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You Must Build A Boat
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“time killer”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“Some of the blocks kind of blend together a bit, idk, I think the ones with the muscles and brains and crates aren't quite distinctive or colorful enough or something, idk. For this kind of game I think each block should be colorful and distinctive so they really jump out.”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:11 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Patchy Patchy
I've only gone and done one of those patches - Changed some particle effects to better support modern gpus - Long animations will play at increased speeds above Ace Level 2 - each ace level will now a
A New Update
Been a while, hasn't it, old friend. I added a couple of cool things, more skins to unlock in the daily challenge mode, oh and a skin manager so you can choose your skins too. I added Spanish to local
You Must Build A Boat 1.2
One day Jim was walking down the road. Houses passed by as he sauntered along, and before he knew it he reached a fork in the road. Betwixt the fork lay a sign. To the left it read "CERTAIN DEATH" To
You Must Build A Boat 1.2
One day Jim was walking down the road. Houses passed by as he sauntered along, and before he knew it he reached a fork in the road. Betwixt the fork lay a sign. To the left it read "CERTAIN DEATH" To
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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.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Casual · Match 3 · Strategy · Indie · Action · RPG · Puzzle · Pixel Graphics · Singleplayer · 2D · Great Soundtrack · Touch-Friendly (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Japanese * , Korean * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese * , Spanish - Spain * * |
| Achievements | 12 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.youmustbuildaboat.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Processor: Core2Duo Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA) DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 150 MB available space