Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Dec 29, 2021

  As many others have said, this game is deader than dead. It's so dead that I honestly wonder if the only thing keeping the master server up is Badspot leaving auto-renew on PayPal turned on by accident. To make a long story short, the developer frustrated his community years ago by removing a ton of beloved maps in the v20 update to add shaders, claiming it was to support the addition of future content due to the aging engine as well as getting the game on Steam Greenlight. Afterwards, he released one more content update (adding the events system and bots which was admittedly pretty cool and game-changing), and then stopped updating the game outside of minor maintenance releases every now and then. I don't blame him for it since he kept the game updated consistently for a decade and the Torque engine is dang old with a capital O, but it's had pretty severe consequences on the state of the game. The multiplayer that was the lifeblood of this game is now dead in the water as a result. Six months ago you maybe had 70 players at peak hours, and now that's 30 or so as an optimistic estimate, spread out across a dozen servers. It's so small that you can't even scroll down on the server list anymore. Unless you like building things to yourself all the time, you're essentially paying ten dollars to walk around a series of ghost towns. I loved this game as a kid before I had it on Steam and even for 143 hours when I did get it on Steam years later. I miss this game and I cherish the memories it gave me, but at this point it's time to let Blockland fade away and give it the peaceful death it deserves. If you still want to buy this game and try it out, know what you are getting into. EDIT: Since I know people are going to try it; no, I have no interest in Brickadia. That game might even be more dead than Blockland itself. Last I checked it doesn't even have mod support despite the developers saying it would a while ago. It could've been a decent spiritual successor but going by the server list it's got...four people on one server. rofl EDIT 1 ADDENELUM: I was far too harsh on Brickadia with this initially. Yes I know it's in open alpha and you can play it, but it's still pretty barren and I would just like to wait until it gets to a more stable state. EDIT 2: Because this is something I forgot to mention. The shaders that Badspot killed the game's beloved old maps for aren't even enabled by default. It's not like there's any graphics auto-adjustment on first launch, they're just set to off by default and you would never even know they existed unless you check the game options yourself. Even on ultra settings you can catch seams in where the shadows are anyways. Totally worth killing the game's community for.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 31, 2022

  i miss the times
• gamedeal user

  Apr 12, 2022

  I just wish this game was more active again. I remember playing Blockland on a Windows XP machine when I was a lad back when the game had default maps like Bedroom and Kitchen. I always remember playing the demo of the game while listening to Scatman John on a Windows 7 laptop in the early 2010's. Today, it's a virtual ghost town, with occasional players showing up to play the game once in a while, but because of the developer's decision of the removal of default maps, not many people play the game anymore, he was also rather toxic to the community by unfairly banning people and dictating what mods mods could be used and was just a jerk to everyone. He was the one who wrecked the game for everyone for those reasons. I just wish the game would be back to normal. This release hasn't seen a lot of people lately. I bought this game 2 years ago just to relive it, but it's just as empty as I remember it even when I originally played the demo of the game for the very first time. I wish.... I wish this game can be restored to the way it used to be.....
• gamedeal user

  May 4, 2022

  The bloated, sugar-coated corpse of Roblox lost all the charm. Blockland lost all the playerbase. And yet, it holds the charm both games had in their prime.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 26, 2022

  A long-decayed corpse of a bygone era. Still fun to poke it every once in a while
• gamedeal user

  Apr 8, 2023

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• bowl75

  Aug 14, 2023

  gem
• gamedeal user

  Nov 5, 2015

  Blockland is great if you have friends who also own the game! this game is slowly dieing more and more. most of the good servers have stopped being hosted and few remain but you can alwyas play with your buddies! :D
• gamedeal user

  Aug 13, 2017

  What happened to you, Blockland? Your community use to make the game so inviting. You could easily find servers with lots of people who were friendly, now the few servers you have are just toxic. It's gotten as bad as Roblox's community, and i regret re-buying Blockland.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 10, 2018

  I grew up playing Blockland starting around 2006, before the game was even on Steam. Everything about this game at the time felt unique and the community was strong and supportive. There was always new content for this game in the form of add-ons. Over time, this game was released on Steam, maps were removed, replacing them with a giant grassy block plain and RTB was shut down. That was what marked the game's slow downfall, as the playerbase started disappearing over the course of 3 years. After 2017, this game has practically no new content and developers have not responded to players passionate about this game. So far, there isn't many people left playing this game, the times I had with large scale TDM battles over the snowy mountains were practically forgotten and I really wish I could relive that same experience. Besides this game's practically empty playerbase, besides 80 or 100 people, the game is a fun time as long as you have friends to play with and add-ons to mess around with and to all players buying this game, I strongly recommend downloading the add-on Blockland Glass. Back before this game came to steam, there was a client used for chatrooms and downloading add-ons called RTB. Blockland Glass is basically RTB 2.0. I would recommend this game 100% and I hope this game's playerbase returns some day.