# BlockAid

Summer DB entity ID: 7942affe\-5a51\-42e4\-aa88\-0f9b92c32da7

Steam App ID: 489810

HELP: THE GAME Compilation  This title is one of many included in the HELP: THE GAME Compilation\.  Please click the below image to view all the titles included\.      About the Game BlockAid is a minimalistic puzzle game centered around providing safe passage for pawns through a maze of raised blocks\. By placing tools themed around protection, education and livelihood you lower the blocks and help create a path for these pawns to cross to the other side\.     Protection       Place these red blocks to provide additional hearts to each pawn that steps on that square, when a pawn reaches 0 hearts it's game over\.    Education       Gain additional turns for each pawn that steps on one of these blue squares, you need turns to be able to continue\.    Livelihood       Adding more of these yellow blocks helps increase the your score\.    Features      Made in less than 4 days to help support the efforts of the charity War Child    Easy to learn, hard to master gameplay    Simple yet relaxing visuals and soundtrack    Show off your score to the world in the online leaderboard    Created as part of the HELP: THE GAME compilation\.  Credits   Ash Morgan   Chris Southall   David Rodriguez   David Smithson   Jak Marshall   Joel Atkinson   Jon O'Connor   Lawrence Barnett   Louis Macan   Matt Allan   Nick Adams   Tony Nguyen   Yordan Gyurchev

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: SEGA Hardlight™

- Publisher: War Child Gaming

- Release date: Jul 26, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Casual, Indie, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489810/ss\_55813faebdb618d58d62d80b05e6ce9c75020692\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1575643154, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489810/ss\_428ef527e994957725bb52f7e037128fd63530ce\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1575643154, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489810/ss\_f397ab1664e7751966e2423fd4b3dbcd5e2e79ff\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1575643154, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489810/ss\_bec178d8b57825f0a4483e0d5c043e1228627248\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1575643154, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489810/ss\_d23b7bb8d99348894812e03c9efbd5cd5dd2c817\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1575643154

- Price: 1499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 8

- Steam positive reviews: 7

- Steam negative reviews: 1

- Steam positive percentage: 87.5%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/7942affe-5a51-42e4-aa88-0f9b92c32da7/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/7942affe-5a51-42e4-aa88-0f9b92c32da7/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T11:54:50\.175807\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T11:54:53\.589293\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T11:54:53\.188132\+00:00

Full provenance: \{"urls":\{"price":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/489810/","catalog":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/IStoreService/GetAppList/v1/","details":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/489810/","players":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=489810","reviews":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/appreviews/489810"\},"price":"2026\-09\-22T11:54:50\.175807\+00:00","source":"steam","catalog":"2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00","country":"US","details":"2026\-09\-22T11:54:50\.175807\+00:00","players":"2026\-09\-22T11:54:53\.589293\+00:00","reviews":"2026\-09\-22T11:54:53\.188132\+00:00","language":"en","editorial":null,"membership":"store\_catalog","observations":\{"price":"3fe4e2f2\-f762\-4fe0\-ba58\-30eaa19f16ff","catalog":"9388064b\-a96b\-4bc1\-b072\-cba9a025bcba","details":"b8e4da83\-149b\-4142\-b94f\-a059471fbc9b","players":"7d8f8339\-4bdc\-41a2\-9da7\-91ab1d0acc51","reviews":"bd2c41e7\-a828\-4594\-9518\-051dfb15d009"\},"reviewFilters":\{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}\}

Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"7942affe\-5a51\-42e4\-aa88\-0f9b92c32da7","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\}

Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/489810/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/7942affe-5a51-42e4-aa88-0f9b92c32da7)