's fun to play and has so many elements that just cutting down trees. It kept my mind busy so I couldn't obsess over losing my child. All of the Toplitz games are awesome and have games that are east to learn, but are enough of a challenge that make it fun to play!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“138.8 hours, early supporter, detailed feedback — ignored and disappointed.” Steam user since 2005. I rarely write reviews — but this one needs to be said. I bought Lumberjack’s Dynasty while it was still in early development, long before it was "finished." I now have 138.8 hours in the game. That’s not a rage review — that’s a long-time supporter who tried to love this game. Back then, it was buggy — tractors falling into holes that shouldn’t exist, trees flying into the atmosphere, logs…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I won't criticize the people who worked on the project. Programmers, designers, etc. They're subservient and only do what they're told. But I will blast the department heads and the director. They have a complete lack of understanding of how to make a game. They're complete newbies at what they do. And my advice is to quit your jobs and go work as a cashier at a supermarket. Because if you continue working in game development, more and more bad games will be released. First, there's the grind,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MAKES NOTHING TO WITH LUMBER JACK, JUST A BUNCH OF POINTLESS TASKS, FOR RANDOM PEOPLE. NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MILL OR THE BUSINESS. DONT WAIST YOUR TIME.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It,s a shame this game is still bug. I started a new game because it had been 2 years since I had last played and it's just as bad as it was before, vehicles and logs still sink into the ground and quests are still unable to be completed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, I was pleasantly surprised after buying this awesome game on a winter sale. The game is much more complex and fun than it looks. I'll spoil the surprise a bit here because that's what I want to expose with my review. So, in this game you can do a lot of things, fishing, cooking, getting married, socializing, gardening, milking cows, collecting eggs, having a greenhouse, harvesting honey and much more. The usual country stuff, also as a bonus you can have a wife and children in the game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a joke. If you want to repair a building, but the repair symbol is high up, you have to jump back and forth to see if you happen to catch the right moment and be able to repair it. The missions have nothing to do with cutting wood, repairing buildings, picking mushrooms. I spent €20 for nothing. I don't recommend anyone to buy it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really tried to like this game. but at least 80% of it is tedious driving with painfully slow vehicles, there is some fast travel, you can jump to any vehicle you own, and there's buse stops, but the important travel is always manually taking your vehicles somewhere. What the game needs to be more than a waste of time, is some form of autopilot so you at least stick to the roads, some way to call vehicles etc to you or a way to bring more that one tractor attachment with you at a time, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You have to pay off the mill before getting big contracts to "pay off the mill" the uncle even says "to pay me back" You can start missions but you can't finish until you pay off the mill. the old timber jack or tree planter you can't get until you pay off the mill. it is all out of order the dialog confirms it. It is like it was done to pad out the gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Po 130 hodinách vôbec nemôžem odporučiť hru. Vývoj bol ukončený predčasne bez vyriešenia problémov. Ekonomika je úplne na hlavu. Hneď spočiatku vám hra zavesí na krk 250 000$ dlh na ktorého splatenie budete pomaly šetriť po troske dlhu dobu. Takže na tu peknú drevorubačskú techniku sa budete len pozerať. Hra dokonca neumožňuje sadenie nových stromov až po kým nezaplatíte 250,000 strýkovi za pílu. Až potom sa vám otvorí možnosť sadiť nove stromy na kúpených lesoch. Čo znamená že budete vyrábať…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Made the mistake trying this game again after couple years after uninstalling it having expected by some crazy luck there was a update to logic/programming or something. Silly me. Crashes often enough that losing progress after 25-30min is annoying over and over. Traffic logic/programming must of being done by a unpaid intern. Prepare to get Tboned at every intersection by a tiny pink mini that flips your truck around like a paper toy. Day 1: cuts trees, drop in water, put planks into dryer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the game is called Lumber Jack Dynasty, I would rather call it the "Handyman Simulator" with Lumberjack DLC. everything that is related to lumber work is painfully grindy for lumbering and gamie in areas that should be realistic. you spend way too much time being the useful idiot then actually working on your mill and the tasks around it. I was expecting more fleshed out mechanics around the mill and more time in the forest. but I am stuck fixing people's fences, finding their sheep and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game hasn't been updated in over a year. Resolution won't go higher than 1080p and looks terrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The grind between Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 is too much. The largest amount of time spent Lumberjacking is actually spent driving a forklift to put planks in a dryer. You make money more consistently from Cooking and making Shampoo/Lotion. It feels like Lumberjacking is a side activity in a game called Lumberjack Dynasty.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not sure if they were striving for realism or what, but everything felt ... slow. Too slow. Not slow in a 'ah, this is nice and relaxing,' but slow as in 'why is this taking so long?' There are some actions that are irreversible for no apparent reason, like you can take chips out, but you can't dump them back in the chipboard factory. And the daily tasks are tedious, like fetching someone's sheep that could be anywhere within half a km with repeated false directions, or mowing someone's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →graphics are quite bad, interiors are blurry, vehicles feel like they only go 10 kph takes forever to do anything and everything feels just poorly done. really don't understand how its rated positive. game just feels completely poor in all aspects and is definitely not worth $30
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS SCAM. I got this game for $4 and I still want a refund after 22hrs. If you spent any money on this game you were robbed. This is more a farming game than a lumberjack game. This game expects you to make 250k and pay off your saw mill before you can even replant trees. New plots cost about as much as you get for selling the wood off them. How do I make money to pay off the saw mill when I have to spend all my money just buying new land to cut more trees. The more I play the more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish we had a "maybe" option instead of a yes or no when it comes to "would you recommend this game to other players?" Long story short, no. It takes a special person to enjoy this type of game because even now, it feels very clunky. However, for some reason I enjoy it, but that is my personal preference. About the game. The dialogue is repetitive, you're running all around doing errands and jobs for people in exchange for equipment or what not... The game itself feels like a depressing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun idea! But the general jankiness of the gameplay is not my cup of tea. I had really high hopes because I'm a big enjoyer of the other dynasty games in the series. This one just didn't hit that sweet spot for me. I was so excited to try everything and take part in the neat little story, but everything I attempted was wildly frustrating from sitting through awkward NPC dialogue to trying to operate a vehicle(yikes) and finally trying to cut/haul lumber. Ugh. Nope. Sorry frands. :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A pretty cool game with two things i have to majorly complain about. At first the second chapter is waaayyyy to long and tedious. It feels like an eternity to complete it, and it kind of is the main part of the game. You just wait until you can pay back the money. The Quests and the dialogues are pretty nice though. The second thing is about the child and the years end/ begin. All the flowers you planted wither after the year "ends" or another one "starts" even though your wife takes care of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable for me. Cant get past intro without a crash and when I walk to follow the lady my guy sinks into the ground.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A beautiful but badly-paced grind fest. I went into this game knowing that it was going to be janky, based on playing Farmers Dynasty and seeing the reviews, but I was still disappointed. Initially I was really impressed at the little slice of the world they have created here. Whilst its not the prettiest game, it does give an alpine feeling, a bit like parts of Europe, or the Pacific North West. The first part of the game is really fun, getting to unlock new vehicles and skills, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this games is a wonderful lumberjacking experience with a interesting community there is apparently more but i cannot for the life of me get past the early game loop of selling pallets of wood to a lumber yard. the ungodly tedious and boring drive could work as a torture for gamers. there is only one truck that can haul these pallets and it only fits 7 the drive itself takes about 4 minutes so you would think its not so bad. however when you can only sell these pallets for around 1-2k with no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bugs. Log sent me into space. No way down. saved and came back in space. Maybe work on this more than pushing out new game? And what's with walking down ladders and roofs? I feel like there's no gravity. I like the game. It's just not finished. Luckily, I have another save. So I have to go back and clear the fields from 2 different places. 1 or 2 hours of lost time. Incase there is still work on this game. Check into picking up Pine logs. So now I hope this bug doesn't repeat when I get caught…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good concept..but very slow economic progress... Slowly it will get monotonous...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its one of my favorite games. You cut trees, plant trees, remove stumps, cut grass, repair buildings, plant a garden, manage a green house, coo, fish, fly a drone, some interior design, run a sawmill. Then you get to drive a flat bed truck, cars, buggy, pickup truck, forklift, tractors and logging trucks. Cows, chickens, sheep. What is not to love? It has more RPG elements than some RPG titles. Its a bit grindy at first to build up cash. Once you can be a flatbed truck to haul pallets, you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not really sure if Lumberjack's Dynasty is an asset flip. Some elements of this game certainly make it seem like the developer put some effort into assembling some kind of original here. On the other hand, a lot of the game assets don't seem like they were created by the developer, but they haven't credited any asset creators for supplying assets, which might be a case of plagiarism. There's no evidence, so we need to give the benefit of the doubt... regardless, asset flip or not, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WHY THE HELL CAN I NOT EXIT MY CAR WHEN I AM SOFT LOCKED. I FOUND 2 DIFFERENT SOFT LOCKS WITHIN 1 HOUR AND COULDN'T EVEN GET PAST THE FIRST DAY. Did anyone even play this game or are they just bots because the game can't even function
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is okay, but you really have to like this type of game to endure all the initial grind. It is absurd that you will make money faster selling boiled eggs than from the lumberjack business, which is useful at the very beginning, where you have to collect a large sum of money to pay off your uncle. Making planks is not satisfying because we sell them for next to nothing compared to the work put into it. It is worth doing this only after we buy a furniture factory, which I recommend doing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This titles framerate is just terrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish you made more money lumber jacking than selling farm products. You also need npc's to hire to work the other features of the dynasty. You shouldn't have to work those and lumberjack.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hi! This review is based on Youtube campaigns and a short playthrough of Chapter 1. The game is in general fun, but the mechanics nothing spectacular and repetitives. The content is enough, a sandbox with elemental RPG elements and a lot of farming (grind in fact). The game present difficulties like repetitive gameplay, grinding, and clunky movement/physics. The attributes could be detailed world, many characters and dialogues, tools and machinery, reasonably sized map, good color palette,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty much unplayable, with cpu n gpu far above recommended, i have to put to really low setting and still can't keep 60 fps
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even a college student could do better than this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For anyone having issues with not getting all available resolutions like I had, to save you the 30 minutes I spent scrolling through dozens of Steam Discussion forum pages the fix that worked for me was setting Window's Scale and Layout to 100% under the System settings for your PC. Apparently if you have it set differently (I keep it at 125% for easier reading) then it literally won't give you the option to change to 1920x1080 or most other resolutions. The max I could get was 1366x768 which…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I fully recommend to everyone on giving this game a try. I play this on a daily basis and for me this is truly the best game that I have found so far. Once I start playing I literally cannot stop. 377 hours played and i am still going. It has great views with mountains, forests and lakes, with plenty of things to do in the game to keep you busy. Not too many quests. All chapters are achievable eventually as it does take time. This is not a quick game to play. So take your time and enjoy it.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really wanted to play this game but it is so badly optimized that the game crashes when i to drive something. fps is fine until i get in to the truck then it drops to max 10-15fps. for everyone who wants this game, don't buy this until they fix the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has some good mechanics, but the dialogue and storyline feel like it was written by a psychopath, and some of the gameplay is utterly tedious. For the beginning of the game, you need to drive a tractor that goes a top speed of 14mph to sell things for 80 euros.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to enjoy this game but unfortunately a bug where my mouse is constantly moving up has made it impossible. I dont experience the issue anywhere else.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lumberjack’s Dynasty is one of those games that quietly pulls you in with its mix of relaxing gameplay and life‑sim charm. What I enjoyed most is the atmosphere: wandering through forests, cutting timber at my own pace, and slowly rebuilding the family sawmill feels surprisingly satisfying. The game blends logging, farming, crafting, and social elements in a way that makes progression feel steady and rewarding. I also appreciated the sense of ownership the game gives you. Upgrading equipment,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a great game, sad that there isn't much getting added anymore if anything at all. I love the way this game introduces you to the game and sort of forces you into getting to the next chapter in order to continue, I would reccmend this game. 9/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For the most part a great game. yes there are some bugs but not game breaking ones that I have found. mostly just needs some Q.O.L updates. for instance like a way to view how far along your plants are to maturity, some game options like Litters to gallons. 12 hour clocks vs 24. those kinds of things. BUT. if those things don't bother you the overall would be a 9/10 game in my mind. i mean ya more content would always be welcome but isn't NEEDED.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad. Ass. NO DOUBT! White men in America doing White American things, not some dark diversity spinoff of real life that could never and would never exist otherwise. This is awesome, part of the reason it's a SIMULATOR! lol
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →yknow, despite being a lumberjack game they block replanting trees behind such a huge task, a task that would take AGES to complete, the game itself is alright but i just dont see the justification for that.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very easy game to get lost into for hours. not hard. can be challenging at times. but awesome fun if you ever grew up on a farm.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is so awsome tho a lot of work for 1 player its needs to become co.op so it can be more enjoyable
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here I was thinking this game was in early Access! If what you really want is an expansion to Farmer's Dynasty wherein you'll get to cut down some trees and mill them. Then, this might be the game for you. Not that you'll be able to process all the lumber ...drying times are a big bottleneck in this game. Time is money!!!! And time is wasted in this game... If you want a more intuitive and true-to-life Lumberjacking sim that 's Not a Lumberjacking sim, I would recommend FS22. This game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →games are like books. you need to give it a good try, mabye read 100 pages, just to see if its good. this game isnt. 7 hours down the drain for confusing mechanics, buggy missions and a screwed up skill tree. u dont understand how this left Beta- Phase. the game really made me regret my purches by collecting 50 Mushrooms... what the duck has mushrooms to do with luber? tl;dr: NO, dont buy
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Therer is lots of bugs in this game. Even after beeing out for a while. Quests not working as they should, and even building something makes the planks disapear into thinn air. But again a great game with lots of fun quests.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lets be honest Ok let us get the positives out the way. It plays well enough to enjoy it. Thats it. This is just a copy paste of the source code of farmers dyn, it shows, same bugs, same bad programming, with a few fixes to previous game breaking bugs. The game is made to be so slow it may take your entire life to actually have a dynasty, Someone forgot it is a f***ing game. The devs are lazy and unimaginative and it shows, just look at the devs catalogue, they make the same game in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad optimization, bad voice acting, slow clunky gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is really fun until it breaks and wont load dont buy it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game could be really fun with a lot too it but in all honestly regardless of settings the camera micro-stutters CONSTANTLY while moving regardless of resolution and graphics settings, for this reason I doubt ill end up actually getting into more of the game. There are a ton of people who own the game that have posted about this on the games forums but the developers obviously are incapable of fixing it or couldn't give a ♥♥♥♥ to bother. I have a RTX 4090, i9 12900ks, 32gb DDR5 6000mhz…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love simulators but the pacing in this game is just kind numbing slow. The dialogue is a bit creepy and overall it gets really boring really fast.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if you paid more than $4 for this you got robbed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →still after all this time the game is still not optimised at all yes i only have 40 minutes in the game and thats because i cant get over the screen stutter and how smooth the game is not. Each time i have tried to play this game i just stand there looking around the same area with minimal mouse movement my frames would jump from anywhere between 10 to 300 fps. COME ON ITS BEEN 5 YEARS
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very good game 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, addictive, and beautiful.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Time for an update i think .. dont you? Not Recommended Hours Played: Long enough to fell a forest, restore a run-down camp, and realise the oldest thing here isn’t the trees — it’s the design choices. Lumberjack's Dynasty bills itself as “a unique life simulation” with forestry, logging, business, quests, an open world, skills, a dynamic economy, heavy machinery, side activities… basically a buffet of “live your life your way.” Then it hits you with the social/family pitch and abruptly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly thought this game would be more about cutting trees but it's more like sims in a forest town. Really was hoping to be using machinery and operating but there's why too much farming type of gameplay. Would have liked it if it was more like construction simulator where you get to use everything and have fun
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