Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders

Released Feb 2024

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.

69% positive · 1,126 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

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Evaluation

Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders launched on February 29, 2024 and received a solid run of post-launch content updates throughout 2024: the Manufacture Update (April 29, 2024), an Artisan/crafting update (May 27, 2024), the Arena Update with new location and questline (October 10, 2024), and a Raven/Avian Vision feature patch (November 25, 2024). That sequence established an active update cadence of roughly every 2–5 months during 2024. On February 28, 2025 — the game's first anniversary — the developer posted a celebratory message saying "The journey continues!" and announced Robin Hood: Sherwood Defenders, explicitly clarifying it is a separate standalone game, not a DLC for Sherwood Builders. On September 23, 2026, the developer posted an announcement for their next entirely new game, Fishy Bar, noting "And Sherwood is not going anywhere" as a brief acknowledgment of Sherwood Builders. Crucially, this post does not announce any new content for Sherwood Builders — it is focused entirely on the new project. No new content for Sherwood Builders has been announced or shipped since the Avian Vision feature patch on November 25, 2024 — now nearly ten months ago. The historical cadence of major updates was 2–5 months; the current gap of ~10 months is well beyond that window, with no developer communication specifically about new Sherwood Builders content. The September 2026 post's focus on a completely different game, combined with the extended silence on Sherwood Builders content, indicates that the active development phase for this game has ended. The developer has moved on to new projects, and no specific future content for Sherwood Builders has been communicated at any point since late 2024.
Evidence
Developer announces entirely new game Fishy Bar (coming 2027), with only a brief passing mention that 'Sherwood is not going anywhere' — no new content announced for Sherwood Builders.
news post · Sep 23, 2026 source development ending
high
Raven Update ships the Avian Vision feature. Last content addition for Sherwood Builders to date.
news post · Nov 25, 2024 source content shipped
high

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
PlayWay S.A.
Achievements
100
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player

About this game

Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. As Robin, you’ll fight, hunt, craft, steal, and of course help the local people thrive to spite the Sheriff of Nottingham and his ruthless regime – all within an open-world environment that can be freely explored.

Robin Hood is a famous hero of medieval English folk tales, believed to have during that time roamed the forests of Sherwood with his band of loyal outlaw companions. In the game you’re going to meet those legendary characters as well, such as Lady Marian, Little John, Friar Tuck, Allan-a-Dale, and Will Scarlet.

Robin's main goal is to help a fledgling community of refugees and rebels advance and expand. Starting with what could be described as a small forest settlement, with a bit of care, hard work, and good luck, it can end up as a town full of people. Recruit local peasants, rebels on the run from the law, and even the citizens and guards of Nottingham themselves as your new outlaw settlers.

You start your adventure with building a forest camp, which can soon be expanded following the arrival of new residents. You will be responsible for properly managing the space you secured for yourself within Sherwood Forest to build up the village.

Another important part of taking care of the settlement will be to manage the community members’ professions and tasks, training them to become craftsmen, hunters, or guards, and to manage the settlement’s resources, either gathering them yourself or stealing them from convoys and noble estates.

As Robin's people grow large in number and strong in sword arm, an uprising in Nottingham may just become a reality, ending the Sheriff's tyranny once and for all.

Can Robin Hood and his Merry Men survive and put an end to injustice? Their fate is up to you!

Last evaluated Sep 24, 2026
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