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Burly Men at Sea

Brain&Brain · 2016-09-29

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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.

Burly Men at Sea is a 2016 Adventure, Casual, Indie game priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mixed sentiment from 63% of 498 reviews.

0
playing now
63%
positive of 499 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
67/100
IGDB user rating (40 ratings)
3.62★
PlayStation Store rating (4,194 ratings)
2h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 3.7h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 10:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 29,087 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 12k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 499 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$2.99-70%
GreenManGaming$3.28-67%
GamersGate$4.00-60%

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 93 of 118 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172026Week of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
30Sep 2016Apr 2021Sep 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 5Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 3 · peak 14Jan 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 8Apr 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — Apr 2021

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$10.76$0.992015-10-092026-10-152015-10-09 — 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 $2.992026-10-14 — best price $2.992026-10-15 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1702026-06-01 — 3 pageviews2026-06-05 — 0 pageviews2026-06-09 — 4 pageviews2026-06-13 — 4 pageviews2026-06-17 — 6 pageviews2026-06-21 — 3 pageviews2026-06-25 — 4 pageviews2026-06-29 — 2 pageviews2026-07-03 — 9 pageviews2026-07-07 — 6 pageviews2026-07-11 — 4 pageviews2026-07-15 — 7 pageviews2026-07-19 — 17 pageviews2026-07-23 — 5 pageviews2026-07-27 — 1 pageviews2026-07-31 — 5 pageviews2026-08-04 — 0 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-20 — 3 pageviews2026-08-24 — 4 pageviews2026-08-28 — 3 pageviews2026-09-01 — 1 pageviews2026-09-05 — 3 pageviews2026-09-09 — 7 pageviews2026-09-13 — 3 pageviews2026-09-17 — 6 pageviews2026-09-21 — 5 pageviews2026-09-25 — 5 pageviews2026-09-29 — 3 pageviews2026-10-03 — 2 pageviews2026-10-07 — 1 pageviews2026-10-10 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
68.1%
earned "Great Barnacled One"
23.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-09-29 (Steam store data)

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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