Posted on: March 29, 2023
orisjohnson
Verified ownerGames: 263 Reviews: 3
Kind of like SimTower, but 3D
Block'hood is underrated. It's more complex than your average city builder. What makes it unique is that structures don't have up-front resource costs: instead they have inputs and outputs toward your stored resources. Those with insufficient input will decay. Simple to learn, tricky to master. It's a refreshingly transparent system compared to the more "black box" mechanics of other popular city-builders, which often require a FAQ/walkthrough to fully comprehend. As a result, this one is incredibly satisfying once you finally work out how to build an elaborate city that doesn't decay. I compare it to SimTower because, minus all the elevator stuff, you're basically doing the same thing: building a vertical city. Except there are dozens of resources and hundreds of structures, which can make for quite the steep learning curve. Seriously - it's one notch below Dwarf Fortress. Maybe harder, especially if you just jump straight into a sandbox game. Best to start with the story mode, which functions like a tutorial campaign. Alternatively, the Challenge mode also progressively introduces you to increasingly complex configurations of buildings to inspire the basis of more advanced designs. Highly recommend spending plenty of time with both before moving on to the open-ended gameplay.
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