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You Must Build A Boat
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 77% of owners
Steam reviews 82% positive of 1,082
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (43%); after 7h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 77% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,091 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 11.8h for positive, 6.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (76.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (12)
- Sail Away Sail Away Move to a new area 100%
- And My Axe Recruit a Monster 86%
- Crooked Words Pass through Hell 52%
- Many Secrets Find a Secret Collect 44%
- Bigger Hitter Deal more than 500 damage in a single hit 42%
- Dud Detonate a Crate Bomb with no crates 41%
- Out of paper, Out of stock Clear out Hornsbie's 36%
- Wheeee See the end 36%
- Cyclical Go around again 26%
- Go The Distance Reach 800 meters in the Gallery 15%
- Skill Beats Gear Reach Jail without buying anything 12%
- Ironed out the kinks Receive Agneti's gift 7.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.