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Lumberjack Simulator 3D is Go Dreams' first-person logging game for Android — start with an axe, cut a notch and choose where the tree falls, limb and buck the trunk, restore an abandoned pickup to haul the logs, and build a sawmill that turns timber into beams, furniture and finally a house, with a chainsaw as the upgrade you save for — free with ads and packs from $0.49 to $29.99, at version 1.0.4 since September 2026. It has 2,200 Google Play reviews at 4.7 and no iOS version. Players call the physics fantastic; the most-voted review calls the ad load unplayable.
Specs come from the official store listings and were last checked on 2026-09-21. Developers change pricing and requirements — check the store page before installing.
The design is a working simulation rather than an idle one, which the listing says outright and the reviews confirm: you shape a notch with the axe, control the direction the pine falls, strip the branches, cut the trunk into logs and carry them by hand until you have restored the abandoned pickup in the clearing, and can load its bed for the forest roads. The sawmill grows piece by piece — and raw logs become beams and boards, boards become furniture, and the furniture and lumber build your own house from a blueprint; a chainsaw replaces the axe once you can afford it. An August 24, 2026 five-star with four votes calls the graphics fantastic, the physics better, the environment nice; an August 23 review calls the game fun before its bug report; the developer replies to every review and has flagged a larger map as the most common request.
The most-voted review, a July 7 one-star with six votes, calls the game scammy-feeling and unplayable: maybe two minutes of play between ads, and each ad containing a whole different playable game you must finish before returning to the logs; Go Dreams' reply acknowledges frequent and lengthy ads and promises to consider less intrusive advertising. The August 23 review agrees the ads are frequent and reports a saw-station bug — debarked logs stop moving through while the saw keeps running — plus audio that plays with the sound turned off, and a Remove Ads purchase the developer's reply offers to help restore. The August 24 five-star's two minor problems are economic: the chainsaw and the house-building materials are very expensive against what a session earns, and the map is small; the reply promises to review costs and consider expanding the world. Version 1.0.4.2 on September 11 fixed a truck bug.
Both advertising and in-app purchases are listed, with items from $0.49 to $29.99 on Google Play — a Remove Ads item among them, per the developer's reply, and cash for the chainsaw and materials. Google's data card lists location, financial info and three other types both collected and shared with third parties, which for a solo logging game is a heavy footprint. The floor is Android 7.0; no size is published; rated Everyone. There is no iOS version — a similarly named idle game on the App Store is by another studio. Play shows 100,000-plus installs. Prices are regional.
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A 5.5: a real, hands-on logging sim with the physics and the forest to make it relaxing, sold under an ad schedule its most-voted review calls unplayable and a data card that shares more than it should. Take it if you want to fell trees properly on Android and will pay to remove the ads. Skip it if you will not, or if you are on iPhone — there is no version.
The logging itself is single-player and should run without a connection; the ads need one, and — given how often they run — playing offline is the workaround some players use in games like this. The listing does not promise offline play, and the data card's sharing needs a connection to send.
Free with ads that a July 2026 one-star calls unplayable in frequency, plus purchases from $0.49 to $29.99 including a Remove Ads item and cash for the chainsaw and materials an August review finds very expensive. The developer has promised to review both. Prices vary by region.
Android 7.0 or newer; no size is published. The physics and forest are detailed for a free game and no reviewer reports lag, so a mid-range phone should do. There is no iPhone version — the App Store's Lumberjack 3D Simulator is a different, idle game by another studio.
No. It is a single-player simulation — you, the axe, the pickup and the sawmill — with no multiplayer, co-op or sharing features on the Play listing. The forest is yours alone, which suits the relaxing pace the developer intends.
From the first tree to a built house is many hours of felling and processing, stretched by tool prices an August 2026 reviewer calls very expensive and interrupted every two minutes by ads, per July's. Remove the ads and the pace is a relaxing evening or two per stage of the sawmill.
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About this page. ScoredApps reviewed Lumberjack Simulator 3D independently. We don't own, develop, or distribute this app, and we're not affiliated with Go Dreams. Official site: gardenofdreams.games/ · Google Play listing · Developer support: julythefour@gmail.com