About This Game

The Woodman is an incremental game about chopping wood to earn money, upgrading your tools, and putting gnomes to work. Your goal is to finish chopping one enormous tree that stretches into the sky.

Chop, sell, and chop some more

The wood you gather becomes furniture and other goods for your customers. Spend your earnings on a better axe and equipment to make every swing more satisfying. Watch more wood fly and your chopping speed, measured in “m/s,” climb.

Will you upgrade your tools next, or hire more helpers to haul the wood? Put your resources toward the next upgrade and get your settlement working faster.

Hire gnomes and put them to work

Let the gnomes collect wood and deliver it to construction sites. Hire more helpers and assign their jobs, and a little procession will carry the wood you once hauled alone.

You can also automate fishing and closing the books at night. While you take a break on a stump, your helpers keep busy.

Soak in the hot spring and grow stronger

Eat fruit or food cooked over the campfire to build up Fullness, then head to the hot spring. Choose an upgrade from the options floating above the water, and its effect is yours to keep.

Improve your chopping power and speed, how much your gnomes can carry, and more to make the next job easier. Even a break in the hot spring helps you grow.

Turn a little forest into a bustling settlement

Build facilities to unlock more goods to make and things to do. Ask the Carpenter Gnome to renovate your buildings and take them further. A few surprises await in new areas, too.

Customers queue at the shop, gnomes carry wood, and new facilities spring to life. Your progress shows in the forest around you, as well as in the numbers.

Game features

• Playtime: Approximately 3–4 hours to complete

• Achievements: 24 Steam achievements