Press kit
KERF: Sawmill Tycoon
A first-person sawmill tycoon, out now on Steam. Made and published by MGDB Studio, a one-person studio in Poland.
Press, creators & business
[email protected]One address for everything: review keys, assets, interviews, publishing and porting.
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Fact sheet
- Title
- KERF: Sawmill Tycoon
- Developer
- MGDB Studio, Poland
- Publisher
- MGDB Studio - self-published
- Release date
- 20 August 2026
- Platform
- PC (Windows), Steam
- Price
- $9.99 · 9,99€ · 34,99 zł · regional pricing on Steam
- Genre
- Simulation, tycoon, first-person crafting
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- Interface in 15 languages: English, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Turkish, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
- Steam page
- store.steampowered.com/app/5010520
- Steam AppID
- 5010520
- Engine
- Unity 6
- Standout feature
- Twitch integration - viewers walk into the sawmill as paying customers, with their nicknames above their heads
- Website
- mgdbstudio.com
- Contact
- [email protected]
About the game
Fell trees with your own hands, saw logs into planks, chop firewood, craft furniture and sell it all to your customers. A first-person sawmill tycoon where you do the work yourself: take on commissions, hire a crew, replant the forest and grow a humble yard into a timber empire.
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 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.
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, and 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, plus a day and night cycle
- Twitch integration: your viewers visit the sawmill as customers
- Relaxing pace: no combat, no failure states, no pressure, just honest work
Review keys & curators
I am one person, so here is exactly how keys work. No hard feelings either way.
- Steam curators: I grant access through Curator Connect, same day, no questions asked. Send your curator page and it is done. I do not send retail keys for curator reviews - Curator Connect is all a curator review needs.
- Outlets, YouTubers and streamers: keys on request. Send a link to where the coverage will appear (channel, site or profile) and roughly when. That is the whole process - no minimum subscriber count.
- Assets on request: if you need a specific screenshot, a clean logo, a longer video capture or answers about how a system works, ask. I will send it.
- What I say no to: key requests with no link to any channel or publication, requests for multiple keys "for the team", and anything that reads like key collecting. Keys have resale value; coverage does not require stockpiling them.
- Embargo: none. The game is out. Cover it whenever you like.
- Monetisation: you may monetise videos and streams of KERF: Sawmill Tycoon, including sponsorships and ad revenue. No permission needed.
Screenshots
All images may be used freely in coverage of the game, in print and online, with no further permission. Credit “MGDB Studio” where it fits.
About the studio
MGDB Studio is one person, based in Poland. KERF: Sawmill Tycoon is the studio's first commercial release - designed, built, marketed and published without a publisher, a team or outside funding.
The production leaned heavily on AI tooling, which is disclosed on the Steam store page. Design, direction and every decision about how the game feels to play are the developer's own. Questions about how that worked in practice are welcome - it tends to make for a more interesting interview than the game description does.