Made by Hand Opens Steam Page as Players Get Stuck Sanding
The playtest feedback shows the appeal landing on the labor itself rather than the finished furniture, which is the right signal for a simulator whose loop is measurement and sanding before it is selling.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Alice Games has opened a Steam store page for Made by Hand, a woodworking workshop simulator where players cut, measure, and assemble furniture to sell online. The game is still some way from release, but a playtest build is running now. Participants report getting absorbed in the processing itself, including one who said they spent an hour sanding, and Reddit threads already carry requests and shop advice.
The playtest build is available from the Steam page, and the requests already arriving on Reddit split in two directions. One camp wants the workshop to bite back: circular saw kickback, where the blade catches and throws the wood back along the cut. The other camp is doing the teaching, with advice on attaching table legs to the skirt to firm up the frame. Measurements in the game go down to the millimeter, and parts are finished one at a time on lathes and other equipment.
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