You Must Build A Boat (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

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...

70 4 June 2015

What You Must Build A Boat is

You Must Build A Boat is an indie game developed by EightyEightGames and released in 2015. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

You Must Build A Boat holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core2Duo, 1 GB RAM and OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

You Must Build A Boat launched on 4 June 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Batman: Arkham Knight, Splatoon and Heroes of the Storm. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Batman: Arkham Knight, Splatoon, Heroes of the Storm.

You Must Build A Boat — frequently asked questions

When did You Must Build A Boat come out?

You Must Build A Boat was released on 4 June 2015 for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for You Must Build A Boat?

At minimum, You Must Build A Boat needs Core2Duo, 1 GB RAM, OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA) graphics, 150 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is You Must Build A Boat?

The PC system requirements give two figures: the minimum line says "150 MB available space" and the recommended line says "2 GB available space". Plan for the larger one, since the developer has not said which is current. Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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