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Approaching Blocks

Dymchick1 · 2016-06-03

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 03, 2016 (Mac), Jun 03, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 03, 2016 (Linux)

Play and study foreign words! Try dodge from blocks. When you loss, showing words in a foreign language. To complete each level hold 100 seconds. First two levels are quite simple, but starting from the third, it will be hard.

Approaching Blocks is a 2016 Casual and Indie game priced at $0.69, with a Mixed review sentiment (65% of 347 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 200,000 .. 500,000.

0
playing now
65%
positive of 347 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.69
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 46% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 29,066 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.7k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 347 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2016-08-08) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120162026Week of 2016-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3102026-09-14 23:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 25 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 21 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 16 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 19 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 13 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
540Jun 2016Aug 2026Jun 2016 — avg 1 · peak 9Aug 2016 — avg 5 · peak 105Oct 2016 — avg 14 · peak 1,100Dec 2016 — avg 5 · peak 126Feb 2017 — avg 9 · peak 110Apr 2017 — avg 16 · peak 602Jun 2017 — avg 16 · peak 697Aug 2017 — avg 52 · peak 954Oct 2017 — avg 7 · peak 75Dec 2017 — avg 3 · peak 281Feb 2018 — avg 2 · peak 43Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 9Jun 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 10Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Feb 2019 — avg 1 · peak 14Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 11Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 65Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 2Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 2May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2021 — avg 3 · peak 30Jul 2021 — avg 13 · peak 300Oct 2021 — avg 4 · peak 107Dec 2021 — avg 10 · peak 276Feb 2022 — avg 14 · peak 184Jul 2022 — avg 26 · peak 697Sep 2022 — avg 10 · peak 27Nov 2022 — avg 5 · peak 47Jan 2023 — avg 12 · peak 704Mar 2023 — avg 16 · peak 39May 2023 — avg 13 · peak 253Jul 2023 — avg 21 · peak 113Jan 2026 — avg 15 · peak 263Aug 2026 — avg 2 · peak 28
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$1.99$0.492016-06-042026-08-242016-06-04 — best price $1.492016-07-13 — best price $1.992016-10-17 — best price $0.492017-01-02 — best price $1.992017-06-05 — best price $0.492017-10-02 — best price $1.992017-12-21 — best price $0.492018-04-23 — best price $1.992018-09-17 — best price $0.492018-11-27 — best price $1.992019-02-04 — best price $0.492019-07-09 — best price $1.992019-11-30 — best price $0.492020-04-20 — best price $1.992020-10-29 — best price $0.492020-12-14 — best price $1.992021-06-14 — best price $0.492021-11-01 — best price $1.992022-01-10 — best price $0.492022-06-13 — best price $1.992022-08-15 — best price $0.492022-10-31 — best price $1.992023-01-09 — best price $0.492023-03-23 — best price $1.992023-06-19 — best price $0.492023-08-07 — best price $1.992023-12-22 — best price $0.592024-03-11 — best price $1.992024-05-27 — best price $0.592024-07-22 — best price $1.992024-11-18 — best price $0.592025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-03-13 — best price $0.592025-05-19 — best price $1.992025-08-25 — best price $0.552025-11-24 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $0.552026-05-18 — best price $1.992026-08-24 — best price $0.69
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
6.7%
earned "Everyone starts somewhere"
3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,04620%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieCasualSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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