About This Game

Your forest. Your sawmill. Your hands.

KERF: Sawmill Tycoon is a first-person sawmill sim where nothing happens without you. Every tree is felled by your hand, every plank comes off a saw you operate, and every coin is earned at a counter you built up from nothing. You start with an axe and a single clearing at the foot of a waterfall.

Machines are not menus

Fell trees and watch them crash down for real. Cut the trunks into logs, haul them to the yard and feed a growing chain of machines.

Not one of them works on its own. Sawing, chopping, lacquering: it is all work done by your hands, and how steady you are decides what comes out the other end.

Get to know the wood

The valley holds ten species of wood, and you will not see them all on your first day. The best of it grows furthest away, and reputation opens the way there, not your wallet.

Logs are never sold raw. The profit is in the craft.

The people who walk into your yard

Customers arrive with orders of their own: this product, in this wood. Load a crate, carry it to the counter and close the deal yourself.

And if you stream, connect your Twitch or Kick channel and the viewers who type in chat walk in as those very customers, with their nicknames over their heads and their messages in speech bubbles. Your community literally walks around your sawmill.

Grow beyond your own two hands

A day comes when there are more orders than hands. That is when you can hire people: some for the machines, some for the counter. You pay them every morning, and they keep working while you are out in the woods.

Whether you hand your sawmill over to them or keep doing all of it yourself is up to you.

The forest does not grow back on its own

Dig out the stumps, plant saplings, feed them fertilizer made from your own offcuts. Cut without replanting and the valley will run out on you. A well-run sawmill never does.

Key features

• First-person sawmill tycoon: no idle timers, you do the work
  
• Hands-on machines where precision turns into money
  
• Ten wood species, from the ones at hand to the ones deep in the valley
  
• Planks, firewood, chips, pellets, bark, fertilizer and made-to-order furniture
  
• Furniture built and lacquered by your own hands, in three grades of craftsmanship
  
• Face-to-face selling with orders for a specific product in a specific wood
  
• A sawmill you upgrade level by level
  
• A crew to hire when you stop keeping up
  
• Your own truck and a valley with a town, a river and a waterfall
  
• Replanting that matters
  
• Day and night cycle
  
• Twitch and Kick integration: your viewers visit the sawmill as customers
  
• Relaxing pace: no combat, no failure states, no pressure, just honest work
  
• Interface in 15 languages

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Kerf - Sawmill Tycoon was made almost entirely with AI tools. The developer directed the work, chose what went into the game and approved every result, but did not model, rig or write code by hand. What that means for the content that ships in the game:

- Code: written by an AI coding assistant.
- Characters: generated by an AI 3D tool from AI-generated reference images, then rigged and set up in the game by the AI assistant.
- Other 3D models: some came from an AI 3D tool - a vehicle and environment props such as rocks, mountains and bushes. The rest, including the valley, the buildings, the machines and the trees, were built in 3D software by the AI assistant writing scripts.
- Animation: all character animation was generated with an AI motion tool.
- Music: all of the in-game music was generated with an AI music tool.
- Sound: some sound effects were generated with an AI sound tool; the rest were sourced from sound libraries by the developer.
- Text: the in-game text was written with AI assistance, and the translations from English and Polish into the other 13 supported languages were made with AI.

Everything was reviewed and approved by the developer before release.

No content is generated by AI while the game is running. The Twitch integration only displays messages typed by real viewers.