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You Must Build A Boat cover art

You Must Build A Boat

EightyEightGames · 2015-06-04

Steam

ActionCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 04, 2015 (iOS), Jun 04, 2015 (Linux), Jun 04, 2015 (Android), Jun 04, 2015 (Mac)

You Must Build A Boat is the sequel to the award winning "10000000". Travel the world, run procedurally generated dungeons finding artifacts, capturing monsters and recruiting crew for your boat

You Must Build A Boat is an Action, Casual, Indie, and RPG game released in 2015, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (82% of 1085 reviews).

0
playing now
82%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

You Must Build a Boat is a 2015 puzzle-role-playing game developed by Luca Redwood under the developer name EightyEight Games. It is a sequel to 10000000 and was released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS in June 2015.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 27k–65k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,081 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2020-03-16) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920172026Week of 2017-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-14 23:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 7 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492015-06-042026-01-052015-06-04 — best price $3.342015-11-25 — best price $2.492015-12-22 — best price $2.492016-05-22 — best price $2.002016-07-04 — best price $4.992017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-11-28 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-02-26 — best price $4.992019-01-04 — best price $4.992019-02-11 — best price $4.992019-03-18 — best price $4.992019-07-09 — best price $4.992019-11-01 — best price $4.992019-11-18 — best price $4.992019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-03-23 — best price $4.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-11-01 — best price $4.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1712026-06-01 — 5 pageviews2026-06-05 — 15 pageviews2026-06-09 — 10 pageviews2026-06-13 — 8 pageviews2026-06-17 — 7 pageviews2026-06-21 — 7 pageviews2026-06-25 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 6 pageviews2026-07-03 — 9 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-11 — 4 pageviews2026-07-15 — 5 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 7 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 6 pageviews2026-08-08 — 7 pageviews2026-08-12 — 7 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 13 pageviews2026-08-28 — 6 pageviews2026-09-01 — 11 pageviews2026-09-05 — 10 pageviews2026-09-09 — 9 pageviews2026-09-13 — 3 pageviews2026-09-17 — 9 pageviews2026-09-21 — 8 pageviews2026-09-25 — 3 pageviews2026-09-29 — 11 pageviews2026-10-03 — 7 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4 pageviews2026-10-11 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
76.7%
earned "Sail Away Sail Away"
27.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,27812%12

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

Player tags

2DRPGIndieRetroActionCasualPuzzleMatch 3StrategyRogue-lite

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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