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

37,620▼ 100.0%

44 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$5K2% of LTD

1K units · $3.59 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 836 reviews collected over 10.9 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%

92%

→ 9

Score history · 30d retention

8 (15d ago)9 (now)

02 Biggest games linking to you

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

Outbound MLT · 30 games

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Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

80.9%cohort 71%

728 pos · 172 neg

Total reviews

900tracked

900 crawled

Velocity · all-time

0 / dayest

900 all-time

Steam-purchase rate

74.7%flat

25.3% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

19 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

65.3%58880%

ZHSimplified Chinese

9.8%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

8.8% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 404

78%positive

44.9% of reviews

10-100h 406

90%positive

45.1% of reviews

100h+ 11

91%positive

1.2% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 728Negative 172

443322110

15·0616·1018·0219·0620·1022·0223·0724·1226·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

900 reviews

Free product

7/ 900

0.8% of total100% positive

Early access

0/ 900

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

221/ 900

24.6% of total83% positive

Steam Deck

4/ 900

0.4% of total25% positive

Steam purchase

672/ 900

74.7% of total81% positive

Recommended

728/ 900

80.9% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

172/ 900

19.1% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

900/ 900

100.0% of total81% positive