Minecraft: Java Edition (2011)

Mojang Studios

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

4.22 from 10696 ratings · #143 top rated on Grouvee

17807 members have it in their collection · 1957 playing now · 1111 backlogged · 485 wish listed

How long? Main story 40h · with extras 300h · 100% 489h (from 46 logged playthroughs)

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 … Read more
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. Read less
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Developers
Mojang Studios
Publishers
Mojang Studios
Genres
Adventure, Simulator
Themes
Fantasy, Kids, Open world, Sandbox, Survival
Franchises
Minecraft
Series
Minecraft

Release dates

  • Jun 30, 2010 (Alpha) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Dec 20, 2010 (Beta) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Nov 18, 2011 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)

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amongusgame3000

Review amongusgame3000 5/5 · Aug 13, 2022

The video game of games

I honestly don't know how to rank this game because I have grown up and continue to play this peak game. I have probably put thousands of hours into this game. There is always stuff to do in the game and it is super repayable. Wild how it takes a year to implement frogs though.

aokay

Review aokay 5/5 · Jun 25, 2021

you playin minecraft i like ya cut g

very fun and replayable. i play it all the time by myself when im just trying to relax. tons of different gamemodes, playing with friends is great, building stuff is fun, etc. steve is in smash bros

mountsleepyhead

Review mountsleepyhead 2/5 · Mar 1, 2021

Dangerously Addictive Zen Experience/ Total Nightmare on the Switch

I remember back in college when a buddy telling me about this new beta game he was playing. Knowing myself, I didn't download the game (which was free at the time) because I knew I would get sucked in. Years later I picked up Minecraft for the Xbox and, true to form, got sucked in. I got it for my …

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I remember back in college when a buddy telling me about this new beta game he was playing. Knowing myself, I didn't download the game (which was free at the time) because I knew I would get sucked in. Years later I picked up Minecraft for the Xbox and, true to form, got sucked in. I got it for my 6-year-old on Switch and got sucked in all over again, taking her along for the ride. She has since become a certified Minecraft freak and it has been a wonderful bonding experience. I'm so proud hearing her growl, "Unggg, this LAG is so bad!" and "Why isn't this loading in!" because I feel like that is 50% of what we are saying when we are playing.

Or trying to play that is, the Bedrock Edition that was released for the Switch throws an insane amount of road blocks in your path to prevent you from experiencing a seamless gaming experience. I don't ever remember having this problem with the Xbox One version, even when playing 4 person local multiplayer. Here, even when I'm playing alone at the end of the day once the kids are asleep trying to capture some sort of semblance of zen, the game refuses to load in if I venture too far and often clips badly if there is too much going on in the frame. Things cleared up once I moved our massive cow farm away from our front door to the other side of the property, but c'mon it's 2021 and a game, ESPECIALLY one as lo-fi as Minecraft, should be able to handle a lot more than it can. From what I've read this is a known issue with the Switch edition, and it just seems insane that it hasn't been fixed. That's not gonna keep us from Minecrafting, but man it would be a lot cooler if they made the game run good.

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guiss1120

Review guiss1120 5/5 · Dec 10, 2020

O melhor sandbox

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Meu primeiro contato com o Minecraft foi em 2011 mesmo, e desde aquele momento, se tornou facilmente um dos melhores jogos que já joguei.

Seja pelo "ilimitado" mundo que ele proporciona, pela "dificuldade" que ele tem ao sobreviver no começo e até mesmo pela liberdade para construir tudo que quiser.

Em relação ao PS4 Edition, também foi divertido de …

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Meu primeiro contato com o Minecraft foi em 2011 mesmo, e desde aquele momento, se tornou facilmente um dos melhores jogos que já joguei.

Seja pelo "ilimitado" mundo que ele proporciona, pela "dificuldade" que ele tem ao sobreviver no começo e até mesmo pela liberdade para construir tudo que quiser.

Em relação ao PS4 Edition, também foi divertido de jogar, mas eu ainda prefiro mil vezes o JAVA EDITION.

Confesso também que de "todas as lendas" existentes, a única que me assombrou por um tempo fora o Herobrine, afinal, "entrei no mundo de Minecraft" com uma série Machinima chamada Herobrine: A lenda, do canal TazerCraft.

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arukano

Review arukano 5/5 · Oct 28, 2020

Minerar e construir? Tá mais para... centenas horas de diversão.

Sabe, Minecraft é um dos 3 jogos que tiveram a maior influência na minha vida, esse jogo significa tanto para tanta gente que eu honestamente nem sei como começar uma resenha sem primeiro afogar em um mar de elogios pintados de uma nostalgia injusta. Eu gostaria de conseguir manter isso limpo e justo, mas infelizmente eu não acho que eu …

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Sabe, Minecraft é um dos 3 jogos que tiveram a maior influência na minha vida, esse jogo significa tanto para tanta gente que eu honestamente nem sei como começar uma resenha sem primeiro afogar em um mar de elogios pintados de uma nostalgia injusta. Eu gostaria de conseguir manter isso limpo e justo, mas infelizmente eu não acho que eu seja qualificado para algo tão complicado quando gerenciar os meus próprios sentimentos, então... Que tal eu começar do inicio?

Sempre que você começa um novo mundo no Minecraft no survival é como se o jogo te jogasse em terras desconhecidas e falasse para você: "É o seguinte, esse é um jogo sandbox, você tem o seu corpo, vida, fome e as suas mãos, seja livre" e prossegue a te deixar para fazer o que quiser.

E, sim, eu estou 100% ciente de que essa não é a melhor maneira de ensinar um jogador novo sobre como o jogo funciona, ele espera que você saiba os controles; "E" para abrir inventário, botão esquerdo do mouse para bater e etc, eu acho que no aspecto de ensinar jogadores novos Minecraft é péssimo, há tantas mecânicas que jogadores novos tem que aprender por meio da tentativa e erro. Mas não é todo mal! Quero dizer, o sentimento de aprender algo por meio da tentativa e erro é frustrante, sim é, mas e tão, tão, tão recompensador, sabe?

Mas, tá bom, o jogador tem domino dos controles básicos, e agora? Bem, seja bem vindo a um mundo no qual há milhares de coisas para se fazer, de bater em arvores com a sua mão para pegar madeira, a construir uma fazenda eticamente duvidosa que escraviza raposas para matar galinhas para você poder alimentar a sua cadeia de fast food, a construir um maquinário complexo que calcula o exato momento no qual o Ender Dragon aparece e atira um flecha propulsionada por dinamite que utiliza sua aceleração que altera o seu dano para matar a besta instantaneamente (é sério, isso é algo que existe: youtube.com/watch?v=Mfqaok4ngk0).

Mesmo tirando essas coisas mais complexas o jogo é tão divertido, acho que todo mundo que tem um pouco de experiência no jogo e que gosta de construir sabe o sentimento de gastar 3 horas construindo uma casa, ela acabar feia, e ainda ter se divertido ao longo do caminho.

O lance de Minecraft é que você nunca não tem o que fazer, com um pouco de inspiração e muita força de vontade você consegue fazer qualquer coisa! E, é por isso que esse jogo é tão incrível, você pode gastar centenas de horas nele e ainda ter o que fazer.

Mas além, do jeito que as coisas são hoje, Minecraft deixou de ser apenas um jogo sandbox. Devido ao nível que esse jogo te deixa customizar ele, surgiram diversas subseções do jogo: Minigames que utilizam as diversas mecânicas e command blocks para poder criar uma experiência nova. Ou mapas de aventura que utilizam as mecânicas do jogo para criar aventuras novas. Há escolhas que, eu ousaria dizer, são ilimitadas. E é isso que eu amo nesse jogo.

uhhh, em geral, minecraft 64/10 herobrine me deixou traumatizado quando crianca

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Kadeo

Review Kadeo 5/5 · May 13, 2020

Minecraft Review

This game can only be described as incredible. First of all, few games in history have had a resurgence in popularity like the one Minecraft has had in the past few years which says something. The game is original as can be and has inspired multiple spin offs such as the Castle Miner series (Xbox 360 indie games). The game …

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This game can only be described as incredible. First of all, few games in history have had a resurgence in popularity like the one Minecraft has had in the past few years which says something. The game is original as can be and has inspired multiple spin offs such as the Castle Miner series (Xbox 360 indie games). The game is still fun to play almost 11 years after it's release (turns 11 on may 17th) and is still receiving regular updates to content. If you are one of the few people to not play this game I recommend you do so as it is incredibly fun, especially with friends!

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QuilDewIvy

Review QuilDewIvy 4/5 · Jan 2, 2020

Minecraft - Quick Review

It's fucking Minecraft

But in serious real hard hitting critique prose that we all clearly want to describe Minecraft, it's an excellent game despite its roots being not so interesting. What I mean by that, is that the survival game isn't good, at least at its base. It's meh at best, no matter how you slice it, Minecraft survival doesn't …

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It's fucking Minecraft

But in serious real hard hitting critique prose that we all clearly want to describe Minecraft, it's an excellent game despite its roots being not so interesting. What I mean by that, is that the survival game isn't good, at least at its base. It's meh at best, no matter how you slice it, Minecraft survival doesn't have anything interesting to it. Iron armor is busted for most encounters, shields are broken, the progression is incredibly quick, hunger is a complete non-issue.

Does that actually matter though? People aren't generally playing Minecraft unmodded at this day and age, and the vast majority of the appeal for Minecraft is its sandbox. And with that, it's one of if not the best sandbox for creative content out there. It's incredible what the options for everyone are, with the full server list of this day and age spiraling from PvP servers to recreations of massive cities, to full blown mod support that doesn't even need to bring in new assets to work in interesting ways. The command blocks do a lot of that heavy lifting, and the redstone systems in the game have created incredible ingame contraptions.

At its retrospective core, Minecraft is no longer a survival game (because really if it was it would be a shit one). It's entirely what any person can make of it, and that ceiling of what you can create is still being extended. (9/10)

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Amgart

Review Amgart 4/5 · Dec 21, 2019

Really good survival mode for... an hour

This game was a total revolution when it was released. It has different modes depending on your interest: survival, creative, battle royale, dungeons...

In my case, I love the experience of surviving but the game has a problem (or maybe I am the problem). I went for the survival mode and I think it is quite easy to survive. In …

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This game was a total revolution when it was released. It has different modes depending on your interest: survival, creative, battle royale, dungeons...

In my case, I love the experience of surviving but the game has a problem (or maybe I am the problem). I went for the survival mode and I think it is quite easy to survive. In a short time (maybe some hours) you can have a safe home, safe food... and from here... it is just boring for me. I know there are a lot of things to do. but the thing is.. the game does not invite you to do it... so you can easily survive on a farm at the top of a mountain. That's it. Day after day.

So I am always starting a new game... and got bored in some hours. Anyways, the game is really good.

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poisongirlss

Review poisongirlss 5/5 · Mar 5, 2019

I'm putting this on my Nintendo Switch shelf since that one has probably the best world, but I've played this for hundreds of hours on PC and several others. Not much to say about the gameplay itself; intensely therapeutic for anxious people like me. And infinitely fun when you get sick of Survival and go onto the superior Creative mode.

ThunderDucks

Review ThunderDucks 4/5 · May 18, 2018

Minecraft

8/10 - Comfy game

Pros:

Almost limitless replayability, your imagination truly is the limit in Minecraft. Want to build a dirt shack? Sure Want to build a giant stone tower with crenels and adornments? Do it. Want to build pixel art of Jerry Seinfeld's face? Why not. Creative mode is like virtual Lego with infinite blocks, and survival mode is …

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8/10 - Comfy game

Pros:

Almost limitless replayability, your imagination truly is the limit in Minecraft. Want to build a dirt shack? Sure Want to build a giant stone tower with crenels and adornments? Do it. Want to build pixel art of Jerry Seinfeld's face? Why not. Creative mode is like virtual Lego with infinite blocks, and survival mode is a fun experience that can add extra challenge when trying to build large structures.

Many texture packs are available, and that combined with the game's phenomenal soundtrack makes it a relaxing and enjoyable experience. Building, no matter the scale, is always satisfying, and harvesting wood and ore is almost hypnotic.

Cons:

After multiple playthroughs and hundreds of hours, singleplayer can become boring or tedious as you run out of things to do. The nether and end did fix this slightly, but Minecraft is best played in multiplayer. After all, what's the point of spending hours building things if nobody can see it?

The game has gone downhill slightly since Microsoft got the rights to it from Mojang. There have been very little updates to the actual game, Microsoft focusing on the Xbox and Pocket versions considerably more, and the recent updates that the game has received have been underwhelming at best.

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Nychee

Review Nychee 5/5 · Nov 29, 2017

12,000+ Hours with no sign of stopping

I couldn't possible explain why I love this game so much, I don't even think the base game is very good but with the help of mods, I have been playing this game for 6 years. I'm not sure if the game is even good but I don't care, I absolutely love playing this game and I don't think I …

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I couldn't possible explain why I love this game so much, I don't even think the base game is very good but with the help of mods, I have been playing this game for 6 years. I'm not sure if the game is even good but I don't care, I absolutely love playing this game and I don't think I will stop anytime soon.

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MaxTurbo

Review MaxTurbo 4/5 · Feb 23, 2017

What can I say about Minecraft that hasn't already been said? It's one of the poster children for runaway indie success. And for good reason: it's an incredibly solid, relaxing sandbox game that can adapt to a wide variety of player types. A lot of copycat games have followed in its wake; some good, most bad. But I keep coming …

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What can I say about Minecraft that hasn't already been said? It's one of the poster children for runaway indie success. And for good reason: it's an incredibly solid, relaxing sandbox game that can adapt to a wide variety of player types. A lot of copycat games have followed in its wake; some good, most bad. But I keep coming back to Minecraft after all these years. There's something to it that I haven't found in those other titles.

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