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Block'hood

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3.6/5

( 21 Reviews )

3.6

21 Reviews

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Block'hood
Description
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 90+ building blocks to arrange and combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of...
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3.6/5

( 21 Reviews )

3.6

21 Reviews

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Product details
2017, Plethora-Project LLC, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 2GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM, GeForce 600 series or better, Version 9.0c, 1 GB avail...
Time to beat
5.5 hMain
8 h Main + Sides
12.5 h Completionist
7.5 h All Styles
Description
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 90+ building blocks to arrange and combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs. The game will embark on a story of ecology and understanding as additional resources are always needed to unlock new blocks, configurations, and combinations to create more prosperous neighborhoods. Throughout the design process, players will need to avoid the decay of their city blocks by making sure each unit doesn’t run out of resources and become a strain on the complimentary units around them.

Envision Your Neighborhood: Consider what Blocks are necessary for your neighborhood to thrive. There are no boundaries of what you can create with an expanding library of 90+ blocks.

Generate Resources: Each Block you create has inputs and outputs and by understanding how each block is dependent on other blocks, you can create a productive network. Optimize your production and generate abundant resources for the dozens of intricate symbiotic relationships in your neighborhood.

Avoid Decay: If blocks don't receive the inputs they need, they will decay over time and slowly become abandoned or destroyed. Once a block is abandoned or destroyed, you will have to remove it and avoid it from making other blocks decay further. Be careful as seeking an utopian neighborhood carelessly, can lead to dystopia.

Unique Modes: Neighborhood designers an enjoy Sandbox Mode and Challenge Mode with modes for Education and Research planned for educational and academic use within the classroom.
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
5.5 hMain
8 h Main + Sides
12.5 h Completionist
7.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04)
Release date:
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Size:
399 MB

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Posted on: November 8, 2017

dnovraD

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 74

Cannot recommend.

I came into this game with no expectations. I saw it had left indev, and decided to give it a try. To put it bluntly, it feels very incomplete. The game has a pretty artstyle. But if I want an artsty game, there are so many others to pick. It feels lifeless, with how still many elements are. Trees don't move, and there are walkers, but they don't do anything. The UI is very poorly designed. The entire game is about resource management, but most of the UX is unintuitive, obstructive, and generally very slow. The entire game is based around providing access, and you'd think it'd be logical that most things would rotate automatically to snap together. They don't. You instead have to learn how to rotate blocks in a hamhanded tutorial that I ducked out of, because I had learned enough about the game to know how it worked, and wasn't interested in further pork for dinner. Buildings themselves feel very lifeless and colorless, but I feel that has to do with the hamhanded messages it is trying to send. While trying to meet the needs of the blocks and resources, you may notice a fatal flaw of the simulation. Blocks only decay when there is a LACK of a resource. Nothing happens if you have too many acorns or sewage.


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Posted on: April 8, 2020

Sollea

Verified owner

Games: 46 Reviews: 2

This shouldn't have passed beta testing

Dear developers, I am unable to play your game because I do not have a mouse with a scrollwheel. The tutorial does not allow me to progress without it, but that's not the really frustrating part. The frustrating part is that there are shortcut keys for zooming in and out - and I tried jumping into the game's first level and using those, but again, there's an onscreen tip requiring me to use the scrollwheel I don't have and refusing to allow me to play until then. It does not register the shortcut keys at all.


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Posted on: May 16, 2017

dabyron47

Verified owner

Games: 84 Reviews: 4

Fun, challenging and unique

The game is a city builder type game that has you creating neighbourhoods instead of entire cities which I think is great as it allows you to better see and measure the success of the environments you create, both natural and built, at a more human scale. Instead of generic parks or building types, here you can create unique buildings as well as hybrid structures. It has a great artistic style and clear dynamic overlays which reveal inefficiencies in the neighbourhood. One of the games unique features is the ability to form connections that create ‘synergies’ between blocks, which boosts the neighbourhood’s performance over less squares. Also unique is its ability to create environments not just for people but animals as well, each animal requiring specific natural tile types to attract them and make them happy just as the humans require specific built tile types to attract them and make them happy. All round it is a fun game that has a lot of flexibility due to the variety and range of tile types and environments that can be created and explored.


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Posted on: June 9, 2016

kayleighb

Games: 166 Reviews: 2

Relaxing and fun in-dev title!

This game is wonderful. There's a lot of content already and more is added with each update, the complete game seems like it'll be expansive and in depth building upon what is already there. My favourite thing, however, is how relaxing and soothing this game can be, the graphics, weather effects and music come together so nicely that it's the perfect game to come home after a bad day at work, snuggle up into some fluffy blankets, load up sandbox mode and get to building your town. That's not to say it's too easy, you can make it easy if you want to but there's plenty of challenge to be had at the same time. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product and what that will have in store for players. TL;DR: Hours of fun already, relaxing but not too easy unless you want it to b, certainly worth the purchase!


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Posted on: June 6, 2018

GalliumNaN

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 18

Cool concept, incomplete game

Nice core game, but this is woefully unfinished, and there are no sign of updates. Even over on Steam, the only activity in the past year is an announcement for a VR version.


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