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You Must Build A Boat

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App ID 290890
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher EightyEightGames
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Technologies Unity Engine
Last Changenumber 29744234
Last Record Update 25 June 2025 – 15:08:09 UTC ()
Release Date 4 June 2015 – 16:35:10 UTC ()
😏 78.20%
1k reviews
2
In-Game
😌 Casual 3️⃣ Match 3 💡 Strategy 💥 Action 🎲 RPG

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

Additional Information

Developer EightyEightGames
metacritic_name You Must Build A Boat
metacritic_score 71
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/you-must-build-a-boat?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
community_visible_stats Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher EightyEightGames
Store Release Date 4 June 2015 – 16:35:19 UTC ()
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://x.com/LucaRedwood
Primary Genre RPG (3)
Store Genres Action (1), Casual (4), Indie (23), RPG (3), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 4 June 2015 – 16:35:10 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 30 October 2019 – 12:09:42 UTC () (1572437382)
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Detected Technologies (?) Unity Engine
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • This game supports Steam Deck's native display resolution but does not set it by default and may require you to configure the display resolution manually
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • Note: This game does not support cross-platform saved games
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  • Note: This game does not support cross-platform saved games
  •  
  • category: Playable
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • test_timestamp: 15 November 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 4336617
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First seen on SteamDB 25 March 2014 – 21:39:39 UTC (), in changelist #444531

Supported Languages

11 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes

Tags

😌 Casual 3️⃣ Match 3 💡 Strategy 🌱 Indie 💥 Action 🎲 RPG 🧩 Puzzle 👾 Pixel Graphics 👤 Singleplayer 🎶 Great Soundtrack 🏽 2D 👆 Touch-Friendly 👻 Roguelite 👾 Retro 🔄 Replay Value 🎭 Fantasy 👻 Roguelike 🏰 Dungeon Crawler 👪 Family Friendly 😓 Difficult

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Cloud Family Sharing

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timestamp30 October 2019 – 12:13:12 UTC

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timestamp 13 November 2015 – 00:35:28 UTC

Steam charts

  • 2 players right now
  • 7 24-hour peak
  • 706 all-time peak 7 June 2015
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  • 1,530 all-time peak
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User reviews history

  • 😏 Very Positive
  • 78.20% SteamDB Rating
  • 874 82.1% positive reviews
  • 190 17.9% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
4 June 2015 Steam Release -
28 June 2016 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Humble PC and Android Bundle 14 -

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You Must Build A Boat had an all-time peak of 706 concurrent players on 7 June 2015.

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