Fit check
Is Backwoods Town worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Survival game fans who want base construction alongside exploration
- Adventure players who enjoy uncovering answers in an unfamiliar setting
- Players seeking a mix of farming, fishing, crafting, and boss fights
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a narrowly focused farming or fishing game may find the added exploration, crafting, and boss fights too broad.
- Players wanting a purely linear adventure may not prefer a survival simulator built around base construction and settlement rebuilding.
- Players looking only for combat may find that boss fights share the game with farming, fishing, crafting, and exploration.
Our take on Backwoods Town
The game gives up specialization in favor of a wider survival-adventure mix. Base building, farming, fishing, crafting, exploration, boss fights, and settlement restoration all occupy the same design, leaving less focus for players seeking a dedicated combat, farming, or management experience.
What is Backwoods Town?
Backwoods Town is a forest survival simulator about exploring an unfamiliar woodland and investigating the events behind the protagonist’s arrival.
Players construct a base, craft items, grow crops, fish, and fight bosses. Progress also involves restoring a destroyed settlement and searching for its inhabitants. Exploration provides the setting for finding answers to the character’s unanswered questions.
How Backwoods Town plays
- 01Base construction
- Players build a base while working through the forest survival setting.
- 02Crafting
- Crafting is one of the activities available during the adventure.
- 03Farming and fishing
- The game includes growing crops and catching fish.
- 04Boss fights
- Boss battles form part of the game’s survival and exploration activities.
- 05Settlement restoration
- The destroyed settlement can be rebuilt as players search for its inhabitants.
Backwoods Town compared to similar games
Backwoods Town combines forest exploration, base construction, farming, fishing, crafting, boss fights, and settlement restoration. Mr. Prepper also uses survival crafting, but focuses on building an underground shelter and resisting an authoritarian government instead of rebuilding a destroyed settlement and finding its inhabitants.
Backwoods Town: platforms & release
Is Backwoods Town worth it?
It is worth it if: survival game fans who want base construction alongside exploration. Skip it if: players seeking a narrowly focused farming or fishing game may find the added exploration, crafting, and boss fights too broad.
Where can I download Backwoods Town?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Backwoods Town's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Backwoods Town on?
Windows only.
