The demo for A Game About Chopping Trees is exactly that!! I chopped trees. It was quite zen and addictive. The atmosphere was calm and cozy too. I liked it!
The Backstory to A Game About Chopping Trees
There is no backstory in the demo!! The game opens with me in a lovely setting, holding an axe. And that’s ok. To be clear, later in the full story there will be a small backstory revealed and even a little twist to the plot. Just to keep you on the edge of your seat!! But in general, there’s a lot of meditative tree chopping, which is really fun!
The Look And Feel of A Game About Chopping Trees
The scenery in the game is lovely. There are grasses and flowers which blow in the wind. I can even see my shadow, which I feel shows great attention to detail. The soundtrack is upbeat and jazzy. Just the sort of music a lumberjack needs to motivate himself to chop all the trees!
After I chopped down a tree, I picked up the logs. Sometimes I needed to put them down again. When that happens, there’s a super realistic sound that I really like. I love these little touches; it makes the game very immersive.
The Gameplay of A Game About Chopping Trees
The gameplay is a meditative type loop. I chop trees until I run out of stamina. Then I pick up the logs I created and take them to the saw. I use the saw to cut the logs, and after they are processed, I hear a very satisfying “ka ching” of the cash register. I just earned some money!! Different types of trees pay different amounts of money, which is interesting.
In my charming little cottage, I have a workbench where I can spend the money I’ve earned on a variety of upgrades. The upgrades in the demo for A Game About Chopping Trees include the following: Lumberjack enables my axe to chop a tree quicker. Endurance allows me to have more energy to expend on chopping trees and Grip Strength allows me to carry more trees back to the saw in one trip.
I can also choose to refill my stamina for a small fee; I have done that quite a bit when I didn’t have quite enough money to upgrade it. I also see that I can be healed; in my playthrough, I did not need to do that.
Sometimes my stamina got so low that I got a red warning as I tried to chop a tree. In that case, I could still make progress, but it was significantly slowed down. Time to visit my workbench and fix that.
I began the demo for A Game About Chopping Trees by chopping the trees closest to my cabin and the saw. Soon, I had chopped them all down and had to venture further. I found that it was kind of a pain to make numerous trips back and forth, but soon I was able to upgrade my character so that I could sprint. That helped a lot.
Even then, sometimes I needed just a little boost of energy to cut one more tree, and my workbench was so far away. I was pleased (and amused) to bump into my first coffee station. In the woods!! Ha. It costs a little more than a stamina upgrade at my workbench, but think of the expense someone went to installing this in the woods! Well worth the price.
When I purchased the coffee, there was a great cut scene of the coffee being brewed, poured into a thermos, and me opening the thermos and drinking it. I could choose to drink just part of it or all of it at once.
A Game About Chopping Trees has no day/night cycle, and there is no need to eat or sleep. I just chopped trees over and over. In the demo, I was working towards clearing the Birch Grove. In the full game, I will be able to unlock a handcar to travel to different and distant groves. There is also a bridge I can unlock and 2 new biomes to explore.
Final Thoughts
I liked playing A Game About Chopping Trees. Sometimes I want a huge epic game with complicated lore and many NPCs to occupy me for weeks, and sometimes I want something that’s purely fun and lighthearted. This game is the latter. It was a joy to play and was so cozy. The demo took me about an hour to complete and has a save feature, which I always appreciate.
After I finished the game, I had a couple of questions, so I joined the Discord and asked them. I quickly received a helpful reply from a game dev. I’m always impressed with devs who are very responsive to players. To me, it indicates that they are committed to developing an excellent game and want to make sure the players have the best possible experience with it. So Bravo to Space Raccoon Game Studio, the game devs for A Game About Chopping Trees. They are a small, 3-person studio, and this is their second game. The demo is available on Steam, and the full game will be released in July 2026. I wish them the best!
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