You Must Build a Boat to survive this killer indie game

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You've got to build this boat.
You've got to build this boat.
Photo: EightyEight Games

Luca Redwood, the main powerhouse indie developer behind EightyEight Games, has taken the last three years of his life to make a sequel to critical darling match-three game, 10000000.

Sadly, it’s not named 10000001, but rather You Must Build a Boat. In it, you actually do need to build a large, ark-like boat with all sorts of rooms and defenses and such, and you outfit your boat by running dungeons and matching items to kill baddies and get past obstacles in them.

Sound weird? It is, but it’s also going to be stupidly addictive. If it’s half as engaging as 10000000, you’ll be playing this on your Mac, iOS device, or Linux box long into the wee hours of the morning.

Check it out.


See? How fun does that look? The dungeon gameplay looks similar to that of 10000000, but the boat-cuilding mechanic? Pure ironic genius. Now, you’re not just leveling up your little dude to take on ever-increasingly tough monsters and dungeon traps, but you’re also building a kick-ass ark to put all your skeleton archers and whatnot in.

You Must Build a Boat is headed to Mac, Linux, iOS, and Google Play this June 4, and we couldn’t be more excited. I’m on a boat!

Source: EightyEight Games

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