The Block
Short description
The Block is the world's smallest city builder. Place randomly generated buildings on a square and build up a tiny but perfectly formed city block! It's a very small game - more of a tiny little toy with no goals or challenges - hence the very small price :)
- Developer
- Paul Schnepf
- Publisher
- Future Friends Games
- Release
- Fri, Dec 16, 2022
- Price
- $2.99
- Reviews
- 173
- Positive
- 69%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Casual, Indie
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $2.73, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $2.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
Tracking started Aug 12, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
98 data points going back to Mar 27, 2021 lie outside the 90-day window of your plan. Plus shows the complete history.
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