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Backwoods Town cover art

Backwoods Town

Andrii Prots · 2023-11-24

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 24, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

94%
positive of 203 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 16,957 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 203 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.79 at Steam (2025-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
212120232026Week of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$1.792023-11-242026-09-072023-11-24 — best price $1.992024-02-19 — best price $2.392024-03-14 — best price $2.392024-04-29 — best price $2.392024-06-27 — best price $3.992024-08-19 — best price $3.742024-08-27 — best price $8.992024-10-07 — best price $8.992024-11-18 — best price $8.992024-12-04 — best price $8.992025-01-02 — best price $8.992025-01-20 — best price $8.992025-03-03 — best price $8.992025-03-20 — best price $8.992025-04-14 — best price $8.992025-05-26 — best price $8.992025-07-10 — best price $8.992025-08-21 — best price $8.992025-10-06 — best price $8.992025-11-17 — best price $8.992026-01-05 — best price $8.992026-02-09 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-04-13 — best price $8.992026-05-25 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-07-27 — best price $8.992026-09-07 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
40.5%
earned "Gardener"
16.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, Ukrainian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-05-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2910%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DLootSandboxBuildingSurvivalTop-Down3D VisionAdventureRealisticAgriculture

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.