A simple manual on disabling the auto updates

In Google Play, it is easy! Just open the game’s page, click on 3 dots in the top right corner, and the checkbox you need to uncheck will be right there.

Steam sadly is more complicated. It does not have such setting and typically will try to force you to update the game, so what you need to do is to forbid it for Steam. This is how you do it:
1. Go to the “steamapps” folder. The sure way to get it right – click on the gear menu on game’s page (to the right, just below the banner), then “Manage”, then “Browse local files”, and from there go 2 folders up.
2. There, should be the file “appmanifest_270110.acf”. 270110 is the game’s ID (as you can check in “Properties” -> “Versions”), and through this file Steam manages the game. Just right click the file, go to properties, and put the checkmark on “Read only”, this way, Steam won’t be able to properly start up updates (until you uncheck it, of course!).
3. *Unnecessary*, but for the good measure: click the gear menu from step 1 again, then “Properties…”, then go to tab called “Updates”. There, in the “Auto updates” select box, select the option “Only update this game when I launch it”. Self-explanatory, prevents Steam from sneakily updating the game, you might want to set it back along with the step 2 when all the matters are sorted out, but do keep it this way until it’s announced *here on this channel or in VK group*.
3. After it’s done, you can just go to the game’s page and launch it as usual whenever you want. For now, that is!, because when the hijacked update does roll out, most likely Steam will still demand you update the game. So, there is nothing to do about that? Of course there is! Just go to the local game files from step 1, and there you will see the file “Block Story.exe”. This one you can run, and it will start up the game no matter what Steam wants you to do. For the sake of convenience you can also create a shortcut of it (in the right-click menu, or possibly in right-click -> “more options”) and copy it onto the desktop, just don’t confuse it with the shortcut Steam creates for you, it’s different.

Done!