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Ylands

Ylands

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Released Dec 5, 2019 Developer Bohemia Interactive Platforms Windows AdventureMultiplayerFree to PlayOpen World Survival CraftExploration
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

63.1%positive8,040 reviews
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“love this game, a peaceful and relaxing game to play with your friends or on your own. theres alot of content in the game so you have alot to do. progression might be hard to understand at first but youll get the hang of it later on”

— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“its a good game but it doesnt tell you that you have to pay for adventure mode”

— a player, Steam review · 571 hrs played
Not recommended · 9 found this helpful

“Game has a ton of potential to be something truly cool, but terrible decisions by the company who runs it caused the playerbase to abandon it. Very cool crafting and ocean gameplay and survival, interesting world, addicting, but zero online players, and awkward invisible walls…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:12 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

63playing at last check
7024-hour peak
5,540all-time peak
0 1k 2k 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 1.5k avg · Dec 2017

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

56achievements
0.7%median completion
0.2%rarest: Moons and Mushrooms
14.1% of players 3.9% of players 3.6% of players 2.7% of players 2.6% of players 2.5% of players 2.3% of players 2.1% of players 2.0% of players 1.8% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.6% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 14.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
14.1%Captain — Claim your first ship
3.9%It's a whole book!? — Hidden achievement
3.6%Explorer — Collect 100 exploration points
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Moons and Mushrooms — Read all 26 lore entries on Luring Lighthouse
0.2%Little Herder — Tame all the escaped draft animals
0.3%Having a Snowball — Hit others with snowballs

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-11

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Dec 16, 2025
Patch 2.4.2

Critical Fixes:\ Fixed: game getting stuck during loading on mobile if your last visited yland was a sharegame on PC\ Fixed: loot container sometimes being inaccessible after the ship it was on sunk\

Oct 15, 2024
2.4.1 Patch Changelog

Highlights NPC conversation bubbles - You can now read all text in conversations much more slowly and still get the main point. Claiming more vehicles bug - You can now claim all the vehicles for whic

Sep 25, 2024
Update 2.4 - FLEET FRIENDS

Ahoy Ylanders! Are you ready for the latest update? We are, and we hope you'll find it enticing since this update is bringing something MORE to the game! More vehicles! One ship simply doesn't cut it.

Sep 25, 2024
2.4 Fleet Friends - Changelog

⭐Highlights⭐ Claiming more boats and vehicles You said you wanted to flex with your stylish ship or car and we heard you. Now you can claim more than one and switch among them as you see fit! You can

Sep 12, 2024
EXPERIMENTAL Build - Update 2.4

Ahoy Ylanders, We've been hard at work on the upcoming update, which we titled Fleet Friends. And before we release it, we bring you the experimental build! Available only to Steam users, the Experime

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Free To Play
Player tagsAdventure · Multiplayer · Free to Play · Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting · Base-Building · Sailing · Resource Management · Action-Adventure · First-Person · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Full controller support · In-App Purchases
LanguagesEnglish * , Spanish - Spain, Czech, French, Italian, German, Russian *
ControllerFull support
Achievements56
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://ylands.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit Operating System Required) Processor: Intel Core i3-4160 @ 3.60GHz Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 520 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 2 GB available space