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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

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

1
playing now
82%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
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)
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 10,821 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 27k–65k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,085 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)

Players online

502026-08-06 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 1 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

2512026-06-01 — 5 pageviews2026-06-04 — 3 pageviews2026-06-07 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-13 — 8 pageviews2026-06-16 — 6 pageviews2026-06-19 — 4 pageviews2026-06-22 — 6 pageviews2026-06-25 — 7 pageviews2026-06-28 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 2 pageviews2026-07-04 — 8 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-13 — 6 pageviews2026-07-16 — 6 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-22 — 12 pageviews2026-07-25 — 9 pageviews2026-07-28 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1 pageviews2026-08-03 — 11 pageviews2026-08-06 — 8 pageviews2026-08-09 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 7 pageviews2026-08-15 — 5 pageviews2026-08-18 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 13 pageviews2026-08-27 — 15 pageviews2026-08-29 — 5 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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