You Must Build A Boat
Fair · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was March 2020. 30 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 15 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 39 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 75 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).
71 from critics against 82 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 214 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 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.
The drop-off
77% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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.
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
Update: AFTER HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS... All I wanted was to get all the achievements. This ♥♥♥ demonic bastard game, deleted my ♥♥♥ save, again. It had done it before. I figured it was because I'd not played in a while something must've gone wrong. Now it has deleted it twice. NEVER BUY THIS GAME. This is a great sequel, and it does a lot of things really well. Except no, no it doesn't. See, 1000 was a great...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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You Must Build A Boat scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/290890/you-must-build-a-boatThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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