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Minecraft: Java Edition

2011 · Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · Simulator · Adventure

85IGDB player score
2,091 ratings

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An 85 average across 2,091 ratings — widely played, widely liked, for good reason. Survival is the whole game — scarce resources, bad odds, and every small win feeling huge. Come for the campaign, stay because your friends won't let you leave the lobby.

About this game

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon.

Minecraft: Java Edition (previously known as Minecraft) is the original version of Minecraft, developed by Mojang Studios for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Notch began development on May 10, 2009, publicly releasing Minecraft on May 17, 2009. The full release of the game was on November 18, 2011, at MINECON 2011.