You Must Build A Boat
Fair · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 1,082
- Critics
- 71 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 39% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 7.5h
- To 100%
- 20.9h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 30 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 March 2020
- Sale every
- 107d last December 2025
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 78% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 56% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 6% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
30 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 44 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 39 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, 10,000,000 ($4.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
More about You Must Build A Boat
71 from critics against 82 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 215 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 21, 2.8 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 307 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Graphics are terrible, game is simple and based more on luck than talent at most points, it's repetition and attempt to surprise... well, aren't too exciting. However, I like it and I don't know why. I keep playing it and everyone loves to watch and join in turning it into an awkward group game where I can't drag stuff where I need to because too many people are pointing at my screen.
1 more review
Easy little Bejewelled battle monsters game, however title should be 'You have to build 3 boats to get all achievements' Cost a few dollar bucks and got 30 hours out of it so can't complain,- however would of been about half that if didn't want all the achievments Better than 1000
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
You Must Build A Boat scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/290890/you-must-build-a-boatReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.