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Burly Men at Sea cover art

Burly Men at Sea

Brain&Brain · 2016-09-29

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 28, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 19, 2017 (PlayStation Vita), Sep 29, 2016 (Android), Sep 29, 2016 (iOS), Sep 29, 2016 (Mac), Sep 29, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.

0
playing now
63%
positive of 498 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
67/100
IGDB user rating (40 ratings)
2h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 3.7h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Burly Men at Sea is a 2016 indie video game released for Steam, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Switch designed by Brooke Condolora and developed by Arkansas-based studio Brain&Brain, published by Brain&Brain and Plug In Digital.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 41% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 498 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$1.99-80%
GreenManGaming$2.46-75%
GamersGate$3.00-70%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at IndieGala Store (2023-12-14) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 90 of 120 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.76$0.992015-10-092026-08-292015-10-09 — best price $7.992017-04-28 — best price $9.282017-11-16 — best price $7.992018-03-12 — best price $9.992018-07-06 — best price $9.992019-01-11 — best price $9.172019-07-08 — best price $3.992019-10-23 — best price $5.992019-12-30 — best price $9.992020-02-07 — best price $9.292020-04-09 — best price $4.992020-06-16 — best price $8.282020-08-05 — best price $9.992020-09-11 — best price $7.862020-10-14 — best price $8.892020-12-04 — best price $9.992021-01-19 — best price $8.382021-03-03 — best price $9.992021-04-11 — best price $8.382021-05-19 — best price $9.992021-10-02 — best price $9.992022-01-17 — best price $8.992022-08-08 — best price $2.092023-01-06 — best price $9.992023-06-01 — best price $9.992023-08-03 — best price $2.012023-10-16 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $1.992024-03-11 — best price $3.242024-06-13 — best price $2.002024-08-12 — best price $7.192024-12-02 — best price $9.992025-05-26 — best price $9.992025-09-17 — best price $2.452025-12-11 — best price $1.642026-02-23 — best price $7.862026-05-04 — best price $1.582026-08-07 — best price $2.992026-08-29 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1702026-06-01 — 3 pageviews2026-06-04 — 4 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3 pageviews2026-06-10 — 0 pageviews2026-06-13 — 4 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3 pageviews2026-06-19 — 2 pageviews2026-06-22 — 6 pageviews2026-06-25 — 4 pageviews2026-06-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-01 — 7 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 6 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-13 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 5 pageviews2026-07-19 — 17 pageviews2026-07-22 — 4 pageviews2026-07-25 — 5 pageviews2026-07-28 — 6 pageviews2026-07-31 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 5 pageviews2026-08-06 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 0 pageviews2026-08-12 — 3 pageviews2026-08-15 — 0 pageviews2026-08-18 — 3 pageviews2026-08-21 — 5 pageviews2026-08-24 — 4 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-29 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Korean, Polish…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4, PS Vita (PlayStation)27,93078%25
Steam (Steam)1,22137%25
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieShortCasualSailingAdventureMythologyMinimalistStory RichSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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