The Block

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App ID	1995590
App Type	Game
Developer	Paul Schnepf
Publisher	Future Friends Games
Franchise	Future Friends Games
Supported Systems	Windows macOS
Technologies	Unity Engine
Last Changenumber	31511540
Last Record Update	6 October 2025 – 18:35:24 UTC ()
Release Date	16 December 2022 – 15:00:00 UTC ()

❓ 67.22%

184 reviews

In-Game

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 :)

Additional Information

Developer

Paul Schnepf

ReleaseState

released

Publisher

Future Friends Games

Store Release Date

16 December 2022 – 15:00:35 UTC ()

osarch

community_hub_visible

Yes

Primary Genre

Indie (23)

Store Genres

Casual (4), Indie (23)

Steam Release Date

16 December 2022 – 15:00:00 UTC ()

Store Asset Modification Time

16 December 2022 – 16:10:33 UTC () (1671207033)

library_assets

library_capsule	en
library_hero	en
library_logo	en
logo_position ↴
pinned_position	BottomLeft
width_pct	37.651128544130536
height_pct	67.90494283756901

osextended

macos64,macosapplesilicon,macosnotarized

review_score

review_percentage

Detected Technologies (?)

Unity Engine, SteamworksNET SDK, cURL SDK

First seen on SteamDB

8 May 2022 – 21:44:29 UTC (), in changelist #14749773

Supported Languages

29 Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes	Yes
French	Yes	Yes	Yes
Italian	Yes	Yes	Yes
German	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spanish - Spain	Yes	Yes	Yes
Arabic	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bulgarian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Czech	Yes	Yes	Yes
Danish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dutch	Yes	Yes	Yes
Finnish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Greek	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hungarian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Japanese	Yes	Yes	Yes
Korean	Yes	Yes	Yes
Norwegian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Polish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Portuguese - Portugal	Yes	Yes	Yes
Portuguese - Brazil	Yes	Yes	Yes
Romanian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Russian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Simplified Chinese	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spanish - Latin America	Yes	Yes	Yes
Swedish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Thai	Yes	Yes	Yes
Traditional Chinese	Yes	Yes	Yes
Turkish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ukrainian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vietnamese	Yes	Yes	Yes

Assets

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clienticon

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clienttga

3a16fccec7bb36766022b3c1980387f8262c2cb6

icon

3677ea6a811a20b4a2626821b30c0edbf5a24874

small_capsule

english

capsule_231x87.jpg

header_image

english

header.jpg

library_assets_full

library_capsule ↴
image/english	library_600x900.jpg
image2x/english	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero ↴
image/english	library_hero.jpg
image2x/english	library_hero_2x.jpg
library_logo ↴
logo_position/pinned_position	BottomLeft
logo_position/width_pct	37.651128544130536
logo_position/height_pct	67.90494283756901
image/english	logo.png
image2x/english	logo_2x.png

Assets

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small_capsule	capsule_231x87.jpg
header	header.jpg
hero_capsule	hero_capsule.jpg
library_capsule	library_600x900.jpg
library_capsule_2x	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero	library_hero.jpg
library_hero_2x	library_hero_2x.jpg
community_icon	3677ea6a811a20b4a2626821b30c0edbf5a24874.jpg
page_background_path	app/1995590
timestamp	15 October 2024 – 10:02:26 UTC

Trailers

522758 ↴
trailer_name	The Block in 90 seconds
trailer_category	0
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trailer_max/video/mp4	256921522/movie_max.mp4
microtrailer/video/webm	1995590/522758/ba0d64ef24fc776e8a1f7ba489fd4d5b5b640207/1751065384/microtrailer.webm
microtrailer/video/mp4	1995590/522758/ba0d64ef24fc776e8a1f7ba489fd4d5b5b640207/1751065384/microtrailer.mp4
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adaptive_trailers/2/cdn_path	1995590/522758/ba0d64ef24fc776e8a1f7ba489fd4d5b5b640207/1751065384/hls_264_master.m3u8
adaptive_trailers/2/encoding	hls_h264
screenshot_medium	256921522/movie.293x165.jpg
screenshot_full	256921522/movie_full.jpg
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1671202820
522900 ↴
trailer_name	Out Now
trailer_category	0
trailer_480p/video/webm	256921597/movie480_vp9.webm
trailer_480p/video/mp4	256921597/movie480.mp4
trailer_max/video/webm	256921597/movie_max_vp9.webm
trailer_max/video/mp4	256921597/movie_max.mp4
microtrailer/video/webm	1995590/522900/eb70ed319c1ac666bc1fe4e1c001270e66a57f56/1751065392/microtrailer.webm
microtrailer/video/mp4	1995590/522900/eb70ed319c1ac666bc1fe4e1c001270e66a57f56/1751065392/microtrailer.mp4
adaptive_trailers/0/cdn_path	1995590/522900/eb70ed319c1ac666bc1fe4e1c001270e66a57f56/1751065392/dash_av1.mpd
adaptive_trailers/0/encoding	dash_av1
adaptive_trailers/1/cdn_path	1995590/522900/eb70ed319c1ac666bc1fe4e1c001270e66a57f56/1751065392/dash_h264.mpd
adaptive_trailers/1/encoding	dash_h264
adaptive_trailers/2/cdn_path	1995590/522900/eb70ed319c1ac666bc1fe4e1c001270e66a57f56/1751065392/hls_264_master.m3u8
adaptive_trailers/2/encoding	hls_h264
screenshot_medium	256921597/movie.293x165.jpg
screenshot_full	256921597/movie_full.jpg
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1671202825

Launch Options

0. Unnamed launch option

Executable	`The Block.exe`
Launch Type	Launch (Default)
Operating System	windows
CPU Architecture	64-bit only

1. Unnamed launch option

Executable	`The Block.app`
Launch Type	Launch (Default)
Operating System	macos

Configuration

Key	Value
installdir	The Block

The Block

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