You Must Build A Boat
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Action indie game You Must Build A Boat comes from developer-publisher eightyeightgames. Released in 2015, it has 1,083 Steam reviews with 82% positive, a mostly positive signal for an underrated budget pick at $4.99.
Overview
You Must Build A Boat is a 2015 Action game developed by EightyEightGames and published by EightyEightGames. On Steam it has gathered 838 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer EightyEightGames with publisher EightyEightGames is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 30,000 to 70,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, You Must Build A Boat can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
838
Positive
82%
Steam appid
290890
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.030K to 70K
units (median: 50K)
≈ $86K to $201K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 60 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for You Must Build A Boat at roughly 30,000 to 70,000 copies, with a median around 50,000, derived from its 838 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $143K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
7 observed days · window low $4.99Across 7 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has You Must Build A Boat sold?
- indielist estimates You Must Build A Boat has sold between 30,168 and 70,392 units (median 50,280), derived from its 838 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed You Must Build A Boat?
- You Must Build A Boat was developed by EightyEightGames and published by EightyEightGames.
- Who published You Must Build A Boat?
- You Must Build A Boat was published by EightyEightGames, developed by EightyEightGames. See EightyEightGames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was You Must Build A Boat released?
- You Must Build A Boat was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does You Must Build A Boat have on Steam?
- You Must Build A Boat has 838 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is You Must Build A Boat worth playing?
- Steam players rate You Must Build A Boat 82% positive across 838 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like You Must Build A Boat can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, EightyEightGames's other releases and EightyEightGames's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where You Must Build A Boat sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same You Must Build A Boat page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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