Rank 01Why this
Also Touch-Friendly and Match 3, like You Must Build A Boat.
- $4.99 (Price checked Oct 4)
- Deck Playable
- 2013
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- Released: 2015
- Developer: EightyEightGames
- Price: $4.99checked Oct 3
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 81% of 572 reviews
- Genres: Action, Strategy, Indie, RPG, Casual
- Metacritic 71
- Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Players highlight
- Addictive match 3 gameplay loop
- Boat building as self growth metaphor
- Charming retro aesthetic and music
- Challenging
- Contemplative
- Retro
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About You Must Build A Boat
The closest matches to You Must Build A Boat: 10,000,000, PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords, Ironcast, Puzzle Quest 2, and Dungeon Hearts.
If You Must Build A Boat is your kind of game, the closest matches are 10,000,000, PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords and Ironcast — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, contemplative and retro, and single out its boat building progression and crew recruitment and training. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About 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
Is You Must Build A Boat worth buying?
Players recommend it
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 82% of 572 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $4.99 (checked Oct 3).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 14 h when they wrote their review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Addictive match 3 gameplay loop
- Boat building as self growth metaphor
- Charming retro aesthetic and music
- Crew recruitment and gym training
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“Stick to the first game. Traps and random added effects for enemies make it unnecessarily more annoying to play this game.”
“The game is fine if you like "Match-3" games. The game is not fine if you don't like: Quests built to be hard, but turning out annoying. Bugs that might or might not include losing all progress, game not restarting difficulty when you…”
People who play it also play: 10,000,000, PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords, Ironcast
Mobile version
You Must Build A Boat is also on Google Play and App Store. What the store pages declare:
- No ads declared on Google Play (checked 2026-09-30, source)
- No in-app purchases declared on Google Play (checked 2026-09-30, source)
- No In-App Purchases listed on the App Store (checked 2026-09-30, source)
- App Store privacy label: no "Data Used to Track You" (checked 2026-09-30, source)
On our lists: Pay once, no in-app purchases
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Frequently asked about You Must Build A Boat
Can I run it?
Does You Must Build A Boat run on Steam Deck?
You Must Build A Boat is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does You Must Build A Boat cost?
You Must Build A Boat is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to You Must Build A Boat?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside You Must Build A Boat are 10,000,000, PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords, Ironcast.
Who developed You Must Build A Boat?
You Must Build A Boat was developed by EightyEightGames.