Block'hood
Skip · Strategy · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $2.73/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 600 series or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 73 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 42 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Reus 2 ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Lethis - Path of Progress ($19.99, scores 23).
Of the 248 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 300 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
5.5 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
53% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Be warned that this game has a lot of great potential, but it doesn't seem finished to me. The last patch was a long time ago, and I don't think the original developer is returning to update anything in it soon. This is a Sandbox game that tries to convey a story about building structures in balance with nature, and what happens when this balance is disrespected. The story is just okay. Some aspects are a big cringe...
I liked this a lot - the gameplay and visual design are brilliant. It genuinely feels creative and innovative, and chimes with my personal values around the environment. However, it's fair to say it feels unfinished in places and like it's full potential might not have been reached. I would still recommend it though.
Oh, my god. I have never played a game with such severe oversight. And it hasn't been updated for seven years. In one of the "story missions" there is a decayed block hidden DEEP within the central pillar that can not be demolished, and the goal requires you to revive EVERY SINGLE BLOCK on the map. How the f$%k am I supposed to reach to that singular block if you don't let me demolish the external ones?? Also, you...
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Cite this score
Block'hood scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/416210/block-hoodReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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