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2017 · City-building · Indie

Block'hood

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.

Released: 11 May 2017
Platforms: Linux Windows macOS
Genres: City-building Indie Puzzle Simulation Strategy
Developers: —
Publishers: Devolver Digital
Modes: Single-player
Country: United States
Age ratings: CLASS_IND L
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat: 5.5hmain story17hcompletionist

About

Block'hood is a 2017 city-building video game developed by Plethora Project and published by Devolver Digital. It was released on May 11, 2017 for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux. Plethora Project developed a spiritual successor Common'hood, released in 2022.

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Gameplay

Block'hood is a neighbourhood building simulator. It involves building a vertical tower for people to live in by combining square building blocks. There are over 200 different building blocks each serving different purposes and requiring different resources. Every block has inputs which are resources it consumes and outputs which are resources it produces.

Resources such as Energy and Food must be managed, and if a building block doesn't have all its required resources it will decay and need to be replaced. To produce more resources blocks such as Wind Turbines, Farms and Water towers can be built. Other blocks that are available include: Flats which can house inhabitants, Parks that provide fresh air, Shops that produce money and Clinics that reduce sickness.

Development

Block'hood, developed by American developer Plethora Project, was first released for early access on March 10, 2016 for Microsoft Windows and MacOS. On March 30, 2016, new features were released including a new UI to inspect block properties, Pigs and Cows were added as well as new farms. On April 27, 2016, Inhabitants were added to the game along with new building blocks. On May 25, 2016, more inhabitants were added, as well as new challenge levels and more new building blocks.

Plethora Project went to E3 in June 2016 to represent the game on MacOS. The game won an award for Best Gameplay at the "Games for Change" festival in June 2016. More new features including a world system enabling a larger neighborhoods were released on July 11, 2016. On August 11, 2016, an update improving the menu system and user interface was released.