About Build A Boat For Treasure:
As the spiritual successor to 10,000,000, You Must Build A Boat is a match three-style puzzle game with RPG mechanics slapped onto it. The goal of the game is, you guessed it, to build a boat to take you across the map that pops up between dungeons. Its strengths and improvements over the previous title are immediately noticed, but its flaws become more apparent as the game progresses. Lacking any real narrative, progression of your character and ship are the primary motivators of moving forward. Each run nets you a handful of resources that you can use to upgrade your boat, your equipments, your spells, and so on. This is the real strength of the game as there are significant increases to A definite improvement over the simple concept 10000000 gave us. Rather than set a goal over the whole experience, the game makes it a bit more about the journey. Pros:
- Shows some real evolution of the original concept with more tiles and new special attacks + New zones keep the enviornment interesting and the journey long + Heavy upgrade to the presentation of the game as everything feels nicer to execute + Better soundtrack than 10000000, even if it also gets a little repetitive. Has much more fitting music for the art style. + Earning your keep very much pushed in this game as you must do well to progress and unlock new crew members + Keeps an adventure feel to it rather than dangling a goal over you like in 10000000 + Only tweaking the formula to avoid any unneccessary confusion, adding more, but not too much, for veterans. + Much more varied color pallet. + Enemies now have weaknesses and immunities. Cons: – Some goals still seem arbitrary. – While nice, the new library for looking at item effects, enemy types, and weaknesses is, in the end, pointless considering you’re at the mercy of the tiles. – Still a bit more luck based than skill based. – Not too much has changed visually. – The way upgrading is handled stinks of a game that had microtransactions but were seemingly removed for the Steam version. – Upgrading still feels way too slow considering the cost, now adding a minigame as if still meant for a touch device. 7/10.
