The Blockheads

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  • Summary: Night is falling and your blockhead is freezing. You haven't yet made shelter and your campfire has gone out. All you have is a spade, some wood and a few sticks. You have only minutes before exhaustion hits. Do you create a bed, dig a cave or refuel your fire? What will you do??????Explore,Night is falling and your blockhead is freezing. You haven't yet made shelter and your campfire has gone out. All you have is a spade, some wood and a few sticks. You have only minutes before exhaustion hits. Do you create a bed, dig a cave or refuel your fire? What will you do??????Explore, mine, craft and build in this giant and detailed sandbox game. Navigate huge simulated worlds thousands of blocks wide with a full temperature and climate system, seasons, an equator, and frozen poles. Explore complex cave systems and flowing water, and survive deserts and snowy mountain tops.Play alone, or with a friend, with online two player multiplayer and voice chat over Game Center.• Control your blockheads in a vast randomly generated world with oceans, mountains, forests, deserts and deep underground caves.• Keep an eye on their needs - give them sleep, feed them, create clothing and shelter - and they'll be happier, quicker and more productive.• Craft tools with the resources they find, and they'll be able to work even faster and find more resources.• Upgrade workbenches and unlock more advanced items to craft.• Discover precious stones and metals deep underground, or rare plants and animals on the surface.• Craft a boat and navigate the oceans using the accurate night sky to guide you.• Make fur clothing and venture to the North Pole.• Pick coconuts at a tropical beach.• Cook meat at a campfire.• Build a marble palace.• Paint the walls.• Plant an orchard.• Ride a donkey!… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. TouchArcade
    May 1, 2013
    100
    On an iPhone or iPad, the 2-D, side-scrolling block-based sandbox is a winning formula, and The Blockheads is the most well-executed, true-to-Minecraft game I've had the pleasure to experience on iOS.
  2. 148Apps
    Jan 11, 2013
    90
    I love The Blockheads for much the same reason I love baseball, I suppose. I can watch baseball while doing something else, and The Blockheads is a perfect game to fill my time. Check it out.
  3. Pocket Gamer UK
    Jan 17, 2013
    90
    A game that prizes exploration and creativity above all else, The Blockheads is a great way to waste a couple of days.
  4. Modojo
    Jan 14, 2013
    80
    The Blockheads might lean just a little too heavily on the grandfather of sandbox world-building for its own mechanics, but it's also got enough charm and obsessiveness of its own to make it an essential download.
  5. Vandal
    Jan 20, 2013
    80
    Yes, it is quite "similar" to some other games out there. However it's almost infinite, full of possibilities and very fun. Might be hard to play on small devices, but being free we think it deserves a try.
  6. Gamezebo
    Jan 15, 2013
    70
    The Blockheads is missing the real secret sauce that made Minecraft king of the current gaming zeitgeist: community.
  7. Games Master UK
    Mar 24, 2013
    69
    Rewarding for Notch fans though it's a little derivative - if The Blockheads were a food, it would be a cube of marmite. [Apr 2013, p.89]
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. GamerSpin
    Feb 1, 2014
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a great game!, it has almost everything for a realistic survival, it isn't very easy at your first day, but not too hard. i think it gives more than iOS version of Minecraft. Awesome game!… Expand
  2. LukeyRafT
    Jul 7, 2019
    9
    This game is good. You have to get used to the fact that it's mostly tapping, but in my opinion it's a great free 2d game to counter minecraftThis game is good. You have to get used to the fact that it's mostly tapping, but in my opinion it's a great free 2d game to counter minecraft or terraria. I heavily recommend it.… Expand
  4. Isabel_Vo
    Apr 24, 2013
    1
    This game is just ar ip off of minecraft, inspired, I say not. And the fact you have to pay to make things just dumbs, I hate it so much. AndThis game is just ar ip off of minecraft, inspired, I say not. And the fact you have to pay to make things just dumbs, I hate it so much. And it makes not sense, it's to limited and needs improvement ASAP, even then I will still hate it.… Expand
  5. Zika_X
    Aug 27, 2018
    0
    This game is terrible! The community is awful and discouraging, and I’ve tried giving the community manager a chance. To say the least, I wasThis game is terrible! The community is awful and discouraging, and I’ve tried giving the community manager a chance. To say the least, I was banned for no good reason. The game itself is boring and uses the freemium business model. Play Minecraft or Terraria, not this garbage.… Expand

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#72 Best iOS Game of 2013
81
#81 Most Discussed iOS Game of 2013

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