Last updated on February 8th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Timberman – Casual Game Review
Timberman is a Casual/Lifestyle/Action game from Digital Melody S.A., first launched in 8th May 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 512+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Timberman Stand Out
Over 20 million players could not be wrong – featured as one of the best games since 2014 and still eagerly played in 2022!
Especially with a new update that adds dozens of new characters, new environments and an expandable village! And as always tons of fun & lot of trees to cut.
Timberman is an oldschool arcade style casual game. Become a Timberman, chop wood and avoid the branches. Sounds like an easy task? It's easy to play but hard to master. Dozen of variable environments and 104 lumberjacks to unlock. Master your skills for the top records on the leaderboards.
Take your axe as every lumberjack does and chop the tree as fast as you can!
Cut down trees, trade wood for gold, buy plots of land and discover new islands.
Generate passive income, buy new axes and randomize super fantastic packs of epic characters!
Many characters, trees, tons of cutting fun & wood around!
Timberman is an original old school arcade style casual free game.
Become a Timberman! Chop, cut and slice wood while avoiding branches. Improve your skill to reach the top of the leaderboards in this easy to learn, hard to master game.
- Dozens of characters to choose from
- Countless high scores to beat
- Global leaderboards
- Cutting edge chopping action
Cut your way to the top of the leaderboards and beat others’ high scores. Chop with speed, precision and focus to become a master lumberjack.
Unlock tons of different lumberjack characters, including: ninja, ghost, fireman, devil, angel, santa, monster slayer and more.
Play in various environments, including: forest, wild west, circus and even hell.
As a lumberjack you will race against the clock to chop down as much as you can of an endless tree. Quick thinking will be necessary to avoid branches – your biggest enemy. Cut left or chop right? You only have milliseconds to answer this question. Get it right and you’ll beat the competition and become the best Timberman ever!
Along the way on this free chopping action adventure you will unlock many different characters and trees. Each one requires you to complete a unique quest!
Are you up for the challenge? If so, then we at Digital Melody invite you to pick up an axe, yell timber and start chopping to test your skills and become the best Timberman ever!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Timberman is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th April 2025
Recent improvements include:
Optimization for newer device
Download & Availability
Timberman is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We enjoy the game and concept but it seems like the developer stopped 90% of the way to finishing the game. Many daily goals like "get a score of 87 5 games in a row" never trigger even when it shows it has been done "(16)" times. Sometimes daily goals come by to "get 83 logs" and sometimes they come by as "get a score of 373 15 times in a row". Sometimes it's even "earn two levels" where that would be hundreds of plays. All that aside, the base game is fun so we still give it a 4/5. We've reached nearly 3k in score, the trick is to use 2 thumbs on a single side when you see a long run. That should prevent you from "running out of steam for quite a while", the rest is up to not making mistakes. Paying to remove ads works well though there is still an extremely aggressive grind in late game if you want to earn all of the characters (the buying system runs out and you're left waiting for one-a-week rewards or exponentially scaling idle coin fill ins).
We do not understand how to get the characters with the question mark on them. We also cant find anything online on how to get them.
We discovered this yesterday but we downloaded it today. Its really fun the most fun game ever Theres like no game better than this.
This game is very fun and we love collecting the skins and building the town. We loveee the games where you have to be focused and tap fast.
Case Oh in game, W. At first we thought he was the tree since it was so big, but then realized that it was all those big characters. Unfortunately they had to scale him down so he could fit on screen. Still W.
Lost many friends to this game.
This game is a difficult but very fun game!! The one thing that we dont like, is all the ads. But there arent many.
Just to break the monotony of people calling this game too hard, this game is too easy. Ive played for around an hour and already gotten a high score of 11,111. We couldve gone on infinitely but our elbow was starting to get sore so we stopped. For people wanting to beat our score, just use all five fingers at the same time rather than one. We dont know how some of you have played the game as much as you have and not figured out such a simple glitch. Pretty sure the devs are inactive, so we doubt this will be patched. If anyone read this far, good luck beating us! P.S. The leaderboards only go up to 4500 for whatever reason so our top score isnt displayed.
This game is super fun and the characters are even funnier this game is very enjoyable and a fun its not to hard but not to easy. We saw many comments saying its to hard we can agree a 4 year old would struggle playing this game but the game is not to hard very fun.
Reinstalled the game after so long just to be bombarded with a unskippable ad every 2 times we die, seems a bit too much.
Im a sucker for simple games that go fast. We have ADHD so something like this is perfect for us! It has so many characters. We dont know if Ive had a game with so many game characters! Im very impressed. Its November 9, right now so naturally Im using the snow maiden. If you love simple, fast, games you can customize, this is for you. Its a fun way to pass time also! If youre on a roadtrip (as long as youre not a driver of course) then its a fun way to pass time! Thank you for reading this. God loves you.
Twice now we've met the criteria for achievements and nothing happens. We needed to score a certain number 3 times and we did it 4 times, which it showed, but we didn't get credit for it.
This game become worst than the older version.
This game has wayyyyy too many ads especially if ur any good at the game cause every time we get over 200 we get an ad which is basically every time we play. They know u want the score u got added to ur currency so they always put an ad after a good run. If u dont have bad reaction time good luck cause ur about to be bombarded with ads. (UPDATE: now deleted the game due to the same reason as stated above).
We are not disappointed with the game at all. Obviously we gave it 5 stars for a reason. However, the game is definitely not as difficult as some reviews said it is. We wanted a good old challenge and on our first 3 runs we got a 973. Like we understand its still kind of difficult to have the reflexes to dodge the branches but honestly in our humble opinion the game is simply not as difficult as we expected it to be from the look of some of these reviews. Overall, a good game nonetheless.
A challenging offline game with minimal ads and an outstanding game idea. The wood chopping game has got us blown away. It has a 50/50 aspect of challenge and fun. The game always has you working, chipping away at your high score every time. And not only is it fun, it actually serves a purpose in many sports. If you ever want to play a sport, (or already play a sport) nearly every one of them requires you to have good reflexes. This game helps you practice that. Aside from that, there are skins and maps, which add a little bit of taste to the game. Want to be Venom on a tiki island? Youve got it! For someone with extremely good reflexes, this game always challenges us. We have a high score of 674 and every day we can make that digit go up by a few. But, there isnt only good things to say about the game. In recent updates, Digital Melody decided to add some controversial American politics into the game. Now, who thought that was a good idea? A character of Donald Trump holding up a sign saying No is extremely inaccurate and childish of the developers to put in a kids game. It would be one thing if this game was for 16+ and games like this werent persuading young kids into having their own political opinions. Especially if youre a developer from Poland who knows nothing about America. Whether you want Trump to be the president or not, he is, and you dont revolve around everything to make your childrens game political. Further on that, there is more political stuff about Obama in the updates that we wont go further into. Please, leave your false information out of the game. Also, they made it so when you unlock the Native American character, there is a totem pole to chop and a forest fire in the background. Ending on a good note, here are some suggestions to make the game better; 1. Effects and better graphics. Make it so that when the wood is chopped, it actually looks like it was chopped and not sliced by a machine. For effects, there could be wood particles that come off of the wood when chopped. 2. As already explained, remove politics. 3. A free play mode where when you lose, it automatically puts you into another round/game/match (whatever you call it) and adds the deserved rewards once you turn free play off. Overall, a great game, needs some more features, and also needs some features removed.
When we tried the game we were just expecting a quick tapping game BUT then we realized how HARD.
We love this game, spend five bucks to get the console version (Timberman Vs.), but there needs to be more characters. We have almost all of the characters in the game, Im still logging in daily to get about four of them. But there also needs to be more capitalization in the game, like why you dont sell exclusive characters and premium currency that cant be earned is beyond us. This game could make way more money than just ad revenue. And please add more land to purchase its so unfair not being able to do all our challenges just because we have every plot and every zone. Other than that this game is great and addicting and we will now go back and play it once this sends.
This is an amazing game and we spend a lot of time playing but, we were just wondering if we could get gifted the one that looks like pickle Rick dont have to say yes.
Bro we beat your game we have nothing to buy please bring a update to the game ;).
Gameplay is extremely hard, props on that, but as soon as we unlocked the Native American character and had our tree changed to a totem pole and a forest fire we uninstalled lol.
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Wow this game brings back so much memories us and our cuz our sister our brother our whole family was hooked on this game we played it so long time ago it it feels like 6y ago but idk exactly anyways this game is worth trying have fun :D.
The ads are not to bad, the gameplay well we cant review any gameplay at all because we only lasted a few minutes of this game. Now let us explain why we only lasted a few minutes the game is literally Elden Ring its so hard. This game requires lots of skill upon tapping quickly and being able to search quickly. Our point is that you have to search for any branches or whatever you wanna call them (theres different branchs throughout the levels) and if you run into those branchs on accident than you die we died about 10 if not more times just from playing for about a minute. Its just to hard. Thats why we only lasted playing a few minutes. We can only imagine if you played this game on pc itd be a nightmare. We do not recommend this to people that will die just a few times and hate the game, we would recommend it to people that can lose 80 times and still be enjoying the game. Im surprised that the game is rated 4+. We cant imagine a 4 year old raging trying to complete just 1 level. Overall the difficulty is just set to a far to high point. To hard for us, maybe its just us, but the difficulty is to high.
We originally played this on our friends Xbox and then we found it on the App Store and we were like no way! Anyway its a super fun game and we highly enjoy it.
We see nothing wrong with it to be honest Im like addicted to this game who ever is the developer great job.
Nice its that one game on superhot fun game.
A very simple but brilliant effort. Ive been playing it for years. Its even more popular now with a Nintendo Switch version. We wish the developers gave us a few more updates.
This. Game. Is. Great. And when it freezes when you die, it makes great wallpaper.
The reason why we gave this game a 4 stars instead of 5 stars is because of this one glitch, so we were playing this game and it was challenging but back to the point when we watch the ads when the ads finished it logged us out of the game. Please fix this because Im kinda getting annoyed of this and but hey not much ads overall.
OMG THIS GAME IS SO HARD! Its like 9:42 pls help us. Sorry, just raging right there. Heh but anyways, this game… IS SO HARF (hard) but, this game… Is very hard! Yea Im a kid (8 year old) um we dont know if its fun or not. Reasons we think its not fun is cuz its super duper super super super dupeeeeeeeeer hard! Also the bar goes down too fast so its hard to miss the NOT hit the branches. The bar goes down too fast for us to ever totoce we are right next to a branch. Also, owner of this game, please make the bar go down SLOWER. We also think its fun because its challenging. Poor grandma her hype is hurting so bad she cant even walk she needs to use a cane but any ways we also like the game cuz its challenging, we love cristmas and ya. Well thanks please help us and Im gonna rage some more GoOdByE nOw.
Its a fun game but once you start tapping fast enough sometimes the taps wont register and will almost always result in a game over. At 700+ you really need to go fast to beat the timer and this is when it starts becoming a big issue. We cant get past 800 points because of this issue.
We enjoy this game. We bought the Gold Edition years ago, but it has not been updated in 4+ years so we downloaded this version since it gets updated regularly. Anyway, the Gold Edition had an Obama character called Mr. President who WAS the President 4 YEARS AGO. In 2016, Donald Trump was duly elected President of the United States. Like him or not, he IS OUR current President. This game was last updated 6 months ago, so to still have Obama as the Mr. President character and also have a disrespectful caricature of Donald Trump called Trout holding a NO! Sign is, first of all inaccurate, and also pretty childish to say the least. Whether you like him or not, he was elected and likely will be re-elected so everyone should grow up and keep off the band wagon especially if you are a developer from Poland and NOT America. Thanks.
This is just treedude from super hot.
Why does the guy not chop from the front.
The game is very good game but it could stop for a tiny second and you can die.
Im terrible at these types of games but this one hooked us in. With a variety of characters to earn, its been fun to build up our skill and see how far we can go. We are surprised we made it to 764!!! One note to the developers. It does not seem to accurate track how long Ive been playing the game and Im not sure if we will ever be able to achieve the play 1 hour (let alone 2 or 3 hours) achievement because it just doesnt track it correctly. We know Ive sat in a single session and played for 25 minutes but it doesnt save the score. In addition, Game Center achievements arent accurate either, which bums us out. Ive earned most of the characters but Game Center achievements does not reflect that. Good game. Fun. And we spend a couple of minutes each day playing it cause its so wonderfully causal.
We hate the fact that if you want to get revived youll have to watch a ad to be revived but then a second ad would pop up and make you watch the whole ad (because there is no X button to get out of the ad) and then most of the time we dont even get revived but good game overall.
It will kill you occasionally even if you dont touch the branches.
We love this game but now we dont play it anymore because youre made to watch an ad before every single replay attempt. We spend more time watching ads than playing the game and its just not even worth it anymore. Maybe if they did an ad every 5 games or so it wouldnt be so obnoxious.
We love this game. Ive been a fan on Android for years and have no problem with paying a few dollars to remove the ads. That said the free versions implementation of ads is overwhelming and likely to send more people running from the game. Anytime you have to start over the game presents an ad, that would be okay if the ad didnt take over the screen for up to a minute. We quickly found ourselves spending more time watching ads than actually playing the game. If the developer were to cut the rate at which ads are presented to once every two or three games we think it would be less annoying.
Developer: Welcome, player, to our game. Youve had this game installed for 5 seconds, so heres an ad. Sorry, did you fail again? We have an ad to cure you. Did you catch a cold while playing since our last ad? Please watch another ad for a vitamin C boost. Player: we attack you with 9999999 airplane mode. Developer: But, but…what about our money for our half-assed game? Player: In that case, consider your game deleted indefinitely.
Deleted because you get an ad every time you fail.
The ads are unbearable. You play the game for 5 seconds, get a 30 second ad, then repeat. Deleted immediately after downloading.
Every death we get a 30 second ad. 2/3 of our time is watching ads.
The game is a good time-waster but nothing more. By good time-waster, we mean you spend 2/3 of your time watching ads. Rather sad that the developers are only after the money from ad revenue, rather than providing a quality game experience.
After every 2 times you die, they pop up an ad and you are not able to skip them. Watch 30 second ad after 2 times die? When you play a game in about 10 seconds, that means the ad time is 1/3 time longer than your toal amount playing time.
Too many ads for a stupid little tap game. Spend your time elsewhere.
We downloaded this game, before we even got to play it it stared popping up the pay to get ad free version constantly. Every 10 seconds it popped up, we hit the home button to try and close out but apparently it was perfectly timed to purchase using thumbprint. Im disappointed that Apple would allow these sorts of predatory practices.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 6.1.100
- Size: 254.64 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Digital Melody S.A.
Last updated: 8th April 2025 | Genre: Casual, Lifestyle | Developer: Digital Melody S.A.