diff --git a/pkgs/games/freeorion/default.nix b/pkgs/games/freeorion/default.nix
index 3d7e132e6122..011812580e71 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/freeorion/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/freeorion/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, doxygen, graphviz, makeWrapper
-, boost, SDL2, python2, freetype, openal, libogg, libvorbis, zlib, libpng, libtiff, libjpeg, libGLU_combined, glew, libxslt }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, cmake, doxygen, graphviz, makeWrapper
+, boost, SDL2, python2, freetype, openal, libogg, libvorbis, zlib, libpng, libtiff
+, libjpeg, libGLU_combined, glew, libxslt
+}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "0.4.7.1";
@@ -19,6 +21,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   patches = [
+    # fix build with boost 1.66
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/commit/c9b5b13fb81b1ed142dee0e843101c6b8832ca95.patch;
+      sha256 = "0agqhxk8462sgd230lmdzbrbrfd77zyy7a4g8hrf28zxza1nza94";
+    })
     ./fix_rpaths.patch
   ];