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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...

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Steam User 4305STEAMNot recommended

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.

Feb 15, 2026·17h·1

Steam User 6777STEAMRecommended

This is a fun little distraction. Ideal for short breaks and the like.

Jan 29, 2026·12h·1·Verified

Steam User 6989STEAMNot recommended

Update: AFTER HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS... All I wanted was to get all the achievements. This ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ demonic bastard game, deleted my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ save, again. It had done it before. I figured it was because I'd not played in a while something must've gone wrong. Now it has deleted it twice.
NEVER BUY THIS GAME.

This is a great sequel, and it does a lot of things really well.
Except no, no it doesn't.

See, 10000000 was a great game, that just kinda threw you into it, the tutorial was brief and didn't really bother you.

This game, does the opposite, the tutorial will not ♥♥♥♥ off. Just lot's of very annoying dialogue that pesters you for ages. Oh look, you matched a shield tile, let's talk about shields for ages. "What's this glowy thing" "oh it's a matching shield tiles will give you a shield" "What does that do?" Oh my god shut the hell up, I just want to match tiles!

The game is decent after the tutorial is FINALLY over. But because the start is so awful, I will never recommend this game to anyone. So exactly because of that, I've thumbed down for this game.

I enjoy these games for the fun casual puzzle they give you. But having an unskippable tutorial that harasses you until you do what it tells you, is not good.
The sense of humour this game tries to have is utterly abysmal and it keeps shouting "YOU, MUST, BUILD, A, BOAT" I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GET IT, SHUT UP ALREADY, JESUS CHRIST!

It actually gets worse than just that, you have to mash click whenever you get loot or want to upgrade an item. You have to sit and wait for an NPC to slowly walk across the screen whenever you unlock a new one.
This game wastes a lot of your time before letting you actually play the game.

The game is also extremely patronising... It will tell you that you win, every single time the level is over. EVERY, SINGLE, TIME. Which gets old instantly. And if you're stuck on a quest, you can't grind without choosing a quest, because you can't do a run without picking a quest. So there's a bit where enemies regenerate really quickly, good luck grinding your weapons strong enough to kill them, if you aren't already.

Go play 10000000 instead.

Jan 27, 2026·46h·2·Verified

Steam User 6665STEAMRecommended

you simply must

Jan 26, 2026·32h·1·Verified

Steam User 3065STEAMRecommended

Easy little Bejewelled battle monsters game, however title should be 'You have to build 3 boats to get all achievements'

Cost a few dollar bucks and got 30 hours out of it so can't complain,- however would of been about half that if didn't want all the achievments

Better than 10000000

Jan 22, 2026·34h·1·Verified

Steam User 7837STEAMNot recommended

The idea is okay, but the execution isn't. It's 100% RNG based and with pressure of time, it reduces the gameplay to chaotic scrolling of boxes around the screen without any skill or strategy. It might give that feeling of [i]gain[/i] when one beats a level, but as soon as they realise it's artificial, the fun is gone. I thought it'd be cool on Steam Deck, but it was made for the touch screen, and it shows (and I refuse to use touchscreen on Steam Deck, it's the one feature that makes [b]zero[/b] practical sense to me).

Jan 19, 2026·12h·2

Steam User 2691STEAMNot recommended

Might as well just replay 10,000,000, it's effectively the same game. No significant innovations or changes to justify this new purchase.

Jan 14, 2026·1h·Verified

Steam User 4170STEAMRecommended

Un super puzzle-game, qui mélange match-3 et action, très addictif et malin. Il faut passer l'esthétique rétro (que moi j'aime bien, mais qui ne plaira pas à tout le monde). J'aime le refaire régulièrement depuis 10 ans, et c'est toujours aussi bien !

Jan 3, 2026·16h·1·Verified

Steam User 3911STEAMRecommended

[h1] DISCLAIMER: This is a first impressions review, and NOT a full review [/h1]

You Must Build A Boat is a game developed and published by EightyEightGames

The game has some okay graphics and the game does suffer with some repetitiveness at certain areas but a fun game nonetheless

You Must Build A Boat overall, however, is a fun game to play in short bursts and a good puzzle game to play!

[h1] RECOMMENDED :) [/h1]

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Jan 1, 2026·11h·Verified

Steam User 9268STEAMRecommended

This game can feel slow and clumsy at times but I just find myself coming back to this weird match 3 game.

Jan 1, 2026·21h·Verified

Steam User 9775STEAMNot recommended

声称支持Steam云，但实际上没有。在这种情况下就没有资格设计多周目。

Dec 21, 2025·18h·Verified

Steam User 8575STEAMRecommended

Way too many different tile types, makes matches less frequent and harder to do. Even more so when items are stored on the bored instead of an inventory. Still prefer 10000000 but this is fine.

Dec 5, 2025·17h·Verified

Steam User 6683STEAMRecommended

If I dont know what to do, I pull the boxes around randomly and it works.

Nov 29, 2025·16h·3·Verified

Steam User 9113STEAMNot recommended

The game is ok on its own, however I lost all my progress for some reason and I refuse to play from scratch again so I can't recommend this game. A shame.

Nov 29, 2025·7h·Verified

Steam User 7116STEAMRecommended

Man muss einfach nur wollen

Gutes Spiel, mag die Musik!

Nov 27, 2025·14h

Steam User 8788STEAMRecommended

poifecto

Nov 22, 2025·24h·Verified

Steam User 5089STEAMRecommended

Tomato plz

Nov 4, 2025·56h·Verified

Steam User 0657STEAMRecommended

YOU MUST BUILD A BOAT!!!!

Oct 31, 2025·109h·Verified

Steam User 4470STEAMNot recommended

遊戲趣味性稍低
也許是我找不到遊戲的訣竅玩到後面越玩越痛苦
遊戲中我常常沒辦法快速找到可以三消的方塊
甚至我成功通關的次數中有非常大的比例是靠運氣而不是靠實力的
這讓我對這遊戲感到挫折, 但我依舊堅持著拿到全成就

但偏偏有其中一個成就需要二週目甚至三週目才能拿到
強制拉長遊戲時間這一點讓我感到非常厭惡
我一週目就花了5個小時, 想必後面會更長更痛苦

我覺得方塊裡放入太多非戰斗性的東西有點太硬要, 影響了戰鬥的節奏和體驗感
生成方塊的幾率也沒有寫成多段連消, 所以玩起來也不痛快
即使靠自己轉成多段連消了也沒有額外加成, 只有第一段同時消掉的方塊會有加成
這一點我也覺得無法理解

總的來說
玩得很痛苦沒有美術沒有快感

Oct 31, 2025·17h·Verified

Steam User 4083STEAMRecommended

这款游戏还是不错的，常规三消作品了，但是有个缺点，升级上限很容易达到，而且方块出现也过于不科学，但最恶心的还是有一个成就要打三遍游戏，我勒个去强行拉长时间，导致一开始以为的休闲完全不休闲了。

Oct 3, 2025·19h·Verified

Steam User 7103STEAMRecommended

推荐，非质量入库五要素也有--中文云存档成就掉卡加一。

202401，steam，steam掉卡抵扣，它处自定义包入的本体约6元。爱人如己，目前就这，看以后追评。

Sep 30, 2025·2h·Verified

Steam User 9794STEAMRecommended

More of this please

Sep 29, 2025·8h·Verified

Steam User 2966STEAMNot recommended

Perdí todo mi progreso de 7 horas de juego por razones desconocidas. Traté de usar la guía pero no funcionó.

Sep 29, 2025·7h·Verified

Steam User 6274STEAMRecommended

8/10 - Very charming. Addictive gameplay when loot is plentiful but the late game can really become a slog. Last achievement requires new game ++...

Sep 17, 2025·28h·1·Verified

Steam User 3590STEAMRecommended

if you insist

Sep 10, 2025·4h

Steam User 5554STEAMRecommended

Выбравшись из подземелья мы понимаем, что не выбрались из кругов ада и теперь плаваем, высаживаясь в местах, где мы можем собрать необходимое, а также набрать команду несчастных (Собери их всех!), дабы построить корабль и уплыть отсюда...
Собираем 3 в ряд, а иногда и побольше, используя разные ячейки. Ячейки надо пробовать двигать как можно больше и быстрее, дабы не проиграть. Но проигрываем мы от того, что нас бьют и мы отскакиваем в левую часть экрана. Если проиграем, то начинаем снова и снова, выполняя задания забега. Очень приятно играется и проходится, поскольку у нас есть цель в постройке корабля, который откроет для нас выход из плавания. Пока мы там, то обустраиваемся в своём жилище, в котором будет всё больше и больше полезного. Для прохождения нам надо собирать ресурсы, тоже складываем 3 в ряд, когда забег начинается. Также мы будем получать золото и пыль, которые сможем потратить в строениях на ковку лучшего обмундирования и приобретений для того, чтобы с врагами справиться. Собираем три посоха или меча в ряд и мы будем действовать этим оружием, то есть врага бить. Не забываем собирать щиты и мы будем защищаться, то есть не отступать под атаками врага. Ежели соберём полезные предметы, то есть возможность получить полезный предмет, что используем во время забега. Полезное может быть и в сундуках, но для этого мы должны быстренько собрать 3 ключика, ну или побольше, чтобы сразу несколько замков открыть. Есть интересные строения, в которых мы ничего не улучшаем. Например, в одном мы используем зелья, но не те, что в прошлой части. Они что-то улучшают для забегов, но при этом обязательно имеют отрицательный эффект. Также у нас имеется множество секретов и ежедневные забеги, а ещё имеется усложнение, если начать с самого начала после полного прохождения.
С удовольствием прошёл и выполнил все достижения, поставив множество рекордов, которые пишутся в самом конце игры, их при желании можно побить, если продолжить играть.

Aug 22, 2025·32h·8·Verified

Steam User 1651STEAMRecommended

Solid match 3.

Aug 17, 2025·26h·Verified

Steam User 1800STEAMRecommended

top

Aug 9, 2025·9h·Verified

Steam User 4541STEAMRecommended

战斗加三消，比一代复杂有趣一些。上下分屏有时有些分散注意力。
可惜体量不支持三周目，有些任务只能靠堆数值 + 运气硬过，打到后面有些恶心(´。＿。｀)

不过几块钱可以玩很久游戏，还要什么自行车（

Jul 23, 2025·22h·Verified

Steam User 3059STEAMRecommended

boat

Jul 12, 2025·44h

Steam User 1317STEAMRecommended

honestly a nice game to play when you just want to mindlessly do something while watching a video.

Jul 10, 2025·24h·Verified

Steam User 3363STEAMRecommended

I've already quite enjoyed the first game. This being more of the same was a welcome distraction to play while listening to some youtube videos haha.

Jul 6, 2025·9h·Verified

Steam User 9495STEAMNot recommended

Not much different that their game "10000000". I don't like either if these games. Uninstalled after a few mins.

Jul 3, 2025·Verified

Steam User 9229STEAMRecommended

I built a boat. One of the better Match 3 games out there.

Jul 2, 2025·2h

Steam User 8412STEAMNot recommended

拖动一整行/列的玩法比较新颖，不过总体来说不太推荐。非常赞同前面某人的评论，“通关之后没有愉悦感，只觉得恶心”，总是被随机数折腾实在太难受了。

Jun 13, 2025·9h·Verified

Steam User 1392STEAMRecommended

I must build a boat

May 26, 2025·25h·Verified

Steam User 3596STEAMRecommended

打发时间的三消游戏，还不错~

May 22, 2025·5h·Verified

Steam User 4161STEAMNot recommended

Aparte de lo más grave, que es que HAY QUE EDITAR EL REGISTRO DE WINDOWS PARA CAMBIAR LA RESOLUCIÓN DE PANTALLA, es muchísimo peor que el anterior, 10.000.000. No hay sensación de progreso, todos los niveles/enemigos se sienten exactamente igual de fuertes/débiles aunque hayan muchos más upgrades que en el anterior.

Se han añadido animaciones absurdas (que no puedes saltar) y que no aportan nada. Para hacer los upgrades tienes que hacer click muchas veces, en plan minijuego de mier**. Es Basura, es lento, no tiene el ritmo del anterior, Demasiado basado en la suerte, es como jugar a una tragaperras pero con solo lo malo, porque aunque te toque "premio" este consiste en jugar a más de lo mismo.

No lo compréis, simplemente jugad y rejugad el anterior, 10.000.000

Mar 25, 2025·14h·1

Steam User 7316STEAMRecommended

Delivers what the name says

Mar 24, 2025·25h·Verified

Steam User 3662STEAMRecommended

20000000
изменений по минимуму, но свою функцию спинномозгового перетаскивания плиточек выполняет

Mar 22, 2025·8h·2·Verified

Steam User 0687STEAMRecommended

非常友好的一个游戏，没有lose只有win。很适合听书的时候玩，可惜的是地图太少了，船还能再加大加大加大啊！

Mar 15, 2025·15h·Verified

Steam User 2090STEAMNot recommended

[u]Gameplay:[/u]
"You Must Build A Boat" ist ein Dungeon Crawler/Kombinationsspiel. Unsere Spielfigur läuft im oberen Teil des Bildes von links nach rechts durch einen Dungeon und wird dabei von Monstern, Fallen und Schatztruhen aufgehalten. Da diese Hindernisse unseren Fortschritt verhindern, müssen wir uns beeilen diese aus dem Weg zu räumen. Schaffen wir es nicht rechtzeitig wird unsere Spielfigur links aus dem Bild gedrängt und unser "Lauf" scheitert.

Um sie bei ihrer Reise zu unterstützen müssen wir im unteren Teil des Bildes auf einem 6x8 großen Feld mindestens 3 Dinge oder mehr des gleichen Typs miteinander kombinieren. Schwerter und Zauberstäbe für den Angriff, Schilde für Verteidigung und Schlüssel um Truhen zu öffnen. Manchmal fliegt eine Falle auf uns zu, die wir aber aufhalten können sofern wir das richtige Symbol miteinander kombinieren. Schaffen wir dies nicht rechtzeitig, sitzen wir vorerst fest und müssen Dinge kombinieren um den Laufweg frei zu räumen.

Kraft, Gedanken und Kisten sind die anderen Objekte die sich auf dem Spielfeld befinden. Die ersten beiden dienen als Ressource um später neue Dinge freizuschalten und die Kisten enthalten Items, die wir im Dungeon einsetzen können: Zaubersprüche um Gegner aus dem Weg zu räumen und Nahrung, die unsere Spielfigur weiter nach rechts fortschreiten lässt.

Wenn wir gerade nicht im Dungeon unterwegs sind befinden wir uns auf unserem Boot. Denn obwohl uns das Spiel immer wieder darauf hinweist ein Boot bauen zu müssen, sammeln wir in Wirklichkeit eher eine Crew ein, die stattdessen dafür sorgt, dass unser Boot erweitert bzw. zu einem richtigen Schiff wird. Über das Bestarium lassen sich im Dungeon gefundene Monster rekrutieren, die uns diverse Boni geben.

Nachfolgend ein paar Dinge, die im Spielverlauf auf dem Boot gefunden werden können.
Stans Schmiede: Schwert (Aufwertung)
Silveres Staberei: Zauberstab (Aufwertung)
Crittans Waffenkammer: Schild (Aufwertung)
Leems Arkanerei: Zauber (Aufwertung)
Mudders Taverne: Tränke für Buffs/Debuffs (Wichtige Tränke: Gebräu des Tapferen (Gold)/Trank des Opfers (Schwierigkeitsgrad)
Saundis Handel: Überschüssige Beute gegen Gold usw. tauschen
Hornsbies Kostbarkeiten: Artefakte
Agnetis Garten: ? ([spoiler]"Ass-Level 3" = Errungenschaft: "Eiserner Wille - Erhalte Agnetis Geschenk"[/spoiler])

Im Verlauf des Spiels fährt unser Boot einen Fluss entlang, der sozusagen unseren Levelverlauf bestimmt. Um Weiterfahren zu können müssen wir Quests erfüllen, die wir beim Betreten eines Dungeons aktivieren. Erst wenn alle Quests erfüllt sind kann das Boot weiterfahren. Sobald wir das Spiel durchgespielt haben, können alte Level erneut betreten werden. Apropos Durchspielen, im New Game+ (Ass-Level) gehen alle Aufwertungen, Artefakte, gefundene NPCs, rekrutierte Monster und sonstige Ressourcen verloren; wir beginnen das Spiel mit erhöhtem Schwierigkeitsgrad von vorne.

[u]Audio/Texte:[/u]
- gute Musikuntermalung
- nette Soundeffekte
- keine Sprachausgabe
- Deutsche Übersetzung teils fehlerhaft (Monstername: "ä"?)

[u]Spielzeit:[/u]
Um das Spiel einmal durchzuspielen sind ca. 7 Stunden nötig. Die ersten Level sind schneller schaffbar als die späteren. Um die letzte mögliche Errungenschaft [spoiler]"Eiserner Wille"[/spoiler] freizuschalten müssen wir das Thema "Ass-Level" [spoiler] dreimal bei unserer Gärtnerin[/spoiler] ansprechen bzw. erhöhen. Damit habe ich ca. 23 bis 24 Stunden Gesamtspielzeit für 100 Prozent benötigt.

[u]Bugs/Probleme:[/u]
- Manche Monsternamen werden nicht korrekt angezeigt (z. B. "ä").
- Boot teilweise nicht vollständig einsehbar/Bild kann nicht verschoben werden. Es müssen erst NPCs auf dem Boot angesprochen werden, bevor das Bild wieder funktioniert.
- Das Klicken: z. B. Waffenaufwertungen müssen viele Male angeklickt werden, bevor wie sie erhalten
- Der Grind: Wir müssen im Verlauf des Spiels sehr viel Gold grinden, um uns Upgrades kaufen zu können
- Neue Gebiete sind schwierig zu Bewältigen, falls die notwendigen Waffenupgrades fehlen
- Sind alle Quests eines Gebietes abgeschlossen zwingt uns das Spiel mit dem Boot weiterzufahren
- Levelauswahl erst am Ende des Spiels möglich
- Das Klicken 2: Am Ende des Spiels muss gefühlt tausend Mal etwas angeklickt werden, damit es weitergeht
- Die Errungenschaft [spoiler]"Talent schlägt Ausrüstung - Erreiche den Kerker, ohne etwas zu kaufen"[/spoiler] sollte im Idealfall direkt angegangen werden, da mit erhöhtem "Ass-Level" der Schwierigkeitsgrad steigt.

[u]Fazit:[/u]
"You Must Build A Boat" ist im direkten Vergleich zum Vorgänger "10000000" das schlechtere Spiel. Dies liegt hauptsächlich am Grind. Ich war ständig gezwungen das "Gebräu des Tapferen" zu aktivieren um genug Gold zu farmen, das für die Aufwertung der Ausrüstung zwingend notwendig war. Die Ressourcen "Kraft" und "Gedanken" wurden nebenbei eingesammelt. Klar, die Monster die man damit rekrutieren kann geben Boni, aber so viele Ressourcen waren gar nicht notwendig um sich Sorgen darüber machen zu müssen. Mit anderen Worten, das Artefakt "Amulett der Konzentration (+50 % Kraft und Gedanken gefunden)" ist eigentlich überflüssig. Je weiter man gekommen ist, desto schwerwiegender hat sich der Grind auf meine Motivation ausgewirkt. Wenn man das "Ass-Level" steigert und somit den Schwierigkeitsgrad erhöht, wirkt sich der Grind noch erheblicher auf den Spielspaß aus.

Weiter oben erwähnte ich das Klicken: z. B. beim Kaufen von Waffenupgrades und am Ende des Spiels müssen wir viele Male klicken, damit es endlich weitergeht. Gedrückthalten reicht nicht. Wer das Spiel gespielt hat weiß genau was ich meine. Letzten Endes sind das die Gründe, warum ich das Spiel nicht weiterempfehlen werde. "10000000" hat einfach mehr Spaß gemacht. Wenn mal wieder ein Sale kommt, kann man aber dennoch darüber nachdenken ob man es kaufen möchte. Wertung: 4/10

Mar 7, 2025·23h

Steam User 1559STEAMNot recommended

Всякому овощу своя игра! Потраченного времени не вернуть!

Jan 31, 2025·18h·4·Verified

Steam User 1919STEAMRecommended

not as good as 10 000 000 but still fun.

Dec 18, 2024·11h·Verified

Steam User 8390STEAMRecommended

ඞ+ Yeah!

Dec 12, 2024·29h·Verified

Steam User 8134STEAMRecommended

This is an enjoyable retro Match-3 game at an unbeatable price. Traverse dungeons while matching tiles to unleash attacks to clear monsters and chests. Gather resources to complete various upgrade trees. It's a good game to turn your brain off and feel that satisfying progression.

I played through the whole game on Steam Deck using mouse+keyboard, and it took me about seven hours for my first playthrough.

Nov 7, 2024·7h·1·Verified

Steam User 4297STEAMRecommended

The sequel to 10,000,000 that somehow feels slightly worse than the original. It's still a good time though.

Oct 20, 2024·5h·4·Verified

Steam User 7398STEAMRecommended

还可以的三消游戏，至少比前作好玩一些，到后面太难了就放弃了。

Oct 12, 2024·5h·2·Verified

Steam User 2862STEAMRecommended

Despite the "modest" art style, it's a good choice for a mindless match-3 experience.

There is a layer of strategy with the enemies resistance and weakness to certain attacks, but you can ignore all that and just focus on matching tiles. If it's too hard, upgrade some stuff and get back to matching.

Oct 8, 2024·31h·1·Verified

Steam User 8058STEAMNot recommended

the odd thing about this game is it feels like it should be a superior game to the first game, 10,000,000 but even with all the improvements it feels worse

The progression system is really well designed and I enjoy it but I feel like in the first game using an item killed or almost killed the enemy you used it on, Now all the spells feel so under powered that I don't even care if I get them, you can upgrade them but you need that money to upgrade your other gear but even then it feels like each enemy takes more and more time to kill, the first game felt fast with you constantly slaying and upgrading so quickly with lucky runs lasting for a dozen monsters, now I feel lucky to kill even 5, everything works better but I feel weaker than the main character in the last game, it's remarkably unsatisfying but I like everything about this game and even plan to continue playing it yet I still think the pacing of the first game flows better, with upgrades being a palpable feeling of power increasing instead of a single point of damage increasing, you gain power so slowly and the monsters do too so the difficulty holds still for the whole game neither getting harder or easier

I feel weird saying all this because intellectually I understand it's a better game but when playing it I get less dopamine from each combo because each combo impacts the enemy less and I see less enemies fall to my onslaught, making each run feel shorter, I feel like I move at most a dozen feet before I'm killed

Sep 20, 2024·16h·9·Verified

Steam User 6656STEAMRecommended

上头啊，连续十小时三周目全成就，想起来当初mirror带给我的感动了，消消乐真是最纯粹的快乐

Sep 16, 2024·12h·Verified

Steam User 5894STEAMRecommended

It's about the journey, not the destination. YMBAB is a match three game, like it's predecessor called 10000000. If you just want to randomly hop in for a short game, it's good! It makes a good filler.

Aug 21, 2024·46h·1·Verified

Steam User 8382STEAMRecommended

fun

Aug 21, 2024·19h·1·Verified

Steam User 2164STEAMRecommended

Забавная игра, люблю механику матч3. Прошел с удовольствием, рекомендую

Aug 19, 2024·12h·Verified

Steam User 1641STEAMRecommended

Noah?
Get the boat!!!

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Jul 29, 2024·30h·Verified

Steam User 4941STEAMRecommended

I love these games, I wish they made more of them :(

Jul 29, 2024·24h·3·Verified

Steam User 5812STEAMRecommended

手游补票，太上头了
翻译文本有好多纰漏，，，

Jul 21, 2024·7h·Verified

Steam User 7985STEAMRecommended

Perfect mindless game (yet, still needing to think and be quick).

Jul 16, 2024·11h·3

Steam User 7394STEAMRecommended

Have not love a puzzle game this much since Bubble Bobble in '86! I i have repeatedly bought both of these games on droid and Steam! We need more titles like these! More please!

Jul 15, 2024·5h·3·Verified

Steam User 5739STEAMNot recommended

[i]TL;DR: It's like playing during an earthquake[/i]

Writing a review after doing like 4-5 dungeon runs in the game (maybe 15 minutes of actual playtime).

I generally love match 3 games and I found "You Must Build A Boat" bundled up with it's prequel, "10,000,000". I decided to try 10,000,000 first and it felt really polished, simple, and addicting. I was really looking forward to its sequel. In contrast, You Must Build A Boat immediately comes off as much flashier but not necessarily better. Since I tried both games within a narrow time frame, and they are by the same developer, it's very difficult not to compare the two.

In You Must Build A Boat, your character basically wants to upgrade their boat. You run through a side scrolling dungeon to collect resources, battling monsters and opening treasure chests, by sliding rows/columns of tiles in order to match 3 or more of the same pieces together in order to make a move. Sometimes after a dungeon run you'll recruit an NPC, who is an addition to your boat, expands your boat size, and unlocks new features. You use the resources to upgrade your equipment.

Positives:
- I like watching the boat get bigger.
- It's cute that your character is not alone and you make more crew mates as you progress.
- It's match 3, yay. Clearing tiles is satisfying.

Negatives:
- Annoying visual effects. Full disclosure, I tend to get motion sickness quite easily. If it's a 3D first or third person kind of game I can expect it and won't complain but... A 2D match 3 game? This game is too flashy and jarring for me. The parallax scrolling in the backgrounds makes me dizzy. At the start of the level, the tiles "whip" into place. When you exit the dungeon there's a blinding flash of white light. When you complete a quest, the reward box screen shake effect is way too intense for me. To upgrade an item you have to spam click the upgrade button which also shakes everything. I played on full screen on my PC and I hated it. Everything shudders too much, it feels like the game is trying too hard to be intense or create a sense of urgency/movement. It's probably better to play on windowed mode or on a smaller screen. I couldn't find a way in the settings to make the game feel less like I'm playing during an earthquake.
- The colors are garish and hurt my eyes. They also made the tiles more square instead of the more rounded squircles in 10,000,000, and I think this was a bad design decision that makes the game more unpleasant to look at.
- No inventory system. Items just take up space in your board and it feels like clutter and inhibits your ability to make matches.
- Information about your shield is limited. It's just a glowing arc in front of your character, who is constantly moving across the top of your screen, which makes it harder to keep track of because you would be more focused on the board and trying to make matches anyway. No convenient, definite numbers in the UI that lets you see how "charged" your shield is.
- You don't really have any say in how to "build" the boat. You can't decide when, where or how new rooms are placed.
- There's a library on the boat that provides information about the items/monsters in game. The library only has one book. You have to click through every single page in order to find the entry you are looking for. There's no menu/glossary in the library so it's clunky to use.
- Monsters have weaknesses to different types of damage but the tiles you get on the board are so random (on top of the "item" tiles taking up precious space), it's kind of pointless to try and focus on the enemy weakness.
- I'm still only in the first dungeon so I don't know it would feel like in a different dungeon (different color scheme) but the visual contrast between the pyramid walls and the locks on the treasure chests does not feel enough (compared to in 10,000,000). It is more difficult to see how many times you need to unlock something.

Overall, I can only play in 5-10 minute chunks of time, and not by choice. It's not what I look for in a game. In comparison, I could go a solid 3 hours on 10,000,000 with no problems. I'm still wondering if I want to keep YMBAB or ask for a refund. The Steam achievements are kind of tempting to collect, but that's it. If you're deciding between the two games, 10,000,000 feels so much better to play. I don't think you're missing out on much if you decide to skip playing YMBAB.

Jul 13, 2024·11·Verified

Steam User 1055STEAMNot recommended

「攻撃を食らったかどうか」と「敵を倒したかどうか」がパッと分かり辛いのが痛い
ただでさせ盤面見なきゃいけないのに、ロクなSEもないまま上の状況も把握しろというのは、出来なくはないがどうせなら制作側で楽になるような工夫が欲しかった
トラップも音もなく来てしかも割と着弾が早いので、結局のところこのゲームは『常に適当に動かしてパネルを消すだけのゲーム』になりがち

Jul 12, 2024·17h·2·Verified

Steam User 2368STEAMRecommended

还是很欢乐的，这种小游戏就像扫雷一样，可以一直玩下去。
作为消消乐打怪游戏算是平易近人的了，之前玩的 Legend of Fae 人物并不会在每次下地牢后成长，只能硬玩，这个游戏好歹可以提升属性。
缺点：数值有点问题，怪物血厚，钥匙难找。宝箱未免太烦了，多数时候并不是被怪卡死，而是被宝箱卡死。命都没了还要宝箱，这设定不合逻辑。看到宝箱就像看到怪一样，这更是不合逻辑，毕竟宝箱应该给玩家一种激动的感觉才对。应该设定一个跳过宝箱的选项。

Jul 12, 2024·9h·Verified

Steam User 4409STEAMNot recommended

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 start completely new game, unkillable monsters, tutorial randomly popping up in the middle of the map instead of first map.
Collecting achievements, because you'll be forced to play three times with increasing difficulty, which only makes mentioned things worse.

For the money it's good for one playthrough as few hours of fun.

Jul 11, 2024·43h·3·Verified

Steam User 0795STEAMRecommended

地味だけど堅実みたいなゲームだと思う。
画面が楽しげなのもいい。
セールだと149円とかなので楽しめる。

Jul 10, 2024·1h·Verified

Steam User 5874STEAMNot recommended

Boring Slide to Match 3 or 4 or 5 game, all you do is to sit there and wait until your character get to the next objectives, then only the matching give any effects, instead of building up some kind of a spell to unleashed a powerfull blow or something

It was painfully slow, I don't know why I wanted to buy this at the 1st place...maybe it was cheap, too cheap

You're not missing out if you skip this

Jul 6, 2024·1h·1·Verified

Steam User 2731STEAMRecommended

This match 3 game is basically the same as the previous game from the same developer - [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/MouseWithBeer/recommended/227580]10,000,000[/url], just instead of escaping a dungeon you are building a boat. I liked both of them about the same and had fun with both.

Jun 26, 2024·20h·6

Steam User 2634STEAMNot recommended

Encountered a game breaking bug after 70 minutes. When I accomplish the quest to plunder 3 chests, the game gets stuck. Even reloading the game makes the bugged message appear again after the next round.
Apart from that it's O.K..

Jun 11, 2024·1h·Verified

Steam User 6884STEAMRecommended

not really an improvement from the first one, progress feels better near the end of the game but til then its pretty stale. i had fun matching 3 like an ape tho and its one of the only match 3 games that doesnt look like an old medieval casino slot game

a lot more difficult & runs last shorter and feel less rewarding
enemy type resistance is much more punishing
shield is very bad now
items take up grid space & grid was also made smaller from 10million for some reason
traps are not fun
spam click upgrades and little cutscenes are annoying

Jun 6, 2024·41h·Verified

Steam User 3593STEAMNot recommended

Stick to the first game.
Traps and random added effects for enemies make it unnecessarily more annoying to play this game.

Jun 1, 2024·3h·6·Verified

Steam User 3016STEAMRecommended

Прямой сиквел 10,000,000, аналогично являющийся хардкорным скоростным 3 в ряд.
В отличие от предшественника, в данной игре есть ощущение прогресса и конечной цели.

Есть очень слабые намёки на неписей.
Слабые, поскольку те играют роль улучшающих комнат из предыдущей части, но у этих хотя бы есть по строке текста.

Цель постройки корабля слегка разбавляет однообразный гриндильный геймплей, хотя не может удержать надолго.

Из явных минусов - сломанные настройки и невозможность поменять полноэкранный режим на оконный.
Также разработчик мог проработать иные удобства. К примеру, добавить уровень сложности, который определял бы скорость перемещения персонажа по подземелью. Да, дело привычки, но изначально она крайне высокая и любителяей самого жанра 3 в ряд, неподготовленных к таким скоростям, это может оттолкнуть.
Ещё непонятно, зачем ограничивать количество "заданий" двумя с возмодностью расширения до трёх. Было бы удобней набрать все задания с одной локации сразу, дабы иметь возможность закрыть их за один забег при наличии достаточного везения.

Несмотря на явные улучшения в сравнении с прошлой частью, игра всё ещё не может удержать. В определённый момент в неё просто становится скучно играть. А продолжать для галочки не хочется.

Обзор скорее нейтральный. Где-то на 5 с минусом из 10.

May 24, 2024·6h·1·Verified

Steam User 7783STEAMRecommended

The premise is a silly vehicle for an addictive, fast paced roguelike, match 3, endless runner, which is not a combo you see much of.

May 16, 2024·13h·Verified

Steam User 7703STEAMRecommended

It's a simple time-waster of a game, not too complicated, and simple, but entertaining if you like to enjoy yourself not stress over choices and decisions that matter.

May 8, 2024·253h

Steam User 9776STEAMRecommended

Macht für zwischendurch auf jeden Fall Spaß =D

May 8, 2024·3h·Verified

Steam User 8554STEAMRecommended

This game is amazing and endlessly replayable. It's the best match 3 game of all time.

May 6, 2024·10h·Verified

Steam User 2959STEAMNot recommended

Painfully slow unskippable animations. Don't bother if you value your time.

Apr 4, 2024·1·Verified

Steam User 8610STEAMRecommended

Fun game, though its kind of short.

Mar 27, 2024·16h·Verified

Steam User 8546STEAMRecommended

As with 10,000,000 I want to open this review with the same question.
Did you every play a Match 3 game and had the thought “I wish I would be more stressed out and not relaxed while playing this” ?
If so, and you has fun with 10,000,000 already, You Must Build A Boat is your game.
But there is no need to have played their previous game to enjoy this one.
You Must Build A Boat is mostly an updated version of 10,000,000 with new features and ideas.

It's an interesting mix of a Match 3 and Dungeon Crawler game.

Your little figure walks on the top of the screen from left to right, and you have to match pairs to either fight enemies or open chests and doors, while collecting resources at the same time all while the left side of the screen comes closer every second and with it the dread of the game over screen.

Once you reached your inevitable end you wake up on your boat, where you can spend your resources to upgrade various things, and recruit new crew members, before you just back into the next run.

You Must Build A Boat has a very addicting loop of “just one more run” One more upgrade to surely get further the next time.
If you enjoy Match 3 games, and stress, I can 100% recommend this game to you, it’s a very unique concept which is quite rare to find.

Mar 26, 2024·24h·7

Steam User 2377STEAMRecommended

Same charm, but more difficult than it's predecessor.

Mar 14, 2024·7h·Verified

Steam User 2540STEAMNot recommended

adds difficulty to the game without any QoL that the original difficulty kinda needed

Mar 9, 2024·8h

Steam User 3825STEAMRecommended

갓겜.

Feb 22, 2024·17h·Verified

Steam User 8110STEAMRecommended

Forget the rest; it's the music that's the star here. Timeless. Even when the tunes loop, I'm still jamming like it's the first play. It's like they've bottled nostalgia and sprinkled it into every track. Sure, the gameplay's addictive, and the visuals are charmingly retro, but it's the never-ending groove that keeps me hooked.

Feb 11, 2024·23h·3·Verified

Steam User 7079STEAMRecommended

Feels as addictive as Candy Crush, but story is cooler.
Wish I could play it with something more comfortable than my mouse.

Feb 7, 2024·4h·Verified

Steam User 0244STEAMNot recommended

I really wanted to like this game. I wound up hating it by the end. The final quest is impossible to complete, even if you unlock every upgrade. It feels like every upgrade that is applied also increases the monsters' resistance. I might have been able to do it if I could go back to previous levels to unlock the hidden monsters, but once you pass a level, that's it. I finally had enough and just uninstalled without completing.

Save your money -- play something else that won't do your head in.

Dec 26, 2023·22h

Steam User 6287STEAMRecommended

A nice, pixel-art, match 3 game.
Very simple, pretty short and fun.

If you played 10,000,000 before and liked it, you're gonna like this as well.
If you haven't played 10,000,000, there's no reason to go back after this game, as it's pretty much a better version of it.

Dec 24, 2023·6h·Verified

Steam User 7724STEAMRecommended

Stellar game. I play this mostly on mobile, since you can play short sessions.

Dec 19, 2023·18h

Steam User 1647STEAMRecommended

I'm hopelessly addicted to this wonderful game. I've played the heck out of it here and on mobile and can't get enough. Brilliant little match 3 puzzle with a unique twist and a lot of charm.

Dec 7, 2023·19h·Verified

Steam User 1294STEAMRecommended

Incredibly addictive puzzle RPG that you can play in small bursts. Fun to replay. Plenty of secrets to unlock.

Nov 25, 2023·6h·Verified

Steam User 3935STEAMRecommended

Good mindless fun. Fabulous music.

Nov 20, 2023·13h·Verified

Steam User 8655STEAMRecommended

Fun time waster

Nov 10, 2023·49h·Verified

Steam User 3856STEAMRecommended

A rather hard to recommend game, not because its bad, but because of how monotonous and repetitive it gets by the end.

Like the previous game, 10000000 (Ten million), this is a match 3 game with upgrades and a basic battle system.
I personally like match 3, Puzzle Quest on the DS being one of my favorites.

This game is very simple, you match stuff, get stuff. Match swords and wands to kill monsters, match brains and arms to recruit monsters, match keys to open chests and match shields to... do something? I honestly didn't notice much difference on having shields.

Its fun and having a chain reaction happen is still a great feeling.

I recommend this game because it is a well made, cheap and rather fun match 3 game, but it has several problems that become more and more apparent as you play.

- The art style is atrocious. I REALLY dislike this art style where the characters have limbs made of 1 pixel wide lines, but that at the same time wants to add shading and textures. Either go full Atari 2600 or do 8/16 Bit.

- You can't be strategic after a while. One the start of the game, trying to think a bit and setting up chains or waiting for matches works, but as you play, you have too little time to do all that.
The screen is always moving quite fast and enemies make it go even faster, so the optimal way to play it is to just spam every single combination you can and hope for the best.

- Rather unfair. It loves throwing progression stoppers, buffed enemies and traps that you can't disarm.
You would think that they would throw a trap so you need to waste a match, but they often need tiles that you can't even connect without moving your entire board.

- Too dependent on luck and repetition. Later stages become a RNG madness.
You are no longer depending on strategy, but repeating the same run over and over and over, waiting for that one stroke of luck that will give you the means to finish a quest or avoiding enemies so you can reach a certain point.

- Secrets are too secret, and missable. Most secrets, if not all, are stuff you would never think to do.
Why would you click on the bed several times in a row? Why would you click around the map, if every map but one has no interactable parts? Sell 40+ items at once?
The worst of all? You can only go forward. As soon you move on to the next stage, the secret is lost forever.

- Upgrading stuff is a chore. Costs get higher and higher, you need rare items and then you still have to mash your mouse to upgrade the item.
By the end levels, you will be sitting on a lot of money, but nothing to do with it because all upgrades now require rare items.
And even with a fully upgraded equipment, you are still at the mercy of RNG, that will spawn a buffed damage sponge boss with regenerating health and no damage tiles on your board.

Overall, its repetitive, too dependent on luck and looks rather bad.
But its still fun, cheap and more importantly, one of the few match 3 on Steam that is not a porn shovelware.

Nov 3, 2023·7h

Steam User 9902STEAMRecommended

as long as you're into the fundamental game loop of matching threes, it's good. you shouldnt expect this to win over anybody who doesn't find shutting their brains off and hand-eye-coordinating lines of the same pictographs a great way to pass the evening, but as long as you are into that, it wraps enough mechanics and charm around it to elevate the experience.

Oct 2, 2023·27h·Verified

Steam User 2242STEAMRecommended

My gambling addict friend said if I post a review on 'You Must Build A Boat' and it gets 100 likes and 20 Awards that he will buy me a case of beer and some tekila. So im just gonna leave this here.

Oct 2, 2023·28h

Steam User 0688STEAMNot recommended

Just a bit too boring for me.
After the first few levels it starts to take ages to get upgrades.
Wish I was still a kid to spend that kinda time for that little progress.

Sep 24, 2023·2h

Steam User 2731STEAMRecommended

The hit sequel to 10,000,000! You Must Build A Boat improves on everything 10,000,000 brought to the table and more. The advancement of the boat as you progress through the game and the crew you recruit significantly makes me feel like I'm actually progressing as opposed to just increasing my score like in the previous game. The music is even better than the first one with a few different tracks to experience based on region you are in. I can solidly recommend this game at it's current price point of 4.99, although if concerned I've seen it also go on sale for even cheaper. It even has a NG+ esque feature of difficulty to ramp if you wish to begin the cycle of building a boat anew.

Sep 3, 2023·17h·1·Verified

Steam User 7686STEAMRecommended

Buy it for fun

Aug 31, 2023·10h·Verified

Steam User 8096STEAMRecommended

On frole la perfection du genre Match3.

Aug 26, 2023·28h·Verified

Steam User 0158STEAMRecommended

Chill time waster that you can play with one hand while your cat lays on your keyboard. The art is charming, and the rogue-lite aspects are a good mechanic that fits well. No complaints on this match three.

Aug 20, 2023·16h·Verified

Steam User 9095STEAMRecommended

Date of completion: August 2, 2023.

Far more story-rich and adventure in comparison to 10000000 but still addictive until the game's completed. Not many changes that I'd consider bad either; most I'd consider pretty cool. I can only think of two major but just personal gripes:

- The final Achievement has us go through the game THRICE. Doing it twice was tedious enough...although the steel plating on the boat DOES look cool, so I GUESS it's worth it anyway?
- The music: there's 8 locations for traveling but only 2 tunes to listen to during runs. And to play this whole game three times brings monotony for the soundtrack. A shame this game was made 8 years ago because the recommendation of making tunes for all 8 lands now will just go unnoticed. The developer's probably moved on with his life.

Other than that, it's a good game.

Aug 6, 2023·29h

Steam User 2218STEAMRecommended

Suite à un 100% du jeu j'ai tenté de traverser l'Atlantique en solitaire, hélas mon esquif s'est abîmé au large de Saint-Malo après un périple de 2 minutes 37 j'ai désormais la phobie de l'eau ce qui me contraint à chier dans des toilettes sèches

Aug 5, 2023·14h·Verified

Steam User 1354STEAMRecommended

之前在手机上玩过的三消游戏。简约而不简单，游戏元素很多也很上头。哈哈哈哈哈哈但是，这个三消游戏真的是拼手速

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“你必须建造一艘船（You Must Build A Boat）”，这句在冥想中呼唤的语句，如雷声一样回荡在游戏世界的每一个角落。游戏如同一个超现实主义画家所擅长的技法，以强烈对比的色彩，与其深度相呼应的抽象形状，以及其流动的线条，勾勒出一个崭新的概念：建筑是为了旅行，旅行是为了建筑。不可否认，这是一款与众不同的三消游戏，它给你的不仅仅是消磨时间的快乐，而是让你深入探索其中的世界和故事，为你的船而奋斗，为你的旅行而生活。

尽管从外观上看，这款游戏的设计看起来异常简约，甚至有些过于朴素。但一旦你深入其中，你就会发现，这个看似简单的外表下，蕴藏着丰富而深入的内涵。像是一个无底的黑洞，吸引着你不断的探索，不断的挖掘，直到你完全被其吸引，不能自拔。游戏元素的种类繁多，难度梯度的设置也恰到好处，从而让你在游戏的过程中，始终保持着兴趣和挑战感。

与其他的三消游戏不同的是，"你必须建造一艘船"的快感不仅来自于眼前的匹配和消除，更来自于探索未知的海洋，建造自己的船只，迎接挑战。在这个过程中，你会不断地收集资源，对船只进行升级，一点一滴地建立起自己的海上王国。这个过程充满了乐趣，也充满了挑战，你会在这里找到你从未有过的刺激和快感。

与此同时，这款游戏的节奏感非常强烈，它不仅仅是一款需要策略和技巧的游戏，更是一款考验手速的游戏。每一个操作，每一个选择，都需要你迅速决策，快速反应，然后以最快的速度进行操作，以确保你能在这个风高浪急的海洋中，坚持下去，不断前进。

总的来说，"你必须建造一艘船"是一款充满挑战和乐趣的游戏。它既可以让你在闲暇的时候消磨时间，也可以让你在寻找刺激和挑战的过程中，找到你的乐趣。如果你是一位热爱冒险和挑战的玩家，那么，这款游戏绝对值得你一试。如果你是一位热爱三消游戏的玩家，那么，这款游戏将会给你带来前所未有的体验。总之，无论你是何种类型的玩家，"你必须建造一艘船"都有足够的理由让你深深地爱上它。

Jul 25, 2023·2h·Verified

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