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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.

Colony Sim Strategy Early Access Indie City Builder
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Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game set in an ocean world.

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
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

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Steam Deck
playable
Valve compatibility test
The on-screen keyboard may need to be opened manually.
Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (6)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesNoNo
FrenchYesNoNo
Spanish - SpainYesNoNo
GermanYesNoNo
DutchYesNoNo
RussianYesNoNo
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Value Score

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Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 20th percentile. Priced as Market at $12.99.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 89%
Value Ratio Top 80%

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Time in EA
267 days
Current Players
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Buoyancy worth buying right now?
Wait — $12.99. Wait for upcoming sale in ~13 days for potentially better pricing.
When does Buoyancy go on sale?
Wait for upcoming sale in ~13 days for potentially better pricing.
Is Buoyancy free to play?
Buoyancy costs $12.99 on Steam.
What genre is Buoyancy?
Buoyancy is a Indie, Strategy, Early Access game.
Who developed Buoyancy?
Buoyancy was developed by Devs on a Boat and published by Devs on a Boat.
What platforms does Buoyancy support?
Available on Steam for Windows, macOS, Linux.

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