Are you ready for sawmill robots?
Tyke & Sons Lumber Co is a fangame of Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. by Scott Cawthon, incorporating elements of Cawthon's more popular Five Nights at Freddy's series. It was created by Game Jolt user Mixlas and released on October 26, 2019.
The game serves as an unofficial sequel to Chipper and Sons, taking place years in the future of that game. You play as Mike, the son of Tyke, the protagonist of the first game. Tyke wants Mike to take over the company, and starts training him to plant trees and craft things to fulfill requests for animals all over town.
Then there's the nighttime segments. These have the Survival Horror gameplay and the art style of the FNAF games. Mike must keep all sorts of hostile robots, including the ones you have to build for the lumber mill, from getting into the house and killing him.
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Tropes found in this game include:
- Adaptational Villainy:
- The Woodbots from the original game now sport a creepier, manic appearance more in line with the usual artstyle shared by Five Nights at Freddy's animatronics, and are some of the many killer robots who try to break into your house every night.
- Remember Fun Fungal, the grinning mushroom from Chipper and Sons? In addition to being his usual creepy self, in Custom Night, he joins the ever-growing pack of killer robots trying to kill you, despite not actually being one, though Custom Night is obviously non-canon.
- And Chipper himself is one of the available Custom Night characters, though considering his jumpscare is on the goofy side and the only thing he does is get you to collect wood on the screen, and failing to do so makes him jumpscare you, well...
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The beavers think the robots they've hired to serve their lumber industry have no flaws to them. They obviously do, and are out to kill them during the night.
- Big Bad: Seabob, who is primarily responsible for creating the killer robots and wants to destroy Tyke and his company.
- Big Damn Heroes: The Strange Traveler comes to the rescue when Mike and Chipper are trapped together underground by Seabob, and actively helps out during the final battle, including turning The Stroi's cannon back on Seabob.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Seabob, while posing as his brother Seabill, acts friendly and has gotten everyone to trust him, but is actually a raving, murderous lunatic.
- The Cameo:
- One of the many robots you can encounter is a Rockstar version of Fredbear from the FNaF series.
- Bidy, a character hailing from Mixla's previous fangame, also makes a guest appearance as a Rockstar animatronic along with Fredbear.
- Decomposite Character: Seabob and Springcrab seem to be this world's counterparts for FNAF's William Afton and Springtrap respectively. But in FNAF, Afton becomes Springtrap after the springlock suit traps and kills him, while this game's characters remain separate.
- Disguised Horror Story: Zigzagged. The game does have cutesy Chipper and Sons-style segments that segue into horror segments, but instead of just using the Chipper-style segments to disguise a horror game, this game incorporates these segments to tell the majority of the story. The story is still very dark, featuring murder and criminal activity, but it is presented in a somewhat cartoonish way in the Chipper-style segments.
- Expy: Quite a few characters seem to be this world's counterparts for characters in the FNAF world:
- Mike is likely the stand-in for Mike Schmidt, although there's not much to go on aside from their names and them both being protagonists.
- Summercrab/Springcrab is Springtrap, having a similar appearance and color scheme.
- Seabill.exe, with its body made of wires and mask, resembles Ennard.
- Seabob is William Afton, being the one who created all these murderous robots, as well as being purple.
- Happyshroom/Monstershroom seems inspired by Nightmare Freddy, with his mechanic of manifesting on the bed and having to keep his three minions at bay. Fun Fungal, who uses his head model, also has a similar jumpscare to Nightmare from FNAF 4.
- Fan Sequel: To Chipper & Sons Lumber Co., Scott Cawthon's game that led to the creation of the iconic Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
- Generation Xerox: The now-adult Tyke appears to be just as wacky and questionable as his father, and his son Mike spends much of the game completing his tasks much like in the original game. Thankfully, at least Mike's mother is still alive and well in this game, unlike his grandmother...
- Giant Enemy Crab: Summercrab/Springcrab, an anthropomorphized, human-sized robot crab who is one of the killer robots you must defend yourself against at night.
- Greek Chorus: Seamon and his son Luka, who appear a few times to offer conveniently placed backstory in the form of Seamon telling Luka stories about the various robots in the game.
- He Knows Too Much: This is what happened to Chipper when he discovered Seabob's secret, and was thrown
- His Name Is...: Parodied. In one cutscene, the Big Bad is about to reveal who they are in a monologue, but they end up forgetting their own name to make the mystery last longer..
- Hoist by His Own Petard: At the end, Seabob tries to blast the beavers' home with The Stroi's laser cannon, only for the Strange Traveler to flip the cannon so it's pointing right at him. Seabob is blown to smithereens by his own weapon.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: If Monstershroom ever manages to catch Mike during the night, you'l be treated to a darkened, yet gruesome image of Mike's lifeless corpse run through on a stake. At least Fun Fungal's warning wasn't entirely inaccurate.
- It's All About Me: Monstershroom says this in the secret ending, saying the other animatronics' problems aren't worth his time and even killing Killtimber and Springcrab solely to mock them. Then he kills Mike for "not accepting his hospitality."
- Jump Scare: As per FNAF tradition, you get one whenever one of the robots kills you in the nighttime segments.
- Kill and Replace: The Seabill you talk to for most of the game is actually Seabob, Seabill's vengeful brother who killed the real Seabill and took his place.
- Killer Robot: The world is full of robots that will, for one reason or another, try to kill you in the nighttime portions. Unlike FNAF and most fangames, this game averts Hostile Animatronics as the robots were built to be workers, not entertainers. They do have character-based designs like animatronics though.
- Punny Name: The Big Bad's death machine is called The Stroi. Destroy.
- Purple Is Powerful: Seabill is colored purple, and so is his brother Seabob, a Manipulative Bastard who creates homicidal machines. This is quite reminiscient of a certain key character in FNAF who wears purple and builds murderous robots...
- Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: This game goes all over the place on the scale. There are tons of silly self-aware jokes, but also genuine terror with the robots killing people.
- Take That, Audience!: The warning message at the beginning pokes fun at FNAF's Periphery Demographic:Warning! This game may not be suitable for children. If you're under the age of 12, go play Five Nights at Freddy's instead.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: Implied. Three of the special robots (Killtimber, Summercrab, and Seabilly) seem to have been genuinely friendly and wanting to help others. But then people began to grow afraid of robots, and their owners suspected the three of being killers as well, so they got rid of the robots in different ways. In the present, these robots have come back, and are now killers for real, presumably as a result of the betrayal they faced.
