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 both the quantity and variety of upgrades available. I found myself compelled to keep playing multiple times as an exciting upgrade always seem to be just around the corner. Unfortunately, the greatest strength of You Must Build A Boat ultimately breaks down into its greatest weakness. As you approach the late game, the exciting progression bogs down into a crawl and the monotony sets in. It’s not at all rare to do the same run of a dungeon a dozen or more times hoping for the randomly generated order of monsters, traps, and treasure to be on your side. The fact that you’ve now also run out of available upgrades but have managed to amass a wealth of resources only hastens the encroaching boredom.
