"While Timber Rush starts off strong, by the time players reach the endgame, most players will have grown tired of its fickle and at times bizarrely punishing RNG."
I must preface this by saying I do not hate Timber Rush, however it does suffer from two major issues that make it far less enjoyable than it should be.
Timber Rush is at its core an idle game, with players being limited to post-game interaction for the most part (especially when you get drones), while players are required to run back and forth in the early stages to collect resources.
Once you have even a single drone, it becomes much more efficient to stay by the tree and keep swinging, especially when you unlock the ability for drones to collect chests and special logs.
While players can choose to manually select upgrades, auto-selecting upgrades is basically nearly the same, as it allows you to do something else while the runs play out, which is very important as you will need to re-run the same 4 maps thousands of times to complete the skill tree.
What makes this feel even more tedious is there is currently no way to auto-start a new run, requiring players to either babysit the game or tab back every 30-90 seconds to start a new run, which also has its own set of issues due to the way Timber Rush does not like being tabbed, and will often crash or lock up entirely when re-entering the tab.
While Timber Rush has a decent progression system, it includes core components to make sure players are not retreading the same content more than needed, and a perfect example of this is how it is possible to collect as little as 138m logs in one run, only to make 4 trillion in the next, before being stuck once again in the very low billions/upper millions for dozens of turns, which quickly becomes frustrating when you need 5 quadrillion to unlock the final upgrade of the skill tree and finish the game.
While RNG can occasionally reward players with a ridiculously good pay-out, these are few and far between, and by late game where maxing upgrades cost around 2.5T logs per upgrade, spending 90-90 seconds on a run only to be rewarded with less than one five-thousandth of a percent of the needed logs to upgrade, it is easy to see why players on the Steam forum are unhappy, with threads about RNG being some of the most active threads on what is otherwise a pretty dead community hub.
Timber Rush is a role playing game developed and published by Allerton Apps, it released on 17 March 2026, and is available exclusively on PC.
Timber Rush supports the following peripherals:
Timber Rush is unrated and contains no offensive content.
I enjoyed my time with Timber Rush, until I didn’t. While the gameplay is fun, and somewhat addictive, due to how reliant it is on RNG, with very few tangible limitations, I found myself quickly growing very bored of it, especially in the last stages of the game where 90 second runs could reward as little as 138m logs or as much as 29 quadrillion logs, which is a huge issue considering some later branches of the skill tree cost trillions and in one case quadrillion logs.
Ultimately not a bad game, but after spending 14 hours with it, I must admit I feel it is overpriced, and has more in common with a 99c mobile title than a $5 game, considering how much excellent competition there is at that price point.
We found Timber Rush to be a mediocre game, meaning that while it has some redeeming qualities, it's held back by noticeable flaws that prevent it from being truly enjoyable.
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