You Must Build A Boat — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$188Kest

grossAtFullPrice $188K · promo blend

Net to developer

$121Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

37,710▲ 0.0%

45 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$5K3% of LTD

1K units · $3.59 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 838 reviews collected over 11.0 years; English-dominant audience; non-Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier D · ▼ 3 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

95%

→ 5

Score history · 30d retention

9 (25d ago)5 (now)

02 Biggest games linking to you

Steam puts You Must Build A Boat in their “More Like This” · 2 inbound · top 2 by audience

10,000,0001.8K reviews · 90% pos · EightyEightGames · 2013

Idylls of the Lunar Maria2 reviews · 100% pos · Charlie Batten · 2024

03 You Must Build A Boat’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

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97%357K

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96%16K

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Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

81.0%cohort 71%

731 pos · 172 neg

Total reviews

903tracked

903 crawled

Velocity · all-time

0 / dayest

903 all-time

Steam-purchase rate

74.8%flat

25.2% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

19 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

65.4%59180%

ZHSimplified Chinese

9.7%8873%

KOKorean

3.8%3491%

RURussian

3.4%3171%

DEGerman

3.2%2986%

JAJapanese

2.9%2692%

TWTraditional Chinese

2.9%2681%

FRFrench

2.8%2592%

ESSpanish

1.6%1493%

PLPolish

1.6%1493%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

1.0%989%

ITItalian

0.6%5100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 79

51%positive

8.7% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 404

78%positive

44.7% of reviews

10-100h 409

90%positive

45.3% of reviews

100h+ 11

91%positive

1.2% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 731Negative 172

443322110

15·0616·1018·0219·0620·1022·0223·0724·1226·05

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

903 reviews

Free product

7/ 903

0.8% of total100% positive

Early access

0/ 903

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

221/ 903

24.5% of total83% positive

Steam Deck

4/ 903

0.4% of total25% positive

Steam purchase

675/ 903

74.8% of total81% positive

Recommended

731/ 903

81.0% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

172/ 903

19.0% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

903/ 903

100.0% of total81% positive