Game overview
Buoyancy
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
- Last tracked players
- 1
- All-time peak
- 4
- 24-hour change
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- Steam reviews
- 58.6% positive 794 reviews · via SteamSpy
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Build a floating city. Plan out your city's expansion by placing floating platforms that connect with each other. There are several types of buildings: Gatherers, Production, Hunters, Military, and Utility. Resources are delivered in real-time for constructing and production by your villagers.
Manage a growing population. Your city's population will be ever growing! Manage your villagers happiness and nourishment levels to keep them alive. Try to balance resource production with an increasing population that demands more and more. Combat sickness and fires that could cripple your city.
Explore with your mighty city. In this ocean world there are resources and floating junk to exploit but they’re not always going to drift your way. You can move your city around to exploit resources providing your buildings a production boost. Most of these resources are critical to develop larger cities, and some are necessary to keep surviving!
Find schools of fish, derelict ships, and take advantage of rebounded whale populations (or don’t).
Fight for your survival. Pirates will attack you if they spot your city. You can train Guards to defend your city from invaders. Place Junk Cannons to destroy a large amount of pirates in one blow, but be careful of friendly fire!
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About us
We are Devs on a Boat, a small indie game company based in sunny Seattle, WA.
We currently do not develop on a boat, but we dream.
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System requirements Windows · macOS · Linux
Windows
Minimum
Minimum:- OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
- Processor: Core i3 or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce GTX 400/Radeon HD 5000
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
Recommended
Recommended:- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Core i5 or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce GTX 700/Radeon HD 7000 series or better
macOS
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: macOS 10.12+
- Processor: Core i3 or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce GTX 400/Radeon HD 5000
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
Recommended
Recommended:- Processor: Core i5 or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce GTX 700/Radeon HD 7000 series or better
Linux
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: Ubuntu 16.04+
- Processor: Core i3 or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce GTX 400/Radeon HD 5000
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
Recommended
Recommended:- Processor: Core i5 or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce GTX 700/Radeon HD 7000 series or better
Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- Devs on a Boat
- Content warning
- Contains simulated violence and blood. Contains cannibalism references.
- Features
- Single-player, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish - Spain, German, Dutch, Russian
- Website
- Official website ↗
- Support
- [email protected]
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features
Can I Play This?
Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.
Structured language support (6)
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | No | No |
| French | Yes | No | No |
| Spanish - Spain | Yes | No | No |
| German | Yes | No | No |
| Dutch | Yes | No | No |
| Russian | Yes | No | No |
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Buy Verdict
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Value Score
Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 20th percentile. Priced as Market at $12.99.
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