Timberline’s UE5 project
Timberline revealed it’s building a UE5 title called Beastro with a small, 13‑person team—posts highlight the team size and engine choice as notable details (x.com). The reference shows smaller studios still shipping ambitious UE5 projects with compact teams and public development updates (x.com).
Timberline Studio said this week that its next game, *Beastro*, is being built in Unreal Engine 5 by a team of 13 people. (unrealengine.com) Epic Games published the interview on April 13, 2026 as part of Indie Games Week, and described *Beastro* as a “crunchy cozy” adventure with cooking, crafting, deckbuilding and puppet-theater battles. (unrealengine.com) Timberline says players control a young chef named Panko in the village of Palo Pori, preparing meals for visiting heroes called Caretakers, who then fight monsters and bring back ingredients. The studio’s official game site says those battles use turn-based deckbuilding inspired by trick-taking card games. (unrealengine.com) (beastro.game) Unreal Engine 5 is Epic’s current game engine, the software layer studios use to build graphics, animation, lighting and gameplay systems. In Timberline’s case, the team told Epic it chose the engine for art and animation tools, source-code access and community support. (unrealengine.com) That makes the team size part of the story: Epic’s interview and livestream both frame *Beastro* as a compact-studio production rather than a large publisher release. Timberline’s own site says the studio is based in Los Angeles with team members around the world. (unrealengine.com) (youtube.com) (timberline.studio) Timberline is not a first-time studio. Its website lists *The Red Lantern* as an earlier release, and a 2025 press release for *Beastro* identified the company as the creator of that game when it announced the new project on August 20, 2025. (timberline.studio) (cosmocover.com) Public development updates around *Beastro* have continued into 2026. Timberline’s YouTube channel carries an announcement trailer from about six months ago, a gameplay trailer from about three months ago, and a Steam Next Fest trailer from about two weeks ago. (youtube.com) The game also appears to be moving toward release. SteamDB lists *Beastro* under app ID 2417470, marks the technology as Unreal Engine, and shows a 2026 release window for Windows. (steamdb.info) For now, the clearest new fact is still the simplest one: Timberline and Epic are presenting *Beastro* as a full Unreal Engine 5 game made by 13 developers, with the studio continuing to show the work in public as release gets closer. (unrealengine.com)
