Three Moves Ahead 646: Whiskerwood

Three Moves Ahead

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Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week, Rowan and Luke contemplate the inherent class struggle implied by feline-rodent relations in another delightful, furry-adjacent city builder with Whiskerwood. In this world, the cat tax doesn't simply mean posting a pet pic to thank people for reading your wall of text modding tutorial. It's wealth extracted from the whiskered workers by feline overlords in a distant land. The solution, once again, might be trains.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to three moves ahead. I am your host, Rowan Kaiser. It's been a while since I've been the host. I don't remember how long that's even been. But we are here because Luke got excited about a city builder called Whiskerwood. So Luke Plunkett is here. Say hello, Luke.
0:18.4	Hello, everybody. I have dragged the only person I could find into a recording session to talk
0:24.0	about Whiskerwood. I'm not excited about it.
0:26.9	Well, you hit me in a good time where I was like, I have just enough energy to start something
0:32.2	new. And Whiskerwood seemed a little less imposing than Tara and Vickda.
0:37.8	That is exactly, that is exactly what happened to me.
0:41.6	Is Tara and Victor came out in 1.0 or whatever it came out in.
0:44.5	I thought, I'm going to try Tara Invicta.
0:45.9	And I sat down with it in about 20 minutes and I was like, nope, I can't, I don't have
0:49.4	the faculties for this at this point in my week, month life, despite everyone's best intentions.
0:57.5	And then Whiskwood popped up and I was like, oh, building a little city for mice.
1:02.9	That's more my speed this January.
1:05.3	Let's try that.
1:05.8	And I'm so glad I did because it is just, oh, it's so good.
1:10.0	I should note that I did a terrible job of introducing you.
1:12.9	You're from Aftermath.com.Sight.
1:16.1	People should read Aftermath.com.
1:19.0	Yes, people should maybe even subscribe to Aftermath.
1:22.6	That's not.
1:23.6	I'm hoping to get there one day myself.
1:27.3	That'll be exciting. or finish an article for you
1:31.4	that's the other one of the two yeah all right uh so whiskerwood is a cute little city builder for
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